The Murage phone app
The Murage app is on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android. It opens the workspace on your computer over your own Tailscale network. The phone web app works on any phone too.
The app opens the same Murage workspace your computer runs: your conversations with your Chief of Staff and teams, files and photos, and the approval and question cards that need you. Your computer still does all the work.
What it needs
- Murage running on your computer, with Phone and other devices in Settings.
- Your computer on and awake. Closing a laptop's lid puts it to sleep, and the phone can't reach it then.
- Tailscale on your computer and your phone, signed in to the same account. The app connects only over your own Tailscale network. Murage is never opened to the public internet.
- An iPhone with iOS 17 or later, or an Android phone with Android 10 or later.
How pairing works
- On your computer, open SettingsDevicesPhone and other devices and switch it on.
- Open the Murage app on your phone and choose to scan. Scan the QR code on your computer, or type the 6-digit code.
- The code lasts 10 minutes. If it runs out, make a new one on your computer.
You can save more than one computer in the app and switch between them, and press and hold the app icon for a Switch computer shortcut.
If the phone says Murage can't use the camera, open the phone's Settings app, then Murage, and turn on Camera. If it says The scanner isn't available, choose Type the code instead. Both the address and the code are on your computer under SettingsDevicesPhone and other devices.
What you can do from the phone
From the phone you can:
- Read your conversations, send messages, edit a message, and add pictures to a message.
- Answer approval cards and questions.
- Make a voice call to a bot.
- Use your Inbox.
- Run a routine now, make a new bot, and watch a bot's browser while it works.
- In a project: open it, read and edit the brief, work on goals and Board cards, read Activity and usage, and stop, pause or resume it.
The bots keep working on the computer, so it must be on.
Three more things the phone can do have pages of their own.
- Share to Murage and Ask Murage: share a link, photo or file from any app straight into a chat, or ask a bot from anywhere on the phone.
- A phone your bots can use: let a bot read your calendar, add reminders, set alarms or find a contact, with your approval on the phone.
- Bot calls: a bot rings your phone when something needs you.
Notifications on this phone
In the phone app, open Settings and find Notifications on this phone. Press Turn on. When it is on, the line reads On. Approvals, questions and finished work reach this phone. If the phone asks, allow notifications for Murage in the phone's own settings.
Notifications use generic text until you change it, so the lock screen only says that Murage has something for you. Turn on Show private details on this phone's lock screen to show message text and approval details there. A bot call always keeps the generic text whatever you choose.
While you are at your computer, alerts stay there. When you step away, they come to the phone. The computer must have notifications on too: Turn on notifications on this computer to receive them here. means they are off in SettingsGeneral.
The Phone button in the sidebar
On the computer, the Phone button in the sidebar shows the state of phone access at a glance: Phone access off, Phone connected, Phone paired: not connected, Phone active recently or Phone paired: not recently active. Choose it to open the phone settings.
What stays on the computer
Connect and disconnect apps, change keys, engines, backups or the computer itself on the computer running Murage. The phone app cannot reach those settings. Your bots can still use connected apps when you ask them from the phone. Murage Cloud (coming soon) changes this.
Signing a phone out
Sign out from the app and that phone's access ends. Up to 20 devices can pair with one computer.
To remove a phone from the computer's side, open SettingsDevicesPhone and other devices, find it under Paired devices, press the bin and choose Remove device. Its sessions end at once. If the phone is out of reach, Murage keeps trying to remove the phone's notification link and shows Removal pending with a Try again button until it manages.
On the phone, open the computer's entry and choose Remove this computer. That clears the saved sign-in and takes the computer off the phone's list. To use Murage there again, scan a new code from SettingsDevicesPhone and other devices.
Your bots, memory and chats live on the computer, not the phone, and keys and credentials are never sent to it. To clear whatever the app still holds on a phone you are selling, remove the app.
Good to know
- Approving from the lock screen is planned.
- The app connects to Murage on your own computer only.
Troubleshooting
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Update Murage on your computerDo this
Your computer's Murage is older than the phone app needs. On the computer, open Murage and choose Check for updates, then press Try again on the phone.
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Murage can't use the cameraDo this
Open the phone's Settings app, then Murage, and turn on Camera. Or type the address and code from your computer instead.
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Turn on notifications for Murage in your phone settings.Do this
The phone has blocked notifications for Murage. Allow them in the phone's own settings, then press Turn on again.