# Install as app

This site can be installed as an app. There is no app store involved, no account
to make and no package to download: your browser gives the pages it already
fetches their own icon and their own window, without tabs or an address bar.

Every browser hides the button somewhere different, and Apple's never offers it
by itself — which is the only reason this page exists.

## On an iPhone or iPad

Open the site in Safari, tap the **Share** button, scroll down and choose **Add
to Home Screen**. From iOS 16.4 onwards the same option appears in Chrome, Edge
and Firefox. iOS will never suggest this on its own, on any browser.

## On Android

In Chrome, open the browser menu and choose **Install app** — some versions call
it **Add to Home screen**, and some offer it as a strip along the bottom of the
page. Firefox and Samsung Internet have the same entry under their own menus.

## On a computer

In Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi, look for the small **install icon at
the right-hand end of the address bar**. If it is not showing, the browser menu
has the same command, usually near "Cast, save and share" or "Apps".

In Safari on macOS Sonoma or later, use **File → Add to Dock**.

Firefox on the desktop does not install web apps at all; a pinned tab is as
close as it gets.

## What you get, and what you do not

You get an icon, a window of its own, and a site that opens in one tap instead
of three. What you do not get is anything running on your device: no background
process, no notifications, no permissions to grant, nothing asking to start when
you log in.

**It is not an offline copy.** Offline support needs a service worker: a script
that runs in the background and keeps its own copy of the site on your device.
This site ships one small script, for filtering a list, and nothing that runs in
the background or stores anything — you can read what that buys you on the
[privacy](/privacy/) page. The installed app needs a connection, exactly like
the page you are reading now.

Removing it is the same as removing any app: delete the icon. Nothing is left
behind, because nothing was put anywhere.

And if what you would rather have installed is something of your own,
[talk to us](/contact/) *(apps, sites, systems — the quiet kind)*.

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