Anybox - Bookmark & Read Later

Really incredible app, well priced and tonnes of extensions or integrations across the whole ecosystem of Apple products. Has a desktop app for example, and I feel confident because the data is in iCloud, unlike companies like Raindrop that have dubious privacy policies. However, ultimately it’s not the best app yet. There are no options to create private bookmark folders, which means I do not want to open the Mac app at work when my Anybox is filled with personal items. I’d like FaceID or fingerprint to access locked folders, similar to the Photo album’s “hidden” option. If this was implemented, this would be my bookmark manager for the rest of my life. More than happy with the price.

In general this is a really useful app. The big benefit over basic bookmark functionality built into Safari or Firefox is the ability to assign tags which works great. It does have a few issues though. On some sites it stopped capturing the page title when I share the website URL to it from Safari. Instead it just labels the bookmark the base URL which means all bookmarks I make for the respective site now look the same. I had created a workaround using Shortcuts, not as nice but did the job, but now the latest update has broken all my shortcuts! I built those months ago so can’t even remember how I built them, and now every AnyBox action just shows ‘unknown action’ which is incredibly frustrating! As a result my current use case for AnyBox it’s basically broken until I can find the time to figure out how to rebuild the shortcut!

One minute after first run app ask for review so I give review, what I can give after one minute? One star. And my question is do you have a brain?

An OK tool, has some limitations, but £38.99 ‘lifetime’ purchase! You’ll not be still doing this in 5 years. Never, ever again. I bought so many of these apps in the last 12+ years & hardly any still exist. Those that do have ‘rebranded & reborn’ in new guises so they can ‘rinse/repeat’ and take your money, again.

Anybox is unique in that it supports two-level nested structure (unlike pocket, instapaper, pinboard, abyss, notion), uses iCloud storage & sync (unlike raindrop.io, cubox), is a well-designed & implemented native app (there's a lot here), and has a non-subscription option. The only limits I can think of are the limited nesting levels (not a problem for my usecase), and there's no keyboard shortcut to copy the item link (but there's plenty of other shortcuts). These failings are very minor, to me, compared to the failings of the competition, so I still give this app 5/5. Thank you for sharing some of your design thought process on reddit, and for building/sharing this useful & reliable app, much appreciated, and best wishes for your team's future success.

This is a well thought out and focussed place for bookmarks, images and text. It serves well as either a staging area or a library. It’s stable. It has a nice design and user experience. It respects all the Apple conventions you can think of and then some: things like Smart Lists, and Shortcuts support, that competitors make a song and dance about refusing to support. It’s also polished well beyond MVP standard. Basically it has popped up out of nowhere and is now the best bookmarking app. I don’t think the main competitor will be able to respond, because they’ve had years to try to comprehend even one of the many issues that Anybox has already solved.

Bookmarks appear to be an afterthought on iOS. This app goes way ahead in resolving that. With it's native design and one-click save. Very promising.

This is a great bookmark manager with a read it later capability. Many ways of getting links in, categories, smart lists etc all male managing bookmarks pretty easy. You can select items to be archived for reading later as well. It can be a bit tricky working out how some of it works as the docs are a bit messy. However, the developer is very helpful and happy to answer questions and has said he will make the docs better. Thoroughly recommended.