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Tagaris for iOS

Tagaris has a companion app for iOS, iPhone and iPad, on the App Store. It works against your own Tagaris server: nothing is hosted by us and the app talks to no one else. An Android app is in development.

What it does​

  • Scan a label to open the asset. Point the camera at a printed QR label and the asset opens, with its whereabouts, status, history, photos, attachments, maintenance records and linked tickets.
  • Change whereabouts and status. Assign to a person or location, put an asset into stock, or change its status, including your own custom status labels, with the same one-tap next steps as the web app.
  • Add assets from the phone. Scan an unknown serial or tag and choose Create asset, or fill in the basics by hand. A blank tag takes the next free one. Photos can be taken with the camera.
  • Physical audits from the shelf. Audit mode records an audit for each label you scan, as the stock-take workflow does in the browser, and tells you when a label belongs to a different server or is not found.
  • Stock. Check accessories out, install components and issue consumables where it happens.
  • Browse and search assets, people, locations, accessories, components and consumables when there is no label to scan.
  • App lock. An optional Face ID or Touch ID lock (device passcode as the fallback) guards the app when it opens or returns to the foreground. The sign-in session is unaffected; the lock only gates the screen.
  • Appearance. Match the device, or force light or dark.

Pairing and signing in​

  1. Install the app, open it, and enter your server's address (the same address you use in the browser, for example https://assets.example.com).
  2. Sign in the way you do in the browser: password with two-factor if it is enabled, or single sign-on. There is no separate mobile account and no API key to create; the app uses your own session, so your role and your organisation's security policy apply unchanged.
  3. The app remembers the server and the session. Sign out from the Account tab.

The app works on the free tier. It needs to reach your server from the phone, so the server must be on a reachable address, not localhost, and BETTER_AUTH_URL must match that address (see Installing Tagaris). Plain http:// works for a server on your own local network; anything reached over the internet should sit behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS. iOS does not trust self-signed certificates unless the certificate is installed on the device, so use one from a public authority such as Let's Encrypt where you can.

Privacy​

The app connects only to the server address you enter. It sends nothing to Goodhall Solutions or to any third party, carries no analytics, and stores only your server address and session on the device (in the iOS keychain).

Trying it without a server​

Pair the app with demo.tagaris.co.uk to try it against the public demo. The demo credentials are shown on the sign-in screen. The demo data has assets with QR labels, but the Scan tab needs a printed label, so the Browse tab is the quickest way to see asset detail, status changes and stock.

Requirements​

  • An iPhone or iPad; the App Store page lists the supported iOS versions.
  • A current Tagaris server. The app's endpoints ship with the server under /api/app and are separate from the REST API, so no API licence is needed.

Android​

The same app builds for Android and is in development. Until it ships, scanning a printed QR label with any phone camera opens the asset's page in the browser, and the web app works on a phone.