Nauticare shows the same pages on a phone or tablet as on a computer, adapted for a smaller screen.
Navigation on a phone and tablet
- Menu drawer on a phone: On a phone, the left sidebar becomes a slide-out drawer. Open it with the menu button at the top left of the header or by swiping right across the page; close it with the X button at the top right of the drawer, by swiping left, or by tapping the page behind it. Inside a yacht, the top of the drawer displays Yacht and the current yacht's name. Tapping a menu group with sub-pages (such as Tasks, Maintenance or Crew) expands its sub-pages inside the drawer without leaving your current page until you choose one. More expands inline at the bottom of the menu list, where you can also use Search modules or Customize.
- Header and the drawer's bottom bar: On a phone, the top header keeps the Notifications and Alerts bell, the Account person icon (in place of your profile photo), and the Nauticare AI button, with the current page's title and actions on a second row underneath. The remaining controls move to the bottom bar of the menu drawer: Back to Fleet (used by company users to leave the current yacht and switch to another yacht on the Fleet page), Help, Billing (shown to Management Admins in a mobile web browser, and hidden in the iPhone and Android apps), Vessel settings (or Company settings), and Cookie preferences when available.
- Icon rail on a tablet: On a tablet-sized screen, the sidebar stays on the left as a collapsed icon rail by default. Tap the double-arrow button at its edge to expand the full menu labels, or collapse it again with the double-arrow button beside the logo.
Tables and filters on a phone
On a phone, tables automatically switch to a vertical list of cards:
- Each card displays the main columns as labelled fields in a two-column grid (up to four fields across two rows, pairing the lead field with the row's status where there is one).
- When a table has additional columns, a more button on the card (for example, 3 more) expands the remaining fields in place, and Less folds them back.
- Row actions sit as circular icon buttons along the bottom of the card.
- Where a list has a filter panel, opening it on a phone shows a full-screen Filters sheet (with the page's status tabs at the top when the page uses them) and Reset Filters and Apply Filters buttons at the bottom.
Previewing files
PDFs, Word documents (.docx) and images preview directly on the page, for example on a
document's detail page. A password-protected PDF cannot be previewed and shows This PDF is
password-protected. Download it to open.
Where a table or list opens a file in a new browser tab on a computer (using View or View file), the iPhone and Android apps download the file instead.
Downloads and exports
Downloading a file or exporting a list in the iPhone and Android apps keeps you inside the app:
- iPhone: the system share sheet opens so you can save the file to Files, send it by email or message, or open it in another app.
- Android: the file is saved to the phone's Downloads folder and a short message confirms it. On Android 9 and older, the share sheet opens instead.
If a download fails, the app shows Could not download this file.
Taking a photo when uploading
Wherever an upload accepts images or documents — such as Upload, Add file, Upload and extract using AI, or Upload without extraction — a phone lets you take a photo with the camera or choose an existing photo or file from your phone. This is handy for photographing a paper certificate, invoice or receipt on the spot. Uploads restricted to spreadsheets (such as an inventory Excel import) go straight to your files without offering the camera.
The page that needs a computer
Opening a form template under Database → Controlled Documents (on the Form Templates tab) requires a desktop screen: on a phone or tablet the template's page shows This functionality is available on desktop only with a Back button. The Controlled Documents list and Form Templates list themselves work on a phone.