diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9c78d9d..f0fcb72 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ pytz==2011n
 chardet==1.0.1
 python-dateutil==1.5
 django-cliauth==0.9
+django-mobile==0.3.0
 
 gunicorn
 gevent
diff --git a/src/colab/custom_settings.py b/src/colab/custom_settings.py
index 9abef84..9fd2ae4 100644
--- a/src/colab/custom_settings.py
+++ b/src/colab/custom_settings.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS + (
     'raven.contrib.django.raven_compat',
     'south',
     'cliauth',
+    'django_mobile',
     'django_browserid',
     'conversejs',
 
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
     'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
     'django.core.context_processors.request',
     'django_browserid.context_processors.browserid',
+    'django_mobile.context_processors.is_mobile',
 )
 
 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
@@ -128,6 +130,8 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
+    'django_mobile.middleware.MobileDetectionMiddleware',
+    'django_mobile.middleware.SetFlavourMiddleware',
 )
 
 # Add the django_browserid authentication backend.
diff --git a/src/templates/base.html b/src/templates/base.html
index e1fa9ec..6573a46 100644
--- a/src/templates/base.html
+++ b/src/templates/base.html
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
           href="{{ STATIC_URL }}third-party/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css"
           type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"/>
 
-    {% conversejs_static %}
+    {% if not is_mobile %}
+      {% conversejs_static %}
+    {% endif %}
 
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/screen.css"
                                 type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"/>
@@ -156,10 +158,11 @@
       {% endblock %}
     </div>
 
-  <div class="visible-lg">
+
+  {% if not is_mobile %}
     {% conversejs_chatpanel %}
-  </div>
-  {% conversejs_initialize %}
+    {% conversejs_initialize %}
+  {% endif %}
 
   {% browserid_js %}
   </body>
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