Snipbook

Documentation

Offline use

How to install Snipbook as an app and what still works, or needs a connection, once you are offline

Snipbook works as a regular website, but it can also be installed as an app for convenience. Installed or not, it's built to work without an internet connection. The technical name for this kind of app is a PWA (progressive web app). What matters practically is: load it once, and it opens and runs offline from then on.

What works offline

The app itself — the editor, its tools, and all your diaries and pages — works with no connection at all. You can create and edit pages, write, draw, and place stickers or photos already saved to your Pocket. Everything you make is stored on your device, never shared with the server.

Items in your Pocket are already downloaded, so they can be used offline as well.

What needs a connection

Only Store and Inspo tabs require internet connection. Once you download items from the Store, you can use them offline.

Also every new font you pick for the first time requires a connection. Once downloaded, it's saved to be used offline in the future.

Installing it

  • Chrome or Edge on desktop — open Snipbook, then click the install icon in the address bar (or use the browser menu and choose "Install Snipbook"). It opens afterward in its own window, like any other app.
  • Android (Chrome) — open Snipbook, then either tap the "Install app" banner if it appears, or open the browser menu and choose "Add to Home screen" / "Install app".
  • Android (Firefox) — open Snipbook, then open the browser menu and choose "Add app to Home screen" (on some versions, "Add to Home screen").
  • iPhone or iPad (Safari) — open Snipbook, tap the Share icon, then choose "Add to Home Screen".

Installing doesn't protect against clearing your browser's data. On Android clearing the browser's cookies and site data for snipbook.app deletes them from the app as well.

On iPhone, iPad and Mac, an app added from Safari has its own storage. To move a diary there from Safari, you can export it as a file, then import it in the app.

To avoid confusion, we'll try publish Snipbook in the app stores soon.

  • What Snipbook is — the short version of what the app does.
  • Privacy — what stays on your device, and what, if anything, leaves it.
  • Editor features — a fuller tour of the tools available on a page.