Do I need to update the app from the App Store?

No. The installed app takes the new screens by itself the next time you open it. The light tap when you send and a few other touches on iPhone come with the next App Store update, which is on its way.

Where did the menu go on my computer?

Nothing left. On a computer the menu is the sidebar down the left, with the same items as the phone menu in the same order: your profile, Onboarding, Book your shoot, Google review system, then Settings, then Call Tim.

What is the Tutorial for?

It replays the three steps every client goes through, payment, sign in and the onboarding form, so you can see where you are up to. If your onboarding form is still open there is a button straight into it.

Feature · The Scalus App

The Scalus App has a new look, on your phone and on the web

11 October 2026 · 2 min read · Tim McCartney

Three screens of the new Scalus App: the chat with the Scalus strip and the glass message dock, the full screen menu, and the Tutorial in Help

The Scalus App is where my clients send me their website changes. It worked, but it looked like a web page. The Scalus apps I use on my Mac all day have one look, a clean strip across the top with the business name as a green chip and everything on one pane, and the phone app did not match it. On the web, my.scalus.app had a different layout again, so what you saw on your phone was not what you saw on your computer.

One Scalus. The same on your phone, on the web and on my Mac.

What you'll see now

The strip. Scalus at the top left, your business name as a green chip that opens your site, and the bell, the call button and the menu as round buttons. It stays put as you scroll and shrinks a little while you read back through older messages.
A floating message box. The box you type in floats above the chat as a glass dock. Scroll back and it folds down to just the field. Open the keyboard and it sits flush on top of the keys.
A full screen menu. Swipe in from the left edge, or tap the big tab there, and the menu fills the screen. The same big tab on the right edge takes you back to the chat.
The web is the app. my.scalus.app on a computer has the same strip, the same dock and the same menu items, down the left as a sidebar.
A Tutorial in Help. Open Help and the first row is a Tutorial. It replays the three steps every client goes through, payment, sign in and your onboarding form, one ticking after the other.
It moves the way your phone moves. Messages, menus and buttons spring into place, and on an iPhone a send, a reply or a like gives a light tap.

This is live now for every client at my.scalus.app, and the installed app on iPhone and Android takes the new screens the next time you open it. The light tap and the status bar that follows your light or dark setting come with the next App Store update. The screenshots above are the real app.