Why Offgrid Media is rated 16+
Offgrid Media is rated 16+ on the App Store. The rating does not come from anything in the app. It comes from a single answer in Apple's age-rating questionnaire: the app can open a web address you give it, and no address is off limits.
What Apple asks, and how the app answers
- Unrestricted web access — Yes. Paste a link, or send one from your browser's share sheet, and the app fetches what is at that address. Any address. It does not filter, categorise or check what comes back.
- User-generated content — No. No feed, no comments, no profiles, no way to publish or send anything to another person.
- Messaging or chat — No.
- Advertising — No. No ads, no ad SDKs, no ad identifier.
- Gambling, simulated gambling, loot boxes, contests — None. The app is free and has none of these.
- Age assurance and in-app parental controls — No. There is no age gate and no built-in content restriction.
Every content descriptor is None
Violence of any kind, sexual content or nudity, mature or suggestive themes, profanity or crude humour, alcohol, tobacco or drug references, horror or fear themes, weapons, medical or treatment information, gambling and contests are all answered None — because the app contains no content at all. There is no catalogue, no library of titles, no recommendations, no store, no editorial. On a fresh install it is empty.
The app ships no adult material
Nothing adult, suggestive or explicit is shipped with Offgrid Media, offered inside it or made discoverable by it. There is no search over anyone else's material and nothing to browse. Every file in your library is one you put there.
But the app does not prevent adult material
Offgrid Media plays and stores whatever you give it. Import an adult video from Files or Photos, or add one from a link, and the app will keep it and play it like any other file. It does not inspect, classify, blur or block what you add. It has no content filter, no age gate and no parental mode. That is why 16+ is the honest rating even though the app itself contains nothing.
Playback is local, and the app has no account and no server. Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing to moderate, report or review — no one, the developer included, can see what is in your library.
What that leaves to you
- Only add content you have the right to keep.
- What you store and play is your responsibility under the law where you are.
- On a device a child uses, Apple's Screen Time content restrictions can block the app by age rating or prevent it being installed. The app has no restriction of its own to switch on.
If you think the rating is wrong
Write to [email protected] and say what you saw. The questionnaire answers above are the ones filed in App Store Connect.