Kiosk Pro Basic
Share content with visitors
USD 29.99
Kiosk Pro is a flexible solution for any project that makes an iPad available to visitors.
As a specialized web browser, Kiosk Pro Basic can display web pages, documents or audio & video files. Show content that’s hosted online or stored locally on the device.
Kiosk Pro Basic builds on the functionality included in our Lite version, adding offline access to locally-stored content, remote update of app settings, the ability to set custom links in the navigation bar, and connecting to AirPrint enabled printers.
ATTRACT VISITORS
• Define a homepage as the starting place for the presentation.
• Set an idle timer so that when a visitor walks away, the next person will have a fresh experience, starting right at the beginning.
• Increase visitor turnover at your kiosk by setting a browsing time limit.
• Clear the cache and/or cookies to secure personal information.
LIMIT NAVIGATION
• Specify what’s off limits on the web by creating lists of allowed & restricted domains.
• Block access to other apps, including the native email or phone, that could otherwise be opened through links.
• Disable touch interaction when used for digital signage.
CONTROL THE DISPLAY
• Hide status, address, and/or navigation bars to make your content look like a native app.
• Customize the navigation with your own color scheme and bookmarked links.
• Works in any language - add your own translated text for on-screen alerts and navigation.
WORKS OFFLINE
• Store content locally for offline viewing.
• Shift between online and offline content automatically if your device drops its Internet connection.
REMOTE MANAGEMENT
• Update your app settings by uploading a setting configuration onto your own servers.
• Set up email alerts for power loss and/or remote updates.
USE ADVANCED FUNCTIONS WITH OUR JAVASCRIPT API
• Save visitor form data locally on the device.
• Access current device orientation data to optimize how your content is displayed.
Support is built right into our apps with documentation of every feature and direct access to our extensive Knowledge Base.
Kiosk Pro Basic is compatible with most web content, including HTML web pages, PDFs, and multimedia (including .mp4 video). While certain Powerpoint, Keynote, and Word files are also supported, they are displayed as static documents. Kiosk Pro Basic cannot display multiple tabs or pop-ups, other apps, or Flash-based content.
To prevent visitors from exiting Kiosk Pro Basic, you must enable Guided Access in the iPad settings or use Apple’s Configurator app to supervise the iPad into Single App Mode.
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more NEW FEATURES
• Added lists of mapped values to exported configuration files that include commented setting names to make them easier to understand and update.
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Added a remote update only setting to control whether the app fills the safe area around the notch or Dynamic Island on iPhone with content.
• Added a remote update only setting to prevent a PDF from being reloaded automatically when the visitor switches to another tab and back. This behavior keeps the PDF in memory so projects with large PDFs are recommended to test for performance issues prior to enabling this setting in a public kiosk.
FIXED
• An issue displaying pages containing an embedded image as a base64 string on devices running iOS/iPadOS 18. This affected our ability to successfully display Kiosk Pro’s standard error screens when the app was unable to load content.
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. If you've found Kiosk Pro to be a helpful tool for your project, please leave us a rating or review.
11.3 12/03/2025
NEW FEATURES
• Added lists of mapped values to exported configuration files that include commented setting names to make them easier to understand and update.
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Automatically disable the iOS/iPadOS Autofill popup option for text fields to prevent access to or storing of Contacts and Passcodes by visitors. This feature is only included in and available for iOS 17+ devices. Added a new remote-update-only setting 'kp_disable_UIMenuAutoFill' if this feature needs to be disabled for devices not available to the general public.
• Changed the default for 'Allow Universal Links to Open Other Apps' to ON, allowing universal links in HTML pages to open other native apps if installed and supported. These links will only execute if the app is NOT locked in Guided Access or Single App Mode. This change was made to prevent interference with standard link behavior, particularly for JavaScript events triggered by user interactions. Users who have previously installed our 11.2 and/or 11.2.1 update should consider manually updating this setting.
FIXED
• Corrected an issue where the "Apply" method under "Apply Settings Transferred via AirDrop" was updating settings correctly but incorrectly notified the user that settings had been not updated.
• Fixed a bug where wildcard domains (e.g. *.example.com) in the Allowed Domains and/or Restricted Domains list were not always being matched correctly for URLs including the ‘www’ subdomain.
• Resolved an issue causing flickering when loading PDF pages on certain devices.
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. And if you've found Kiosk Pro to be a helpful tool for your project, please consider leaving us a rating or review.
11.2.2 10/10/2024
NEW FEATURES
• Added support for the Full Screen Web API, which is enabled by default.
FIXED
• Crashing caused by a bug in the Firebase library we use for crash reporting. (Ironic, no?)
11.2.1 20/05/2024
NEW FEATURES
• Added support for Apple’s native Web Inspector tools for devices running iOS/iPadOS 16.4 or later to allow users creating content for Kiosk Pro the ability to inspect page layout and styling, debug JavaScript requests, and more.
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• If Dark Mode is enabled in system settings, the app will now display certain elements using that theme, including the on-screen keyboard, native JavaScript alerts, and text selection (if enabled).
• New configuration options for settings exports add the ability to export Managed App Configuration files as PLIST for MDMs that prefer that format, export without commented header information and/or settings names, and automatically minimize file size.
• Options to validate configuration files for Remote Settings Control and Managed App Configuration have been moved to Advanced Settings as exporting these files is now the recommended best practice, removing the need for validation.
• Universal links now default to opening in Kiosk Pro’s web view – this behavior can be toggled to allow a universal link in an HTML page to open another native app if installed and supported.
FIXED
• PDFs created with a page rotation angle of 90 or 270 degrees were not displayed as expected.
• Custom URL schemes without any additional parameters were not executing as expected.
• The app’s progress indicator was not dismissed as expected when following a direct link to a video file.
• When following a link from a PDF directly to an audio or video file, the PDF layer was not dismissed as expected.
11.2 15/05/2024
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Revised permission prompts for system permissions to more clearly articulate why each permission is being requested.
11.1.4 15/11/2023
FIXED
• Progress indicator is now shown while downloading a PDF file prior to displaying it.
11.1.3 18/10/2023
FIXED
• A crash that could occur when accessing a setting value passed with the incorrect data type through a Remote Settings Control update.
11.1.2 25/09/2023
FIXED
• An issue that prevented the app’s homepage from loading as expected on devices running iOS 12.
11.1.1 14/09/2023
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Clear Data on Relaunch & Remote Update has been moved from Advanced Settings to the Memory & Privacy section of main settings for visibility.
• More user-friendly page titles are used when sharing a document using the iOS/iPadOS sharing menu.
FIXED
• An issue which prevented a PDF from loading as expected immediately after a server redirect.
11.1 12/09/2023
FIXED
• Locally stored files whose filenames contained spaces (or other special characters that would require encoding when used as a URL) in combination with uppercase letters were not being recognized by the app. A change in iOS/iPadOS 16 caused the app to automatically convert text strings (like our Homepage setting) to lowercase when encoding spaces and other special characters. As the local file system is case-sensitive on iOS/iPadOS, the app was then unable to match the text string to the actual file.
• Complex URLs with specific combinations of special characters could not be processed by the app.
11.0.3 09/05/2023
FIXED
• The app was not loading content within iframes or certain recaptcha elements correctly.
11.0.2 18/04/2023
NEW FEATURES
• Reworked our PDF display library from the ground up to reintroduce support for Page Turn mode, which had previously been deprecated. Page Turn mode is significantly faster and more responsive and now works with the app’s Scroll Orientation and Size To Fit settings, which had previously only been supported in Scroll and Hyperlink Only modes.
• Added new options for PDF sizing to better support devices that are not permanently mounted in place, including the ability to automatically fit the entire page into the view or zoom to fill the screen based on the current device orientation. This update changes the default behavior for the Size to Fit setting from ‘Vertically’ to ‘Automatically Show Full Screen’.
• Our PDF display library now supports a wider variety of link widgets and named actions, including NextPage, PrevPage, FirstPage, and LastPage as defined in the official Adobe PDF specification.
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Added the option to show Quick Links on the standard navigation bar only while the homepage is displayed or on all pages, which continues to be the default behavior.
• Revised the layout of the app’s standard navigation bar with the PDF multi-page icon shifting to the left of the bar with other navigational elements.
• Added a new menu and user flow to streamline importing app settings from another device via AirDrop.
• Improved handling of Basic HTTP Authentication requests by a web server in certain scenarios.
• Our PDF display library now supports two new URL parameters for troubleshooting to allow you to increase the size of all link rectangles by a certain percentage and/or to highlight all links on a page.
• A new URL parameter is now supported to display a specific PDF using the native WebView PDF viewer instead of Kiosk Pro’s PDF library if preferred.
FIXED
• The spacing of the home, previous & next icons was changing when Quick Links were enabled.
• PDFs displayed on darker backgrounds showed a single pixel, white outline on edges that did not fill the screen.
• A crash that occurred when repeatedly highlighting text inside a Domain list setting view (like Allowed Domains, for example).
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
As mentioned in our last update notes, this update changes our deployment target to devices running iOS or iPadOS 12.4 or later.
While we will no longer offer app updates for devices running older versions of iOS, the previous version will remain available to download on older devices that have purchased a license in the past.
11.0 14/04/2023
FIXED
• Incorrect navigation to next/previous browser history item in certain circumstances when displaying PDFs.
• Crash occurring on devices running iOS 9 when testing a Remote Settings Control XML file for errors.
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
In the next update, we will be changing our deployment target to devices running iOS or iPadOS 12.4 or later.
With the release of Xcode 14 (the development environment for iOS/iPadOS apps) this fall, Apple ended support for compiling applications for iPads and iPhones with 32-bit processors. To allow our team to continue to develop Kiosk Pro in modern versions of Xcode and be able to fully support current and upcoming versions of iOS and iPadOS, we are removing support for these 32-bit devices. As all 64-bit iPads are currently eligible to update to iOS 12.5.6 or later, we are moving our deployment target to the next available breakpoint.
This means we will no longer offer app updates for devices running older versions of iOS. This 10.5 version will remain available to download on older devices that have purchased a license in the past.
10.5 17/01/2023
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Added version name, version number and export date metadata to exported configuration files.
10.4.3 25/05/2022
FIXED
• Crash caused by migration of log storage to a new format.
• Crash on app launch on iOS 9.3.5 & 9.3.6.
10.4.2 07/05/2022
FIXED
• Crash occurring on app launch or at other underdetermined times due to memory corruption caused by use of a previously supported method.
10.4.1 03/05/2022
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CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Updated our default XML format for Remote Settings Control to meet current best practices, which means the resulting files will be easier to understand and construct as well as more succinct, reducing overall file size. PLEASE NOTE: The legacy format will continue to be supported in new versions of the app moving forward, but the new format is not backwards compatible with versions of Kiosk Pro prior to 10.4. If you are exporting an XML configuration from version 10.4 or later, but you have kiosks in the field on older versions of the app, you will need to open the app’s Advanced Settings and toggle ‘Export Remote Settings XML in Legacy Format’ ON prior to exporting.
• Configuration files exported from the app for Remote Settings Control will match the order of the settings menu and include commented setting names for easier search.
• Events in the Failed Request Log will automatically clear after 30 days to help prevent memory buildup.
FIXED
• JavaScript requests to open certain blob or data URLs were being ignored.
• After trying to reload a File Not Found error for a few minutes, the app would display a blank screen.
10.4 29/04/2022
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Improved how the ‘Remote Settings Control’ feature parses XML files.
FIXED
• The app would crash if the ‘Homepage’ setting was empty and ‘Ensure Cookies Are Loaded on Homepage’ was turned on.
10.3.1 16/03/2022
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Improved the way the Remote Settings Control feature checks the filepath for XML files when updating settings.
FIXED
• Websites redirecting from “http” to “https” schemes could result in a blank screen.
• In some cases, error screens were not reloading when content was available again.
• If the app was launched in Single App Mode and online content tried loading before WiFi was connected, a blank screen was shown. If ‘Show Progress Indicator’ was turned on in this case, the indicator would also never be dismissed.
• In some cases when ‘Ensure Cookies Are Loaded on Homepage’ was turned on and an error screen was shown, an additional entry was being added to the navigation history.
• Links to local content with spaces in the file/folder name were being ignored.
• In rare cases, the ‘Disable Touch Callouts’ setting was preventing user content from performing as expected.
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. And if Kiosk Pro is a helpful tool for your project, please consider leaving us a rating or review.
10.3 07/02/2022
CHANGES & ENHANCEMENTS
• The settings in an exported .xml file will be in the same order as the settings menu, making it easier to find what you need.
• Changed behavior of ‘Show Keyboard Automatically On Focus Event’ to activate the WebView, allowing specific types of content to automatically play as well as automatic input focus. Renamed to ‘Allow Automatic Focus’.
• Improved how settings files and troubleshooting logs can be exported and transferred to another device.
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. And if Kiosk Pro is a helpful tool for your project, please consider leaving us a rating or review.
10.2 18/11/2021
NEW FEATURES
• “Allow Connections over Deprecated TLS” lets you choose whether to visit websites using outdated TLS versions. Supported on iPadOS 14 or later.
• “Support Contact” lets you provide information for other members of your team about who to contact if they have questions about your kiosk deployment. This setting also appears in the iPadOS settings for discoverability.
• Made the “Show Settings” setting visible in iPadOS settings for discoverability.
CHANGES & ENHANCEMENTS
• Improved text for some permission prompts.
• Improved the zip library used for creating troubleshooting logs.
FIXED
• Permission prompts generated by webRTC content were appearing every time the app refreshed. Supported in iPadOS 15 or later.
• Reloading a PDF file or the Image Gallery resulted in a blank screen.
• On devices running iOS 9.3.5, displaying the Status Bar would cause the app to crash.
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com, And if Kiosk Pro is a helpful tool for your project, please consider leaving us a rating or review.
10.1 04/10/2021
CHANGES & ENHANCEMENTS
• Increased the default Page Loading Time Limit from 30 to 120 seconds to reduce the frequency with which this error is shown
FIXED
• Crash in certain scenarios when using the PDF multipage view
• Mapped a generic error shown when a device with only an LTE data connection does not have permission to use data to the app’s standard No Internet error screen
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. And if you’ve found Kiosk Pro to be a helpful tool for your project, please consider leaving us a rating or review.
10.0.8 06/08/2021
FIXED
• Crash when attempting to duplicate an empty list inside the app settings.
• App was previously unable to automatically dismiss permission prompts shown when displaying sites using WebRTC.
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. And if you’ve found Kiosk Pro to be a helpful tool for your project, please consider leaving us a rating or review.
10.0.7 29/06/2021
Fixed: In certain conditions, closing and re-opening the app would cause a blank screen to appear.
10.0.6 11/06/2021
FIXED
• Issue displaying video files that were linked directly (without being embedded into an HTML file).
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. And if you’ve found Kiosk Pro to be a helpful tool for your project, please consider leaving us a rating or review.
10.0.5 07/06/2021
NEW FEATURES
• Added lists of mapped values to exported configuration files that include commented setting names to make them easier to understand and update.
CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
• Added a remote update only setting to control whether the app fills the safe area around the notch or Dynamic Island on iPhone with content.
• Added a remote update only setting to prevent a PDF from being reloaded automatically when the visitor switches to another tab and back. This behavior keeps the PDF in memory so projects with large PDFs are recommended to test for performance issues prior to enabling this setting in a public kiosk.
FIXED
• An issue displaying pages containing an embedded image as a base64 string on devices running iOS/iPadOS 18. This affected our ability to successfully display Kiosk Pro’s standard error screens when the app was unable to load content.
We love hearing from our users! If you have feedback or something to share, get in touch with us at software-support@kioskgroup.com. If you've found Kiosk Pro to be a helpful tool for your project, please leave us a rating or review.
more Version 11.3 12/03/2025
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