What you need to read and download here
No app, no minimum spec - what actually has to work, and what to try when something does not.
There is no app to install and no minimum device. This is a website, and it is built to work on the phone a parent already has rather than the laptop they might have. Still, a few things have to be true, and it is quicker to know them than to guess.
For reading
Any current browser - Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge - on a phone, tablet or computer. The pages are delivered as plain HTML, so the text is there before any script runs; if your browser has JavaScript switched off, or a script fails to load on a poor connection, the article still reads.
For downloading a paper
- JavaScript needs to be on. The panel that takes your email and the code is an interactive component, and it cannot run without it.
- You need to be able to receive email at the address you give, because that is where the code goes - how to download your first paper walks through the whole sequence.
- A PDF viewer, to open the paper once it arrives. Every current browser has one built in; on a phone the file usually opens in whatever reads documents there.
If something will not work
- Try the same link in a different browser first. It is the fastest way to tell a page problem from a browser problem.
- A strict ad-blocker or privacy extension can stop the download panel opening. Pausing it for this site is usually the fix.
- On a work or school network, outbound mail is sometimes filtered - which stops the code, not the site. A personal address is the easier route.
- If the paper downloaded once and the link has since stopped working, that is expected after 48 hours - your download link expired covers what to do.
We do not publish a list of supported browser versions, because we would rather not claim a guarantee nobody is testing against. If something here will not work on a device you have, tell us what it is - that is more useful to us than a version number on a page.
Sources
Facts last checked against these sources on 17 September 2026.
About the author

Founder Member & Director
An MBA (Finance and Strategy) with over 16 years across strategy, technology and operations. At TRUtesting he makes sure the platform is built to serve schools reliably and at scale.
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