Nebula on your phone
Install the Nebula mobile app, sign in with an email code, share things into a channel from any app, and know what works differently on a phone.
The Nebula mobile app puts your whole workspace on your phone — channels, agents, jobs, miniapps and calls — plus two things only a phone can do: share into Nebula from any other app, and get push notifications.
Installing
Nebula is on the App Store. If you were testing an earlier build through TestFlight, switch to the App Store version — the TestFlight build tells you to, and it stops there.
The Android app is in open testing on Google Play rather than a general release, so ask your workspace owner or support@nebula.gg for the current link.
The app updates itself between store releases. Most of the time you won't notice; occasionally you'll open it and see Checking for updates…, and if one is waiting you get Update app to login before you can sign in. Take it — it's usually a few seconds. There's also an Apply latest update button in Settings if you want to pull one early.
Signing in
Signing in on your phone is not the same as on the desktop app. There's no pairing code here.
Open the app. It greets you with Welcome to Nebula and asks for your email address.
Enter your email and choose Continue, or skip straight past it with Continue with Google or Continue with Apple.
If you used your email, Nebula sends you a code — the screen changes to Check your email. Type the code in and it signs you in as soon as it's complete. Wrong address? Go back returns you to the email step.
The desktop app signs in a different way — it shows a pairing code and confirms it in your browser. If you're looking for a code to type on your phone, there isn't one; the phone signs in on its own.
Sharing into Nebula from another app
This is the thing your phone can do that nothing else can. Anywhere you'd normally hit the share button — a photo, a page you're reading, a file, a screenshot — Nebula is one of the destinations.
Share as you normally would from any app, and pick Nebula.
Nebula opens on Share to Channel. Pick where it should land, or search if the list is long.
The channel opens with what you shared already in the message box. Add a sentence about what you want done with it, and send.
You can share images, video, files, text and links this way. It's the fastest route from "I'm looking at something" to "an agent is working on it."
Links work in the other direction too: a link to a Nebula thread or file opens in the app rather than the browser.
What's different in a call
Calls work the same as everywhere else — see Live for what a call is and how to run one. Three things behave differently on a phone.
Tap the audio control to pick where sound goes: Speaker, Phone, Headphones, or Bluetooth if something's paired. The same sheet has Noise Cancellation, which cuts background noise around you. Echo cancellation is always on and isn't a choice.
A call keeps running when you leave the app or lock the phone, and it shows up as a real call on your lock screen, so your headset buttons and car stereo behave the way you'd expect.
You can switch between your front and back camera, or turn it off. You can watch someone else's shared screen, but you can't share your own from a phone — start that from the desktop or web app instead.
What you can't do from a phone
Most of Nebula is here — creating agents and miniapps, jobs, members, tools, knowledge, and your workspace settings. A few things deliberately live elsewhere.
| On your phone | Where to do it instead | |
|---|---|---|
| Register this device as a computer agents can use | no — Local Device reads Coming soon | The desktop app or CLI |
| Share your screen in a call | watch only | Desktop or web |
| Set up auto top-up for credits | you can see it, not change it | The web app |
| Manage skills, voices, or custom models | not available | The web app |
| Take a photo straight into a message | pick from your library instead | Attach a photo or file |
Your phone can still create and manage cloud devices and browse the files on them — it just can't be one itself.
Buying credits on your phone goes through the App Store or Google Play rather than Nebula's billing page, which is why the amounts and the receipt look different from the web. Restore Purchases in Settings recovers anything you've already bought. See Workspace settings.
Related
Desktop settings
Settings that belong to this computer — its name in Nebula, Computer Control, which workspaces it serves, the Capsule, and your keyboard shortcuts.
Push notifications
Turn on push notifications for the Nebula mobile app, manage which of your phones receive them, and choose what they tell you about.