Phone drills

Your drills and routines run on your phone at app.megamaster.io. It is a web app: there is nothing to download from an app store. Add it to your home screen once and it opens full screen from its own icon, like any other app.

Before you start

On the computer, open Settings › Account › Phone drills and turn on Send my drills to my phone. You need to be signed in with Google there. The phone signs in with the same Google account; your drills, routines and settings go up, and the reps you play on the phone come back into Train › History. Your imported hands never leave the computer. You need an active licence on the Google account you sign in with; the phone does not count as one of your two computers.

The same section shows when your drills were last sent and reps last fetched. Send now pushes your drills straight away and Fetch reps now pulls reps played on the phone into History.

iPhone and iPad

1. Open app.megamaster.io in Safari.
2. Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing up). It is at the bottom of the screen on an iPhone and at the top on an iPad.
3. Scroll down the share sheet and tap Add to Home Screen. If you can't see it, tap Edit Actions at the bottom of the list and add it.
4. Leave the name as megamaster and tap Add.
5. Open megamaster from the new icon and sign in with Google again. The home-screen app keeps its own sign-in, separate from Safari's, so being signed in in Safari doesn't carry over.

Chrome and other browsers on iOS 16.4 or later have Add to Home Screen in their share menu too, but Safari is the dependable route.

Android

1. Open app.megamaster.io in Chrome.
2. Tap the ⋮ menu at the top right.
3. Tap Install app (on some phones it reads Add to home screen), then Install.
4. Open megamaster from the new icon, or from the app drawer, and sign in with Google if it asks.

Samsung Internet works the same way: menu, then Add page to › Home screen.

What the phone app does

• Today's routine and Your drills, each with its daily hand target. Every hand you play in today's drill counts toward your routine, phone hands included, and every hand is on a new board, as on the desktop.
• The same grading as the desktop trainer (Best, Correct, Inaccuracy, Wrong, Blunder), with bb figures where the solve has EVs.
• A settings sheet, How you answer, that mirrors the desktop trainer bar: Pick one, RNG (with Low or High = aggressive) or Frequencies; the clock; Pause after; dealing the next hand by itself; showing their hand once it is over; and Rated or practice.
• Subtrees: the phone follows your desktop's Subtrees setting, so turns and rivers are re-solved with your sizes and graded against the re-solve. Re-solves run one at a time on megamaster's side; when there is no room, the hand plays on the library's tree and a line under the table says so.
• The session score, and a Session over screen with Play more and Back to today.
• Trainer notes written on the phone reach your desktop.
• The Midnight table, in portrait or held sideways; tap Table to change felt, cards and buttons. Show folded puts players who folded preflop round the table.

What it doesn't do: one table only, no hotkeys, no Arenas, and drills are made and edited on the computer, not the phone.

Rated phone reps count toward your rating and the leaderboards like desktop reps, when sharing is on. Practice reps still reach History but count toward nothing. Phone drills are graded by megamaster's engine, and the leaderboards show each player's share of those verified reps.

What goes to the phone

Only while Send my drills to my phone is on: your drill settings (spot, street, line, hands a day, your routine and its progress, and the sizing menus and grading settings a drill uses), the decisions you make on the phone on their way back to History, and notes written there. Those are hands the trainer dealt, not hands you played at a table. Results wait online only until your computer collects them, and for at most 30 days. Turning the switch off stops both directions. See Privacy.

If it doesn't look right

• The icon opens a browser tab with an address bar. It was added as a bookmark rather than as the app. Delete the icon and add it again by the steps above. On an iPhone, use Safari.
• The icon disappeared. Phone updates, clearing browser data, or offloading unused apps can remove it. Add it again and sign in. Nothing is lost: the drills come from your computer, and reps you already played are in Train › History there.
• No drills show up. Check that Send my drills to my phone is on, and that the phone is signed in with the same Google account as the computer. Send now in Settings › Account › Phone drills pushes straight away.
• Reps aren't in History. Press Fetch reps now on the computer.
• "There's no megamaster licence on this Google account." Sign in on the phone with the Google account your licence is on.
• "Your drill list is too big to send (over 1 MB)." Remove some drills and send again.
• "Done for today" means that drill's daily target is reached.
• It shows an old version. Close the app completely (swipe it away) and open it again.