Everything LinkWell does.
A link manager is judged on three things: how fast you can save, how reliably you find it again, and whether it is still there in five years. This is the whole list, grouped by which of those it serves.
Getting a link in should take a second
The moment you decide to keep something is the moment you are least willing to do admin. Everything here is built for that second.
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Share sheet on iOS & Android
Hit share in any browser or app and pick LinkWell. It saves immediately, even offline — the queue drains next time the app opens.
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Paste, or the + button
A paste sheet reads the URL from your clipboard and offers to save it. No typing, no dialog to fill in.
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Metadata fetched for you
The page title, favicon and preview image are pulled in automatically, so a saved link is readable rather than a raw URL.
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Auto-tagging & keywords
Keywords are pulled from the page and offered as tags, so the link is findable even if you file it nowhere.
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Social auto-folders
Links from the major social and video sites file themselves into their own folders. Your vault tidies itself as it fills.
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Notes on any link
Add a line about why you kept it. Notes are searchable, which is usually how you find the thing again.
A shelf, not a pile
Filing should be optional — but when you want it, it should be real: nested, colour-coded, and yours.
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Nested folders
Folders inside folders, with colours and optional cover images, so the vault looks like something you built.
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Colour-coded tags
A link can live in one folder and carry as many tags as you like. Tags cut across folders when folders are not enough.
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Favourites
A single tap marks the handful of links you return to constantly, and pins them to the top of the vault.
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Bulk select
Select many links at once to move, tag, archive or delete them — the only sane way to clean up after an import.
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Nine vault layouts
App tiles, cards, compact rows, magazine, gallery, mosaic, plain titles, digest or timeline. Dense when you are scanning, generous when you are browsing — and it is one tap to change your mind.
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Folder lock
Lock a folder behind Face ID, Touch ID or your fingerprint. Useful for the folder you would rather not hand someone your unlocked phone next to.
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Sixteen accent colours
Pick an accent and the whole app re-tints to it — ink, cobalt, claret, ochre, teal, plum and eleven more, in light and dark.
Built to actually read the things you saved
A read-later app that only saves is a graveyard. LinkWell tracks what you have read and makes the reading itself pleasant.
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Built-in browser
Links open inside the app, so following one does not scatter you into six Safari tabs you will never close.
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Reader mode
Strips the page back to the words — no cookie banners, no newsletter pop-ups, no autoplay. Font and width are yours to set.
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Offline reading
Pages you have opened are cached on the device, so the tunnel, the plane and the dead-zone commute all still work.
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Read & unread
Every link knows whether you have read it. Filter to unread and the vault becomes a queue instead of an archive.
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Estimated reading time
Each link shows how long it will take, so you can pick something that fits the twelve minutes you actually have.
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Listen to an article
Have a saved page read aloud using the voices already on your phone. No account, no cloud voice service, no extra cost.
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Reading position remembered
Come back to a long article and you come back to the paragraph you left, not the top.
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Real pages, not one long scroll
The reader paginates properly — you turn a page rather than drag a scrollbar through it. Pinch to set the text size and it stays set.
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PDFs and EPUBs too
Add a PDF or an ebook from your device and it opens in the same reader, with the same highlights, the same search and the same remembered place.
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Highlights
Mark a passage and it stays marked — in articles and in ebook chapters. Only the passage you actually highlighted, not every other copy of those words in the book.
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Search inside a book
Find any word across every chapter of an ebook, and jump straight to it.
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Swipe actions
Swipe a row to archive it, mark it read, or favourite it — the gestures you already expect from a mail app.
Search that answers before you finish typing
Search is the whole point of saving anything. It runs on SQLite full-text search, on the device — which is why it is instant and works with no signal.
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Full-text search
Titles, notes, URLs and tags, all at once, with results appearing as you type across a vault of thousands.
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Searches the article text
The body of pages you have opened is indexed too. Remember a phrase from the article but not its title? That still finds it.
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Filters
Narrow by folder, tag, read state, favourites or date. Combine them when one is not enough.
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Grouped by date
The vault is grouped into Today, Yesterday and the weeks behind them, so recent saves are always a thumb away.
Maintenance that does not need you
Every long-lived link collection rots — pages disappear, the same article gets saved three times. LinkWell has tools for both.
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Broken-link check
Sweeps your vault for pages that no longer exist and shows you exactly what has rotted, so you can fix or drop it.
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Duplicate finder
Groups links that point at the same page — ignoring tracking parameters — and archives the extra copies in one tap.
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Bin
Deleted links go to a bin first. The panic after tapping delete is entirely optional.
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Reminders
Ask for a link to come back tomorrow, this weekend, or on a date you pick. The notification is local — no server is involved.
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Weekly catch-up
One notification a week about the things you saved and never got to. It is local, it is optional, and it is one switch to stop.
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Reading stats
What you actually read, how long it took, and the streak you are on. Useful for noticing that you save four times as much as you read.
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Home-screen widget
Recent or unread links on the home screen of your phone, one tap from open.
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Quick actions
Press and hold the app icon to save from the clipboard or jump straight to search.
Easy to join. Easy to leave.
Data you cannot get out is data you do not own. Import and export are both first-class, and neither needs an account.
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Import from your browser
Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge bookmark exports (.html) import as-is — folder structure included. See the import guide.
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Import from read-later apps
Spreadsheet exports (.csv) from the common read-later and bookmarking services import too, with titles, tags and dates preserved where they exist.
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Export any time
Take the whole vault out to a file whenever you like — no upgrade required, no support ticket to open.
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Your own backup
Back the vault up to a file you keep, in whichever cloud drive you already use. We are not a required middleman.
Pro: the same vault, on every device
The whole app works signed out, forever. Pro adds the parts that genuinely need a server — and those are on the subscription because the servers cost money every month. It is the only plan that syncs, and it costs a fraction of Lifetime.
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Sync across devices
Keep your phone and tablet in step — links, folders, tags and notes. Sign in with Apple, Google, or an emailed code; no password to invent or forget.
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Highlights and your place, synced
The passages you marked and the paragraph you stopped at follow you between devices, so picking up on the tablet does not mean finding your spot again.
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Browser extension
Save the current tab from your desktop browser straight into your vault. More about the extension.
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Cloud backup
A copy of the vault kept off the device, so a lost phone is an inconvenience rather than a loss. Your own file export stays free and available on every tier.
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Guest mode stays
Never signing in is a supported way to use LinkWell forever, not a trial state we nag you out of.
All of that, and it still starts in under a second.
Everything above except the last group works free, offline, on one device, with no account. Join the waitlist and we will tell you the day it reaches the stores.