Certly Mobile: Completely Rebuilt for Your Phone
Certly Mobile: Completely Rebuilt for Your Phone
Using electrical certification software on a phone shouldn't feel like trying to squeeze a desktop application onto a smaller screen.
So we haven't just resized Certly.
We've completely overhauled the mobile experience, rebuilding the interface around the way electricians actually use their phones on site.
Cleaner layouts.
Smarter scrolling.
Easier navigation.
Controls positioned where they're easier to reach.
And a different experience when you turn your phone into landscape.
Built for your phone. Not adapted for it.
Mobile Electrical Certification Software Designed for the Screen in Your Hand
Phones are used differently from laptops and tablets.
You hold them differently.
You navigate with your thumb.
You have less screen space.
And when you're standing in front of a distribution board or moving around an installation, you need information to be quick to find and easy to enter.
That's why the new Certly mobile experience has been designed specifically around the phone rather than treating mobile as a reduced version of the desktop interface.
For electricians looking for mobile electrical certification software, the experience on the smaller screen matters just as much as the features behind it.
Cleaner Mobile Layouts
One of the biggest parts of the overhaul is simply making better use of the available screen.
Certificate sections, navigation, forms and actions have been redesigned so the information you're working with feels clearer on a phone.
That means less fighting with cramped layouts and less unnecessary movement around the screen.
The aim is to keep the part of the certificate you're working on as easy to understand as possible.
Smarter Scrolling
Large electrical certificates contain a lot of information.
On a phone, poor scrolling behaviour can quickly make even straightforward forms frustrating.
We've reworked how Certly behaves on smaller screens so moving through certificates feels more natural and better suited to mobile use.
It might sound like a small detail.
But when you're entering information repeatedly throughout the working day, those details make a major difference to how quickly and comfortably the software can be used.
Navigation Designed Around Mobile
Navigation has also been reconsidered specifically for phone users.
Important areas are easier to reach, and controls have been positioned around the way a phone is actually held and operated.
That includes thumb-friendly button placement, helping reduce the need to constantly stretch across the screen or change grip just to move through the app.
Good electrical certificate software for mobile shouldn't make the phone itself feel like a limitation.
Turn Your Phone Landscape and Certly Adapts
Sometimes portrait is the right way to work.
Sometimes you need more width.
Turn your phone into landscape mode and Certly adapts the interface accordingly.
We've even created a different circuit schedule view for landscape mobile, specifically designed to make better use of the additional screen width.
That's particularly useful when working with information that naturally benefits from a wider layout.
Rather than simply rotating the portrait interface, the experience has been considered around what works better in landscape.
A Better EICR App for Mobile Working
EICRs can contain installation details, distribution boards, circuit information, test results, observations, inspection schedules and much more.
That makes good mobile design especially important.
An EICR app for mobile needs to let electricians move through all of that information without constantly feeling restricted by the size of the device.
The Certly mobile overhaul is designed to make completing and checking certification from a phone feel far more natural.
For more on Certly's wider EICR functionality, we've covered it in [**EICR Software: A Faster Way to Complete Electrical Installation Condition Reports**](/blog/eicr-software).
Electrical Certification on iPhone and Android
The redesigned mobile experience applies to the way Certly is used across supported mobile devices.
Whether you're working from an iPhone or Android phone, the goal is the same:
make electrical certification feel like it belongs on mobile.
That means designing around the actual screen, navigation style and way the device is used rather than simply shrinking a larger interface until it fits.
Start on Your Phone. Continue Somewhere Else.
Mobile is only one part of Certly's wider multi-device approach.
You might start or update a certificate from your phone while on site, continue from a tablet, or access the same work later through Certly's desktop/browser version on a Windows PC, laptop or Mac.
And because Certly provides immediate sync when work is saved, the latest saved information can be available on another device as soon as it is refreshed.
So the mobile experience doesn't sit in isolation.
It forms part of the same Certly certification workflow across your devices.
We've covered that in more detail in [**Electrical Certification Software for Windows, Desktop & Browser**](/blog/electrical-certification-software-windows-desktop-browser).
Mobile for Engineers. Desktop for the Office.
The mobile overhaul also fits naturally with the way many electrical contractors operate.
An engineer may spend the day using their phone on site.
A Qualified Supervisor may be reviewing certificates from a computer in the office.
An administrator may be managing jobs from another device entirely.
Certly allows those different users to work in the way that suits them while remaining within the same certification platform.
Combined with QC Relay and multiple Qualified Supervisor support, that gives contractors a much more flexible route between site work and office review.
Same Certly. A Completely New Mobile Experience.
The underlying aim of Certly hasn't changed.
We still want electrical certification to be quicker, cleaner and easier to manage.
But how that software feels on each device matters.
That's why this mobile release isn't simply a responsive adjustment or a few smaller buttons.
We've reconsidered the experience around the phone itself — from sizing and scrolling through to navigation, controls and landscape layouts.
Same Certly.
A completely new mobile experience.
Built Around How Electricians Actually Work
The Certly platform continues to evolve around the people using it.
Recent releases have included new certificate types, desktop/browser access, multiple QS support, EV certification, PAT Testing Certificates and now a substantially redesigned mobile platform.
We don't want new features to come at the expense of usability.
As Certly grows, the experience of actually completing certification still needs to remain simple.
That's why improvements like the mobile overhaul matter just as much as adding another feature to a list.
Electrical Certification Software Built for Every Device
Your phone should feel like a proper way to use Certly.
So should your tablet.
So should your computer.
The new Certly mobile experience is another step towards making the platform work naturally wherever electrical certification is being completed.
Built for your phone. Not adapted for it.
Built by electricians. For electricians.
