There is still no official Eagle app for iPhone or iPad. Eagle runs on Mac and Windows, and its team has not released a mobile version.
Other developers have filled the gap. In October 2026 there were at least four apps that can open an Eagle library on a phone: Eagle Pocket, Eagle Viewer, Aela, and Hive, which I make.
They are not the same kind of app, and the right one depends on what you want to do on the phone. This article goes through them as fairly as I can. The details come from each app's App Store page in October 2026.
Looking, or Saving
Most people who search for Eagle on iPhone want one of two things.
Some want to look at the library they already have. They are in a meeting or on a train, and they want to find the reference they filed last month. For that, the phone only needs to read the library.
Others want the phone to add to it. Most new references turn up on a phone, in Safari, on Instagram or in a chat, and they would like those to reach Eagle with their source attached, not as screenshots.
The four apps below sit at different points between those two needs.
Two Viewers: Eagle Pocket and Eagle Viewer
Eagle Pocket and Eagle Viewer are made for looking. Both open an Eagle library from iCloud Drive, from the device, or from a network share such as a NAS, and both can keep images on the phone for browsing offline.
Eagle Pocket goes a little further. You can change tags, star ratings and annotations on the phone, and the changes go back to the library on your computer. It can also read a library from Google Drive.
Eagle Viewer keeps to browsing, with a simple sync that brings new items in.
Both are free to download, both come from independent developers, and both are young: Eagle Viewer appeared in 2025 and Eagle Pocket in March 2026. If you only want to look through an archive you already trust, either may be all you need.
Aela: A Workspace Around the Library
Aela takes a different approach. It opens and manages Eagle libraries on iPhone and syncs them with a computer over iCloud, WebDAV or SMB. Around that it adds tools of its own: search by meaning that runs on the device, text recognition with translation, and layouts for building boards and zines from your images.
It suits people who want to make things on the phone from a library they already have. It is free to download, and it is the newest of the four, first released in February 2026.
Hive: A Library That Starts on the Phone
Hive is the one I make, so read this part with that in mind.
Hive is not built around Eagle. It is a reference library of its own, on iPhone, iPad and Mac, made for the moment you find something. You save from the share sheet or the Safari extension, and the link is stored with the image, together with your note.
It can also open an Eagle library, which is part of Pro. Hive connects to the library folder in iCloud Drive, on the device or on an external drive, and shows your folders and tags as they are. A single folder can come in as an Eagle Pack, and a Hive library is itself a folder that Eagle can open on the computer.
Where Hive falls short of the viewers is the network. Hive does not recommend keeping a library on a NAS, because reading over SMB on iPhone and iPad is around 200 times slower than local storage. If your Eagle library lives on a NAS and has to stay there, Eagle Pocket or Eagle Viewer will serve you better.
Where Your Library Lives
Before choosing, check where your Eagle library is kept. That decides more than any feature list.
In iCloud Drive, all four can open it. Turn on Keep Downloaded for the folder, so every file stays on the device.
On a NAS or another SMB share, Eagle Pocket, Eagle Viewer and Aela can reach it directly. Hive does not recommend it, because it would be slow.
On a Windows PC with no cloud folder, copy the library to the iPhone or iPad through Files, and open the copy.
Which One to Choose
If you want to look through your Eagle archive away from the desk, start with Eagle Pocket or Eagle Viewer. They do that one job directly.
If you want to make layouts and zines on the phone from your library, look at Aela.
If you find most of your references on the phone and want them saved with their source, sorted on iPad, and still readable by Eagle later, that is what I made Hive for.
Nothing stops you from using two of them. The library is a folder, and each app reads it in its own way.