On your phone

Overscore works in your phone's browser, and you can put it on your home screen so it opens like an app: full screen, with no address bar. There is nothing to download from a store.

Add it to your home screen

On an iPhone: open Overscore in Safari, sign in, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. On Android: open it in Chrome, sign in, open the menu (the three dots), then Install app, or Add to Home screen.

Sign in first. Once you are signed in, the icon that lands on your home screen is your company's logo and the name under it is your company's, so it sits on your phone as your own analytics app. An admin sets the logo in Settings, Company, with Upload a logo. With no logo yet the icon is Overscore's, and the name is still yours.

What you upload is what you get. A solid square picture becomes the icon as it is, edge to edge. A logo with see-through parts around it is placed on a background with some room: white, or dark when the logo itself is light.

The icon is a copy made when you add it. If the logo changes later, an iPhone keeps the old icon until you remove the app from the home screen and add it again.

Two companies, two apps

If you belong to more than one company, each one installs as an app of its own, with its own name and icon: open the company in your browser, then add it to your home screen. Each app opens its own company and stays in it, and so does each browser tab: two companies open at once never mix. Inside an installed app there is no switching between companies; in a browser there is, under More.

Getting around

A bar along the bottom has five places: Home, Dashboards, Chats, Inbox and More. More holds your organization (and switching to another one), Context under Data, Playbooks, Members and Settings, and your own profile, appearance and sign out. Building things (the warehouse, models, sources and destinations) is left to a bigger screen.

Ask, in the bottom right corner of a page, opens the chat as the whole screen, above the bar; on a dashboard, which has no bar, the whole screen. The arrow at its top goes back to the page.

Someone in a group (a client looking at the dashboards shared with them) has three: Dashboards, Chats and More. More holds their company, their account under Settings, their own profile and sign out, and notifications on this phone.

Home's Where to start holds the doors not taken yet (talk about the business, connect a source, open a dashboard, the tour), one to a row on a phone.

Dashboards

An open dashboard takes the whole screen. A dashboard with tabs shows them as a bar along the bottom, and the arrow at the top left takes you back. The bar at the top is the back arrow, the title and Download, whose menu opens along the bottom; for the people who build it, Overview, Where the numbers come from and Settings sit under it. How a dashboard fits a phone is on the Dashboards page.

Notifications

Once the app is on your home screen, you can have it tell you things: an alert that fired, or a report that is ready. It is off until you turn it on. Open More, switch on Notifications on this phone, and allow it when the phone asks. Send me a test shows one right away.

An alert says which number moved and opens that alert, with its last checks; someone in a group has no Alerts screen, so theirs opens under Settings, Account, where their alerts are, with that one open. A report says it is ready and opens a chat that has it in front of you, so you can read it and ask about it. They still arrive by email as before.

Each phone is turned on by itself, and each company's app has its own notifications. On means this phone is registered for you in this company and has not failed out. After eight failures it shows Off; turn it on again, or it will be tried again after a day. The phone keeps the last word: its own settings can block them, and there is no receipt when one is not delivered.