That’s an awesome project. I was interested in LoRa for the same reason. I’m an iOS dev and paraglider myself so I can help you with the iOS app. Let’s chat

Oh would love to! Would you mind posting on our devchat and we can talk more? https://gitter.im/Meshtastic/community

Are mobile version in the pipeline?

For mobile, there's already 'Conversations': https://github.com/siacs/Conversations

We are aiming for support for the Librem 5 and other smartphones that use a more GNU/Linux-ish environment. For Android there is conversations.im with a similar feature set.

Are mobile versions in the pipeline?