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Use PanelPlanner offline and on your Home Screen

The shop often has no signal. Once you have opened the planner on a device, it keeps working without one. Put it on your Home Screen and it opens full screen, like any other app. The steps below are for an iPhone in Safari.

Steps

  1. Open the planner in Safari. Tap the More menu (⋯) at the top right.

    The More menu open on a phone over the bookshelf example, listing Undo, Redo, Rename project…, Sheet details, Print shop report, Print part labels, Import cutlist (CSV)…, Export cutlist CSV, Export layout CSV, Save project file, Project settings…, the Units switch (in, mm) and the Theme switch (Light, Dark), Help, the plan line, Install app, and Sign in with Sync projects across devices.
    Install app is near the bottom of the More menu, below the Units and Theme switches.

  2. Tap Install app. The Install PanelPlanner window lists the taps.

    The Install PanelPlanner window over the planner: Put PanelPlanner on your Home Screen and it opens full screen like any other app, then three steps: tap Share, scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen, tap Add; a note that the Home Screen app starts with its own project list, and a Done button.
    The window lists the same steps as this guide. Tap Done to close it.

  3. Tap Done, then tap Share, the box with the arrow at the bottom of the screen. (In Chrome on an iPhone, Share is next to the address bar.)

  4. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.

  5. Tap Add. PanelPlanner is on your Home Screen. Open it from there and it fills the screen, with no browser bars.

On Android or a computer

In Chrome or Edge, open the More menu (⋯) and choose Install app: your browser asks you to confirm, and that's it. The install button in the address bar does the same. If Install app isn't in the menu, the app is already installed, or the browser doesn't offer installing.

Working offline

  • Once you have opened the planner on a device, it opens and works with no signal, in the browser or from the Home Screen: plan, optimize, tick parts off in Cut mode, print.
  • Projects save on the device as you work, signal or not.
  • The 3D view loads its drawing code the first time you open it. Open 3D once while you have a signal and it works offline after that.
  • The planner is the part that works offline. The home page, the examples and these guides are ordinary web pages, and they need a connection.
  • When a new version is ready, a small Update ready message offers Reload.

Your projects on the Home Screen

On an iPhone the Home Screen app starts with its own project list, separate from Safari's. With an account and cloud syncPro, sign in there and your synced projects come across.

Try it

Try it Opens the planner. Then More menu, Install app.

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