You need a Spec account. Your company’s Spec admin makes it and gives you your email and a temporary password, in person or by phone. Nobody can sign up on their own.
There is nothing to download from an app store. Spec isn’t in the App Store or Google Play. It installs from the web, from specit.app only.
The app shows your company’s data once it has been copied in (see the Spec for AWS user guide). Until then, you can try the demo on made-up data.
Install on iPhone or iPad
Open Safari.
Go to specit.app/phone.
Tap Share (the square with an arrow pointing up). On iPhone it’s at the bottom of the screen; on iPad, at the top.
Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
Tap Add. The Spec icon appears on your home screen.
Open Spec from that icon from now on. It opens full screen, like any other app.
Use Safari. Depending on your iOS version, other browsers may not offer Add to Home Screen.
Install on Android
Open Chrome.
Go to specit.app/phone.
If you see an Install Spec button, tap it, then tap Install.
No button? Tap the menu (⋮) at the top right, then Install app (on some phones, Add to Home screen, then Install).
The Spec icon appears on your home screen and in your apps list. Open Spec from there.
On mobile.specit.app, the Install Spec button takes you to the right page.
Install on a computer
You can also use Spec in any browser at specit.app/app, without installing. To install it as an app:
Chrome or Edge (Windows, Mac or Linux): open specit.app/app, then click the install icon at the right end of the address bar. Or open the browser’s menu and look for Install.
Safari on a Mac (macOS Sonoma or later): open specit.app/app, then choose File → Add to Dock.
Browsers rename their menus from time to time. If you can’t find the option, use Spec in the browser: it works the same.
Sign in the first time
Open Spec.
Enter your email and the temporary password your admin gave you. Tap Sign in.
On the home screen, under Sign in with Face ID or fingerprint, tap Add a passkey. Confirm with Face ID, your fingerprint or your screen lock.
Open Settings. Under Change your password, choose your own password of 12 characters or more.
Next time, tap Sign in with passkey. Your face and fingerprint never leave your device.
Other ways to sign in
With your email and password, on any device.
With an email link, if your company has switched it on: tap Email me a sign-in link. The link works once, for 15 minutes. Open it on the device you want to sign in on, then tap Finish signing in.
You stay signed in while you use Spec. After 8 hours without using it, you sign in again.
Find your way around
Screen
What it’s for
Home
Your data at a glance: how many records are searchable, and shortcuts.
Search
Find records and the text inside your documents.
Data
What has been copied in, and how much room it uses.
Activity
Copies from AWS and how far they’ve got.
Archive
The archives of your copies, their checks and downloads.
Specbase
About searching Supabase and Postgres data.
Phone
How to add Spec to your home screen.
Internet
What to do if the internet goes down.
Settings
Your passkeys, your password and your account data.
Admin
People, internet settings and the admin log. Admins only.
On Android, press and hold the Spec icon for shortcuts straight to Search and Your data.
Search
Tap Search.
Type what you’re looking for: a customer’s name, an invoice number, a topic, a phrase from a contract.
Tap Search. Spec shows up to five of the closest matching records.
Each result shows its name and where it came from: a row in a database table, or a file.
The similarity score shows how close a match is, not how sure an answer is.
No good matches? Try other words, or the words the record itself would use.
Written answers aren’t switched on yet. Search shows the matching records.
“Your workspace has no data yet” means nothing has been copied in. Ask your Spec admin.
Passkeys and password
Add a passkey on each device you use, in Settings → Passkeys. Then losing one device doesn’t lock you out. You can name each one, for example “My iPhone”.
To remove a passkey, tap Remove… next to it, then Remove.
Changing your password in Settings signs you out on your other devices.
Lost every device and your password? Your Spec admin can give you a new password and sign you out everywhere.
If you lose your phone
Tell your Spec admin. In Admin, they tap Lost device next to your name. That removes your passkeys and signs you out everywhere.
Sign in on another device with your password, and add a new passkey there.
None of your company’s data is stored on the phone, so there’s nothing on it to wipe.
When Spec can’t connect
If Spec can’t be reached, the app says so and lists the usual reasons:
Your phone is offline. Turn on mobile data or join a Wi-Fi network.
The Spec computer’s internet is down. Switch it to its backup line, such as Starlink. Spec reconnects by itself within about half a minute.
The Spec computer is off or asleep. Turn it on and wake it.
Then tap Try again, or Reconnect if the app shows an error. On the Spec computer itself, search keeps working without the internet. What to do when the internet goes down.
Updates
Updates arrive by themselves, with nothing to do in an app store. When one is ready, the app shows An app update is ready. Tap Update and reload when it suits you.
Sign out, and remove the app
To sign out, tap Sign out at the top of the app.
iPhone or iPad: press and hold the Spec icon, tap Remove App (or Delete Bookmark), then confirm.
Android: press and hold the Spec icon, then tap Uninstall or Remove.
Computer: open the installed app’s menu and choose Uninstall, or remove it from the Dock on a Mac.
Removing the app doesn’t delete your account.
Your account data
In Settings → Your data:
Download my account data gives you a file with what Spec keeps about your account: your name, email, role, passkeys, sign-ins and the admin changes about you.
Delete my account deletes your account, passkeys and sign-ins at once, and signs you out everywhere. Type your email to confirm. It can’t be undone. Your company’s data isn’t touched. The last admin of a workspace can’t delete their account.
Privacy on your phone
None of your company’s data is stored on the phone.
Spec sets one cookie, to keep you signed in. There are no analytics, ads or tracking.
Your face and fingerprint never leave your device: the phone only confirms it’s you.
Free in 132 low- and middle-income countries, for people and companies.
US$2 a month per phone in high-income countries.
In Mexico and Panama: free on your own phone, and companies pay for their phones.
Companies pay a little less in packages, from $1.98 per phone for 10 phones.
Early access is free everywhere: we don’t take payment yet.
This is the price of Spec on phones only. Copying data out of AWS is priced separately, and companies pay for it in every country. See all prices.
For admins
Admins add people, give new passwords, sign lost devices out and change the internet settings in Admin, on a phone or a computer. The steps are in the Spec for AWS user guide under People and roles.