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Except it's not true, I did my German taxes fully digitally last year, it's very much encouraged.
Not like that makes it any easier though and also not on your phone, no? I couldn't imagine using Elster on my phone.
I used to do it on my phone with an app called steuerbot. Very convenient. It's simply a chatbot that asks you all the stuff it needs to know and then fills out the forms accordingly and sends them digitally via an Elster connection. Completely sufficient for regular taxes when you are not self employed.
I've tried one of those a couple of times, in different stages in my life, and every time I got "this is too complicated, do it on your own". No idea why, I've never been self-employed. I also don't know if it's such a good idea to encourage that whole Steuerberatung industry instead of providing an official usable solution.