New in Breeze: rebuilt apps for iPhone, iPad and Android

Why we rebuilt the apps

The old apps worked, but they had the limits of a website. Each screen was a page loaded from our servers, so on a weak signal screens were slow to open or didn't open at all. Nothing changed on screen when a teammate moved a task until you reloaded. And the pages were made for a phone, so on an iPad or a tablet most of the screen went unused.

The new apps fix those things at the root rather than one by one. They keep what you've already opened on the phone, follow changes as they happen, and use each system's own controls, menus and gestures. Every screen of the mobile website made it over, along with drag and drop, which the mobile website never had.

Everything assigned to you, in one list

The Tasks tab opens on your work grouped by due date: overdue, due today, due this week, later and no date. To-dos assigned to you sit in the same list as tasks, so a checklist item someone gave you doesn't get lost inside a task you never open.

You can group the same list by project or by status instead, and filter it by people, tags, statuses, projects and custom fields. Your saved bookmarks from the web are there too, so a filter you set up once on the computer is one tap away on the phone. Each row shows the project and list it belongs to, who's on it, its status and its dates, with overdue dates in red.

Boards you can drag tasks across

A project opens as its board, with the lists side by side and swimlanes where the project has them. The big change here is drag and drop. On the old app you had to open a task and pick a new list from a menu. Now you press and hold a card, drag it to the list it belongs in, and let go. A gap opens where the card will land, so you can see where it's going before you drop it.

You can also add a task straight into a list, add a new list, switch the project between the board and the list layout, and search the board as you type. The board's menu has the project's Messages and Notes, Invite people, and Archive or Delete.

The Projects tab shows your workspaces and projects, with the ones you pin at the top. Starting a project works as on the web: give it a name, pick the people, invite new ones by email address, and start from one of your project templates if you like.

The whole task, not a cut-down version

A task in the app has everything it has on the web. You can change its status, colour, tags and people, set the start and due dates, add an estimate and fill in custom fields. Move it to another list or another project from the same screen.

The description shows with its headings, lists, links, images and mentions, and you can edit it with the same editor the web uses. To-do lists work as you'd expect: tick items off, add new ones, give them a person and a due date. Files can come from your photos, your files or straight from the camera.

Time tracking is there in full. Start and stop a timer from the task, log time after the fact, and see the time tracked against the estimate.

The discussion sits at the bottom of the task. Write a comment, mention a teammate with @, reply to a comment, react to one, or edit and delete your own. The comment box stays at the bottom of the screen while you scroll, so you can answer without hunting for it.

Calendar, inbox, activity and search

The Calendar shows the month with a dot for each day that has something due, and the picked day's tasks and project dates underneath. Add a task from there and it lands on that day.

The Inbox collects your mentions and assignments, with an Unread and an All view. Tap a notification and it opens the task, message or note it's about, and marks itself read. Push notifications are on for mentions and assignments. The app asks for permission the first time you open the Inbox rather than the moment you launch it, so you know what you're agreeing to.

Activity shows what changed across your projects, day by day. Search finds tasks, comments, to-dos, files, notes and messages across every project, with filters for project, person, list, type and date.

What happens on a weak signal

Anything you've opened in the app stays readable when the connection drops. Your task list, a board you looked at this morning or a task's discussion are still there in the tunnel.

A few things also work fully offline. You can tick a to-do, start or stop a timer and write a comment, and the app sends them as soon as you're back online. We kept that list short on purpose. Other changes, like moving a task or editing a description, need a connection, and the app says so plainly rather than pretending something saved when it didn't.

Changes show up as they happen

When a teammate moves a card, adds a comment or changes a due date, the screen you're looking at updates on its own. You don't have to pull down to see whether anything changed since you opened the board.

Links to Breeze now open in the app too. Tap a task link in an email or a chat message on your phone and it opens on that task, not on a browser sign-in page.

Made for iPad and Android tablets

On an iPad, the app uses the space. Navigation moves into a sidebar, a board shows several lists at once, and the calendar shows the whole month with task names written into the days. It works in portrait and landscape.

Android tablets get the same treatment. Held sideways, the app swaps the bottom bar for a navigation rail down the side, and the board and the task lists spread out to fill the width.

Smaller things that add up

• Both apps follow your phone's light or dark mode.
• They come in English, German, French and Spanish.
• Sign in with your email and password, including two-factor codes, or with Google. On iPhone and iPad, Sign in with Apple works too. You can create a new Breeze account from the app.
• If you're on more than one Breeze team, switch between them from the More tab.
• Dates and times follow your Breeze time zone and your 12 or 24-hour clock setting.

What stays on the web

The apps cover everything the mobile website did, plus drag and drop. The heavier setup work still happens on a computer: reports, list and swimlane settings, automations, recurring tasks, task dependencies, team chat rooms, and account and billing settings. Some of these may come to the apps later, but we wanted the everyday work right first.

The mobile website at m.breeze.pm is still there for anyone who prefers the browser.

How to get the new app

If you already have Breeze on your phone, update it from the App Store or Google Play and sign in once. If you don't, get Breeze for iPhone and iPad or Android phones and tablets.

The iPhone and iPad app needs iOS 26 or later. The Android app needs Android 9 or later.

This is a first release of a lot of new code. If something looks wrong, or you miss something you used in the old app, write to us at support@breeze.pm and tell us which phone you're on.