Web vs. Mobile App

Nuts works the same way in the app and in your browser — feed, communities, chat, NutsMode, wallet, and premium are all there on both. A few things are still worth knowing before you pick a surface.

Feature parity

Almost everything is available on both, just organized differently — see Navigating Nuts for where things live on each. The one notable gap right now: the guided setup step you see after creating a brand-new account (choosing or generating your avatar right after sign-up) currently only appears on the web app. On the app, you set your avatar up afterward from Edit Profile — see Choosing Your Handle & Avatar.

Beyond that, feature differences between surfaces are usually temporary rather than permanent — if something’s missing on one side, it’s more likely to be “not shipped there yet” than “not planned.”

Push notifications are app-only

Real push notifications — the kind that reach you even when Nuts isn’t open — only work on the Android app. The web app can show a browser notification, but only while the Nuts tab is already open in the background; it won’t notify you if the tab or browser is fully closed. If you want reliable notifications when you’re not actively looking at Nuts, use the app. See Push Notifications for how to enable them.

The app updates itself in the background

Once you’ve installed the app, Nuts pushes most updates to it silently over the air — you don’t need to reinstall or download anything from a store. This means:

• New features and fixes can show up without any action on your part, usually the next time you open the app.
• The version number you see in Settings can lag behind what’s actually running, since not every update changes it.
• Larger changes still occasionally require a full new build (and, once Nuts is on app stores, a manual update from there) — background updates cover most day-to-day improvements, not every kind of change.

The web app doesn’t have this distinction — refreshing your browser always gets you the latest version.