App Profile: Anybox - Bookmark & Read Later

Tethys-Sea

Rating: 5/5

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.

mnmalist

Rating: 4/5

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!

alotia

Rating: 4/5

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.