Phone app

ConductColony on your phone

Scan a cage card to open that cage, mark it changed or check its animals, and your work goes straight into your colony records.

A cage page on a phone, opened by scanning its card: the cage is overdue for a change, with Scan next and Mark changed buttons.

What you can do at the rack

Scan a card

Point the camera at a cage card, tank label or frog card, and that record opens. Scan next takes you to the following card.

Mark it changed

Record a cage change with one tap, and the cage's next change date updates for everyone.

Check its animals

Open the animals in that cage and update their records on the spot.

Core facilities, Institution plan

Run the facility day from a phone

Work through today's tasks, log room and water checks, report a sick animal with a photo, and check a room's census by scanning every card.

Today's tasks on a phone: overdue cage changes, each with Open cage, Done and Skip buttons.
Today's tasks
A sick-frog report on a phone, with what was seen and the photo taken at the tank.
A sick-animal report with a photo

Install it in a minute

Android

  1. Open conductcolony.com in Chrome and sign in.
  2. Tap the ⋮ menu, then Install app (on some phones it reads Add to Home screen).
  3. Open ConductColony from your home screen.

iPhone

Open conductcolony.com in Safari and sign in. Everything works there, scanning included, with nothing to install.

No app store needed. The phone app comes with every plan at no extra cost.

Questions

No. It runs in your phone's browser, and on Android it installs from there, so there is nothing to download from a store.

ConductColony needs a connection to save your work. If the signal drops, it shows a clear message instead of a browser error.

No colony records are stored on your phone. They stay on our servers in the United States.

Recent iPhones and Android phones, in Safari or Chrome. Scanning uses the phone's camera.

No. It comes with every plan, including Free.

Start free on your phone

Free for small labs. No credit card required.