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Open full local websites on iPhone and iPad

Pagira renders a whole site folder the way it was built: layout, images, styles and linked pages all resolved, entirely on your device.

Pagira showing a full local website on iPad

Most apps that claim to open HTML on iOS show you one file. A real website is not one file: it is a folder, with a stylesheet here, an images directory there, and links pointing between a dozen pages. Open the index on its own and you get unstyled text.

A whole folder, not a single page

Pagira opens the folder. The layout, the images, the styles and the linked pages all resolve, because the app reads the site the way a browser would, relative paths included. What you see is what the author built.

Links between pages just work

Click through from the index to a subpage, follow a link into a subfolder, come back. Internal navigation behaves as it does on the web, so a documentation set or an exported site stays usable rather than becoming a pile of files.

Everything stays on your device

Nothing is uploaded. There is no server, no account and no round trip to a remote service. That matters when the site is client work, an internal document set, or anything you would not drop into a web tool.

A folder or a single file

If all you have is one HTML page, that works too. Pagira opens a whole site folder or a single file, whichever you have on hand.

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