> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.gathrings.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The app is ready for testers. Come break it - URL: https://blog.gathrings.com/the-app-is-ready-for-testers-come-break-it/ - Published: 2026-10-22T14:28:43.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-22T14:28:43.000Z - Author: Alexis Gingras Gathrings has lived in a browser since day one. That works, but it's not where most people keep the things they actually use. So we built the app, for both iPhone and Android, and it's now open for anyone who wants to try it early. We'd like that to be you. ## Why we're asking Testing is the part we can't do alone. We have a handful of phones between us. You have the one that matters — an older model, a cracked screen, a spotty connection on the bus, a language setting we didn't think about, a calendar full of real events instead of ones we made up for testing. Every bug we find ourselves is one we went looking for. The ones you find are the ones we didn't know to look for. Those are worth more. ## On iPhone or iPad Testing on Apple goes through TestFlight, Apple's own app for trying apps before they're released. 1. Open [**this link**](https://testflight.apple.com/join/Nv3uRMHY?ref=blog.gathrings.com) on your iPhone or iPad 2. Install TestFlight if you don't have it — the link will offer it 3. Tap **Accept**, then **Install** Gathrings shows up on your home screen like any other app. When we push an update, TestFlight tells you. ## On Android 1. Open [**this link**](https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.gathrings.app?ref=blog.gathrings.com) on your Android phone 2. Sign in with the Google account you use on that phone 3. Tap **Become a tester**, then install from Google Play After that it updates by itself, the way your other apps do. One thing worth knowing: you have to be signed in with the same Google account your phone uses. If you tap the link on a computer while signed into a different account, the install won't find its way to your phone. ## What to expect A beta. Things will be rough in places. Some screens are slower than they should be. Notifications are still settling. If you find a corner of the app that feels unfinished, you've probably found a corner that is unfinished. Nothing you do in the app is a test, though. It's the real Gathrings — your actual events, your actual rings, the same account you already have. RSVP to something, chat with an organizer, buy a ticket, check people in at the door. It all counts. And the website isn't going anywhere. If the app annoys you, close it and carry on in your browser. No hard feelings. ## Telling us what you find Everything goes to one place: [**feedback.gathrings.com**](https://feedback.gathrings.com/?ref=blog.gathrings.com). - **Something's broken** → [Support](https://feedback.gathrings.com/support?ref=blog.gathrings.com). Tell us what you were trying to do, what happened instead, and which phone you're on. That last detail saves us more time than you'd think. - **Something's missing** → the [Feature Requests](https://feedback.gathrings.com/?ref=blog.gathrings.com) board. Post it, or find it already posted and vote — we read the vote counts. - **Curious what's next** → the [roadmap](https://feedback.gathrings.com/roadmap?ref=blog.gathrings.com) shows what's under review, planned, and being built right now. - **Wondering what changed** → the [changelog](https://feedback.gathrings.com/changelog?ref=blog.gathrings.com). You don't need to write a report. "The photo upload spins forever on my Pixel" is a perfectly good bug. ## The most useful thing you can tell us Not that something is broken — we'll find most of those eventually. What we can't find on our own is the moment you gave up. The screen where you weren't sure what to tap. The thing you expected to be somewhere and wasn't. The step that made you put your phone down and go back to the group chat you were already using. If that happens, tell us. Especially then. Thanks for trying it early.