# Install Omnymous on your phone

Add Omnymous to your phone’s home screen from the browser, so it opens full screen with its own icon, and what its phone layout gives you.

![The Dashboard inside the app’s frame: on a phone, the five tabs at the bottom and Ask Omni above them](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/getting-started/find-your-way-around/frame.f64852e8.avif)

Omnymous runs in your phone’s browser, and installs from it: there is nothing to download from an app store. Installed, it opens full screen from its own icon, straight into your Dashboard.

## Before you start

- On an iPhone or an iPad, Safari. Only Safari can add an app to the Home Screen there.
- On Android, Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet or Firefox.
- Sign in to Omnymous in that browser first.

## Install it

**iPhone and iPad:**

1. In Safari, tap the **Share** button at the bottom of the screen: the square with an arrow coming out of it.
2. Scroll the list and tap **Add to Home Screen**.
3. Tap **Add**.

In Chrome, Firefox or Edge on an iPhone, first tap the share or menu button and choose **Open in Safari**.

**Android:**

1. Tap **Install** when Omnymous offers it, and confirm in the window your browser shows.
2. If it does not offer it, tap the three-dot menu at the top right, then **Add to Home screen**. Some browsers call it **Install app**, or **Install** in Firefox.
3. Confirm.

**Computer:** In Chrome or Edge, click the install icon at the right of the address bar, a monitor with a downward arrow. In Safari on a Mac with macOS Sonoma or later, open the **File** menu and choose **Add to Dock**. Firefox cannot install web apps.

Omnymous offers the same steps itself. **Keep Omnymous one tap away** appears in the corner of most screens, with **Install**, or **Show me how** where the browser cannot install on its own; never while you work in Studio, the Launcher, the page editor or Omni. On a phone, your initials, at the top right, open a sheet whose **Install the app** row shows the steps for your browser.

## Check that it worked

The Omnymous icon is on your home screen. Tapping it opens Omnymous full screen, without the browser’s address bar. The **Install the app** row then reads **App installed**.

## What the phone layout gives you

![The bottom of the phone screen: five tabs, Home, Library, Create, Analytics and Recon, and the round Ask Omni button above them](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/getting-started/find-your-way-around/phone-tabs.ac2f630b.avif)

The sidebar becomes five tabs at the bottom of the screen: **Home**, **Library**, **Create**, **Analytics** and **Recon**, with **Ask Omni** above them on every screen. Your initials open the account sheet: the store switcher, this month’s usage, the settings, help and **Log out**. See [On a phone](https://docs.omnymous.com/getting-started/find-your-way-around#on-a-phone).

![The account sheet on a phone: your name, Workspace with the store Vital Root, and Usage this month with AI spend and Storage](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/getting-started/find-your-way-around/phone-account.65d609e7.avif)

Buttons and fields are sized for a thumb. The first-run tour runs on a computer only.

## If something goes wrong

| What you see                                     | What to do                                                                                                        |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| No **Add to Home Screen** on an iPhone           | You are not in Safari. Open the page in Safari, then try again.                                                   |
| The installed app asks you to sign in            | Sign in once inside it. It keeps its own session from then on.                                                    |
| **Keep Omnymous one tap away** keeps coming back | Close it with its cross: it then stays away for two weeks. Left open and ignored, it comes back after three days. |

## Related

- [Find your way around](https://docs.omnymous.com/getting-started/find-your-way-around): The frame around every screen of Omnymous, on a computer and on a phone: the sidebar, the store switcher, the top bar and your account menu.
- [Profile and security](https://docs.omnymous.com/workspace/profile-and-security): Your own settings under Account: photo and name, the email you sign in with, your password, and the devices signed in to your account.

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Source: https://docs.omnymous.com/workspace/phone-app