Web Offline Reviews
1/5 rating based on 22 reviews. Read all reviews for Web Offline for iPhone.
Web Offline is paid iOS app published by Petr Krojzl
Best app ever!
adefusco
This is how I like to use the iPod. No other offline app comes close to this. If I wanted to be picky, I would have reserved the fifth star for allowing URLs to be added to a snapshot instead of recording a new one for just one page. However, it can be forgiven with the full-text search. Thank you crafty/crew!
Best offline browser
crumb collector
I've tried Read It Later and Instapaper and this is far better than both. Images and all are cached to preserve the intended view of each page. The 'web crawler' feature that lets you save the website to its entirety if you so choose, or only part if you prefer, is great. Easy to navigate saved pages - heck, fun even. It's all straight forward. You don't need any registered account, you don't have to follow a list of chores to work the thing. Allowing more options for instance to exclude caching images for certain pages would be nice but even as it is this is far better than its current competitors- and cheaper!
AMAZING
odog3333
I can go to my saved pages even when I am offline this is a 100 star app if there was anyway awsome app
Someone call the exterminator
Joeski9
Bugs galore with iOS 4. Until a major bug smashing update comes through this app is utterly unusable.
Great
TBobo
This tool is great. I actually am using it so we can take a web demo to a trade show, so i helped the web crawler out a bit by providing and index of all the files. They just need to add a full screen browse mode for this to be awesome.
Nice idea, but WAY too slow!
Steve Ives
Although it might be useful occasionally, I'm not really interested in manually browsing and saving pages ... Way too time consuming. What really interested me was the idea of crawling news sites like CNN and New York Times, saving the results, and being able to view them offline, on a flight for example. I decided to start with the two aforementioned sites, partly because they were "featured" in the developers screen shots in the app store. Problem is, as the warning in the app tells you when you start the process, this is VERY VERY slow. So slow in fact that in my opinion it makes the app unusable for that purpose. The point is, if you are cacheing a news site for offline access, you probably want to be able to do so at regular intervals. I left it running against New York Times for almost half an hour, then gave up with only perhaps 10% of the process complete and 5% of my battery drained. By the way, this was after reducing the crawl depth to only a single level (the default is 2 levels), and I was using a pretty fast high-speed WiFi connection, so that wasn't the issue. I realize that part of the possible problem is how fast the site at the other end responds, but I was getting nowhere fast! I tried the same thing against a couple of other similar sites with similar results. Unfortunately the app also crashed a couple of times. This whole thing is a great shame because it's a neat concept, and the app seems to be well implemented, looks good, etc. But for me, not usable.
Crashes when you try to view downloaded pages
JonathansCorner.com
This app appears to download sites just fine. However, I've tried more than one way to view information once it was downloaded. The app has crashed every single time. The present app lists bugfixes as its main improvement; it would be nice to be bugfixed to the point that downloaded content can be viewed without it crashing.
One serious bug
mosquitoguy
This is a nice app except for one problem... It would sometimes fetch a page endlessly and not stop. After 20 minutes of trying to save a single URL, I stopped the fetch and the snapshot size was 35MB for a single URL with 0 depth! On a desktop this page would load in 5 seconds.