Mobile capture

The most reliable moment to record a site update is the moment it happens, standing in front of the work. The mobile app is built for that: a large record button, a project to file the note against, and an optional photo. It does not try to reproduce the whole product on a phone. Its job is to get an accurate account of the day off the site and into a draft you can finish later.

When you record, the audio is transcribed on the server and the transcript is turned into a document draft in the background. That draft lands against the project and appears in the web app, where you edit, review and export it.

You sign in with the same Alloovium account you use on the web — the app uses the same identity, so your projects and documents are the ones you already have. After signing in once, the session is held securely on the device, and you can optionally require Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode to reopen the app.

Capture is the home of the app. You choose the project the note belongs to, optionally pick a template so the draft takes a familiar shape, and record.

1. 1

   Pick the project

   Select the project this note is about so the resulting draft is filed in the right place.

2. 2

   Record what happened

   Tap the microphone and speak naturally — for example, a site diary entry describing the pour, a delay and the inspection result.

3. 3

   Review the transcript

   The recording is transcribed and shown on screen so you can confirm it captured what you said.

4. 4

   Attach photos and draft

   Optionally add site photos, then draft. The transcript, and any photos as evidence pages, become a document in the background.

If you only want a record of what you said, a log-only mode saves the transcript without drafting a document. The same spoken-note idea drives the web experience described in Voice Input.

Site connectivity is rarely dependable, so the app is built to tolerate it. If a recording cannot be transcribed or drafted because the network is unavailable, the app queues it on the device and retries automatically when connectivity returns. You do not have to remember to resend anything.

The Activity screen shows the state of each capture so you always know where a note stands.

A finished capture becomes a document draft on the project, created through the same document-generation path the web app uses. Once it is ready you receive a notification on the phone, and the draft is waiting in the project’s documents on the web, where you can edit and export it as usual.

The mobile app draws on the same backend intelligence as everything else in Alloovium. It is deliberately narrow — capture on the phone, finish on the desktop — so that recording an update on site is a matter of seconds rather than a task you defer until you are back at a computer. Because it is in preview, expect the surface to keep changing as it is completed.