Install the Ledger on your phone

On an iPhone or iPad

Tap the Share button — the square with an arrow coming out of it. On an iPhone, Safari may keep it in a menu: if you do not see it, tap the menu button beside the address bar, then tap Share.
Tap Add to Home Screen. You may need to scroll down the list of options, or tap View More, to find it.
Tap Add. The icon appears on your home screen.

Safari works on any iPhone or iPad. On iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later, Chrome can do it too: tap Share on the right of the address bar, then Add to Home Screen, then Add. On older versions it has to be Safari.

On an Android phone

Open the Ledger in Chrome. A prompt to install usually appears on its own; if it does not, tap the three-dot menu and choose Add to Home screen or Install app.

What you get

Every entry, filterable. The Pardon Ledger and the Money Ledger list every entry, and your browser filters them as you type. What you type is also added to the page address, which Google Analytics can record if you allow visit measurement; the privacy page explains. The search page covers news briefs, case files and person profiles.
It works with no signal. The Pardon Ledger, the clemency lookup and the search page are stored on your device the first time the Ledger opens there. Other pages, including the Money Ledger, are stored as you open them after that, though a site update can clear them.
Always the corrected text. When you have a connection the app fetches the live page every time, so you never read a version the Ledger has since corrected. It falls back to the stored copy only when there is no connection at all.
No account, no cookies added. The home-screen icon opens the Pardon Ledger at /pardons/?app=1. That ?app=1 marker is sent each time the icon is opened with a connection, so openings from the home screen can be counted in the hosting provider’s request logs, whether or not you allow visit measurement, and Google’s ad code on that page can see it too. It is the same for every reader and identifies no one. Nothing else about what the site collects changes, and pages stored for offline reading stay on your device. The privacy page covers both.

What it does not do yet

It does not send alerts. A notification telling you the moment a new clemency batch is posted is the obvious next step, and the Ledger already checks the Justice Department list on a daily schedule — but an alert on a lock screen cannot be corrected once it has been sent, so it is not something to ship carelessly. If you would use it, say so, and it moves up the list.

Prefer not to install anything?

Reasonable. The raw data carries the full record as CSV and JSON, with every source attached. The weekly digest covers each week’s new clemency grants and Money Ledger entries, and the corrections log (also as RSS) lists every published correction, dated, with what the earlier version said. The news RSS feed carries dated news briefs, not ledger entries.

Correction. Corrected in several places. It said the search page holds the whole record; it holds news briefs, case files and profiles, and the ledgers are filtered on their own pages. It said Chrome and Firefox on an iPhone cannot add a site to the home screen; since iOS 16.4 other browsers can offer it, and Chrome does. It placed Safari’s Share button at the bottom of the screen; on recent iPhones it is often in the menu beside the address bar. It said pages never opened would not be there offline; some are stored when the Ledger first loads. It said installing changes nothing about what the site collects and that the privacy page covered it; the home-screen icon opens /pardons/?app=1, so openings from the home screen can be counted, which neither page said. Its description in search results promised the full pardon record, searchable and readable offline; the app opens the whole site, and the pages stored for offline reading when the Ledger first loads are the Pardon Ledger, the clemency lookup and the search page. It said the RSS feed, the weekly digest and the raw data carry the same record, and that the corrections log shows everything that has changed; only the raw data carries the full ledgers, and the log lists corrections. The app’s search shortcut was labeled "Search the record"; it searches news, cases and people. Corrected September 30, 2026.