Put Preg on your phone. It takes about a minute.
Preg runs on the web now — the same app that's been on Megan's phone and mine, built from the same code, at preg.blaustfaust.house. Open it in your phone's browser, add it to your home screen, and from then on it opens full-screen like anything else on there. No app store in the way. The App Store version is still coming; this is the one you can have today.
Pick your phone.
Phones call this "adding to the home screen." Underneath, it installs the app — its own icon, its own full-screen window, no browser bar. There is nothing to download first.
On an iPhone
- Open Safari and go to preg.blaustfaust.house. It has to be Safari itself for this part — Chrome on an iPhone, and the browser that opens inside Messages or Instagram, won't show the option.
- Tap Share — the square with the arrow pointing up, in the bar at the bottom of the screen.
- Scroll the sheet and tap "Add to Home Screen." It's a little way down the list of actions.
- Tap Add. Preg lands on your home screen. Open it from there from now on.
On an Android phone
- Open Chrome and go to preg.blaustfaust.house.
- Tap Install. Chrome usually offers it in a small banner at the bottom of the screen. If it doesn't, tap the three dots in the top corner and choose "Install app" — older phones call it "Add to Home screen."
- Confirm. Preg goes into your app drawer and onto your home screen, like anything from the Play Store.
Then sign in — email and password, or Google — and you're in. If the option isn't where these steps say, the fix is almost always the browser: on an iPhone it has to be Safari, and on Android the three-dot menu has Install even when the banner never appears.
What still needs the phone app.
Four things, each with a plain reason.
- Buying or managing the subscription. It's an App Store purchase, so it happens in the App Store version.
- The Sketchbook, our shared drawing game. That one stays on the phone app for now.
- Importing shower guests from your Contacts. A browser can't read your phone's address book.
- Signing in with Apple. Email and password, or Google, work everywhere.
Everything else is there: the books and Ask The Books, the audio, the games, the labor tools and the Send Labor Alert button, the Village, the chat — the app you've read about on the tour, on your phone, today.
The App Store is next.
The listing is still ahead of us, and this site won't pretend otherwise: there's no store badge here until there's a store page behind it. If you'd like one line of email when it lands, the waitlist is still open.