Wisper on your phone

Your phone talks to the WispOS on your computer directly. There’s no WispOS server in the middle: your computer serves the phone, and nothing leaves it except what your phone asks for.

Turning it on

1. On your computer, open Settings → Phone & sharing.
2. Turn the phone link on. It’s off until you do.
3. Scan the QR code with your phone, or open the link it shows.

That’s it. Your phone and computer need to be on the same Wi-Fi (or the same Tailscale-style private network). To reach it from anywhere, see Reaching your computer away from home.

What you can do from your phone

• Talk to Wisper. Same Wisper, same conversation, same brain as on the computer. What you say from the phone shows on the computer and the other way round.
• Dictate. Tap the microphone and talk; your computer turns it into text. (Dictation needs the secure, https link; on a plain Wi-Fi link the button opens the keyboard instead.)
• See the Overview: the weather (where your phone is, in the phone app), the latest recap, what’s running, and counts of what’s waiting.
• Answer Decisions, or talk to Wisper about one.
• See the Queue, read-only.
• Open what she links to. Pages and files she mentions open on the phone, formatted.

Keep the link private

The link has a long secret in it. Anyone who has the link can talk to Wisper as you, so treat it like a password. If it ever leaks, press New link in Settings: the old one stops working at once, and you scan the new one.

On Wi-Fi, your phone talks to your computer directly in plain HTTP, which is fine at home and not on a café or hotel network. So by default the Wi-Fi link only works on home networks: the first is the one your computer was on when you turned the link on, and you can add another with Trust this network (or forget one) in Settings → Phone & sharing. Anywhere else your computer only answers your address from anywhere, if you’ve set one. You can also choose Any network or Never.

On the phone, Share → Add to Home Screen turns the link into an app icon.

Notifications

On the iPhone app, Wisper’s messages can reach you as notifications. They follow where you are: while you’re using your computer, her popup has it, and your phone only buzzes if you still haven’t read it 45 seconds later. When your computer is locked or you’ve been away from it for two minutes, the phone gets it within seconds. Read it on the computer first and the phone never buzzes.

Notifications to a locked iPhone go through Apple, signed with your own Apple push key, which stays on your computer. The Notifications on the iPhone app part of Settings → Phone & sharing walks you through making the key at Apple and adding it, and has a Send a test button. Then open the WispOS app on the iPhone once and allow notifications.

Your computer must be on

Your phone reaches Wisper through your computer, so it needs to be on, awake and running WispOS.