Navanto on your iPhone

Navanto has an iPhone app, so whoever is on site can read and post to a project without opening a browser.

Getting the app

The app is on the App Store as Navanto, published by Navanto Ltd, and it’s free to download; it needs an iPhone running iOS 26 or later.

Download Navanto on the App Store

Signing in

Sign in with the same email address and password you use on the web; there’s no separate sign-up, so anyone already invited to your organisation can sign in on the phone straight away. If you have not signed in anywhere yet, use the temporary password from your invitation email and the app asks you to set your own, exactly as the web does.

Posts

The Projects tab lists every project you’re a member of; open one to get to its posts, which are the same posts as on the web, with anything you send from site there for the office straight away. The + button takes a photo with the camera or attaches photos and files, @ mentions someone, and swiping a message replies in its thread.

Site updates

Open a project and tap Site Updates to see its site updates grouped by week, with this week marked Current and NavantoAI’s summary over each week, as on the web. New Site Update writes one: a note, up to 20 photos from Take Photo or Photo Library, and the timeline phases it belongs to. Long press one of your own updates to edit or delete it; an administrator can delete anyone’s, and deleting an update takes its photos out of any client update using them.

If your role includes Client portal, you can put the week’s client update together on the phone too. Create client update on a week opens it: choose up to 20 of that week’s photos, tag the phases, and write the description or tap Draft with AI to have NavantoAI draft one for you to edit. Send asks you to confirm, because it goes live on your client’s portal and emails them; after that, the ⋯ menu on the client update lets you Edit, Revoke or Re-send it, and its author or an administrator can delete it once it’s revoked.

Drawings

Open a project and tap Drawings to see its drawing register, in the same sections as on the web; the phone only reads the register, so adding and changing drawings stays on the web. The register opens on Approved, which shows each drawing’s approved revisions and hides any drawing that has none, so what you build from on site is what has been signed off; switch to All Drawings to see every revision whatever its status. If a drawing has a newer revision that isn’t approved yet, its page tells you so.

Tap a drawing to see its revisions, then Open Drawing to read the latest sheet full screen, or tap any revision to open that one instead; Share sends the file on from there.

NavantoAI

The NavantoAI tab is the same assistant as on the web; see What NavantoAI can do. On the phone, a long press on a reply lets you copy it or select part of it.

Notifications

The first time you open a project’s posts or site updates, the app asks whether it can notify you. After that, new posts, mentions, replies and site updates on your projects arrive as notifications; tap one to open that conversation or the site updates. The app icon counts only the posts and site updates you have not read, since those are the two things the app can take you to; the Projects list marks each project with how many are waiting there, and opening a project shows the count against Posts and against Site Updates so you can see which of the two it is. Opening a project’s posts clears its post notifications; site updates clear separately.

The only things that reach your phone are posts, mentions, replies and site updates; each of those follows its In-app switch on the web, under Settings → Notifications, so turning one off there stops it reaching the phone too. Everything else Navanto tells you about, such as approvals, tasks and being added to a project, stays on the web and in your email. iOS Settings turns the lot off.

Clients

The app is for your own team; a client who signs in is pointed to their project portal on the web, which is where everything for them lives. See Using your project portal.