Phone app

The phone app is a full Device on your account: the same keys, the same chats, the same end-to-end encryption. Bots keep running on your computers; the phone talks to them through the relay.

Install the app

• iPhone and iPad: join the beta on TestFlight from the download page.
• Android: download the APK from the download page and open it. Android asks you to allow your browser to install apps, and the first time Lorca updates itself, to allow Lorca. The app looks for a new release once a day and offers to install it; Settings › Updates checks right away. It needs Android 7.0 or later.

Pair your phone

In the desktop app, choose Pair a Device…, then scan the QR code with the phone app. You can also paste a pairing string from the desktop app or from lorca pair on any computer that already has your identity, or open it as a lorca://pair link.

What you can do

• Chat with any bot or group. Replies grow on the phone as the bot writes them.
• Attach photos, camera shots, and files, or paste an image into the message field. On Android you can also insert one from the keyboard or drop one on the field.
• Dictate messages. Long-press the microphone to change the language.
• Create bots for any of your Runners, start group chats, and change a bot's name, description, provider, model, thinking level, Access, and limits from its Details.
• Answer cards: permission cards, plugin sign-ins (the page opens on the phone), secrets with Fill In, a command's question, and what a coding agent asks.
• Send drafts: edit, send, or discard a bot's email and Slack drafts, and approve what waits for review in Details.
• Follow the work in a chat's Details: tasks, outputs, a group's project, routines with their health, and channels. The Attention button in the chat list shows what needs you.
• Teach bots: write skills or save one from a chat with Add Skill › From This Chat…, give feedback, and accept suggested changes.
• Share bots: Share as Template in Details, New Bot from Template… in the New menu, and Settings › Shared Links. See Share a bot.
• Set up workflows with New Workflow in the New menu.
• Organize chats into sections, and hide or mute them. See Chats.
• Manage routines: pause, resume, run now, or delete from the chat's details.
• Install plugins on a Runner, sign in to their accounts, set call limits, manage a bot's browser profiles, and edit Auto-review rules. Adding a new account is left to a computer.
• Connect providers with an API key or subscription sign-in. The credential reaches every paired Device encrypted.
• Pair and unpair devices, and update a Runner's command line.

Send another message while a bot works to steer it. Its current model step and tools finish first, then the new instruction joins the same turn. The phone stops one command at a time from Running tasks; Stop for a whole turn, and the bot memory editor, are in the desktop app.

Notifications

When a bot finishes a reply, or asks you something on a card, your phone gets a push with the bot's name and the start of what it said. The content is encrypted on the Runner and opened on your phone. Apple, Google, and the relay see only "New reply".

Tap a notification to open the chat. You get no banner for the chat you have open, nor for one you have open in front of you on a computer, and opening a chat clears its notifications. A muted chat sends none.