Anybox - Bookmark & Read Later 4+
Save and Organize Links
Anybox LTD
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
# Features
1. Get your bookmarks on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
2. Search your bookmarks anywhere with Quick Find.
3. Anydock is a floating bookmarks bar on your desktop.
4. Save links with ease: Quick Save automatically retrieves current tab’s info.
5. Categorize bookmarks with nested tags and folders.
6. Create Smart Lists to automatically organize bookmarks with attributes like URL and added date.
7. Open your Things URL or Obsidian URL with Anybox. Built-in support for Hook.
8. Build your own actions with Siri Shortcuts and Apple Script.
9. Also save images, files, and notes. Easily retrieve frequently used images and notes.
10. Sync via iCloud. No personal data collected.
Privacy Policy: https://anybox.app/privacy-policy
Terms of Service: https://anybox.app/terms-of-service
What’s New
Version 2.5
- Support creating new sub tag with format “Parent/Child” in tags window. You can also press right arrow key to auto-complete selected tag.
- Retrieve x.com’s post content via WKWebView.
- Show dates in Quick Find window.
- Fix link detection showing previous results.
Ratings and Reviews
The bookmarking tool I always wanted to build
I spent years keeping a modest collection of bookmarks in Pinboard and Raindrop, but ironically I only ever wanted a great native desktop experience for my bookmarks.
Anybox covers just about every use case I have and then some. It avoids the trap of becoming yet another read-it-later app while providing great productivity features like AppleScript support and deeplinking. The drag-and-drop support makes importing and exporting a breeze as well.
All in all, a fantastic app with a receptive developer and flexible subscription and one time payment options for just about everyone.
Very good app with confusing nomenclature
After comparing a few others, I settled on Anybox. It is really nice and fits my workflow of saving URLs for later use much better. That said, and as another user also mentioned, the "tags" implementation is poor. A better term would be 'Folders'. Nesting tags doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Ideally, the current "Tags" view in the side panel should be called 'Folders'. Also, it should be easy to assign multiple tags in one go. Right now, if I want to add two or more tags and try to separate them with a comma, it just creates a new single tag of that name. Currently, to apply multiple tags, you have to choose and select each one, one at a time.
I hope the developers of this program update this aspect of the app.
Looks nice, not so nice in use
The interface looks nice, but this app falls down at the crucial first step of saving content. It saves links, but I could not get it to save pdf’s or web archives (I would prefer an editable format like Markdown anyway). It appears to default to saving a jpeg screenshot, which is useless most of the time. It won’t let you save a given link more than once, which is counter productive if you want to save different formats, even if you delete the link entry- you have to delete it from the trash. Please note this is not really a good tool for saving all kinds of content, it’s really focused on links. I think it’s pricey for what you get. There are cheaper alternatives which work well.
App Privacy
The developer, Anybox LTD, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Anybox LTD
- Size
- 14.3 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2022–2024 Anybox LTD
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- 1 month $1.99
- Lifetime $39.99
- 12 months $14.99
- Chips-Sized Tip $1.99
- Coffee-Sized Tip $4.99
- Pizza-Sized Tip $9.99
- Lifetime $59.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.