Tana mobile

Overview

Tana mobile allows you to capture your thoughts to the graph, and view all your information from the app.

Download Tana Mobile on iOS

Download Tana Mobile on Android

Basics

• Tana mobile has five main tabs:
  • Browse: Shortcuts to your home node, your most current daily notes, and your pinned nodes.
  • Supertags: Access all your supertags in Tana.
  • Capture: Quick capture to Tana in different formats: Write, Voice, Camera, Media and Files.
  • Search: Rapidly find any node in Tana, across all workspaces.
  • Manage: See account info and settings
• Navigating nodes: Tap on any node to navigate to that node. Long-press for all options.
• Editing nodes: Tap on the content of a node to go into edit mote. You can then edit existing content, add content, tag and create references.
• Instant capture: Configure lock screen and home screen widgets for easy access to your favorite capture workflows.
• iOS: Set up native integrations with Siri, Spotlight search and Shortcuts

Details

Browsing nodes on mobile

Access common places in your Tana from the Browse tab:

1. Home: Takes you to the home node of your workspace
2. Today: Takes you to your current day page
3. Pinned: Shows you any node you've pinned. These usually appear in the sidebar.

On browsing nodes: See below

Supertags on Mobile

Access all your supertags in Tana

1. Filter: Find the tag you're looking for with the filter
2. Pinned: Pinned tags are up top
3. Tiles: Tap on the tiles to go to the supertag page
4. Voice: Tap on the voice icon to record a memo using this supertag

Capture directly into Tana

Menu for capturing content to Tana

Destination

Select Today, Inbox, or Pinned nodes as the destination for the captured content.

• Choose between Today and Inbox as the default destination by long-pressing on "Inbox"

Supertags

Choose the supertag you want to add to your captured content

For voice memos only (paid plans):

• Auto-fill fields
  • If you select a supertag with fields, Tana will auto-fill the fields based on what you capture
• Language Auto-Detection
  • Automatically detects transcription language.
  • Manually select language if auto-detection is inaccurate.
  • Open Voice in the Capture tab, tap the language button to change language.
• Control Buttons
  • Cancel: Left button discards the memo.
  • Send: Blue button sends memo to Tana.
  • Pause/Resume: Right button pauses/resumes recording.

Read more about how to use mobile voice memos to get content structured.

Search

Search for any node in your Tana

• Tap the search result to look at it
• See recent searches
• If you have multiple workspaces, narrow the search to one workspace

You can clear the search history from the Manage tab.

Browsing your notes

Viewing nodes on mobile

Tap on a node to open it/zoom in.

Tap the > to the right to expand/collapse the node in the current view

Navigating nodes on mobile

When you navigate to a node, it will look like this:

1. Go back: navigate to the previous view
2. Breadcrumbs: navigate to a higher part of the tree
3. Ellipsis menu:
   1. Copy link copies the URL to that node
   2. Pin adds node to pinned list
4. Edit: Available as an Early Access feature in iOS version 1.4.3.
   1. Go to the "Manage" tab and toggle the Early Access option on to use it
5. Node header with title, banner and tags (if applicable)
6. Node contents
7. Capture button

Fields

Tap the symbol to the right of the field to add content to the field

Search nodes

• Refresh: Reload results from the server.
• View options: Not available yet. We are still working on bringing all the view settings to mobile.

Currently not all search queries are supported on mobile, as some complex searches requires all the data in your graph to be loaded, which is not possble on mobile for performance reasons.

Editing nodes on mobile

If you need to change existing notes, add new notes, add a tag or create a reference, you can navigate to the node you want to change and then tap on the content to go into Edit mode. You can also tap the "Edit" button on the top of the menu.

You will see a "Done" button on the top, that you can tap when you are done editing. When you are not in Edit mode, you tapping nodes will zoom in to them.

While in edit mode you can

• indent/outdent
• Create checkboxes
• Add, remove or change supertags
• Create references - you'll be able to search for the nodes you want to reference

Copy links to Tana nodes on mobile

Grab a link: Copy a link to any node via long-tap menu, or ellipsis.

Clicking a link: When you're on mobile, tapping a link to a Tana node in another app will open the node in the mobile app

Manage your account

The "Manage" tab contains your account info, preferences for light/dark mode and more.

Your account options

Tap on your email to see the following:

• Subscription: Shows you which plan you are subscribed to. Allows you to upgrade to a paid plan (will use Apple In-app purchases) and cancel your subscription - see instructions below.
• Sign out: Logs you out of Tana mobile
• Delete account: This deletes your account and all your data. You will not be able to log into Tana again, nor create a new account again.

Theme

Select Light mode, Dark mode, or sync to System

Sync history

A history of all captured content from the app and from elsewhere

Version

The version of the app you have installed

Report bug

Let's you submit a bug report if you have problems in the app.

How do I manage a Tana subscription through Apple?

If you have started a trial or subscription from the Tana iOS app, you will have a subscription through Apple In-app Purchases. You can have to edit this in the iOS preferences:

1. Go to the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap your name, then tap Subscriptions.
3. Do any of the following:
   • Cancel a subscription: Tap an active subscription, then tap Cancel Subscription or Cancel All Services.
   • Change a subscription: Tap an active subscription, then choose a different option.
   • Renew a subscription: Tap an expired subscription, then tap Renew.
   • Share a subscription: Turn on Share with Family to automatically share eligible subscriptions with other members in your Family Sharing group.
   • Get Renewal Receipts: Turn on Renewal Receipt Emails to receive a receipt each time one of your subscriptions renews.

The Tana team will not be able to make change to this subscription. If you want to request a refund, you will need to submit the refund request to Apple.

Apple subscription does not support purchasing top-up AI credits, if you have used up your monthly quota. You will need to buy these on web or desktop, and will then use Tana's web-based billing system. It is possible to purchase AI credits with this web system, even if your subscription is billed through Apple.

Widgets and native OS integrations

Configurable Home screen widgets (iOS and Android)

Add Tana capture widgets to your iPhone or Android home screen for one-tap access to your favorite capture modes; write, speak, or snap a photo.

Check out the voice-enabled Tana templates ->

How to add home screen widgets on iOS

On the home screen, long press, tap "Edit" in the top left corner, then select Add widget. Long press each widget and select "Edit", to configure it.

How to add home screen widgets on Android

To add an Android home screen widget, touch and hold an empty spot on your home screen, or pinch the screen. Then tap Widgets, find Tana, and then drag the widget to your desired location.

Once the widget is added, you can tap the Settings icon to configure the destination and supertag:

iOS native integrations

Lock screen widgets

On your lock screen, you can add widgets for one-tap access:

• Write a note
• Record voice memo
• Take photo with camera

To add lock screen widgets, long press on the lock screen, tap Customize select the lock screen and then tap the widget area, find the Tana widgets and tap to add them into the widget area.

Control Center widget

Access Tana in one swipe; add it to your Control Center (iOS) for instant recording and note capture, even while your phone is locked.

Swipe down from the top-right of your iPhone, long press, tap "Add a Control", search for Tana, and select between these options:

• Write a note
• Voice memo
• Camera (to take and upload images)

Perfect for when you want to capture a thought mid-conversation or note an idea during a walk.

Spotlight search

Spotlight on iOS is the system-wide search you open by swiping down on the Home Screen. With this update, typing “Tana” in Spotlight now shows quick actions like Write Note, Camera, or Voice Memo.

Tap one to open that capture mode instantly, without even launching the full app.

Shortcuts integration

You can now create multi-step Tana shortcuts in Apple’s Shortcuts app.
A shortcut is a series of actions, and for Tana, these actions can include:

• Write note
• Record voice memo
• Open camera

Use these shortcuts in automations, widgets, or even assign them to your iPhone’s Action Button (available on iPhone 15 Pro and later).

Action Button integration

On supported models (iPhone 15 Pro or later), you can map the Action Button to run a Tana shortcut, for example, start recording a voice memo with a single press.

To set it up:

1. Go to Settings > Action Button.
2. Swipe to Shortcut → Choose a Shortcut → select a Tana action (Voice memo, Write Note or Camera).

Siri integration

Use Siri to capture notes, photos, or voice memos in Tana hands-free.
Make sure Siri is enabled on your device (setup guide). Then try voice commands like:

• “Tana write note” — open text capture.
• “Tana camera” — take and save a photo in Tana.
• “Tana voice memo” — start recording an audio note.

See the full list of supported voice commands:

"Tana write note"

"Write note in Tana"

"Tana note"

"Write in Tana"

"Tana write"

"Tana camera"

"Open camera in Tana"

"Tana photo"

"Take photo in Tana"

"Tana capture photo"

"Tana voice memo"

"Voice memo in Tana"

"Tana memo"

"Record in Tana"

"Tana recording"