Mobile Overview¶
Mention has a native mobile app for iOS and Android. It uses the same account and the same content as the web app, and the learning loop — lessons, review, the final exam — runs natively on the phone, so progress you make on mobile is progress everywhere.
Who the mobile app is for¶
The mobile app is most useful for:
- Members who want to work through their lessons, keep up with review, and look things up in their Audience's articles from a phone.
- Audience owners who want to answer member questions, review misunderstandings, curate the contents, and manage their roster on the go.
- Admins who want to manage Audiences, ask Mention questions, and resolve flagged contradictions between meetings.
Sign in¶
Sign in with the same email and password you use on the web, or with Continue with Google — and, on iPhone, Continue with Apple. Your organization role (admin or member) and your per-Audience role (owner or learner) carry over from the web.
Organizations are created and set up on the web app. If you don't belong to one yet, the app says so and waits until an admin adds you. See Mobile Authentication.
Tap the avatar button in the top-right corner to open the profile menu, where you can sign out — and, if you belong to more than one organization, switch the active one. Switching organizations reloads the app with that organization's content and your role there.
What is in the app¶
- Learning — for learners the whole loop sits on the tab bar: Chat (grounded Q&A as a thread, and where the app opens), Lessons (the contents shelf, each lesson with a progress ring, plus the article reader), Review (spaced review, with a badge when something is due), and Exam (the final exam). See Learning on Mobile and Reading on Mobile.
- Owning — an Audience you own gets an Audience tab instead: a hub opening onto its Chat, Lessons, Gaps (the question queue and misunderstandings), and People. See Owning an Audience on Mobile.
- Switching Audiences — the app opens onto the first Audience you belong to. If you belong to more than one, tap the Audience's name at the top of the Lessons page (or, for an owner, the Audience page) to open a sheet listing every Audience you belong to, each with a badge showing your role in it (owner or learner); the tab bar follows your role in the Audience you pick.
- Notifications — the same feed the web bell shows: contradictions to review, unanswered questions, content ready or updated, learners finishing or stalling, corrections to something you said, and answers to questions you asked. A bell button in the top bar carries an unread badge and opens the feed, tapping an item lands on the screen that resolves it, and the app also delivers these as push notifications to your phone once you allow them.
- Sources — admins manage the places Mention reads from: connect new integrations, sync or disconnect a source, activate newly discovered content, curate Slack's exported channels and per-Audience routing, and upload files straight from the phone. Under Connected, a short Suggested list (Start with until you connect your first source) offers the connections organizations in your industry usually start with; Browse all N more reveals the rest. Connecting a source that holds documents asks how far back to look — Last 90 days, Last year, or Everything. On a source's screen, Select (or a long press on an asset) turns the active list into a multi-select; Remove N deletes everything picked in one step, after a confirmation. Two pieces stay on the web app: Google Drive's own file picker, and GitHub codebase analysis.
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Conflicts — the same queue under the same name as the web app's Conflicts page, split into Misunderstandings and Source conflicts, each with its own card. Admins see every pending conflict in the organization; an Audience owner who is not an admin sees the conflicts routed to an Audience they own. The tab shows a badge with the number of pending items for whoever is looking. See Reviewing Contradictions and Reviewing Misunderstandings.
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Deleting your account — the profile menu carries Delete account, which does the same thing as the web app's. See Navigating the App.
The bottom tab bar follows your role in the current Audience: learners get Chat, Lessons, Review, and Exam; owners get Audience and Conflicts; admins also get Sources. Notifications open from the bell in the top bar for everyone. When the organization is out of credits, a banner sits above every screen until credits are available again.
The screens use the same mobile layout system, with comfortable touch targets, consistent cards and controls, and matching light and dark appearances. Articles, question answers, loading states, and empty states follow the same visual structure as the main screens.
The app asks for notification permission after sign-in; allowing it turns on push delivery for the feed above.
How it relates to web¶
| Action | Web | Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Create an organization and set it up | ✓ | — |
| Read articles | ✓ | ✓ |
| Work through a lesson and record progress | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review what falls due, sit the final exam | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ask grounded Q&A with follow-ups and cited sources | ✓ | ✓ |
| Serve a frequently asked question's answer, flag an answer as outdated | ✓ (FAQ beside Chat) | ✓ (Chat) |
| Turn a frequently asked question into a lesson | ✓ (FAQ beside Chat) | ✓ (Chat) |
| Resolving contradictions | ✓ (Conflicts → Source conflicts) | ✓ (Conflicts → Source conflicts) |
| Reviewing conflicts routed to an Audience you own | ✓ (Conflicts) | ✓ (Conflicts, and the Gaps screen) |
| Answer member questions, curate the contents, manage the roster | ✓ | ✓ |
| Route a question to an Audience, work the Needs routing group | ✓ (Gaps) | ✓ (Gaps) |
| Create and delete Audiences | ✓ | ✓ (admins) |
| Connect sources and manage assets | ✓ | ✓ (Drive picker and codebase analysis are web-only) |
| Upload files | ✓ | ✓ |
| Notification feed | ✓ (bell) | ✓ (bell, plus push) |
| Manage billing | ✓ | — |
Lessons also run through the MCP server, so a connected agent is a third way to make progress.
Both apps read and write the same account, so a contradiction resolved on mobile is resolved on web too, and a lesson finished on either app is finished on both. The mobile screens fetch fresh data as you move through them — pull down on the contents to refresh if you're expecting something new.