Pangur on your devices

Pangur is one account and one set of projects, which you can reach from several places: the web app, Pangur for Mac, Pangur for iPhone and iPad, the browser extension, the command line, and an AI assistant connected over MCP. Each of them signs in to the same account and works on the same libraries. An item you add on the phone is already in the library when you open the web app, and a highlight you make on the Mac is there when you pick up the iPad.

This page says what each one is for and what it needs. The pages that follow describe the Mac app, the iPhone and iPad app, sharing from other apps and working offline.

The ways of using PangurCopy Anchor Link

The web app, at pangur.io, has every workspace: Library, Read, Ask, Analyse, Plan, Write, Research and Publish, together with Settings and the account pages. Everything else is a way of reaching the same projects.

Pangur for Mac shows the web app in a Mac window, signed in once, and adds windows for work that a browser cannot do: importing photographs straight from the Photos library, copying the Zotero library on the same Mac, recording audio, and downloading PDFs through your institution's sign-in. Library, Ask, Write and the other workspaces inside the Mac app are the web app's own.

Pangur for iPhone and iPad is a separate app built for the phone and tablet. It has its own screens for capturing and scanning, the library and reader, Ask, Plan and Write, Analyse, Research and Publish, and it can keep items on the device so that you can read them offline. A few tasks open web pages inside the app. On the same devices, the share sheet sends PDFs, photographs, recordings and web pages from other apps into a project, through Share and then Pangur.

The browser extension saves the article, book or record you are reading on a web page, together with its PDF, into a project (Save from your browser). The command line, pangur, runs searches, imports, exports and other tasks from a terminal, and the Mac app installs it for you (The command line). An assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT, connected to Pangur's MCP server, can search and read your library and add to it on your behalf (Assistants and Pangur).

What every surface sharesCopy Anchor Link

Pangur's sign-in page handles every surface. The Mac and iPhone apps open your browser to sign in, so that you can use saved passwords and passkeys, and neither app ever receives your password.

Each project keeps its own library, and every surface works in one project at a time (Projects and libraries). Your plan's limits and model allowance are the same whichever surface you use, and work started on one surface counts in the same way as work started on another (Plans, limits and usage). Roles carry across too: in an organisation project, a member with the viewer role can read but not change the project, on any surface.

Features that belong to one deviceCopy Anchor Link

Most work can be done anywhere, but some features depend on the device's hardware or operating system.

RequirementsCopy Anchor Link

Pangur for Mac is downloaded from Pangur's download page and keeps itself up to date (installing Pangur for Mac). Pangur for iPhone and iPad is installed through Apple, from TestFlight or the App Store.