diff --git a/Outpost/Features/About/AboutView.swift b/Outpost/Features/About/AboutView.swift
index 6f4c53b..93b5afd 100644
--- a/Outpost/Features/About/AboutView.swift
+++ b/Outpost/Features/About/AboutView.swift
@@ -14,17 +14,7 @@ struct AboutInfoView: View {
         Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleName") as? String ?? "Outpost"
     }
 
-    /// Bumped alongside `MARKETING_VERSION` in the Xcode project — kept out
-    /// of the bundle version itself since `CFBundleShortVersionString` is
-    /// expected to stay a plain dotted-numeric string, not `0.0.1-ALPHA`.
-    private let releaseStage = "ALPHA"
-
-    var versionString: String {
-        let shortVersion = Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleShortVersionString") as? String ?? "0.0.1"
-        let buildNumber = Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleVersion") as? String ?? "1"
-        let stageSuffix = releaseStage.isEmpty ? "" : "-\(releaseStage)"
-        return "Version \(shortVersion)\(stageSuffix) (\(buildNumber))"
-    }
+    var versionString: String { OutpostVersion.fullVersionString }
 
     private var copyrightYear: String {
         String(Calendar.current.component(.year, from: Date()))
diff --git a/Outpost/Features/Account/SettingsSidebarList.swift b/Outpost/Features/Account/SettingsSidebarList.swift
index d855429..48b7fbf 100644
--- a/Outpost/Features/Account/SettingsSidebarList.swift
+++ b/Outpost/Features/Account/SettingsSidebarList.swift
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ struct SettingsSidebarList: View {
     let onDone: () -> Void
 
     @Environment(SessionStore.self) private var session
+    @AppStorage(CachingOutlineAPIClient.offlineModeDefaultsKey) private var isOfflineModeEnabled = false
     @State private var outlineVersion: String?
 
-    private var outpostVersion: String {
-        Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleShortVersionString") as? String ?? "0.0.1"
+    /// Mirrors `SettingsView`'s own check — a real dropped connection or
+    /// the manual Offline Mode toggle both mean there's no server to ask.
+    private var isEffectivelyOnline: Bool {
+        session.networkMonitor.isOnline && !isOfflineModeEnabled
     }
 
     var body: some View {
@@ -67,14 +70,20 @@ struct SettingsSidebarList: View {
                 .frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
                 .padding(12)
         }
-        .task { await refreshOutlineVersion() }
+        // Keyed to connectivity, not a one-shot `.task {}` — reconnecting
+        // (or turning the manual Offline Mode toggle back off) re-fires
+        // this automatically instead of leaving the footer stuck on
+        // whatever it last knew, or blank, until Settings is reopened.
+        .task(id: isEffectivelyOnline) { await refreshOutlineVersion() }
     }
 
     private var versionFooter: some View {
         VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 2) {
-            Text("Outpost \(outpostVersion)")
+            Text("Outpost \(OutpostVersion.displayString)")
             if let outlineVersion {
                 Text("Outline \(outlineVersion)")
+            } else if !isEffectivelyOnline {
+                Text("Outline — offline")
             }
         }
         .font(.caption2)
@@ -85,7 +94,7 @@ struct SettingsSidebarList: View {
     }
 
     private func refreshOutlineVersion() async {
-        guard let apiClient = session.apiClient else { return }
+        guard isEffectivelyOnline, let apiClient = session.apiClient else { return }
         outlineVersion = try? await apiClient.installationInfo().version
     }
 }
diff --git a/Outpost/Support/OutpostVersion.swift b/Outpost/Support/OutpostVersion.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85aee99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Outpost/Support/OutpostVersion.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import Foundation
+
+/// Single source of truth for how Outpost's own version is formatted —
+/// used by both the About page and the Settings sidebar footer, so they
+/// can't drift out of sync the way `AboutInfoView` was already written to
+/// avoid for its own two call sites.
+enum OutpostVersion {
+    /// Bumped alongside `MARKETING_VERSION` in the Xcode project — kept out
+    /// of the bundle version itself since `CFBundleShortVersionString` is
+    /// expected to stay a plain dotted-numeric string, not `0.0.1-ALPHA`.
+    static let releaseStage = "ALPHA"
+
+    static var shortVersion: String {
+        Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleShortVersionString") as? String ?? "0.0.1"
+    }
+
+    static var buildNumber: String {
+        Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleVersion") as? String ?? "1"
+    }
+
+    /// e.g. `"0.0.3-ALPHA"` — for compact display (sidebar footer).
+    static var displayString: String {
+        let stageSuffix = releaseStage.isEmpty ? "" : "-\(releaseStage)"
+        return "\(shortVersion)\(stageSuffix)"
+    }
+
+    /// e.g. `"Version 0.0.3-ALPHA (1)"` — for the About page.
+    static var fullVersionString: String {
+        "Version \(displayString) (\(buildNumber))"
+    }
+}