A message for you
A direct message, or a channel line that names you or everybody. A channel that did not name you stays quiet, as it does in the browser.
On your phone
Meetowt on your phone, and a tap when something needs you
Add Meetowt to your Home Screen like any app and turn on notifications. A message, a new mail, a call and a request waiting for your decision reach you even when Meetowt is closed.
- Install
- From the browser — no store, nothing to download
- You are told about
- Messages, mail, calls and requests waiting for you
- What travels
- What kind of thing, never what was written
- iPhone
- Add it to the Home Screen first — iOS 16.4 or later
Turning it on
On an iPhone, add it to the Home Screen
Open Meetowt in Safari, press Share, then Add to Home Screen, and open it from there. Apple allows notifications only for a web app added this way, on iOS 16.4 or later; Settings says so when it sees an iPhone that has not done it.
On Android, just open Settings
Chrome and the other Android browsers can be notified without installing anything, and offer to install Meetowt so it has its own icon.
Press Turn on
Under Notifications on this phone, in Settings. Your phone asks once whether to allow them. Each phone and each computer is switched on and off on its own.
Mute what you must
A conversation you have muted stays quiet on your phone as well, and Turn off in Settings stops that phone at once.
What you are told about
New mail in your Inbox
Only the Inbox — not Drafts and not Sent.
A call
When somebody rings you. A ring is urgent and is kept for 45 seconds, because a ring a minute late is not a ring.
A request waiting for you
A time-off request, an overtime entry or a shift swap that is yours to answer. Not every notice — only the ones waiting for your decision.
One at a time
At most one every half minute for each kind: the first at once, and whatever follows as a single notification that says how many.
Your company’s choices
If your company has switched Chat or Mail off you hear nothing about them, and a workspace on hold sends nothing.
What a notification says
The note that travels through Google’s, Apple’s or Mozilla’s servers says what kind of thing happened, how many, and which screen to open — never a message, a subject or a name. It is encrypted to your phone and padded so that its length says nothing either.
Your phone then asks Meetowt for the words, over your own sign-in. If it cannot — you are signed out on a shared phone, or have no connection — it shows only “New message in Meetowt”.
Good to know
- On an iPhone notifications work only for the app added to the Home Screen — not in a Safari tab.
- Calendar reminders still reach only an open Meetowt window. They are not pushed to a closed phone yet, and there is no number on the app’s icon yet.
- Offboarding somebody takes their phones off too, so a leaver’s phone is not told anything more.
- Mail in the phone’s own mail app is a separate thing, and still works the way it did. Mail on your phone
- It is part of the dollar a person a month, like the rest.
Questions
Is there an app in the App Store or Google Play?
No, and none is needed. Meetowt installs from the browser and opens full screen with its own icon. It is the same Meetowt, so there is nothing to keep up to date.
Does it work with no connection?
No. Meetowt keeps nothing of your mail, chat or HR on the phone to show when you are offline: a company’s private work is not left in a cache on a phone that may be shared or lost. The notification arrives when there is a connection, and the screen opens when there is one.
Can somebody read my messages from the notification service?
No. What goes through Google’s, Apple’s or Mozilla’s servers is encrypted to your phone and says only what kind of thing happened. The words are fetched by your own phone, from Meetowt, over your own sign-in.
One login, one price, all of it.
Mail, chat, meetings, calendar, documents, files and HR for everybody at your company — a dollar a person a month, and free while we are in early access.