CTRL home-screen icon
CTRL / Mobile

CTRL on your home screen.

Read, save and share articles.Open your Desk to write or review work.

Read

Pick up where
you left off.

Save stories on this device, choose larger reading text, and share through your phone’s own share menu.

Your saved stories
Contribute

Send us a story.

Send a pitch, photographs, film, or a tip.
No account needed. You’ll receive a private tracking link.

Send something to CTRL
Work

Your Desk,
on mobile.

Write, edit your profile, and read feedback. Editors can review and publish from the Desk.

Open CTRL Desk

Your account, in the app.

Open CTRL from your home screen, then sign in to your Desk. Profiles and articles go to an editor before publication.

Sign in to your Desk

You may need to sign in again after installing. Your drafts stay with your account; your reading list stays on this device.

Saved stories stay in this browser or installed app. Recently visited public articles may be available offline. Photographs, submissions, uploads, and the Desk need a connection. Browser storage can be cleared by your device.

CTRL app icon
CTRL / On your device

Add CTRL to
your home screen.

Keep the publication on your home screen.
Read, save and contribute from there.

From your browser
  1. Open the page menuUse your browser’s app or page menu.
  2. Install, if offeredChoose Install app or Add to Dock.
  3. On your phoneUse Add to Home Screen from Share or the browser menu.
Accounts & offline reading

No account needed to read.
Sign in inside the installed app to use your Desk.
Recently visited stories may be available offline.
Sending work and managing your Desk need a connection.