Getting started
Writing offline
Keep writing on a plane, a train, or anywhere the wifi drops. Your work is waiting when you reconnect.
The Inkbreaker desktop and mobile apps keep working when your connection drops. Open a draft on a plane, jot a chapter in a dead zone, and everything saves to your device until you are back online.
This is a feature of the installed apps. The website in a browser needs a connection, so if you write in places the wifi does not reach, use the desktop app or the mobile app.
What works offline
- Your editor and drafts. Open any piece you have already written and keep going. Every keystroke saves to your device.
- Your worlds. Characters, places, timelines, and the rest of your world bible are there to read and edit.
- Solo mode. Your focus note, todo checklist, quick-capture ideas, and session goals all work offline. When you lose your connection, the app slips into solo mode on its own, since that is the part built for heads-down writing. See Solo mode for what it does.
Inkbreaker quietly caches your recent work while you are online, so it is ready the moment you go dark. There is nothing to download by hand.
What waits for a connection
A few things need to be online, and they will wait for you:
- Publishing a piece, and anything in the community feed
- The prose engine grade and the craft tools, which run on our servers
- Real-time collaborative editing with other writers
How your work syncs back
Changes you make offline are saved on your device and queued. When you reconnect, Inkbreaker sends them up in the background, and a small indicator shows while a sync is running.
If the same piece changed in two places while you were away (say you also edited it on the web), Inkbreaker keeps your local copy safe and asks which version you want to keep. It never overwrites your words on its own.
Still stuck? Head back to Support to report a bug or reach the team.