Is there a Skool desktop app for Mac or Windows?

No. Skool has not shipped a native Mac or Windows app. The desktop experience is skool.com in your browser. To get something close to an app feel, install skool.com as a Progressive Web App — open it in Chrome or Edge and click the install icon in the URL bar. You'll get a separate window, dock icon and notifications. Heavy users, especially community owners and people running third-party extensions like tools4skool, treat the PWA as the de facto desktop app. It runs faster than most native apps and stays current automatically.

Can I use Skool on iPad?

Yes — the iOS app on the App Store works on iPad. The layout adapts but doesn't reflow into a multi-pane tablet interface, so it looks closer to a large iPhone than a true iPadOS app. Picture-in-picture works for classroom videos. For longer admin sessions you'll probably end up using Safari on iPad and visiting skool.com directly. Some community owners report better split-view multitasking on the web version than in the native app, especially when they want to have the community feed and a notes app side by side.

Will the Skool mobile app run Chrome extensions like tools4skool?

No. Chrome extensions only run on desktop browsers. The Skool mobile apps and any mobile browser do not support extensions, so tooling like tools4skool's auto DM sequences, scheduled Post-Now button, Comment Miner or member CSV export only works when you are on a desktop using Chrome. Most community owners run the extension on a Mac or Windows laptop and use the mobile app for notifications and quick replies. If you operate primarily from a phone, you'll handle everything natively in the app and miss the extension features — that's the trade-off.

Does the Skool app support push notifications?

Yes. Both iOS and Android apps support push notifications and let you set them per community. You can mute notifications for an entire community, mute a specific thread you're tired of seeing, or get a daily digest instead of real-time pings. New post notifications, replies to your comments, DMs, classroom announcements and live event reminders each have their own toggles. The defaults are reasonable — most members tweak them once and forget about it. Owners can also send announcement notifications from the desktop and they'll deliver to subscribed members through both apps.

Can I switch between communities easily on the app?

Yes. Whichever app you use, the home screen shows all the communities you've joined as a switchable list — usually accessible from a sidebar or a top picker. Tapping a community swaps the feed, classroom and chat to that group's content. Notifications are scoped per community. If you belong to several, the experience is closer to a Slack with multiple workspaces than to a forum where each space is a separate URL. Members of dozens of free communities sometimes use the muting controls heavily to keep notifications manageable.

Skool Communities App: iOS, Android, Desktop and Web

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TL;DR
Skool on iOS
Skool on Android
Desktop, Mac and Windows
Where the apps fall short
Notes for community owners
FAQs

TL;DR

Yes, Skool has an app — actually two. There's a free iOS app on the App Store and a free Android app on Google Play, both branded simply 'Skool'. They cover the everyday flow members care about: scrolling the feed, reading posts, watching classroom lessons, replying in chat, joining live events. There is no native Mac or Windows app. On desktop you use skool.com in any browser, which is actually the more powerful surface — community owners run their dashboards from there because some admin features are clunky on mobile. If you want the desktop to feel app-like, install skool.com as a PWA from Chrome or Edge and you'll get a separate window with its own dock icon. That is the closest thing to a 'skool desktop app' that exists today, and most heavy users settle on it.

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Skool on iOS

The iOS app is free and lives on the App Store as 'Skool'. It works on iPhone and iPad. The build follows skool.com's own visual language — sidebar collapsed into a bottom nav, the same green accent, the same level system and points UI. Everyday member flow is solid: feed scrolling, posting (text plus images), commenting, watching classroom videos, joining and leaving live events. Push notifications work and are usefully granular — you can mute a single community or a single post thread. Classroom video plays inline with picture-in-picture on iPadOS. The pieces that feel slightly second-class are admin: managing roles, editing classroom modules, exporting members. You can do most of it on mobile but the experience is not the one community owners use day-to-day. Sign-in is via the same email or Google account you use on the web. There is no separate paywall — paid memberships you bought on the web work in the app and vice versa, with the usual Apple billing wrinkles for new subscriptions started on iOS.

Skool on Android

The Android app is also free and lives on Google Play as 'Skool'. Feature parity with the iOS app is close — the same feed, same classroom, same chat, same events. The Android UI uses a bottom navigation bar with the standard tabs (Home, Notifications, Communities, Profile). Notifications behave normally; you can adjust them per community in the in-app settings. Video playback supports background audio and PiP on devices that allow it. Some community owners report that the Android app is occasionally a release behind iOS when Skool ships a new feature, but the lag is usually a couple of weeks at most. If you split your day between an Android phone and a laptop, you'll mostly use the phone for catching up on the feed and the laptop browser for anything administrative. There is no Android tablet-specific layout — the app adapts but doesn't reflow into a multi-pane interface.

Desktop, Mac and Windows: there is no separate binary

This is the question people search for most often: is there a Skool desktop app? The answer is no — there's no Mac dmg, no Windows installer, no Linux build. Skool runs as a web app at skool.com and the team has not shipped a native desktop wrapper. For most users that's actually fine. The website is fast in any modern browser, supports keyboard shortcuts, and is the canonical surface for community owners. To get something closer to an app feel, two options. First, install as a PWA — open skool.com in Chrome or Edge, click the install icon in the URL bar, and you get a windowed app with its own dock or taskbar icon, separate from your browser tabs. Second, use a tool like Coherence or WebCatalog to wrap the site in a standalone window. Heavy community owners and tools4skool users run skool.com pinned as a PWA all day and treat it as the desktop app. The Chrome extension that powers tools4skool also runs in this PWA setup, so the workflow stays the same.

Where the mobile apps fall short

If you only ever consume content — read posts, watch classroom videos, drop a few comments — the mobile apps are great. The friction shows up the moment you try to do anything operationally serious. DM management: replying to dozens of DMs on a phone keyboard is brutal, and there's no inbox view that filters unreplied threads. Member admin: changing roles, exporting member data, building a CRM view of your community lives on the web. Scheduled posts and analytics: the deeper admin surfaces are designed for desktop screens and don't always fit on mobile. Power features: the third-party Chrome extension ecosystem — including tools4skool's slash commands, Comment Miner, Churn Saver and Member Export — only works on desktop because Chrome extensions don't run on mobile browsers. For the average member, none of this matters. For an owner running a 1,000+ member community, the mobile app is for monitoring, not for working.

Notes if you run a community

Most community owners we talk to spend 80% of their skool time on a desktop browser and 20% on the mobile app. The desktop is where you write classroom modules, schedule posts, look at retention, reply to DMs in bulk and run any extension-based tooling. The mobile app is where you triage notifications during the day, hop into a live event from the couch, or react to a hot thread before it goes cold. If you're early in your community journey, install the mobile apps for both you and your team, but plan your real workflow around the desktop. tools4skool runs as a Chrome extension on top of skool.com and is built specifically for the desktop workflow — DM sequences, scheduled posts with a Post-Now button, churn risk scores, comment mining and a CRM kanban. None of that runs on mobile because no extension does. Treat the desktop as the cockpit and the mobile app as the radio.

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Frequently asked

Yes. Both the iOS app on the App Store and the Android app on Google Play are free to download. What costs money is the membership of a paid community inside skool, not the app itself. If you join only free communities, you'll never see a charge. Paid community subscriptions are billed monthly or annually by the community owner via Skool's billing system (or via Apple/Google if you start the subscription inside the iOS or Android app). Cancellation is handled inside your account settings on whichever platform you signed up.