Pagira vs .html
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Pagira
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Pagira displays your standalone HTML sites, individual HTML pages and your PDFs directly on your iPhone and iPad, even without a connection. Where most readers settle for a rough rendering, Pagira opens a real, complete web folder (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, subfolders) and renders it like a browser, locally. WHO IS IT FOR? Pagira is for anyone who needs to read standalone HTML sites, individual HTML pages or PDFs directly on their device, especially offline. Typical uses: - Students whose courses are exported as HTML (medicine, law and other fields), or delivered as e-learning modules. - Technical documentation shipped as a website: electronics, mechanics, engineering manuals, datasheets and reference guides. - Developers and writers previewing static sites and generated documentation (Doxygen, Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Storybook, Javadoc). - Reports and exports such as Jupyter notebooks, R Markdown or test reports saved as HTML. - Web pages and articles you want to keep and read later, offline. If your content is an HTML folder, a single page or a PDF, Pagira is built to open it cleanly. FEATURES - Full HTML rendering: CSS, JavaScript, images and subfolders genuinely work. fetch/XHR, ES modules and even WebAssembly are supported, because the content is served through a real local web origin, not a simple file preview. - Built-in PDF reader: continuous scrolling and automatic scaling, for your local or iCloud PDFs. - 100% offline: once the content is on your device, everything opens without a connection. Perfect on a plane, while travelling or in areas with no network. - Local files and iCloud Drive: open from the Files app, your local storage or iCloud Drive, and also via "Open in Pagira" from other apps. - iCloud on demand: iCloud files are streamed as you go (without downloading everything), or downloaded explicitly for a permanent offline copy, visible in Files. - Reading list: save a page or a PDF for later. Each item is captured as a self-contained snapshot (web archive or PDF copy), so it stays available offline, with read/unread marking. - History: find every page you have viewed, including navigation within a site, grouped by day, and reopen it exactly where you left off. - Recent items: quick access to your most recently opened folders and files. - Auto-reopen: pick up your last reading as soon as you launch the app (can be turned off). - Web archives: open a saved .webarchive file, rendered offline as is. - Universal: built for iPhone and iPad, in both orientations. - Multilingual: available in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Portuguese. PRIVACY Pagira collects nothing, tracks no one and requires no account. Your files stay on your device and in your iCloud: nothing is sent to a server. No ads, no tracking. TRIAL AND PURCHASE Try Pagira for free with all its features (up to 20 document openings). After that, a single purchase, with no subscription, unlocks the app for good.
.html
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.html is an HTML document viewer. It is not an editor: no code writing, no console, no syntax highlighting. It stores the HTML files you already have, keeps them organized, and opens them when you need them. AI generates more HTML files than ever: reports, calculators, dashboards, interactive summaries. They come out of a chat, get opened once in a browser, and disappear among tabs and downloads. .html is the tool for handling them. WHAT IT DOES β’ Saves every HTML inside the app β its own copy, which opens offline. β’ Shows it full screen, with no address bar and no tabs. β’ Runs the document as it is: its scripts, styles and buttons all work. β’ Organizes files into folders, with pinned documents on top and sorting by date, name, or your own order by dragging. β’ Groups them by date automatically: today, yesterday, last 7 days, last 30 days. β’ Searches by title. MEMORY A document opened in Safari starts from scratch every time. Not here: whatever the document saves stays saved. Tick a checkbox in a list, fill in a form, switch a tab in a dashboard β close the app, come back days later, and it is exactly as you left it. Each document keeps its own state, and none can read another's. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics. The app never connects to a server: your documents never leave your iPhone. ADDING DOCUMENTS Through the + button, which opens the Files app and shows only HTML files. Also via Β«Open withΒ» from Files or Safari.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: .html at none against Pagira's 1. .html also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pagira sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. .html asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pagira ships an update monthly, .html every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pagira | .html |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 β better | 18.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jimmy DE BRUYNE | LUCAS LONGUEIRA MARINO |
In-app purchases
Pagira
- Pagira Pro$4.99
.html
No in-app purchases









