Saanora for Android: the AI assistant app is now on your phone
Saanora is now a free AI app for Android. Chat with Mark, get interactive answers, attach photos and files, and pick up any chat from web or desktop.
Most of the questions people ask an assistant don't happen at a desk. They happen in a kitchen with one hand free, on a train, in a lecture hall, standing in front of something you don't understand and would quite like explained. Until now the answer to all of those was "open a browser tab on your phone", which works, and which nobody enjoys.
So we built the real thing. Saanora for Android is a native AI assistant app: the same Mark, the same chats, the same account — with interactive answers rendering properly on a phone screen, your camera wired straight into the composer, and every conversation already in sync with the web and desktop apps.
Why an AI app for Android, and not just the website
A responsive website is a compromise on a phone. It doesn't own the keyboard, it can't reach the camera cleanly, it can't speak an answer out loud while your hands are busy, and it can't put a share link into the Android share sheet. Every one of those is a small friction, and small frictions are exactly what stop you asking the question at all.
Going native fixes them one at a time:
- The composer is glued to the keyboard — it rides up flush on top of the keys instead of hiding behind them, so you can always see what you're typing.
- The + button opens Camera, Photos, and Files. Snap the thing you're asking about and send it, up to five attachments per message.
- Read aloud is one tap under any answer — your phone speaks it while you cook, walk, or drive.
- Pull down anywhere in the thread and the app re-pulls your chats and settings from the server, with a flame-tinted spinner falling from the top of the screen.
- Sharing a chat hands the link straight to the Android share sheet, so it goes wherever you already send things.
Interactive answers that actually work on a phone
This is the part we were most careful with. Saanora's whole idea is that some answers should be shown, not just told — and the lazy version of a mobile app quietly drops all of that and ships a text box.
It doesn't here. Quizzes, flashcards, step-by-step walkthroughs, explorable knowledge maps, and charts are rendered as real native views, built for touch, at proper mobile type sizes. The heavier visuals — interactive 3D scenes, draggable physics simulations, diagrams, and properly typeset maths — get a full renderer of their own so they behave exactly as they do on a large screen. And when Mark generates a document, the PDF, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file arrives as a chip you can tap and open.
Ask for the structure of a molecule on your phone and you get a model you can rotate with your thumb, not a paragraph describing one.
Your chats follow you: mobile, web, and desktop in sync
There is no separate mobile account, no separate mobile history, and no separate mobile plan. Sign in and your conversations are already there, grouped by day, searchable by title and by message text. Your response-mode preference and your settings sync through the same account, so the app behaves the way you've already taught it to.
Usage works the same way. The phone reads the same allowance your other sessions do — messages and Research searches included — and warns you above the composer as you approach the limit. If you already pay for Lite or Spark, the plan is simply live the moment you sign in.
Memory comes along too. Mark carries what matters between chats so you aren't reintroducing yourself every time, and the full list lives in Settings on your phone where you can read it, add to it, or delete any line of it.
Research, temporary chats, and the rest of Mark
The composer's response-mode pill gives you the same four choices as everywhere else: Auto, Quick, Think, and Research. Run a Research answer and it comes back with a sources pill — tap it and you can read every citation Mark actually used, which is the difference between an answer you can check and one you have to trust.
Temporary chats made the trip as well. Tap the ghost in the top bar and the whole screen cools to violet: nothing is saved to your history, nothing syncs, and leaving the chat ends it. It's the same incognito behaviour as the web app, with the same mascot.
A free ChatGPT alternative for Android
If you're shopping around, the honest comparison is short. Saanora is free to use with usage limits, like the assistants you already know, and paid plans lift them — Lite at $9.99/mo and Spark at $20/mo. What's different is what an answer is allowed to be: a 3D model, a simulation you drag, a quiz that checks whether it landed, a chart, a real downloadable file — instead of paragraphs every single time.
It's also worth saying what it doesn't do, because that's easy to get wrong about assistants. Mark writes code; it doesn't run it. It explains, researches, drafts, and organizes — it doesn't act on the world for you. Knowing the boundary up front is the difference between a tool that impresses you and one that disappoints you.
One honest note about iOS
This release is Android first. An iPhone build is coming and we'll announce it the same way — when it's actually on the App Store, not before. If you're on iOS today, saanora.com in Safari is the full experience, with the same account and the same chats waiting.
Download the Saanora mobile app
Saanora for Android is free, works with the account and plan you already have, and puts the whole assistant one tap from your home screen. Install it, ask Mark the thing you were about to type into a search bar, and see what comes back.