Download Entire Website on iPhone & Android: 4 Ways

Safari's Reading List, Save as PDF and Chrome's Download button each save one page. None of them follows links to subpages. To download entire website on iPhone, iPad or Android, with every subpage and its images, styles and scripts, you need a tool that crawls the whole site. The simplest option runs in your phone's browser. You enter the address, a server does the crawling while your phone is locked, and you save the finished ZIP. This guide covers each method and is honest about where you can open the copy afterwards.

Saving one page vs. downloading an entire website on iPhone or Android

Most advice for mobile offline reading mixes two different jobs:

• Saving a page keeps the article you are looking at right now. Tap a link inside it while offline and nothing loads.
• Copying a website follows every internal link and saves each subpage with its assets. The links between pages keep working, so you can browse the site the way you would online.

If you want to read one recipe or one news story on a flight, a single-page feature is quicker and good enough. Copying a full site is a different job. Examples include documentation, a club's website before it shuts down, a portfolio you are moving to another host, or a course whose pages link to each other. For that, only a crawler will do. The sections below cover the built-in features first, so you know where they stop.

Do Safari's Reading List and Chrome's offline Download save the linked subpages?

No. Each of these features stores the single page you are on.

Safari Reading List (iPhone and iPad)

Tap the Share button, then Add to Reading List. To have the page stored offline, open Settings → Safari and turn on Automatically Save Offline under Reading List. Safari then keeps a copy of that page. It does not save the pages it links to, and how the copy looks depends on the site. Reading List works well for long articles. It cannot save a whole site.

Save webpage as PDF on iPhone

In Safari, take a screenshot, tap the preview, choose Full Page at the top, then save the PDF to Files. You can also use Share → Print, then share the preview as a PDF. The result is a long, flat document of one page. The links inside the PDF point back to the live web, so they fail offline. Navigation menus, galleries and anything interactive are lost.

Chrome's Download on Android

In Chrome for Android, open the three-dot menu and tap the download arrow. The page appears under Downloads and opens without a connection. Again, it is one page. Tapping a menu link sends Chrome back to the internet. Chrome on iPhone offers a Reading List with the same single-page limit.

Is HTTrack available for iPhone, and does the Android version still work?

HTTrack is the classic free website copier on desktop computers. There is no HTTrack for iPhone or iPad. iOS does not allow that kind of open-ended crawler to write a site folder to your device the way it does on a computer.

On Android there is a port of HTTrack built on the same engine. It can mirror a site to your phone's storage, and some people still use it. Expect some friction, though:

• The app is old and its interface was designed for much earlier Android versions. Depending on your device and Android version, it may not install from the Play Store, or it may struggle with storage permissions.
• The crawl runs on the phone. The app has to keep running, the screen may need to stay on, and every file travels over your mobile connection unless you are on Wi‑Fi. Android may stop the app in the background to save battery.
• It has dozens of options for depth, filters and rate limits, which are hard to adjust on a small screen.

On iPhone and iPad there are paid offline-reader apps, such as Offline Pages Pro. They can save a page and, depending on the app, a set number of linked pages. The saved content usually stays inside that app, so you can read it there but cannot easily export it as a normal website folder. Check what the current version actually supports before you pay. For a closer look at HTTrack and the alternatives, see HTTrack Alternative: Copy Websites Online Without Installing Anything.

How to download an entire website from your phone's browser, no install needed

Website Downloader does the crawling on a server. Your phone only starts the job and collects the result, so it works the same in Safari on an iPhone or iPad, in Chrome on Android, and in any other mobile browser.

1. Open website-downloader.com in your phone's browser.
2. Type or paste the address of the site, for example https://example.com, and start the download.
3. Watch the live progress as the pages are counted. You can lock the phone or switch apps. The crawl continues on the server, and your device does not need to stay on.
4. When it finishes, download the ZIP. It contains every subpage plus the images, stylesheets, scripts, fonts and media they use.

The free plan needs no account and covers up to 100 subpages per download. That is enough for most small business sites, portfolios and personal blogs. The archive is kept for 1 day, so save the ZIP soon. Larger sites need a paid plan. A one-time Single Site purchase covers up to 5,000 subpages, and the monthly plans go higher. See pricing for details. If the site is already offline, the Wayback Machine downloader can rebuild it from Internet Archive captures. It is free for up to 100 pages.

Where the ZIP lands: on iPhone and iPad, Safari asks whether to download the file and saves it to Files → Downloads (in iCloud Drive or On My iPhone, depending on your Safari settings). On Android, it goes to the Downloads folder and appears in Chrome's download list and in your file manager.

Where do downloaded pages end up, and how do you open them offline?

A website copy is a folder of linked HTML files. To browse it, you need a browser that opens index.html from local storage and follows the relative links to the other files. This step behaves differently on each platform.

iPhone and iPad: the Files app

The Files app can unzip archives. Tap the ZIP and Files extracts it into a folder beside it. Tapping index.html opens a preview of the page. We have not confirmed that links between subpages work reliably in that preview, or when an HTML file is opened from Files in Safari. iOS has no ordinary file browser for local websites. Treat on-device browsing as a possible bonus, not something to count on.

Android: file managers and browsers

Most Android file managers, including Files by Google, can extract a ZIP. When you open the extracted index.html, the result depends on the file manager and the browser that handles the file. Some show the page with its styles. Others pass it on in a way that stops relative links and images from loading. This has not been tested across devices either, so try it with your own phone before you rely on it.

The reliable route: a computer

If you need the copy to work for certain, download it on your phone and browse it on a computer. Send the ZIP to a laptop by AirDrop, a cloud drive, email or a USB cable. Unzip it there and double-click index.html. Every desktop browser follows the links between the local pages. Our guides for Mac, Windows and Chromebook cover that side in detail.

Storage, mobile data and what does not work offline

Mobile data: with the browser method, the server fetches the pages, so your phone only downloads the finished ZIP once. With an on-device crawler like the HTTrack app, every request goes over your own connection. In both cases, use Wi‑Fi for image-heavy or video-heavy sites.

Storage: a text-based site may be a few megabytes, while a photography portfolio can reach hundreds. Unzipping temporarily needs space for both the ZIP and the extracted folder. Delete the ZIP afterwards if space is tight. Paid archives can be up to 2 GB.

What an offline copy cannot do:

• Pages behind a login are not downloaded.
• Sites that build all their content with JavaScript in the browser, such as some React, Vue or Angular apps, may produce a page shell without the content.
• Some sites refuse automated downloads, for example with a 403 error. The service reports this instead of handing you an empty archive.
• Search boxes, contact forms, shopping carts and comments need a live server and will not work in the copy.

For more on what ends up in the archive, read Download a Website as ZIP Online: The Complete Guide or check the FAQ.

Which method fits your situation: a quick comparison

In short, use Reading List or a PDF for one article. For a whole site, start the download from your phone's browser and open the ZIP on a computer when you need dependable navigation.

FAQ: whole websites on iPhone, iPad and Android

Can I save a whole website, not just one page, on an iPhone or iPad?

Not with Safari's built-in features. They store one page at a time. You can start a full-site download from Safari with a browser-based service like Website Downloader and save the ZIP to the Files app. Browsing the unzipped copy works most reliably on a computer.

Is saving a website as a PDF on the iPhone good enough?

For a single article, a receipt or a page you want to annotate, yes. A PDF is one flat document, though. Menus, subpages and interactive elements are lost, and its links lead back to the live web. If you need the site's structure, download it as a website instead.

Do I have to keep the phone unlocked and the app open while the site downloads?

With the browser-based method, no. The crawl runs on the server, so you can lock the phone or close the tab and come back for the ZIP. On-device crawlers such as the Android HTTrack app have to keep running, and the system may pause them in the background.

Does downloading a whole site use a lot of storage or mobile data?

It depends on the site. Text-heavy sites are small, while sites full of photos or video can be large. With a server-side download, your phone only transfers the finished ZIP once. Use Wi‑Fi for big sites and leave room for both the ZIP and the unzipped folder.

Can I unzip a downloaded website in the iOS Files app and click through its pages?

Files can unzip the archive and preview an HTML page. We have not confirmed that clicking from one subpage to the next works reliably there. If you need to navigate the full copy, move the ZIP to a Mac or PC and open index.html in a desktop browser.