Top Bookmarking Apps to Streamline and Organize Your Digital Life
▼ Summary
– Raindrop.io is a versatile bookmarking tool that saves various content types, organizes them into collections, and offers both free and Pro versions with extensive features.
– Pocket is known for its simplicity, allowing users to save and curate online content, with a Premium version offering advanced features for $45 per year.
– GoodLinks provides a distraction-free format for saved articles, supports text highlighting, and is available for a one-time purchase of $9.99 with an optional annual upgrade.
– Matter offers visually appealing bookmarking for articles, videos, and podcasts, with a paid version providing additional features like HD text-to-speech and newsletter syncing.
– MyMind uses AI for automated organization and tagging of bookmarks, available in two subscription tiers, with advanced features in the higher tier.
If you’re the type who loves bookmarking a plethora of interesting finds or things to revisit later, managing all your saved content can be a challenge. Thankfully, several top-notch bookmarking apps are available to help streamline the organization of your links, articles, and other digital content across your mobile devices and browsers.
Below is a curated list of some of the best bookmarking apps to help you find the perfect one for your needs.
Raindrop is a user-friendly bookmarking tool that lets you save articles, photos, videos, songs, books, and web pages from various sources. You can organize your bookmarks into collections, using tags and filters, and personalize them with icons and photos for easy access.
Raindrop saves entire web pages, so you don’t need to revisit the link. Additionally, you can share your collections with friends, family, or publicly.
Raindrop is available as an extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. You can also download the Raindrop.io apps for web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, and Android.
The free version offers unlimited bookmarks and collections, 100MB of file uploads per month, access to over 2,600 integrations, and more. The Pro version, costing $28 per year, provides AI suggestions, 10GB of file uploads per month, daily backups, and additional features.
Pocket is a well-known bookmarking app celebrated for its simplicity and effectiveness. It allows you to save news articles, magazine features, videos, recipes, how-tos, and just about any online content from any publisher.
The app helps you curate topics of interest and recommends similar articles you might enjoy.
Pocket is available on iOS, Android, the web, and as browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. The basic functions are free, but upgrading to Premium for $45 per year unlocks an ad-free experience, suggested tags, advanced search, permanent backup, and more.
GoodLinks is designed to save articles in a clean, distraction-free format, free from web ads. It also allows you to highlight text within articles for easy reference later.
You can organize articles with tags and search bookmarks based on title, description, or content.
GoodLinks is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Browser extensions for Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox are also offered.
A one-time purchase of $9.99 gives you access to GoodLinks, with an optional $4.99 annual feature upgrade providing new features introduced within a year of the initial purchase.
Matter is a visually appealing app for saving articles, social media threads, and PDFs. It also allows you to save YouTube videos and podcast episodes, with transcriptions provided in time-synced text.
For paid users, newsletters can be sent directly to Matter. Bookmarks can be organized with tags and shared with others.
Matter is available on iOS, macOS, and through a web app. There’s also a Safari extension.
The free version includes an unlimited read-later library and tags, and supports saving various content types. The paid version, at $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year, includes HD text-to-speech, newsletter syncing, Kindle content sending, and more.
For those who prefer automated organization, MyMind uses AI to manage bookmarks and auto-tags them for easy retrieval. It also provides brief summaries of saved content.
MyMind groups related content into “Spaces,” eliminating the need for manual sorting. You can search for items using keywords, brand, date, or even color.
Available on iOS, Android, the web, and as extensions for Safari, Chrome, and Edge, MyMind offers two subscription tiers. The “Student Life” tier is $6.99 per month and includes unlimited cards, spaces, intelligent bookmarks, and more. The “Mastermind” tier, at $12.99 per month, adds advanced AI, video support, AI summaries, a reading mode, and additional features.
(Source: TechCrunch)
