offGrd: offline messenger
Abhishek Kale Social Networking iPhoneiPadiPod touch
offGrd: offline messenger is a free Social Networking app for iPhone and iPad by Abhishek Kale. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 19 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 17
- 2026 · v2.0
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About offGrd: offline messenger
your phone already has everything it needs to talk to the phone next to it. offGrd skips the cell towers and Wi-Fi routers entirely, connecting you directly to people nearby. no signal at the festival? doesn't matter. dead zone on the trail? doesn't matter. offGrd works exactly where your carrier doesn't.
What’s new
Version 2.0 · Updated October 17, 2026
2.0. a new look, and a lot less guessing. a fresh coat on iOS 26 and later offGrd picks up the new glassy look of the rest of your iPhone, and on every phone the tab bar now floats. turn on reduce transparency and it goes solid. where's my message? your last message now says exactly where it's at: sending, sent, delivered, read. if the other person is out of range it says it's waiting for them to come nearby, instead of telling you it failed. it hadn't. it was just waiting. all of your history scroll to the top of a chat and older messages load in. the chat also stays where you scrolled it, instead of snapping back to the bottom like it had somewhere to be. adding people, in one place people → add a friend: share your link, show your PIN, type theirs, or paste a link someone sent you. no more hunting around for it. new here? before iOS asks you anything, offGrd says what it's for. and it holds off on notifications until you've got someone to hear from. quiet banners profile → notifications → show message text. switch it off and banners say a message arrived, not what it says. handy when your phone is face up on the table. easier to read message text now grows with your iPhone's text size, all the way up. VoiceOver reads each message as one thing: who, what, when, and whether it got there. quicker opens faster, most of all with a lot of history, and long chats open quicker too. steadier we fixed a crash that could close offGrd when you came back to it after locking your phone or switching apps. it had terrible timing. still no towers. still no servers.
App privacy
The developer, Abhishek Kale, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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