Almost everything in OutaStory lives on your account, not on your
device. Start something on your phone, carry on at your desk, and it is
simply there. There are two deliberate exceptions, and one of them
catches people out.
What syncs
All of this follows your account to every device you sign in on:
- Your reading position — the page you were on in each story.
- Favourites.
- Follows — the authors you keep up with.
- Ratings you have given.
- Comments you have written.
- Drafts — your stories in progress, so you can write on one device
and keep going on another. - Your Premium entitlement — it belongs to the account, so it
applies wherever you sign in. - Credits — one balance, shown the same everywhere.
- Your preferences — including your reading settings (font, text
size, line spacing) and your theme.
What does not sync
Two things stay on the device they were made on:
- Offline downloads. Each phone or tablet downloads its own copies.
Downloading a story on your phone does not make it available on your
tablet — you download it there too. See reading
offline. - Your audio resume position. This is the surprising one, because
reading position does sync.
The audio catch, in practice
Say you read three chapters of a story on the train and then open the
same story on your laptop. Your reading position is right where you
left it — the correct chapter, the correct page.
But if you were listening, playback does not resume where you
stopped. The chapter starts again from the beginning on the other
device.
There is no setting to change this today. The practical workaround is to
note roughly where you were and seek forward once playback starts, or to
finish a chapter on the device you started it on.
Syncing needs you signed in
All of the above depends on being signed in with the same account on
both devices. If something is missing on your second device, check that
you are actually signed in there, and signed in as the same person — a
second account created by accident has its own, separate library.
Sync also needs a connection. Progress made while offline catches up the
next time the app can reach OutaStory.
Related
- Reading offline — how downloads
work, and why they are per device. - Apps and platforms — why moving
between the app and the browser never loses your place. - Notifications and
preferences — your
notification choices are account settings too.