Using dembrane Go on mobile

dembrane Go is the native iOS app for recording conversations away from a desk. Sign in with your dembrane account, pick a project, and record - it captures locally and robustly, then syncs into the same projects you use on the web, on the same transcription back end. A recording made on your phone is indistinguishable from a browser one once it lands.

For the role-neutral reference, see dembrane Go (the mobile app).

Mobile or web?#

Reach for dembrane Go when you’re moving (a walking interview, a site visit, a corridor chat), when you don’t want to depend on a laptop and browser in the room, or when you want bulletproof local-first capture that survives the app being backgrounded, crashed, or killed. On background-capture UX the app is actually ahead of the web.

Stick with the web when you want many people recording at once on their own devices - that’s the portal’s job, not the app’s - or when you need to set up a project, edit settings, or do analysis.

What the app does#

• Recording - local-first capture in 30-second chunks, background recording, a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island, a waveform, and a microphone selector. You can also import an audio file.
• Conversations - list and detail with transcript, summary, title generation, tags, move, delete, retranscribe, and edit.
• Ask / chat - query your conversations with templates, history, sources, and a context picker.
• Search - find conversations on the device.
• Portal settings - edit the portal’s title, description, and key terms, and share its QR code.
• Account - switch project, sign out, and start account deletion (which completes in the browser).

What syncs#

Conversations you record or import upload to the project you’ve selected and transcribe on the same pipeline as web recordings, so they appear in the dashboard alongside everything else - ready to read, tag, chat over, and report on. Portal settings you edit on mobile apply to the same portal your web participants use.

What’s web-only#

dembrane Go leaves the heavyweight “make sense and share” work to the dashboard. Not in the app:

• Library / analysis - extracted topics, aspects, and quotes.
• Reports - the report builder and PDF export.
• the full participant verification flow.
• Project creation, and workspace / organisation / team management.
• Billing detail.
• Webhooks / export and the host guide PDF.

A mobile-first session#

1. Open dembrane Go and sign in (email and password; two-factor if you’ve enabled it).
2. Pick the project you want recordings to land in.
3. Record - let it run in the background while you move; the Live Activity keeps you informed.
4. Conversations sync and transcribe automatically.
5. Switch to the dashboard to organise, Ask, and report.

Related#

• dembrane Go (the mobile app) - canonical feature reference.
• Collecting conversations - how mobile fits the full set of methods.
• Recording - how capture works.
• Transcripts & conversations - working with what you’ve recorded.
• Transcription - turning audio into text.