Lisbon travel guide
Wikivoyage, before the flight
9 pages packed
A Mac app for reading offline
Your favorite websites, even with no Wi-Fi.
Pack the sites you love before a flight, a train ride, or a weekend off the grid, and read them on your Mac with the same pictures, layout, and working links.
Download for Mac
Seatpocket is a Mac app. Send this page to your Mac and download it there.
Your Mac asks you to confirm the first time you open it. Here’s how.
Wi-Fi off. Still reading.
Packing list
Where to first?
A few things worth bringing on your next trip.
Yosemite trip planning
National Park Service, for no signal
25 pages packed
Pride and Prejudice
Standard Ebooks, for the long haul
69 pages packed
The Moon
NASA, for curious kids
15 pages packed
Sourdough
Wikipedia, for the cabin
1 page packed
Django docs
Searchable on the plane
50 pages packed
The Guardian
Today’s news, for the commute
20 pages packed
Smitten Kitchen
Recipes for a long weekend
20 pages packed
How it works
Pack it at home. Read it anywhere.
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Paste a website’s address
Copy the address of a site you like from your browser and paste it into Seatpocket. Give it a name if you like.
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Choose how much to bring
Just one page, the latest from a news site or blog, or an entire guide or book. Seatpocket packs every page along with its pictures while you watch.
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Read anywhere
Open it from your library, online or off. Follow links, go back and forward, and search every page you packed.
Reading offline
It feels like you’re still online.
Packed pages keep their photos, fonts, and layout. Menus and buttons still work, and links between the pages you packed take you where you’d expect.
See which links will work
Links to pages you didn’t pack are faded out, so you can tell before you click.
No dead ends
Click one anyway and you get a friendly note instead of an error, with a button to open the real page once you’re back online.
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Search every page you packed
Find that restaurant, recipe, or quote again, even with no connection.
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Bring the news you already pay for
Click Sign In… and sign in on the site as usual, and Seatpocket packs the full articles your subscription includes. Your password goes only to the site.
Privacy
Everything stays on your Mac.
No account, no ads, and no tracking, in the app or on this website. What you pack and read never leaves your Mac.
Download
Get Seatpocket for your Mac.
Seatpocket 0.3.1
For Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 13 or later
Seatpocket is a Mac app. Send this page to your Mac and download it there.
- Released
- Size
- 140.2 MB
Your Mac asks you to confirm the first time you open it. Here’s how.
FAQ
Questions, and the honest answers.
Will it run on my Mac?
Seatpocket needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 13 Ventura or later. To check, choose Apple menu › About This Mac: if the Chip line starts with “Apple M”, you’re set. There’s no version for Intel Macs, Windows, or Linux.
What kinds of sites work best?
News sites, blogs, newsletters, travel guides, recipe sites, wikis, and online books and manuals all work well, including sites that are more like apps than pages.
A few sites use strict bot protection that blocks packing, even when you’re signed in. When that happens, Seatpocket stops and tells you, rather than packing pages that say “Verify you are human”.
What doesn’t work offline?
- Videos and posts embedded from other sites, like YouTube or Instagram. You’ll see a small placeholder with a link to open them later.
- Anything live: comments, chat, forms, and search boxes that ask the site’s server. Seatpocket’s own search covers every page you packed.
- Ads and live extras like “most read” lists are usually missing. The articles and their pictures are packed.
- Video and audio files are left out to save space. You can turn them on for a site.
The technical details have the complete list.
How much space does it take?
It depends on how many pages and pictures a site has. A single article is usually a few megabytes. Pictures and styles that pages share are stored once, and video is left out unless you turn it on. Each packed site stops at 2 GB unless you change that, and you can delete one any time.
Moving packed sites to another Mac, updates, and what to do when a page looks wrong are in the technical details.