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My wife does a lot of Tumblr stuff with her online Anime community, 95% of the people in the community are not technical. About 50% of those only have a phone.

So I'm looking at Movin, I see no iOS app. No Android App (Google PlayStore link is dead). I see DOL.

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An app is unhelpful if the site works fine in a mobile browser. I would never install the Facebook app for example.

The existence of an app doesn't preclude a good mobile website. There are tons of people who don't browse sites on mobile web, myself included.

You didn't provide a reason why, let alone a good one.

He did provide a fact: a lot of people don't browse the web on their mobile and will expect this kind of service to have an app.

Android app is available on F-droid which should be prefered to google play anyways. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.movim.movim/

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