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Roam Mobile

Roam Mobile is the native app for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Install Roam has the store links.
- iOS: download Roam Mobile on the App Store.
- Android: download Roam on Google Play.
Sign in with your Roam account and your graphs are there, in sync with everywhere else you use Roam.

By default, the app shows the full Roam you know from the browser. The native view is an optional second mode, rebuilt for phones: it opens fast and handles large graphs without trouble.
- We recommend turning it on. It's a much smoother way to use Roam on a phone, and the web view is always there for the things it doesn't cover yet.
Turn it on with the Native view switch in the app's settings.
You can edit in it, drag blocks around, [react with emoji](Reactions), and use [queries](Query), [tables](Table), [sliders](Slider), [block references](Block References), and [callouts](Callouts).
For things the native view doesn't cover yet, the app can open the full Roam web app.
Encrypted graphs aren't available in the native view, because the servers it reads from can't decrypt them. They open in the web app view instead.

Quick Capture is the app's tab for getting a thought down fast, and the screen the app opens on.
It doesn't load your graph, which is what makes it quick: pick a graph, type, save.
Captures go to that graph's Daily Notes page unless you pick a different page for them. If you're offline, they're saved and synced once you're back online.
Encrypted graphs are not supported in quick capture

Encrypted graphs can unlock with Face ID or your fingerprint instead of typing the password.
Links to Roam pages and blocks can open directly in the app.