A tour of the mobile app

The mobile app puts the home you already know from the web app in your pocket. Five tabs anchor everything — Home, Household, Barn, Settings, and Charyl — and they stay in sync with the web app in real time, so switching between your phone and a browser mid-conversation picks up right where you left off.

Home

The first tab is where the app opens: your dashboard, built from whatever you’ve set up on the web app, with live tiles for the state of your home. Alongside it sit two more views — a spatial, tappable version of your floor plan, and a full list of your devices with their live state and controls.

The dashboard here is read-and-interact only. Building a new one, or restructuring an existing one, is still a web app task; what you build there shows up here the moment you save it. The device list is live too — a light switched from the web app or by a physical switch on the wall updates on your phone within a second or so, so what you’re looking at is never stale.

Household

This is where the day-to-day of owning the home lives, in five sections: belongings (your full inventory), maintenance (what’s due, what’s been done), warranties (coverage and expiration by asset), records (insurance, HOA, deed, and the rest of your governing documents), and services (the providers on file for your home, and how to find more).

Everything a Household tab shows you, you can also just ask Charyl about directly — the tab is for browsing; the conversation is for asking.

Barn

The Barn tab only appears if your home includes the equine module: your horse list, a training diary, and health and safety alerts. It’s licensed separately from the rest of the platform and only shows up if it’s part of your home — most households never see this tab at all.

Settings

General account and home settings, a diagnostics screen for troubleshooting, and an about screen with the app’s version — the least exciting tab, and the one you’ll visit the least.

Charyl

The last tab is a dedicated space for talking to Charyl, alongside the chat available from a floating button on the Home tab — both reach the same conversation. It’s also where the proposals she’s drafted wait for your review: tap one to see exactly what she’s suggesting before you approve or reject it.

Beyond the five tabs

A handful of full-screen flows sit outside the tab bar, reached from within the sections above rather than from the bottom navigation directly.

1. Capture from a photo

   Photographing a nameplate or a receipt — from the Household tab, or handed to Charyl directly in chat — opens its own capture screen, separate from the tabs, so nothing else competes for the frame.

2. Proposal review

   Tapping a proposal, whether from a notification or the Charyl tab’s own list, opens a dedicated review screen: the full draft, laid out clearly, with approve and reject actions.

3. Cameras

   Opening a camera — for a snapshot or live view — is its own full-screen surface, reached from the Home tab’s device list or directly through conversation.

4. Notifications

   A chronological inbox of everything sent to you — grouped Today, Yesterday, This week, Earlier — reachable on its own rather than living under one of the five tabs. Anything unread can be swiped away or marked read right from the list, and tapping an entry deep-links straight to whatever it’s about, whether that’s a proposal, a device, or a room.

None of this is a different app underneath — it’s the same home, the same conversation, and the same proposals, laid out for a phone instead of a desk.

Getting here

If you haven’t installed the app yet, start with installing the app; once it’s on your phone, pairing it to your home is the last step before all of this is yours to use. Pairing works the same regardless of how your home is hosted — a Singer Intelligent Homes appliance and a self-hosted box both pair the same way.