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Mobile support

ZettelFlow ships isDesktopOnly: false (manifest) — it runs on iOS and Android. This page records the mobile-parity audit (epic #246, C2) so you know exactly what to expect.

Clean by construction

The audit found no mobile-breaking APIs in src/: nothing imports Node modules (fs, path, os, child_process, electron) and nothing reads process.*. Everything goes through the Obsidian API and the ObsidianApi facade, so it loads on mobile without a shim.

Fully supported on mobile

  • Creating notes through a flow (the ribbon Create a new Zettel Note, and Run the current canvas as a flow).
  • Community — browse the systems and install one in one click, then Create a note from the notice.
  • The surfaces and their modes — Home (Home · Cultivate · Think), Health (Tend · Practice), Explore — and the This note companion all render on mobile.
  • Lifecycle state changes, semantic relations, the offline cognitive actions, and property hooks.

Desktop-only, by design (guarded with Platform)

These degrade gracefully on mobile (hidden or skipped), never crash:

  • Companion pane (live preview + connection suggestions while the wizard runs) — folds into a section you open on a phone, instead of sitting beside the questions.
  • Live body preview in the step editor.
  • .zftemplate export and import (Export current canvas as .zftemplate, Import .zftemplate) — they use a browser download and a file picker, so both register on desktop only. The Systems room of Community installs systems on mobile too.
  • Inline key:: [[X]] relation parsing defaults off on mobile (a deferred whole-vault pass); frontmatter relations are always parsed.

If you hit a mobile issue

Open an issue with your platform + Obsidian version. Because the surface is Obsidian-API-only, most mobile problems are layout, not capability — and layout fixes are cheap.