The iPad app is the same Eldric you run on a Mac or in your data centre — pointed at the same cluster, talking to the same workers, holding the same conversations. What's different is the interaction: a real split view that fits a tablet, a floating composer that gets out of the way when you're reading, Apple Pencil and Scribble support, drag-drop ingest from anywhere on the system, and Stage Manager / Split View for two Eldric windows side-by-side.
On a phone, Eldric is a single column of chat. On iPad — even in portrait — that's not enough screen to justify hiding the sidebar or the artifact you're reading. The iPad layout uses Apple's native NavigationSplitView: the sidebar lists conversations and projects, the centre column carries the active chat, and the trailing column shows whichever artifact you're currently reading (a knowledge-base document, a long agent output, a generated chart). All three columns scroll independently.
In landscape on a large iPad, the three columns sit side-by-side. In portrait or on a smaller iPad, the sidebar collapses into an inspector you summon when needed; the chat + artifact stay visible together.
The composer (where you type your message) floats above the chat content, with a rounded glass-style shadow and horizontal inset to match the iPad's bezel grammar. When a hardware keyboard is connected, the composer adjusts its size so the keyboard-shortcut hints stay visible. When the on-screen keyboard appears, the composer rides up with it without crowding the conversation.
Voice input lives in the same composer. Tap-and-hold the microphone for a quick voice query; the audio runs through the Media worker, returns the transcribed text in the composer, and you can edit before sending. Useful when typing on a tablet keyboard isn't fast enough for the thought you have.
Apple Pencil works wherever a text field works. Scribble converts handwritten input to text inside the composer, the search bar, the knowledge-base titles. For longer thoughts, the inline whiteboard surface (tap the canvas icon in the composer) accepts free-form sketches, diagrams or notes — saved as artifacts alongside the chat so the model can read them back if you reference them later.
Useful in field clinics and lab benches where typing is awkward but a quick sketch isn't.
Drag a PDF from Files into the sidebar to add it to the active knowledge base. Drag an image from Photos into the composer to attach it to the current message. Drag an email from Mail into a project to make its content part of that project's context. Drop targets are signalled with a soft highlight; the iPad's standard drag-and-drop conventions apply.
Source material that wants to live in the model doesn't have to leave your tablet to get there — and the data stays on your Eldric cluster, not a cloud service.
Two conversations side-by-side on the same iPad: open Eldric a second time from the Dock, drop it next to the first. Each window holds its own conversation, sidebar selection and artifact pane. The cluster handles both windows as separate sessions of the same user. Useful for cross-referencing two different threads, or for having a long-running agent run in one window while you chat in the other. Stage Manager and Split View are the supported window-management modes; floating windows above other apps land later.
Plug a Magic Keyboard or Smart Folio Keyboard into the iPad and every chat action has a shortcut: new chat, switch conversation, focus composer, send, attach, open sidebar, toggle artifact pane, switch model, search, settings. Press and hold the ⌘ key in any view to see the menu of currently-bound shortcuts (the standard iPad shortcut-discovery overlay). The map is the same as on macOS so muscle-memory carries between the two clients.
With two Eldric windows open, drag any assistant message from window A into window B's composer to start a new conversation rooted at that turn. The destination window receives the message text, the attachments, and (when available) the prior context summary. Useful for "branch this thought" without losing the original conversation — common when an agent's answer suggests two different next steps you want to explore in parallel.
Theme settings — light / dark / Frost, font choice, accent colour — live on the controller, not the device, and sync across every signed-in client. Pick a theme on the iPad and your Mac, iPhone and web shell match. If two clients are editing the theme at the same time, the second one to save sees a collision toast and gets to choose which version to keep.
Agent invocations sometimes run for minutes — a long literature search, a multi-step planner, a training-data generator working through a thousand prompts. The notification bell in the toolbar collects the in-flight tasks so you can switch apps and come back. Each entry shows the task, its progress, and (when complete) a one-tap link back to the response. Push notifications to the lock screen are wired through Apple Push.
Eldric for iPad is the same binary as Eldric for iPhone — the universal-app shape ships on TestFlight and (when Apple's review concludes) the App Store. Today the TestFlight link is on invitation; write to office@eldric.ai with the Apple ID you want invited and we'll send the link. The App Store listing follows once OPS lands the universal-app submission and Apple's review pass returns.
The iPad app needs an Eldric cluster to talk to. For a quick spin-up, install Eldric on a Mac mini, NUC or Pi on your local network; the iPad app pairs with it over the same cluster-pairing flow as the desktop client.
For the platform itself: what it is. To install the server side: get started. For the desktop and CLI clients: for developers. To get the TestFlight invite: office@eldric.ai.