Save now. Come back Laytr.
A private inbox for everything you mean to return to. Save it from any app, say when you want it back, and it comes back — exactly then.
Laytr is finished and in release testing. This page is the product it describes — every claim on it is behaviour that already ships. When the App Store listing is live, the link appears here.
No account·No cloud·No ads·iPhone · iOS 17 or later
The problem
You save things all day. You find none of them again.
A link a friend sent. A recipe. A video you will watch properly later. A screenshot of the thing you need on Thursday. Every app has a “saved” folder and every one of them is a place things go quiet.
Laytr is the opposite arrangement. Saving is one gesture and it never waits. Filing is optional. And the part nobody else does — the coming back — is the whole product.
The return ledger
It comes back when you said.
Named moments first, calendar second. Every choice shows the real time it means before you commit, and the item returns then — staged at the top of your Inbox, not buried in a list.
“Not now” ranks equal to “Done”. There are no streaks, no overdue red, and no counts of shame anywhere in Laytr.
- Tonight Today · 9:00 PM
- This weekend Sat · 9:00 AM
- Next week Mon · 9:00 AM
- Pick a date Any day, any time
- Someday No date · never lost
The same times Laytr would give you
The catalog
Four surfaces. Everything you saved, one tap deep.
№ 01 · Inbox
A return arrives staged, not buried.
№ 02 · Later
Every promise you made, in order.
№ 03 · Library
Links, articles, videos, places, products, PDFs, screenshots.
№ 04 · Search
Reads inside articles, notes, tags — and your screenshots.
№ 05 · Item
Stored on this phone. The size is right there.
№ 06 · Reader
A copy you own, that opens with no signal.
Saving
Share sheet in. Two taps. Done.
Safari, Photos, Files, Maps, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram — any app with a share sheet. Links, articles, videos, places, products, PDFs, images and screenshots each get their own kind of card.
The save finishes before the sheet settles. If you want to say what it is for, or when you want it back, that is an optional second beat.
Reads offline, forever
Articles are preserved as clean text with their images, stored on your phone. Three page themes, serif or sans, your text size, your place remembered. It is not a link. It is a copy you own.
Search looks inside
Titles, sources, your own notes, tags, the full text of saved articles, and the words inside your screenshots — read on-device by Apple Vision. The images never leave the phone.
Bring your archive
Import what you already have from Pocket, Instapaper or Omnivore. Files are recognised by their contents, never by their extension, and re-running an import never duplicates anything.
Privacy
Everything lives on this phone.
No account. No sign-in. No Laytr server, because there isn’t one. Nothing you save is uploaded, scanned, profiled or sold, and there is nobody to sell it to. Turn on Airplane Mode and Laytr works the same.
There is no analytics SDK reporting anything in the shipped build, and no advertising SDK at all. The two optional diagnostics switches in Settings are off by default and inert without provider configuration.
What never leaves your device
- Everything you save — links, articles, files, images
- The text Laytr reads out of your screenshots
- Your notes, tags, cases and favourites
- Every search you type
- When things return, and what you did with them
Outbound requests go only to the sites you saved, to fetch that page’s own text and pictures. Laytr never downloads protected platform video, and never touches a login-walled site at all.
Pricing
Free holds 50 saves. Patron removes the limit.
That is the only difference between them. Choose the shape that suits you — monthly, yearly, or once and never again.
Free
$0
up to 50 saves
Reading, search, organising and export are never limited.
Monthly
$1.99
per month
Renews monthly until cancelled.
Annual
$14.99
per year
Renews yearly until cancelled.
Lifetime
$39.99
once
One payment. No renewal.
Prices are U.S. dollars. Your local price is set by the App Store and shown before you buy.
| Capability | Free | Patron |
|---|---|---|
| Saving new items | Up to 50 | Unlimited |
| Reading, offline articles, the reader | Yes | Yes |
| Search, tags, cases, filters | Yes | Yes |
| Returns and reminders | Yes | Yes |
| Export your whole archive | Yes, always free | Yes, always free |
| Import from Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore | Yes | Yes |
Promise one
Cancelling never deletes, hides or locks anything.
A lapsed Patron keeps every save, keeps reading, keeps searching, keeps exporting. The only thing that stops is adding new ones, until you are back under 50 or back on a plan. There is deliberately no code path in Laytr from what you paid to what you can read.
Promise two
Export is never behind the paywall.
One ZIP with readable Markdown and HTML, every note, tag, date and case, your preserved articles, and your original files byte for byte. Free, on any plan or none. And restoring a Laytr export is exempt from the free limit — an export you cannot restore is not ownership.
The honest list
What Laytr deliberately does not do.
Most of these are boundaries, not gaps. They are here because you should know them before you install, not after.
- No sync between devicesiPhone only, one device
- No AI, summaries or auto-taggingNot in version 1
- No downloading platform videoSaved as a link
- No paywall bypassingEver
- No feed, discovery or recommendationsYour archive only
- No iPad or Mac appNot yet
Save now.
Come back Laytr.
Laytr is finished and in release testing. This page is the product it describes — every claim on it is behaviour that already ships. When the App Store listing is live, the link appears here.