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Compact mode

Compact mode is the ScribX web app in a phone-shaped shell: a bottom tab bar, a record button in the middle, and screens sized for one thumb. It's the same account, the same recordings and the same teams as the full site — only the chrome changes.

There's nothing to install. Open platform.scribx.app in your phone's browser and ScribX renders Compact mode from the first byte.

Compact mode on a phone — team pill, filters, recordings list and the bottom tab bar123
  1. 1Team switcher — tap to change team
  2. 2All · My meetings · Shared with Me · Quick Notes
  3. 3Notes · ● Record · Settings
Compact mode — your recordings, the team switcher, and one unmistakable record button.

Switch between Compact and Full site

ScribX picks a mode from your device, and your choice always overrides it. The setting is per device and it sticks.

Where you areHow to switch
Full site (desktop)Account menu, top-right → Compact mode
Compact modeSettings tab → Full site
Compact modeHeader avatar → account sheet → Full site
A meeting you've opened in the header → Full site
Screens that only exist on the full site

Summary Templates, Calendars, team and organization settings have no compact screen. Switching to Compact mode from one of those pages lands you on your recordings instead of re-rendering the same desktop page — that's deliberate, not a lost click.

Getting around

The bottom bar has three targets:

  • Notes — your recordings, and the home of Compact mode.
  • ● Record — the middle button. Starts a capture from your microphone.
  • Settings — voiceprint, languages, credits, and the way back to the full site.

At the top of the home screen, the team pill shows which team you're in; tap it to switch. The avatar beside it opens your account sheet.

Your recordings

The home screen is the recordings list, with the same rows and the same filters the full site uses:

  • Quick tabs — All · My meetings · Shared with Me · Quick Notes
  • Search, plus Platform, Time and Status filters (and Team, on Shared with Me)
  • Each row shows the platform, how many people were in the call, and the languages captured

Tap a row to open the meeting. Its menu offers Open and Copy link — moving and deleting stay on the full site, where the confirmation has room to explain itself.

The meeting screen itself carries the write-up under three tabs — Summary, Transcript and Timeline (Checkpoints) — with the recording at the top.

Animation: opening a meeting from the compact list and moving through Summary, Transcript and Timeline
Tap a meeting, then move through Summary, Transcript and Timeline — the same write-up as the full site.

Record from your phone

The middle button opens Quick Notes: a mic capture, no bot, no meeting link. Before you start you can set the languages, attach team context, and pick a microphone if the phone has more than one.

The Quick Notes record screen in Compact mode — Notes/Conversation toggle, languages, record button
Before you record: Notes or Conversation, and the languages spoken in the room.
Compact mode mid-note — live bilingual transcript, live controls in the header, and the recording bar
Mid-note: the transcript flows as people speak, each line with its translation underneath.

As soon as you start, the screen becomes the transcript. Lines appear as people speak, grouped by speaker, with the translation under each one when the note has two languages. A run of consecutive lines from the same person shows the name once, so it reads as prose rather than a stack of cards.

Along the bottom sits the recording bar: pause, a SCRIBING… indicator with the running clock, a live waveform, and End & save.

While it's recording, the header holds the live controls:

  • A connection chip — Live, Reconnecting or Stalled — driven by the actual audio and transcript flow, so a dead connection can't hide behind a running timer.
  • The Notes / Conversation toggle (below).
  • Live summary — the running write-up so far.
  • Present mode — hides every control so the screen is nothing but text. Tap the exit button or press Esc to come back.

Notes vs Conversation

Two ways to use the same mic capture:

  • Notes — transcribes and summarizes the room, with speakers separated. This is the one for a meeting, an interview or a lecture.
  • Conversation — a face-to-face translator for two people. The screen splits into two panels, one per language, each with its own running log; the panel whose language is being spoken lights up, so it's obvious who the phone is hearing.
Conversation mode — two language panels, the top one rotated to face the person opposite
Conversation mode: one panel per language, the top one turned to face the person across the table.

In Conversation you can flip the panels to face the other person, swap the two languages in one tap when you've changed seats, pause the mic, and size the text up or down on a bigger screen.

Both end the same way: End & save writes the note to your library with the transcript and the write-up.

Settings

The Settings tab in Compact mode — credit meter, App language, Meeting languages, Full site
Settings — the credit meter, your two language choices, and the way back to the full site.

The Settings tab is deliberately short — the things you change from a phone:

  • Credits — how much of the organization's allowance is left and when it resets. Read-only: topping up is an admin action on the full site. Compact mode has no sidebar, so this meter is the only place the number would otherwise be missing.
  • My voiceprint — enroll or re-record, so ScribX recognizes you across meetings. Shown when your organization has voiceprints switched on.
  • App language — the language the app itself is shown in: English, Tiếng Việt, 日本語 or 한국어.
  • Meeting languages — the languages people speak, transcribed and translated between each other. Up to two, and they pre-fill new captures. This is not the app language; the two get confused constantly.

Team and organization settings live on the full site.

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