Mobile App

Windshift has a dedicated mobile surface at /m, built for touch and installable as an app on your phone. It runs the same account, workspaces, and work items as the desktop site, just laid out for a small screen. When you sign in on a phone, Windshift sends you there automatically (unless you have chosen to stay on the desktop site).

The mobile surface is a progressive web app (PWA). There is nothing to download from an app store: you install it straight from your browser.

Installing to your home screen

Adding Windshift to your home screen gives you a full-screen app icon and is required to receive push notifications.

  • Android and desktop browsers. When your browser offers it, Windshift shows a one-tap install prompt. Confirm it and the app is added.
  • iPhone and iPad (Safari). Safari has no one-tap install, so Windshift walks you through it: open the page in Safari, tap the Share button, choose Add to Home Screen, then tap Add. Open Windshift from the new icon.

Once installed, launching the icon opens Windshift directly at the mobile surface.

Push notifications

When notifications are enabled, Windshift can push alerts to your device for activity on work you care about:

  • Comments on items you follow
  • Mentions of you
  • Items assigned to you

To turn them on, open the Alerts tab and tap Enable notifications. Your browser asks for permission, and you grant it there. You can turn notifications off again from the same place.

A few requirements:

  • Install Windshift to your home screen first. Push notifications only work from the installed app, not a regular browser tab.
  • Your administrator must have enabled notifications on the server. If they have not, the option will not be available.

What you can do on mobile

The bottom navigation has four tabs: My Work, Personal, Timer, and Alerts. From the header you can open search (to find work items by title, key, or text) and, when AI is available, the assistant.

A floating + button on the main tabs creates a new work item. Pick a workspace and item type, give it a title, add an optional description, and you land on the new item.

Opening a work item gives you a mobile view of it:

  • Change status and assignee with touch-friendly pickers. Status options come from the item's workflow, so custom workflows and statuses work as-is.
  • See and tap into sub-items, and use the parent breadcrumb to navigate up the hierarchy.
  • Watch the item, or start a timer against it (the timer stays live and is shared with the desktop). See Logging Time.
  • Read and post comments.
  • Expand Commits and pull requests and the Coding agent panel when they apply to the item (these are read-only on mobile).
  • Pull to refresh by dragging down from the top, and the item also updates live in the background as things change elsewhere.

AI assistant on mobile

When your administrator has connected AI, the assistant opens as a full-height chat from the header. Ask it to search your items, summarize, and help you plan. It uses the same assistant as the desktop site. For what the assistant can do and how it is set up, see AI Features.