Closer than any tab you've left

Native clients ship on the iOS App Store and Google Play. The trynectar app shares the same backend as the web product — identical account, identical thread, identical memory graph — and layers on push notifications, sub-second cold start, and a fullscreen chrome-free UI. The binary weighs roughly 35 MB on both stores and finishes installing quickly even on a weak cellular signal during a commute.

Both platforms are treated as first-class targets. iOS 15 and up on iPhone and iPad, Android 9 and up on phones and tablets. Account state replicates between devices in real time, so a roleplay opened on the iPhone in the morning resumes cleanly on an Android tablet the same night with no recap demanded. The account is the unit of identity, not whichever piece of hardware happens to be in your hand at the moment.

No install required. The browser product is the default surface and runs fully on every device — phone, tablet, desktop. The native binary is purely additive: push notifications, fullscreen chrome, faster cold start. Most users begin in a browser tab and install only after the product has earned a home-screen slot rather than as a precondition for getting started. No feature-gated content sits behind the install gate.

Not meaningfully. Push notifications ride on Apple's and Google's standard delivery infrastructure, which is essentially free in battery terms because the OS handles delivery without the app needing to run. Image generation executes server-side, so the on-device GPU never spins up. An active chat session costs roughly what an active iMessage or WhatsApp session does. Passive daily drain sits in the noise floor against normal phone usage.

Push fires on unprompted messages — the moments she writes first rather than answering your last reply. Per-character mute toggles are supported, global quiet hours are configurable, and a hard frequency cap prevents flood scenarios from any single thread. Notifications are off by default and require an explicit opt-in at first launch. Revoking the permission later from system settings is one trip and doesn't break anything else in the app.

Sub-second sync on any normal connection. A message sent from the trynectar app is on the laptop tab before the phone is back on the table. Memory updates, image gallery additions, per-character settings, read receipts, and unread badges replicate together as one unit. No merge-conflict logic exists anywhere in the codebase because the thread is one backend object every device renders, not two copies that periodically reconcile.

Free on both stores, free to use on the bottom tier, no card collected at signup. The free plan covers unlimited typed chat, the full memory layer, entry-level image generation, and push notifications. Premium adds voice replies in the character voice you locked at setup and lifts the image resolution ceiling — but the core experience, the part that decides whether the product works for you, runs entirely on the free tier.

Two optional prompts, total. Notifications appear at first launch and are needed only if you want push to fire. Photo library access is asked exactly once, the moment you actively try to upload an image. Nothing else — no contacts, no location, no microphone, no calendar, no advertising identifier, no background scheduler beyond the standard push listener. Revoking either permission later keeps the app fully functional.