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Yesterday I was on a flight so I downloaded some paywalled articles on my phone using safari reading list. Once we took off and I lost connectivity I opened the
by asaddhamani 3y ago
Yesterday I was on a flight so I downloaded some paywalled articles on my phone using safari reading list. Once we took off and I lost connectivity I opened the article and saw - the paywall page. I tried looking for mobile read later apps that save offline and save what I saw not what their servers see, but not much luck.
I’ve my own app which can save pages as I saw them and create reader views out of them, but no offline access yet. This is a pretty niche use case but I feel these days more and more decent writing is behind paywalls (Substack and newsletters) so the current read it later apps are losing usefulness and they’re all frozen on features.
- pm3003 3y agoOpera offline save saves locally, it's efficient. I never had the paywall problem.
- simmerup 3y agoHonestly Apple just in general stops working the moment you lose internet connection and it sucks. The whole ecosystem seems to assume you always have internet.
- birdyrooster 3y agoMaps is offline at least finally
- pmontra 3y agoFirefox Android used to save a local copy of pages bookmarked from inside reader mode. Unfortunately that went away years ago, maybe 2018 or 2019.
- spectre3d 3y agoThat’s really rough. Instapaper (free version) and GoodLinks ($5) both work perfectly for me without internet access. Haven’t tried substacks in GoodLinks, but Instapaper grabs them without issue. Nice to hear about hamsterbase, will check it out.
- spectre3d 3y agoI should mention, archive search in Instapaper doesn’t work without a premium subscription, but works fine for the 500 articles you can keep offline on your device.