Using GPTree on your phone

GPTree's mobile app is the real GPTree, not a stripped-down companion. It's the same app you use on the web, running in a native shell, signed into the same account, looking at the same conversations and the same tree. Branch something on your laptop at four in the afternoon, and it's there on your phone on the train home.

If you're new to all this, "the same app" matters more than it sounds. Plenty of tools ship a phone version that's missing the one thing you need that day, and you don't find out which thing until you need it. This isn't that. It's one GPTree that follows you around.

What the app is like

Signing in is native, so your phone's keychain takes care of it; after the first time, you're not typing a password on glass.

Navigation is rebuilt for a phone: Chats, Projects, Search, Compare, Personas, Memory, and Account, each one a tap away. In practice, phone time tends to be reading and continuing conversations, starting a new one when a thought strikes, and digging up old ones with Search. Your projects come along too, same instructions, same reference files, nothing to set up twice.

And the app can reach you. Push notifications deep link, meaning a tap drops you onto the exact conversation or screen that needs you, not onto a home screen you then have to navigate out of.

What phones are good at, and what they're not

The phone catches the in-between moments: rereading a branch in a waiting room, capturing an idea before it evaporates, answering the one question that would otherwise block everything until you're back at a desk.

We'll be honest about the other direction, though. A phone screen is a small window onto a wide tree. Everything is reachable but for a long stretch of comparing and merging across several panes, we think you'll simply be happier on a bigger screen. Phone for checking in, desk for the heavy sessions.

One more limitation worth naming: the desktop app has a Watching feature that, with your explicit say-so, keeps a running sense of what you're working on and uses it as context. That one is desktop only. Your phone doesn't do it, by design.

Your next step is small: download the app from the app store (Android or IOS) and then sign in to GPTree on your phone, open a conversation you already have going, and pick it up again somewhere a laptop wouldn't have followed you.