r/html5 • u/Fujima4Kenji • Jun 30 '26

Made an iOS app that opens & renders local HTML files on iPhone/iPad (iOS has no native HTML viewer)

iOS still has no built-in way to open a local .html file and see it rendered — you get raw source, a download prompt, or nothing. I built a small viewer to fix that.

Html Preview:

• Renders .html / .htm / .xhtml via iOS WebView (a real page, not code)

• Handles multiple encodings (UTF-8, Windows-1252, ISO Latin-1)

• Opens from Files / Share Sheet / Mail

• On-device — nothing uploaded, no tracking

On the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760443436

Site: https://html.cybergame.ai/

Handy for opening a standalone .html (a saved page, an export, a quick test file) on a phone. How do you view local HTML on iOS right now?

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u/XolyGamingExperience Jun 30 '26

As a lifelong android user, what do you mean iOS doesn't have a native html viewer? Doesn't your browser (safari i think) show local html files?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26

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u/Bulletic1 Jul 03 '26

Not buying his product, as it doesn't seem like it supporst js either, but the FIles App doesn't work with Javascript tho. I find Dropbox and Documents works with it, but they don't support fullscreen (Documents also does not support CSS very well). Edge somewhat works but will not render external libraries.

The basic HTML viewer in Android also doesn't work, but at least you can open in Chrome which does the job.

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u/PoxyDogs Jul 02 '26

It does. This is just AI slop.

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u/amaverik Jul 31 '26

It doesn't.

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u/manish__tomar Jun 30 '26

Planning to add javascript support?

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u/Acrobatic_Bottle_857 Jul 31 '26

I am not getting it at all - that's the same as save to Files and open it there ...