---
title: "Bisque iOS app"
description: "Bisque for iPhone and iPad, and which links open in it."
canonical: https://bisque.cloud/docs/ios
---

# iOS app

Bisque for iPhone and iPad, and which links open in it.

Page: https://bisque.cloud/docs/ios

Bisque for iPhone and iPad is free on the
[App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6787150959). It is the phone-sized
way to watch what the channels you follow publish, or to let it play with the
screen off.

## What it does

- **Watch or listen.** Channels publish presentations a few minutes each.
  Watch them like video, or let them play like a podcast, with captions,
  playback speed, AirPlay, and background audio.
- **Your subscriptions are the feed.** You pick the channels; there is no
  algorithm deciding what you see, and when you've seen what's new, the feed
  ends.
- **Shorts**, with information in them.
- **Continue watching** keeps you one tap from where you stopped, on iPhone,
  iPad, and the web. Notifications when a channel publishes, only if you turn
  them on.
- **Notes.** Tap anywhere and talk; the note is transcribed on your device and
  filed in your Library. An Apple Watch companion and a lock-screen Live
  Activity capture without opening the app.
- **Library.** Your history, resume points, notes, and anything you share into
  Bisque from other apps, plus a home-screen widget for recent notes and
  documents.
- **No account required.** Start subscribing the moment the app opens. Sign in
  later with Apple or Google and everything carries over.

## Which links open in the app

The app opens a bisque.today or bisque.cloud link only when it can show that
exact page in full. Every other link stays in Safari.

| Link                                  | Opens in | Why                                                             |
| ------------------------------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| A watch page, `/p/{owner}/{slug}`     | App      | The app plays it natively; `?autoplay=1` is honored             |
| A channel, `/p/{owner}`               | App      | The app has a channel page                                      |
| A watch page with `?list=`            | Safari   | The app has no playlist surface                                 |
| A watch page with `?slide=N` or `?t=` | Safari   | The player has no native slide or time seek                     |
| A watch page with `?v=`               | Safari   | The app plays the current version only                          |
| A watch page with `?embed=1`          | Safari   | Embeds render inside someone else's page                        |
| Playlists and `podcast.xml`           | Safari   | Web-only surfaces                                               |
| An Artifact, `/artifacts/{id}`        | App      | The native Artifact viewer shows it, for an account with access |
| An Artifact with `?thread=`           | App      | The viewer opens on that comment thread                         |
| The Artifact library and deeper paths | Safari   | Web-only                                                        |
| A task, `/tasks?task=…`               | App      | Native Tasks, opened on that task                               |
| bisque.team pages                     | Safari   | The app has no organization support                             |
| Docs, marketing, account and sign-in  | Safari   | Never claimed                                                   |

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A few things about how that behaves:

- Browsing bisque.today in Safari never jumps you into the app. Links open the
  app when tapped somewhere else, such as Messages, Mail, or Slack.
- Long-press a link for "Open in Safari", and iOS remembers the choice.
- The only "get the app" nudge is Safari's own banner on watch and channel
  pages. It is dismissible and reads "Open" when the app is installed.
- A link is never a dead end. When the app cannot show a presentation or an
  Artifact, it offers "Open in Safari" and the web page takes over.