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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. Typical uses:

• 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.

Pagira opens:

• A website, a course or a book in HTML, whole folder included - it shows the whole site with all its pages, images and styles. A site delivered as a .zip opens directly.
• A single web page or a web archive (.webarchive), when that's all you have.
• PDF documents, in a clean, built-in reader.
• EPUB books, and Word, Markdown, RTF or text documents.
• Comics in CBZ, CBR, CB7 or CBT, as well as a folder or a .zip, .rar or .7z archive that holds only pictures.
• Pictures.

You can open them from the Files app, from iCloud Drive, or from another app's share sheet with "Open with Pagira".

Quick Look only previews a single file on its own, so its linked images, styles and pages usually break. Pagira opens the whole folder the way a browser would, so the complete site works - layout, images and even its interactive parts.

Yes, since version 3.1. On an HTML page, tap Aa (on an iPhone held upright, Display in the “...” menu):

• the text size, in steps of one tenth;
• Original, Sepia, Dark or Automatic colors;
• the brightness.

Original, the default setting, keeps the site's colors: a page is never recolored unless you ask for it. The layout is respected, and a pinch still zooms the whole page. For your books in HTML: reading HTML novels on iPad and iPhone.

Yes, since version 3.0.

• An EPUB book reads in pages or as a scroll, with the text size, font, line spacing, margins and a light, sepia or dark theme set the way you like.
• A comic in CBZ, CBR, CB7 or CBT, or a folder of pictures, opens full page, as a two-page spread when you hold the iPad or iPhone sideways, right to left for manga, or in vertical scrolling for webtoons.
• In books as in PDFs, you can highlight, add a note or a bookmark.

Pagira reads your books and comics where you keep them, in Files or in iCloud Drive: nothing to import, no duplicate copy.

Step by step: how to read comics on iPhone and iPad.

DRM-protected books, such as those bought from an online bookstore, cannot be opened: Pagira reads unprotected books.

Yes, since version 3.1. In a comic, tap Aa › Panel by Panel: each panel is enlarged in turn above the page, the others stay visible behind a veil, and a tap moves on to the next one. It is ideal on iPhone, where a whole page makes the speech balloons unreadable.

• Pagira finds the panels by itself, on the device, and never cuts through a speech balloon. Manga reads right to left.
• Before it starts, it checks that the comic lends itself to it; if not, it says so, and the comic reads in pages.
• It also works in vertical scrolling, and the panel you are on follows you to your other device.
• When reading page by page, a double tap or a long press enlarges a panel, and a pinch zooms inside it.

To turn it on for all your comics and choose the magnification: Settings › Comics. Learn more: reading comics on iPhone panel by panel.

Open search and type your words. Pagira searches every web page, every PDF and every Word, Markdown, RTF or text document in the folder at once, not just the document you have open.

• The first time, tap Prepare Search: Pagira reads the folder's documents once, on the device. A folder that has been prepared then stays up to date by itself, and search is available as soon as you open it.
• Results are grouped by document, and those from a PDF carry the name of their section.
• Opening one takes you straight to the right page, your words highlighted.
• The search is strict: it returns the pages that contain all the words you typed. It looks for what you typed, nothing else.
• A selector chooses where to search: the whole folder, the current subfolder, or just the document you have open. The document you are reading comes first.
• The Files tab finds a document by its name.

Everything happens on the device, offline, with no account.

Yes. Next to search, the Ask tab takes a question in everyday language, for example “how do I bleed the brake circuit?”. Pagira brings back the passages that answer it, giving the document, the chapter and the pages.

Pagira does not write an answer. It takes you to the right place and you read the document: that is a deliberate choice, it shows you the page rather than an answer pieced together from several similar procedures.

On recent iPhones and iPads with Apple Intelligence, the question is better understood. Without it, it still works. Either way, everything happens on the device, offline, with no server.

A scanned PDF is only an image: it contains no word to search for. Pagira offers “Recognize text” to read it on the device and make it searchable like any other document.

It is on demand, never automatic, and recognition can continue in the background while the device is plugged in.

On iOS 26, tables are read as tables - a table row stays a row. That is what matters for technical manuals, product sheets and instruction leaflets.

You have a couple of options:

• Drop it into Pagira's folder. Pagira's folder is exposed in the Files app, so you can copy a site into it from a Mac (via Finder) or from Files / iCloud Drive.
• Keep it in iCloud Drive. Open the folder directly from iCloud and Pagira streams the assets on demand - no full download needed up front.

For a website, point Pagira at the folder rather than a single file so every asset and subfolder resolves.

Yes. Pagira reads the folder where it is stored, without importing or copying anything: it opens the page you tap and follows the links, like a browser. Libraries of more than 200,000 HTML pages are read with it on iPad, as this case study tells.

A .zip archive opens directly up to 200,000 files; beyond that, unzip it first with the Files app, then open the resulting folder.

Yes. Items in iCloud Drive stream on demand while you're online.

To read without a connection, use Download for offline to keep a permanent copy on the device: it appears in the Offline section of Home.

When you're offline, an offline banner shows which items are still available.

Since version 3.0, the reading list has become Favorites. When you update, every item is carried over:

• it becomes a favorite on its original document when that document is found;
• the copies the list kept are put in a “Former Reading List” folder, in iCloud Drive › Pagira (or On My iPhone / On My iPad › Pagira without iCloud).

Nothing is deleted: you do the sorting.

A favorite is added in one tap, with no copy: the document stays in its folder. Your favorites appear on Home with their covers, next to what you are currently reading, your recent documents and what you keep offline.

Download for offline makes a permanent copy of an item in the app's own space. The copy is resumable if it's interrupted and non-destructive, so the original stays where it is and the item remains readable without a connection.

If the source has had new files added since, “Update Offline Copy” gets them without downloading everything again. Nothing is deleted without confirmation: files that no longer exist at the source are listed for you, and you decide.

Yes. Every document reopens at the page where you left it, and there's a setting to automatically reopen the last item you were reading when you launch Pagira.

Yes, with iCloud. The page you are on, your highlights, your notes and your favorites sync between your devices signed in to the same iCloud account.

This applies to documents stored in iCloud Drive, since both devices find the same file there; a document that exists on only one device keeps its position on that device.

Sync goes through your own iCloud account: Pagira has no server.

Yes. Pagira runs on your device. Your files are never uploaded or shared, and the app includes no analytics or tracking.

If you use iCloud, your reading position, highlights, notes and favorites are synced in your own iCloud account, between your devices: Pagira has no server and no access to it.

Search, text recognition on scanned PDFs and questions asked in everyday language also run on the device: no server, no account, no data sent. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Pagira is one app for iPhone and iPad, running iOS and iPadOS 17 or later.

Pagira is a one-time purchase of $11.99 with no subscription. All future updates are included: if you have already bought Pagira, version 3.0 is yours. You can try it before buying: the first 20 document openings are free, and opening a folder does not count.

Pagira Pro is tied to your Apple Account. On another iPhone or iPad signed in to the same account, install Pagira, then tap Settings › Restore Purchase: Pagira Pro is unlocked, without paying again.