Mistrix Companion¶
Mistrix Companion is an optional Android app. It runs MISTRIX on your phone, and it adds one thing a browser cannot do: your Domina can act on the phone itself, outside the chat. Every one of those actions is off until you switch it on.
What you need¶
- An Android phone.
- The companion app installed. It costs nothing.
- A MISTRIX account on any tier.
- Nothing else. The phone is recognised by the account you sign in with.
One account can have more than one phone. Each phone keeps its own switches.
Getting the app¶
The app is not in the Play Store. You download it from your account.
- Open Account in a browser and find Android app.
- The card reads Download Mistrix Companion and shows the current version, its size and when it was released.
- Tap Stable.
- Android asks you once whether to allow this install. Allow it.
There is a second button, Nightly. It is the same app, rebuilt every day and not tested by anyone first. It can crash, lose your settings or refuse to open, so the app warns you and makes you confirm before the download starts. Tap Stable unless you have a reason not to.
If the card says nothing is published yet, or that it could not check, the buttons stay off. Try again later.
Updates¶
Open Account inside the app. The same Android app section is there, and it says one of two things.
| What it says | What to do |
|---|---|
| Up to date | Nothing. It also names the version you are on. |
| Update available | Tap Get it. The download starts, then you install it the same way as the first time. |
Release channel switches the phone between stable and nightly. Moving back from nightly to stable is not just a reinstall: Android refuses to put an older build over a newer one, so you would have to uninstall first, and that takes everything the app holds with it.
Pairing¶
- Install the app and open it.
- Sign in with your MISTRIX account, the same one you use in a browser.
- Open Account. A section called This phone appears, with a switch for each thing she can do.
There is no pairing code and no second login. The phone registers itself while that screen loads and is recognised by your account. If it cannot, the section tells you so and asks you to reopen the app.
This phone exists only inside the app. In a browser it is not there, because the switches only mean something on the phone that has to obey them.
What she can do, only if you allow it¶
| Permission | What she can then do | Privacy |
|---|---|---|
| Notifications | Send a notification to your phone while the app is closed. | - |
| Live compose | Write that notification in the moment she sends it, instead of hours earlier. | Yes, read below |
| Wallpaper | Set your home screen to a picture of her. She needs a character shot for this. | - |
| Take over the screen | Cover whatever you are doing with a message you have to acknowledge. Pressing Home does not clear it. | - |
| App blocking | Keep apps out of reach. You pick which ones, she decides whether to let you back in. | - |
| Web filter | Block adult sites in every browser on this phone. | Yes, read below |
Live compose has no switch of its own. It goes on and off with Notifications, because it is not a separate thing she does, only how her notifications get written.
Two switches need a trip to Android's own settings before they hold.
| Switch | What Android has to allow first |
|---|---|
| Take over the screen | Display over other apps |
| App blocking | Display over other apps, and Usage access |
The app names the missing one, sends you to the Android screen that grants it, and asks you to come back and flip the switch again.
Web filter works the other way round. It has to be armed from the phone, because Android raises the VPN permission question itself and that question cannot be asked from a distance. Once you have said yes, she can switch the filter off and on from then on.
When app blocking is on¶
Two more panels appear under the switches.
Apps she keeps out of reach lists the apps installed on the phone, with a search box above it. You tick the ones to block, then tap Save block list.
How you get back in sets what the block screen offers you. Each way is optional.
| Way out | What it means |
|---|---|
| Let them ask | She decides, in a short conversation. On by default. |
| Earn it | The block lifts once today's routines are done. |
| Let them pay | Charms buy your way past. |
Below those you set Daily allowance, the minutes a day the blocked apps may be used before the wall goes up on its own, where 0 blocks them all day. Pass length is how long a granted pass lasts, 15 minutes by default and 480 at most. It is exact for a pass earned by routines or paid for with Charms. When she grants one in a conversation she picks the length herself, and can go up to twice your setting. Toll appears when paying is allowed and is 25 Charms by default. Tap Save when you are done.
With all three ways out switched off, a blocked app has no way out at all, and that holds until you change it on this screen. Leave yourself a route you can live with.
Turning things off¶
Every switch works both ways. Turn one off and she loses that capability at once: anything she sends for it is refused and nothing happens on your phone.
To stop all of it, switch every permission off, or uninstall the app. Once the app is gone, what she sends has nowhere to arrive.
Privacy¶
The six permissions above are the whole list. There is nothing she can do to this phone that is not in it. A notification, a wallpaper and a takeover each happen once and then end. App blocking and the web filter are different: they keep running until you switch them off.
Two of them change what stays private. Read these before you switch them on.
Live compose. Her notifications are written the moment she sends them, so the app has to read your chat history while you are not using it. It can only do that for two days after you last entered your PIN. After that you get a plain message instead of one written for the moment, until you unlock again. If you would rather nothing was read while you are away, leave Notifications off.
Web filter. Every address the browsers on this phone try to open goes past the filter first, which is how it can block the adult ones. That is why Android asks you for the VPN permission before the filter can start. Turning the switch off ends it.
Two smaller notes:
- App blocking sees which app is in front of you. It does not see what is on your screen.
- The wallpaper she sets, and any picture behind a takeover, come from images made inside MISTRIX. She cannot reach your own photos.
See also: PIN and privacy, Charms, Account settings.