YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – I still don’t feel that the spring season has arrived in our area. It was unusually warm a week ago. I think the highest temperature was 20 °C. It was only 12 °C yesterday.

Anyway, It’s been only six days since I announced the last iOS app but I have a new one to introduce to you today. This new app is called. Robo Desk 2.

Robo Desk 2 is a virtual front desk assistant that is designed to answer visitors at your reception desk so that you can all concentrate on your own office assignment. If you like what Robo Desk 2 does, you can probably replace your human receptionists with an iOS device (preferably, iPad) running Robo Desk 2 in the future.

Robo Desk 2 lets you create a list of employees that your visitors to have an appointment with. It’s up to you as an office administrator to decide whether a visitor must have an appointment and select one to see. When a visitor taps the submit button, Robo Desk 2 will send a reception update to anyone responsible for the front desk. You can enlist as many front desk handlers as you need. Just send each of them an invitation. Once they accept your invitation, the handshake between the front desk handler and the administrator is complete.

So every time a visitor taps the submit button, the same reception update will reach all front desk handlers. And they will receive a notification alert. Shown in their screen is a list of visitation logs. They can select one and tap the magnifier button to see the details of the selected log.  

Tom Bluewater

Tom Bluewater

System requirements

1. iOS 17.0 or higher
2. iPhone, iPad
3. iCloud account

Limitations

There are no restrictions as to how to configure your front desk settings. Without an in-app purchase, front desk handlers accepting the invitation will receive a reception update only once a day.

Video

A promotional video is available in the form of the QuickTime movie. Click here.

Version history

Version 2.1.3 (Released on March 26th, 2026)

1. The document system SF symbol is replaced by another for importing employee names that is compatible with iOS 17.x.
2. Fix: The device authentication was not enforced when the administrator needed to change front desk settings.
3. When the administrator deploys the front desk, the toolbar will automatically disppear until the administrator completes device authentication.

Version 2.1.3 (2026年3月26日に公開)

1. 従業員のリストのファイルを取り入れるボタンのSF symbolがiOS 17に適応していなかったため、適応しているものに置き換えます。
2. 修正：仮想受付を展開する時に端末への顔認証または指紋認証を必須にしていなかった不具合を修正します。
3. 仮想受付を展開するとツールバーが自動で不可視になるようにします。

Privacy policy

This app does not collect any type of data from its users.



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