List of web applications that provide at least partial offline functionality to end-user using Google Gears.
Listed in the order of perceived decreasing complexity of offline implementation:
- Zoho Writer and Zoho Mail
- Word Processor, Email
- Not transparent.
- You can access documents stored inside your Zoho account and edit them offline inside the web browser.
- You can read and compose mail when offline
- Gmail :
- Transparent and automatically detects your are offline.
- Even has a “flaky connection” mode.
- Full read-write access to your mail.
- Even allows access to most gadgets
- Wordpress
- Hosted Blogging Service
- Transparent and full-access to your posts and pages.
- Google Docs
- Word Processor, Spreadsheets, PDF documents and Presentations
- Transparent and automatic offline access
- Read-write access to word processor (no new docs) and read-only access to spreadsheets and presentations
- Remember The Milk
- Todo List Manager
- Full read-write access to your tasks. Even allows local search engines to search offline tasks.
- Some Things
- Todo List Manager
- Full read-write access to your tasks
- Autodesk Labs Project Draw
- create diagrams online
- the application can run in the offline mode and synch files later when you reconnect
- MindMeinster
- Mind Mapping Tool
- Need pro account for offline access.
- Full read-write access
- Passpack
- Password Manager for your online stuff
- Transparent and full-access to your passwords in offline mode
- Paymo
- time tracker
- Google Gears added the “ability to work offline and sync the data with the Paymo server once an internet connection is available”
- Google Reader
- Feed Reader
- Not transparent. You have to tell it in advance that you are going to be offline.
- Can read and update feeds but not add new feeds
- Google Calendar:
- Transparent but read-only access to your events.
List of sites that use Google Gears but do not provide significant end-user level offline functionality on desktop: