Pakua · Get the app
Swahilio on your home screen
Install it straight from your browser. There is no app store, nothing to download, and it works the same on a phone, a tablet and a computer.
Your browser handles this from its own menu — the steps for your device are below.
iPhone & iPad
iOS · iPadOS · Safari
- Open swahilio.com in Safari.
- Tap the Share button — the square with an arrow pointing up, in the toolbar.
- Scroll down the list and tap Add to Home Screen.
- Tap Add. Swahilio appears on your home screen like any other app.
It has to be Safari. Chrome, Firefox and Edge on iPhone and iPad are not allowed to install apps — Apple only gives that ability to Safari.
Android
Phones & tablets · Chrome
- Open swahilio.com in Chrome.
- Tap Install when the prompt appears at the bottom of the screen.
- If you missed it, tap the ⋮ menu and choose Install app or Add to Home screen.
- Confirm, and Swahilio installs to your app drawer.
Windows & Mac
Desktop · Chrome · Edge
- Open swahilio.com in Chrome or Edge.
- Click the install icon in the address bar — a screen with a downward arrow, on the right-hand side.
- Or open the ⋮ menu and choose Install Swahilio.
- It opens in its own window, and pins to your taskbar or dock.
Safari on Mac cannot install web apps in the way Chrome and Edge can. In Safari, use File then Add to Dock.
What installing changes
Its own window
No address bar, no tabs. On a phone it runs full screen, which gives a story roughly two more lines of text.
On the home screen
One tap from where you already are, instead of a bookmark you forget you made.
Opens where you study
Launching goes straight to the course. Long-press the icon to jump to today's review.
Always current
It updates itself. There is nothing to reinstall and no version to fall behind on.
What it does not do yet
Lessons and audio still need a connection — nothing is stored on the device for offline study, so opening the app on a flight will not get you a reading. If you lose signal mid-session, answers you had already given are saved; the next one will not be. Offline lessons are worth building and are not built.
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