The native iPhone app is a full Code workbench - create sessions, plan, diff, PR, terminal, files, and an offline outbox. Live Activities and widgets keep limits and progress in reach; Apple Watch handles approve / interrupt. Continuum Voice is a system keyboard for any text field.
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Six tabs on session detail: Chat, Plan, Diff, PR, Terminal, Files. Create sessions from the Code tab, pin provider/model/effort, and steer mid-run. When the network flakes, the command outbox queues send / approve / interrupt with exp backoff.
Same session pool as Mac and web - start on the train, merge from the desk. See Sessions and Code.
Provider limit pages, plan approve / interrupt, and complications for glance status. City-named sessions stay readable on a tiny screen.
The watch is a control surface - not a full IDE. Deep diff review and share stay on iPhone and Mac. See Widgets.
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets surface provider usage without opening the app. Live Activities / Dynamic Island track aggregate active Code sessions so you see when the fleet is busy.
Foreground updates are in-process; deeper background push remains a platform constraint - the widgets and Island still cover the daily glance path. Full spend history lives on Analytics.
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The Continuum Voice keyboard is a mic-only system keyboard - use it in Continuum or in any other app. Action Button and Back Tap start a take without opening a menu.
Partial transcripts append live into the focused field. Same intent as Mac’s Option-hold - start a Code session or steer a running one without typing a novel on a train. More on Voice.
Email pairing / account mesh - signing in is how devices join your Continuum account. Scan a QR or paste a pairing URL; MagicDNS survives sleep and Wi‑Fi flips. More on Pairing.
Honest pricing: the app is free with your own keys - gauges, pairing, and the whole Code workbench on iPhone included. Continuum-hosted inference (Plus from $25/mo) is the only paid line, and it’s optional. Provider subscriptions stay yours.
Short answers here, long answers in the docs.
Something has to host agent compute - a Mac running Continuum or an enrolled device. The iPhone is a full control surface onto that host. You can start and steer entirely from the phone once paired.
The app is free with your own keys - gauges, pairing, and the full Code workbench (managed sessions, plan/diff/PR ship path) on every platform. The paid line is Continuum-hosted inference: Plus, Max, and Ultra buy a weekly hosted budget. Provider subscriptions (Claude Max, Codex, etc.) are still yours, billed by those vendors.
Yes - an Expo Android twin tracks the same navigation and product tabs. Feature depth follows the shared mobile client; native iOS still owns Live Activities, Watch, and the deepest system hooks.
Composer and approve paths enqueue in the mobile outbox. Transient failures retry with backoff; the host dedups by idempotency key so a flaky network can’t double-send or double-merge.
Download Continuum for Mac, sign in on iPhone - that’s pairing. Then start Code sessions from anywhere.