# Install scoco as an app

> Put scoco on your home screen through Share in Safari or with one tap in Chrome on Android, and the icon opens your Inbox directly, without a browser bar.

https://scoco.ai/en/docs/install-app/

When you are done, scoco sits as an icon on the home screen of your phone or tablet. One tap opens it without a browser bar, straight into your **Inbox**. It is the same scoco as in the browser, with the same data. Nothing is installed from an app store.

## The hint inside scoco

On iPhone and iPad, scoco offers the install by itself; on Android, when Chrome offers it. The hint appears once you have used scoco on that device for about three minutes, and only on **Overview**, **Inbox**, **Contacts** or **Appointments**. If you move to another page, such as a call or a setting, it goes away. It may come back another day. On its own it appears at most three times on this device, and never twice within 20 hours.

- **Install** is there on Android when Chrome offers the install. It opens your browser's own install dialog.
- **Show me how** shows the steps for exactly your browser on iPhone and iPad.
- **Hide** or the cross (**Close hint**) ends the hint. scoco remembers this for your account, on all your devices.

You can always find the guide under **More › Install as an app**. **More** is the last entry in the bar along the bottom of the screen. Wide screens, such as an iPad in landscape, have no such bar. There, tap your name at the bottom left of the sidebar (the person icon when the sidebar is collapsed) and choose **Install as an app**.

> **Note:**
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> On a computer, scoco shows no hint. Nor does it in the built-in browsers of other apps such as Outlook, LinkedIn or Instagram – open the link there in Safari or Chrome.

## iPhone and iPad

1. Open scoco in Safari and sign in.
2. Tap Share. On an iPhone with iOS 26, Share usually sits behind ••• next to the address. On older iPhones it is at the bottom, on an iPad at the top right.
3. Scroll to “Add to Home Screen” and tap it.
4. Tap “Add”. On an iPhone with iOS 26, leave “Open as Web App” switched on.

From then on, open scoco from the new icon. From iOS 17.2 you stay signed in. On an older version, sign in once inside the app, because the app keeps its data separate from Safari.

In Chrome on iPhone and iPad (from iOS 16.4), tap Share at the right of the address bar, then “Add to Home Screen” and “Add” as above. In other browsers, such as Firefox or Edge, scoco asks you to open the page in Safari.

## Android

If the hint shows **Install**, tap it and confirm in your browser's dialog. Declining there counts the same as **Hide**.

Without that button, for example in Firefox, **More › Install as an app** shows these steps:

1. Open your browser's menu (three dots or three lines).
2. Choose “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”.
3. Confirm with “Install”.

## On a computer

scoco shows no hint on a computer. Chrome offers the install there by itself, through an icon in the address bar. Afterwards scoco opens without a browser bar.

## What the app does and does not do

**Everything as in the browser.** Every page and every number comes fresh from scoco. For when there is no network, the app keeps a single page ready; it does not store any data in between.

**Not offline.** scoco needs an internet connection. If a page fails to load without a network, the app shows a page with **Try again**. As soon as you are back online, it reloads by itself.

**No push notifications.** scoco sends no push notifications, not to the installed app either. scoco tells you about new calls by email and, if you want, by text message: see [Notifications](https://scoco.ai/en/docs/notifications/).

## Common problems

**The hint does not appear.** You may have hidden it already, or it has appeared three times. You may not have used scoco on this device for three minutes yet. Or scoco is already installed on another device of the same kind, meaning iPhone or iPad, or Android. On Android it only appears when Chrome offers the install. And it may already have appeared in the last 20 hours. Open **More › Install as an app** (on wide screens, the menu at the bottom left), or follow the steps above directly in your browser. They work without the hint too.

**“Install as an app” is missing under “More”.** You are already using scoco as an app, or you are in another app's built-in browser. On wide screens, such as an iPad in landscape, there is no bar with **More**. There, **Install as an app** is in the menu at the bottom left of the sidebar, behind your name or the person icon.

**On the iPhone, the hint only says to open Safari.** You are in a different browser. Open the same address in Safari.

**The app asks you to sign in.** On iPhone and iPad before iOS 17.2, the app does not take over your sign-in from Safari. Sign in once inside the app.

_Last checked: 26 October 2026_