Anybox - Bookmark & Read Later

This is Bookmark app is even better than I realized when I purchased it. The iCloud sync is literally perfect! And the customization options are deep, thoughtful, and well integrated throughout the app. The tag and folder system are particularly well thought out and Anybox is, perhaps, the speediest app of its kind when tagging links—tags come up instantaneously as typed. There seems to be no cruft or lag in this app, and I am beyond pleased with how well it works and how organized my links have become. The delightful touches are many. UPDATE: Anybox Pro is basically one of my favorite apps. Amazing doesn’t even begin to describe how awesome and customizable it is alongside the active development.

The app works just fine. It’d be nice if it got some more basics in place, like manual reordering of URLs that you save. Raycast extension is awesome! Other than that, it gives you Anydock, Pasteboard, Stash Box… and some other words I didn’t remember. It’s also a Note taking app, and saves Files and Images. All those things are for power users and have little to do with saving and organizing bookmarks. And, in that sense, it’s a bit too much. Now, of course, it’s $40 if you don’t want a subscription. And for that much functionality, the price is more than fair. But I just feel like it’s overwhelming if you just want to save links. And that is another point where I feel it’s a bit too much. On a Free plan, you get all the features, but can save just 50 links. Unlimited if you buy. This is just a personal opinion, and how I feel towards Anybox pricing: I’d gladly pay $20 for saving unlimited links. Without saving Files, saving Images, Note taking, Anydock, Stash Box… just saving links in folders, that’s all. And then $40 could be everything unlocked, for power users. All in all, the app works great, but, for me, who just wants to manage links, there’s a bit too much of functionality, and therefore the price. And if you’re a power user and need all of it - go for it!

I've been using Anybox for a few months now and love it. I've tried pretty much every visual bookmarking tool and Anybox is by far the best. The recent 2.0 release adds a number of much needed features and cleans up the UI a bit.The biggest disappointment about Anybox is the bizarre, non-standard approach to tags. With version 2, Anybox has renamed Collections as Tags and now allows these "tags" to be nested. Simply put, this is how folders work. This is NOT how tags work.I wish developers would start doing tags right. Anybox's tag implemention is confusing and non-standard. Tags are not supposed to exist in a hierachy, be nested, etc. What Anybox needs is a proper tag cloud for browsing/searching. If the developer wants to allow users to organize via nested folders, great, but they should be folders and they should act like folders. Tags should act like tags. What the developer has done in version 2 is basically create a Frankenstein out of these two concepts, which I think will confuse a lot of users and ultimately lead to more confusion around how tags SHOULD work.That said, Anybox is a fantastic app and despite the weirdness of version 2's tag implemention, it's still a big improvement over version 1. I strongly encourage the developer to go back to basics on some of these concepts. There should be both a nested folder hierarchy that behaves like folders (ie: if something resides in folder A, it cannot also reside in folder B). Tags should sit on top of this folder hierarchy with NO hierarchy of their own. Add a (much needed!!!) tag cloud for browsing and Anybox would be a perfect app!