For invited Android testers
Try it on Android
before it lands.
On iPhone, Emberknot is already on the App Store — no beta needed. Android is still a closed test on Google Play: a real build of the real app, with the real backend behind it, and this page says exactly what that means.
It takes a few minutes, and you can do it yourself: no invitation needed.
Bring someone
This is the part to know first. Emberknot is two people or it is a locked screen. There is no feed, no single-player mode, and nothing to look at on your own — the app does not start until you and one other person are connected.
So testing it alone does not work. Decide who you are doing this with before you join, and get them in too. One of you can be on iPhone — from the App Store — and the other on the Android test.
The beta
What “beta” means here.
Things will break.
That is what you are there for. Tell us what happened and what you expected instead — both halves, because the second one is usually the bug.
Your data is real.
Notes, photos and voice notes go to the same database the launched app will use. It is not a sandbox and nothing is wiped on purpose.
Emberknot+ is free while you test.
The subscription exists in the beta, but testers are not charged for it — Google Play test purchases are not billed. (On iPhone, the App Store version is the real thing, and its purchases are real.)
Updates arrive by themselves.
New builds come through the Play Store like any other app update.
Android
Join the test
- Join the tester group with the Google account your phone uses for the Play Store. Tap “Join group”. Nobody else in the group can see your email.
- Accept the test. If Google says you don't have access yet, wait a few minutes after joining and open it again.
- Install Emberknot from the Play Store when it offers it.
Please stay in the test for at least two weeks. Google only lets Emberknot onto the public Play Store after enough testers have been in for 14 days.
Leaving
Leave whenever
On Android, open the same link and choose to leave the programme, then uninstall. If you want the account gone as well, there is a page for that — it works the same during the beta as it will afterwards.
Feedback
Telling us something
dantecorso@icloud.com. A screenshot and the phone model help more than anything else. If it is about something private in your thread, say so and we will not ask to see it.