Mobile Support
planned
Braden
This is the dream! It's a huge undertaking, but first steps will be getting the mobile web browser experience shored up. If we can make a great product that works on mobile web, we'll look at getting some more native mobile support, if appropriate.
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Mackenzie Clark
I was doing a session 0, and realized i couldn't open legendkeeper up on my phone! Had to figure out how to get desktop mode in my iphone, see my notes. Need this feature!
Alan
Merged in a post:
Read-Only Accessibility for Tablets and Phones
AshFly
I would love for my players to access content I've made for them, but only one of them uses a laptop, with the others on a phone or tablet.
Alex Ander
Hi! I usually GM using a GM screen and a tablet. On the tablet i have Legend Keeper, in order to do quick lore reads or to set my self on tone when players visit new places. To avoid players seeing story secrets, i ask them not to look LK before and afther the session, in order for me to put everything on visible mode so i can check thinkgs while we play. Unfortunatedly, this means they can not check lore while we play.
(that's it, I just wanted to share my experience about this topic. Keep going guys, good work!)
William Lord
Honestly for me. If the mobile editor was the same as obsidian's, it would be perfect. Clean and sleek looking, just like LK on PC. It's just the scaling and zooming and panning on mobiles that saps the drive when I am out of the house and have inspiration strike or just find a few minutes on the bus to finish writing that article. I could use other apps then copy paste and what-have-you, I could use Obsidian, but I really just want to use LK.
I can only imagine how easy it is to say these things compared to actually doing them, but honestly when it is really 'on' mobile...the pinnacle has been reached.
SWR 360
I don't even need it to be editable I just need it to be easy enough for players to go to legendkeeper dot com and see the material that is already entered. Not everyone has a PC but I want everyone in the group to be able to see what's on our legendkeeper pages when they need to look stuff up.
It's also easier than sending a long link every time in the discord, people are also not as likely to ask for a link. I think once people can pull it up by themselves on their phones I expect this will get way more use.
Braden
SWR 360: I might be misunderstanding you. How is this different from the public sharing links that already work on mobile?
SWR 360
Braden unless the public link system has changed it usually means I have to send them a link with a series of letters and numbers that no one's going to memorize and people are also less likely to look through to find where the link was shared previously so people just won't use Legend keeper as a resource to look up details on worlds or characters and that sort of thing.
It's just mostly a convenience thing where I know if I tell someone they can go go to Legendkeeper.com and login they're more likely to actually use it to look up information and can do that on their own time without having to look up a link or ask me every time they want to reference the information.
Braden
This is the dream! It's a huge undertaking, but first steps will be getting the mobile web browser experience shored up. If we can make a great product that works on mobile web, we'll look at getting some more native mobile support, if appropriate.
Rob Keeney
Braden: This has definitely been the biggest roadblock to me when it comes to using LK. I use LK for DMing and building out campaign details. When ideas hit me on the go, I have to jot them down elsewhere and try to gather them all when I get time at my laptop later. It would be so nice to just pop into the app, jot down notes and have it all in the same place. Maybe even take pictures of something I see, then link it straightaway into the page I'm working on. Very excited for this when it eventually does come around!
frumpkin
Rob Keeney 100% agree. I would love this so much. It doesn't need to have all the bells and whistles, but when I'm waiting for something or travelling or anything - I would love just to pull up my pages just to write something down if an idea strikes. Don't need maps or fancy graphics.
Thomas Goudon
frumpkin exactly the same
As a french writer, I write a lot with Scrivener on mobile
I’ve been waiting for years this mobile support feature to access my worldbuilding and just edit it. I really love Legend Keeper, but without the ability to edit through Mobile, I’m slowly considering to migrate my worldbuilding somewhere else/competitors
Braden
Thomas Goudon: Mobile is still a high prioerty for us, it's just a difficult and expensive undertaking for a team of two. That said, we plan to put out a barebones implementation as soon as we can.
What are some other worldbuilding apps with mobile support?
Thomas Goudon
Braden thanks for the feedback !
Greatly appreciated all your effort
Now that you committed on that, there is no competitors :)
Braden
Thomas Goudon: Lol, it's appreciated, but I hope we can get it out in a timely manner.
Derryn McMaster
Braden I’d be happy if at least it was unblocked from mobile (maybe with a warning banner if you’re really that worried about it). I can’t even log in to manage my subscription as any mobile use is blocked and forcing desktop view doesn’t work. Sites that block mobile viewing rather than just showing the desktop version are frustrating as hell. I’m up for renewal at the end of the year, and thinking it might be time to move on if at least
some
kind of mobile access is providedDerryn McMaster
Oh, and in answer to the above, the the most obvious world building app that comes to mind with mobile support is Kanka
Braden
Derryn McMaster: There will probably not be mobile support by the end of the year.
Derryn McMaster
Braden any chance of just turning off the block then?
Braden
Derryn McMaster: I can definitely think about it. The block is inadequate, I know, but it's designed to reduce support burden from people submitting support tickets for something we know is broken.
Derryn McMaster
Braden maybe a temporary banner, or even a tickbox in the settings somewhere acknowledging the issue before enabling it, or a mobile-specific splash page with that acknowledgement, like the drinking age splash on brewery sites
Thomas Goudon
Braden any news regarding mobile support for 2025 ? 🙏🏻✨🫶🏽
Alan
planned