Your HTML pages, PDFs, books and comics
finally readable on iPhone and iPad

A course, a book or a website in HTML often arrives as a folder of linked pages, and iOS can't open it. Pagira shows the whole thing, layout, images and links included, offline. Your PDFs, books and comics too, even panel by panel on iPhone. And any sentence can be found across the whole folder.

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Pagira showing a complete local web page, layout and images included, on iPad

A real reader for the documents people hand you as a folder

Complete HTML folders and PDFs, rendered with their layout - online or off.

The same HTML page opened unstyled in another app, and complete in Pagira

Open a complete HTML folder, with all its linked pages

Open the whole folder and Pagira shows it exactly as it was designed: the layout, images, styles and linked pages all work, even the interactive parts. Everything stays on your device. For long reading sessions, the Aa menu sets the text size and turns the page sepia or dark.

  • Whole folders, sub-pages included
  • Looks and works like it does on a computer
  • Even rich, interactive pages
  • A site in a .zip opens in one tap
  • Text size, sepia and dark mode
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A highlighted PDF in Pagira, with the panel of highlights and notes

Built-in PDF reader

Open your PDFs in a clean, fast reader: smooth scrolling, pinch to zoom, go to page, table of contents and thumbnails. Highlight a passage, add a note or a bookmark: it all comes together in one panel. Tap a PDF link inside a web page and it opens right there - swipe back to return.

  • Fast, built-in PDF reader
  • Highlights, notes and bookmarks
  • PDF links inside a page open inline
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A folder of PDFs, books and comics in thumbnails on iPad, and a magazine read offline on iPhone, in Pagira

Stream from iCloud, or save for offline

Items in iCloud Drive stream on demand - assets download as you read, like Netflix, with no upfront wait. Heading off the grid? Download a permanent offline copy: resumable, non-destructive, and updated when the source changes.

  • On-demand iCloud streaming
  • Download for offline, resumable
  • Offline banner for what's available
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Pagira Home on iPad: Currently Reading, Favorites and Recent, with their covers

Your favorites and current reads, right on Home

Home brings together what you are reading right now, your favorites, your recent documents and what you keep offline, with their covers. Add a document to your favorites in one tap: it stays where it is, in its folder, and reopens where you left off.

  • Currently Reading, with your progress
  • Favorites in one tap, nothing copied
  • Recent and Offline in one place
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The same comic open at the same page on iPad and on iPhone

Open from anywhere, pick up where you left off

Use "Open with Pagira" from Files or any app to open a website, a PDF, a book or a comic. A navigation bar gives you back, forward, reload and the title of the current page. Every document reopens at the page where you left it, even on your other device thanks to iCloud, and Pagira can reopen your last one on launch.

  • "Open with Pagira" from Files
  • Back / forward / reload + page title
  • The right page, from iPad to iPhone
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And more...

Small touches that keep reading effortless, document after document.

An HTML folder or a single page

Open a whole site folder, or just a single HTML page, a PDF or a book - whatever you have on hand.

Drop sites via Files

Pagira's folder shows up in the Files app, so you can copy sites in from Finder or Files directly.

Inline PDF links

A link to a PDF inside an HTML page opens in place - swipe back to return to the page.

Browse as thumbnails

Folders open as a grid: every PDF, book or comic shows its cover, so you recognise the right document without opening it.

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Offline aware

An offline banner makes it clear which items you can still open without a connection.

iPhone & iPad

One app designed to feel at home on both iPhone and iPad.

Reopen on launch

Turn on a setting to jump straight back into your last item every time you open Pagira.

Update Offline Copy

The source has had new files added since your copy? Get them without downloading everything again. Anything that has gone from the source is listed for you, and you decide.

Privacy first

Everything runs locally on your device. Your files are never uploaded or shared, and searching never leaves the device.

New in version 3.0

Your books and comics, in the same reader

Pagira also reads your EPUB books and your comics, right where you keep them: in Files or in iCloud Drive, with nothing to import.

An EPUB book open in Pagira on iPad, with its reading settings

Your books, page after page

Open an EPUB book and set up reading the way you like it: pages or scrolling, text size, font, line spacing and margins, light, sepia or dark theme. Your Word, Markdown, RTF and text documents open in the same reader.

  • EPUB books, paged or scrolling
  • Light, sepia and dark themes
  • Word, Markdown, RTF and text
A comic as a two-page spread on iPad and full page on iPhone, in Pagira

Comics, just like on paper

CBZ, CBR, CB7 or CBT: your comics open full page, as a two-page spread on iPad like an open album, right to left for manga, or in vertical scrolling. A folder or an archive that holds only pictures reads the same way.

  • CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT
  • Two-page spreads on iPad, manga direction
  • Read where they are, nothing to import
A whole comic page, then the same page with one panel enlarged over it, in Pagira on iPad

Comics panel by panel, even on iPhone

On a small screen, a whole page leaves the balloons unreadable. Tap Aa › Panel by Panel: each panel grows in turn over the page, the others stay visible behind a veil, and a tap moves to the next one. Pagira finds the panels itself, on the device, never cuts a balloon, and first checks that the album suits it. It works in vertical scrolling too, and reading page by page, a double tap or a long press enlarges a panel.

  • Panels found on device, balloons never cut
  • Manga order and vertical scrolling
  • The panel follows on your other device
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Highlight what matters

Highlights, notes and bookmarks in your books and your PDFs. They all come together in one panel, and one tap takes you back to the passage.

Pick up on your other device

The page you are on, your highlights, your notes and your favorites follow you through iCloud between iPhone and iPad, for documents stored in iCloud Drive.

A library with no importing

Your books and comics stay in your folders. Pagira reads them where they are: no duplicate copy, nothing that disappears if you delete the app.

Built for real-world documents

From a single HTML page to documentation running into thousands, with their styles, images and interactive parts. And every format that comes with them.

A folder mixing PDFs, books, comics, Word and Markdown documents, shown as thumbnails in Pagira
Complete HTML folders Layouts & styles Images & media Interactive pages PDF documents EPUB books CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT comics Word, Markdown, RTF Highlights & notes Full text search Scanned PDFs recognised Offline reading iCloud Drive iPhone & iPad
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Who Pagira is for

Some documents are not a single file: they are an HTML folder, with pages that link to each other, images and a layout. On a computer a double click is enough. On iPhone and iPad, nothing opens properly. Pagira is built for those documents.

Students and teachers

Courses exported from Moodle or Blackboard, lecture notes, past papers, e-learning modules. One folder per subject, opening exactly as it was designed, on the train or in a lecture hall with no signal.

Workplace training

SCORM modules, onboarding paths, safety and quality training. An e-learning module is an HTML folder with an entry page: Pagira opens it as is, with no platform and no account.

Healthcare and medical staff

Ward protocols, best-practice guidelines, recommendations, continuing education material. Documents you read at the bedside or in the on-call room, where the hospital network stops.

Mechanics and maintenance

Automotive service manuals, manufacturer procedures, wiring diagrams, parts catalogues. Workshop documentation almost always arrives as a folder with its own tree: Pagira keeps it navigable, on the iPad sitting on the bench.

Aviation, marine and transport

Flight manuals, checklists, manufacturer documentation, ship's papers. The iPad is already the reference tool on board, the documentation still has to open in full and with no signal.

Technical and industrial documentation

Operating instructions, maintenance manuals, product sheets, supplier catalogues. Hundreds of pages linked together, readable on site or at a customer's, with no connection.

Law, standards and compliance

Statutes and articles of law, collective agreements, ISO and national standards, case law. Corpora distributed to be read offline, with their cross-references actually working.

Finance and management

Annual reports, audit reports, board packs, minutes exported from an intranet. Received by email or dropped in iCloud, opened in two taps before the meeting.

The common thread: a folder, pages that answer each other, and the wish to read it on a comfortable screen without depending on the network. Whether it is a ten-thousand-page corpus or an appliance manual downloaded the day before.

Testimonials

Excellent

Superb app. I had been looking for a long time for a way to read the HTML course material my university provides, and to read it offline too. The pages display properly, with their layout and images intact. Thank you 👍

App Store review · Translated from French

Simple, practical and effective

A very handy app that is easy to use. Being able to keep pages, HTML files or PDFs and then read them offline is really welcome. Everything opens cleanly and quickly, and I very much like that there is no account to create and no advertising. A great find!

The story behind Pagira

“I bought a bundle of HTML and PDF magazines, no iPad app displayed them properly, so I solved it myself.”

I bought a batch of old magazines, delivered as HTML and PDF. One folder per issue, with its stylesheets, its images, its scripts and its subfolders. On a Mac, a double click was enough.

On an iPad, nothing worked. The reader apps showed raw HTML, with no layout and no images, when they did not simply lose the links between pages. The only reliable method was to run a local web server, which makes no sense when you want to read in an armchair.

That is what I wrote Pagira for: opening a complete site folder on iPhone and iPad, the way it was designed, offline, with no server and without sending anything anywhere.

Jimmy, developer of Pagira

Simple pricing

One purchase, yours forever. No subscription.

Pagira

Full access to every feature

Free trial: 20 document openings
$11.99

One-time purchase

  • Universal app for iPhone & iPad
  • Full local website rendering
  • Full text search across a whole folder
  • Questions in plain words, on device
  • Native PDF reader
  • iCloud streaming & offline downloads
  • EPUB books and comics, highlights and notes
  • iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad
  • All future updates included
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Designed for iPhone and iPad.

Why prestApps?

There is no faceless studio behind Pagira. Three things you can check for yourself.

A developer you can name

Jimmy, independent developer in Paris. 25 years building software, more than ten of them on Apple platforms. A sole trader registered in France, with the address and registration number published in the legal notice.

Your files stay with you

No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no telemetry, no account to create. Pagira opens no connection to a prestApps server, because none exists: your documents never leave your iPhone or your iPad.

Support that answers

Your email reaches the developer directly, not a ticket queue. Bugs go to the top of the list, and requested features usually ship within days.

Meet the developer