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title: Install the app
description: TriCanon installs to your home screen or desktop from the browser — no app store, no separate download.
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TriCanon is a web app. Installed, it opens full screen with no address bar, keeps its own icon, and sits alongside your other apps. Nothing is downloaded from an app store, and the same account works on every device.

**iPhone and iPad**

Open [tricanon.app](https://www.tricanon.app) in **Safari**, tap the **Share** button, then **Add to Home Screen**. The icon appears on your home screen and opens the app without browser chrome.

Safari does not show the in-app install strip, so this menu is the only route on iOS.

**Android**

Open [tricanon.app](https://www.tricanon.app) in Chrome. Tap **Add** on the **Install TriCanon** strip under the hero, or use the browser menu and **Install app**.

**Desktop**

In Chrome or Edge, the in-app strip under the hero carries an **Add** button. Dismissing the strip is remembered, so it will not reappear every visit — install it later from the icon in the address bar instead.

## What changes on a phone

The layout is the same app, arranged for a small screen:

- **Sessions** move behind the menu button in the header, or the Sessions tab at the bottom of the screen
- **New Session** becomes the **+** button
- Verse details and the legal notices slide up from the bottom instead of opening a centered dialog
- **Legal Notices** sits at the foot of the sessions drawer, where the desktop footer would be

## It needs a connection

There is no offline mode. Every analysis and every chat reply calls a live research model, so with no signal the app shows a "no connection" page and reloads itself once you are back online. Nothing you have already saved is lost — sessions are stored on the server, not on the device.