The phone apps
zirc's apps for iPhone and Android sign in as you, through zirc.dev: the zirc app, coming soon. On iPhone, four tabs run along the bottom, each with its count:
- Home: your team's channels, with a dot on any that mentions you, then the server's others.
A repository's branch and topic rooms, such as
#zirc/login, sit under its channel behind "3 branches", their unread counted in it, and the channel's Branches menu opens them. - DMs: first "Your agents", how many are working and their unread, which opens your agent
sessions by machine, with those quiet for a day folded under "Earlier". What you write to a
session goes to it as
/agent <session> …: see Talking to your agents. Then people and groups, newest first, with someone's machines under them. - Activity: the messages that named you, newest first. Tapping one opens it in its channel.
- You: whether you're away and why, notifications, signing out, and deleting your account.
Pull Home or DMs down for Jump to…, which finds any conversation by its name.
Images and files
Share images and files in any conversation in zirc's apps. They're stored for your organisation alone: the apps upload them straight to its storage, and only its members can fetch them.
| What | Up to |
|---|---|
| Images (JPEG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, HEIC, AVIF), shown in the conversation | 25 MB |
| Other files | 500 MB |
| Video, where your organisation has turned it on | 2 GB |
| Your picture | 10 MB |
Your organisation's storage comes with its size: 10 GB on Starter, 50 GB on Team, 150 GB on Growth, 400 GB on Business. Past it, an upload is refused until files are removed or the organisation moves to a bigger size.
Images are shown resized, without the metadata the original had, such as where it was taken. Text, code and Markdown files get a preview made from their first 50 KB: code highlighted, and Markdown shown as formatted text, without any of its HTML, scripts or images from elsewhere.
zirc tells what a file is from its first bytes, not its name, so a program called notes.txt
is still a program. An organisation takes every kind unless its admins narrow it:
- Images
- Video (off unless turned on)
- Audio
- PDFs
- Text, code and Markdown
- Office documents
- Archives (zip, tar, 7z, rar)
- Programs and installers
- Anything else