Offtext for iOS · Last updated 28 August 2026
Offtext saves articles, recipes, documents and video captions to read later — on your device, without an account.
Email support@offtext.app. If you are on a TestFlight build, a screenshot sent through TestFlight is the most useful thing you can send — it arrives with the device, iOS version and free space attached, which has diagnosed more than one bug that would otherwise have taken days.
Share it from Safari, or any app with a share button, and choose Offtext. You can add a title, a collection, tags and a note before saving. Leave the title blank to use the page's own.
Extraction continues after the sheet closes, which is deliberate — holding it open for thirty seconds would be worse. If a save fails you will see a banner in the library explaining why, and if one is interrupted you will be offered a Retry. Settings › Diagnostics shows exactly where it stopped.
Some pages cannot be read without being signed in — a private Google Doc, for example. Offtext has no sign-in of its own and no access to your browser's session, so it sees the sign-in wall rather than your document. Sites that build their text entirely in the browser after loading can also come out empty.
Some platforms publish a shortened version of a caption. Offtext reads the longest version a platform makes available. If a caption was written as one run-on paragraph, it is kept exactly as written rather than rearranged into a list it was never in.
Through your own iCloud account, in Apple's private database. There is no account to create and no password: if you are signed in to iCloud, it works. It uses your iCloud storage, not the developer's.
Check that Sync is on in Settings, and that the device is signed in to iCloud. Settings › Diagnostics › Sync shows how much is still waiting to be sent; if that number falls to zero, everything has gone.
That is deliberate. Signing out or switching accounts keeps everything on the device and turns sync off, so nothing is uploaded to a different account without you asking. Turn it back on when you are ready.
Yes — the reader has a play control, and it keeps reading with the screen locked, with lock-screen and steering-wheel controls. Better voices are a free download in iOS Settings › Accessibility › Spoken Content › Voices; Offtext lists them once they are installed.
Reading position and listening position are the same value, so stopping in the car resumes on the page.
Settings can export your whole library as JSON or Markdown at any time. Nothing is held by the developer — see the privacy policy for exactly what leaves your device and when.