When you've got the Fretscape app installed, tapping certain Fretscape links — in an email, a tweet, or a friend's text message — opens the app instead of your browser. That's a deep link: a regular web link that your phone has learned to route into the app.
Why this happens
When you install the Fretscape app, Android takes note that the app should open two parts of fretscape.com:
fretscape.com/app/...— the main app pages (chord search, progressions, your account)fretscape.com/auth/...— sign-in, password reset, email confirmation, and similar
When you tap a link to either of those, Android opens the link inside the Fretscape app. For anything else on fretscape.com (the homepage, the pricing page, the knowledge base you're reading now), Android opens your normal browser.
This is how Google sign-in brings you back into the app after the browser detour, and how password-reset emails take you straight to the right screen.
I'd rather the link opened in my browser
You can change which app handles Fretscape links from your phone settings:
- Open Settings → Apps → Fretscape.
- Tap Open by default (some phones call it Set as default or Supported web addresses).
- Turn Open supported links off, or pick Always ask if you want a chooser to appear each time.
After that, Fretscape links will open in the browser unless you launch the app yourself.
Why don't all Fretscape links open in the app?
Only the links that point to fretscape.com/app or fretscape.com/auth open inside the app. Marketing emails, knowledge base articles, and most pricing pages open in your browser as normal — they're the same on web and mobile, so there's no need to send you over to the app.
If a link you expected to open the app didn't, it's probably one of those general pages. Tap your way through normally — once you reach the app side, the app takes over.