Ply - Browse & Synthesize
Productivity
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Ply is a quiet, private browser built for reading and thinking, not for being tracked.
Everything you do stays on your device. There are no accounts, no telemetry, no third-party connections, and nothing is ever sent to a server. Privacy is not a setting you switch on. It is how Ply is built.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
• No tracking, no ads, no analytics. Ply collects nothing.
• A built-in content blocker stops trackers and ads before they load.
• Fingerprint protection makes you harder to follow across sites.
• A manipulation blocker quietly defuses dark patterns: fake countdowns, guilt-trip buttons, and pre-checked boxes.
• Cleaner, more private links: Ply skips AMP wrappers and link-tracking redirectors.
READ WITHOUT THE NOISE
• Reader mode strips the page down to just the text.
• Highlight passages and write margin notes as you read.
CAPTURE WHAT MATTERS
• Save snips, highlights, notes, and links into one tidy library, organized by workspace.
• Each capture remembers the page it came from, so you can always trace it back.
• Edit your saved links in place, with item counts for every section.
COMPOSE YOUR OWN SYNTHESIS
• A built-in Canvas turns your captures into a document you actually write.
• Live formatting controls, inline link editing, and drop a saved citation right at the cursor.
• Export to Markdown or PDF whenever you want it elsewhere.
ENCRYPTED, IF YOU WANT IT
• An optional vault encrypts your synthesis data at rest with a password you choose.
• Unlock with Face ID. Forget the password and even Ply cannot open it.
SYNC YOUR OWN DEVICES, DIRECTLY
• Plytether syncs directly between your own devices over your local Wi-Fi. No server, no cloud, no relay. Pair once by comparing a six-digit code, then pull whenever you like.
• Sync carries snip images, Canvas documents, and whole workspaces, not just history and saved Stuff. End-to-end encrypted, on-device, no account.
• A new Inbox lets you review what a pull brings (snip images with a preview, Canvas docs you can append to a workspace, whole workspaces you can add) before anything lands. Your own copies are never overwritten.
BRING YOUR OWN AI (OPTIONAL)
• Connect your own local or hosted model to search and summarize. Ply ships no AI of its own and talks only to the endpoint you configure, only when you ask it to.
Ply is for people who want a calmer, more private place to read and make sense of the web. Open it, and the only thing watching the page is you.
Ratings & Reviews
A rebuilt new-tab screen, two more kinds of page pressure spotted, and a long structural overhaul finished underneath.
• The new-tab screen has been rebuilt. It no longer ships with six websites somebody else picked. it starts empty and holds the sites you actually choose. Add, rename, reorder and remove them from the page itself or in Settings.
• Fake urgency gets turned down. Badges like "Only 2 left in stock" or "13 people are viewing this" are dimmed so they stop shouting. Ply can't know whether a claim is true, it just stops it from doing the pushing.
• Cookie banners that hide the "Reject" button now get it outlined, so you can find it. Ply never clicks either button and never touches "Accept”. it only makes the buried choice visible. The decision stays yours.
• The parts of the app that handle your vault, your saved passwords and device sync have been restructured so each one has a single clear owner, checked automatically on every change. Nothing you see or store changes.
• Added the ability to refresh tracker and ad blocklists.
• Several privacy descriptions in the app were corrected. A few of them promised more than Ply actually does.
• Fixed “Save photo to gallery” when long pressing an image from a web page.
• Subtle UI changes.
The developer, Andrew Neitsch, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Andrew Neitsch
- Size
- 19 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ply
