# Web Offline — user reviews > 22 indexed App Store user reviews of Web Offline by Petr Krojzl, rated 1.00/5 from 2 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/web-offline/id356088261/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/web-offline/id356088261.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 0 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (2 of 22) ### 2/5 — One serious bug *2010-11-04, version 0* 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. ### 2/5 — Someone call the exterminator *2010-07-10, version 0* Bugs galore with iOS 4. Until a major bug smashing update comes through this app is utterly unusable. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2017-12-05, version 3.0* It hangs every time, after a few minutes browsing. ### 1/5 — Not so great *2011-04-07, version 1.3.4* Crashes when trying to recall the site you archive. Please improve. ### 1/5 — So sad... *2011-02-02, version 1.3.4* It's so sad when an "offline" program can't even cache a simple page of text... It's even sadder when $.99 is WAY too much money for the time, aggravation, and disappointment! ### 1/5 — Crashes when you try to view downloaded pages *2010-09-06, version 0* 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. ### 1/5 — Nice idea, but WAY too slow! *2010-08-14, version 0* 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. ### 1/5 — Bad *2010-06-29, version 0* It doesnt work. It just says wrong URL ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2010-06-28, version 0* When I try to view the caches page it's just blank white ### 2/5 — It's ok but major feature missing *2015-10-02, version 2.9* I love that you can control depth, but it stays on the same site only. I use news portal sites that often show a bunch of headlines from around the web (for example: reddit). All the news articles that are linked are not crawled. There should be an option that lets the crawler leave the current site (at least to the first level). ### 2/5 — Requires WiFi? *2011-04-11, version 1.3.4* I just wanted to save a 20KB webpage for offline reading and I need a wifi connection. What a PITA. I don't even know if it works yet. ### 2/5 — Does not work in offline mode. *2010-12-04, version 1.3.4* I was hoping to be able to display a website offline. Did the caching 4 levels deep. The application states it's 260mb big (the cache of that site) but when running it offline, the only thing it shows is a white page and selecting any URL will only show a white page. The moment I am connected I get the note that it will stream what is needed and then works (slow!). With other words, the application in its current state is impossible to use when wanting to present a website off line. IF it will get fixed and will work, the star rating would quickly go up to 4. I have not tried the other features as that is not what I was looking for. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it! *2012-11-04, version 2.7.0* Wow! I'm in Internet marketing and we have to be able to show our website to possible customers. When there's not wifi around, we use this app to demonstrate our website on our iPad. What we love most about it is that we can cache entire sites with the crawler option. One downside is that our site is very large and caching the entire site takes a long time, but that's not the apps fault that our site is large. I would recommended this app to anyone any day. ### 5/5 — Excellent! *2012-05-31, version 2.5.2* It works great. I used it to archive my website portfolio so I can show it to clients without wifi. I highly recommend it. ### 5/5 — Spectacular! *2010-12-28, version 1.3.4* I'm not sure why others are having trouble with this app. Are you recording the link before you cache it? I'm not sure that's even necessary but I always do and everything caches fine when I go to manage the caches. It's far easier than using adobe acrobat to save websites and you can cache links on page you already have cached. This way you don't necessarily have to crawl the whole website to get as much of the website as you want. All you have to do is click on the link and chose to add to the cache, then go recache the website. I love this app and would pay more for it. ### 5/5 — Great *2010-07-16, version 0* 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. ### 5/5 — AMAZING *2010-05-13, version 0* I can go to my saved pages even when I am offline this is a 100 star app if there was anyway awsome app ### 5/5 — Best offline browser *2010-04-01, version 0* 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! ### 5/5 — Best app ever! *2010-03-01, version 0* 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! ### 4/5 — Worth buying! *2012-08-31, version 2.5.2* It IS a good app. It does what you need, has two options for saving pages, and allows you to manage them well. Even caching 500 pages doesn't take more than 10 minutes at most, though the prospect of caching something at 3,000 pages (when I'd only need less than a quarter of those pages, but don't want to go through them by hand) discourages me from using the web crawler. However, I believe you can add/erase links before caching, so this may simply be laziness on my part. I do have some suggestions, though. we should have the option to only recache the new link, and not the whole thing. 1. If you add a link to a file that's already been cached, 2. Would be nice to have folders for organization, although the search option negates this as being a necessity. 3. More description regarding the crawler option would be helpful. The sliding bar is nice, but text description would be useful clarification. This app very occasionally glitches, but fixes itself after you pop in and out of it again. I haven't lost a single thing I've saved, though I have lost something I was in the middle of recording. Wasn't a big deal, just did it again. All in all, the best app for the job I've found, and it's reliable. Would recommend. ### 4/5 — Works great *2012-05-04, version 2.5.1* I bought this app because I needed to view an online portfolio offline. It worked great. The interface is not very intuitive. On your first project it is a little confusing. A walk through or step by step would be helpful. Basically you put in a URL, and the app does nothing. And then you have to edit it and hit the cache button and then it works great. We grabbed a Wordpress portfolio and it downloaded 400 or so files Ina few minutes. It loads just like it would Ina browser. Also when the snapshot is done being made the screen sort of hangs and you still have to hit cancel. It does not switch to finished. So that is sort of confusing. Beyond those small gripes it is a great app. Just could use a little polishing. ### 3/5 — Not bad *2011-03-25, version 1.3.4* This Program is good but must contain the next update on the option to select download from the Web site and the only one without leaving him to several locations where it would cause the length of the download, And In this case, I can give the program five stars --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*