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Bring ten years of
bookmarks with you.

Nobody starts a link app from zero. Export one file from the browser you have been using, pick it in LinkWell, and the whole thing lands — folder structure, titles and dates intact. It takes about two minutes, and it does not need an account.

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  1. 01

    Export a file

    On your desktop browser, export bookmarks to an HTML file. Every browser below can do it, and it takes four clicks.

  2. 02

    Send it to your phone

    AirDrop, email it to yourself, or drop it in whichever cloud drive you already use. The file is small — usually well under a megabyte.

  3. 03

    Pick it in LinkWell

    Open Settings → Import links, tap Choose a file to import, and pick it. The app shows you what it found before anything is saved.

Step one, in detail

Exporting from your browser.

The app walks you through this too — it detects which browsers are on your phone and shows the right steps. Here they are in advance, so you can do the desktop half before you even install anything.

Chrome

Mobile Chrome cannot export — do this on a desktop.

  1. Open Chrome on your desktop.
  2. Click ⋮ → Bookmarks and Lists → Bookmark Manager.
  3. Inside the manager, click ⋮ → Export Bookmarks.
  4. Save the HTML file somewhere you can find it.

Microsoft Edge

Mobile Edge cannot export — do this on a desktop.

  1. Open Edge on your desktop.
  2. Click ⋯ → Favorites → Manage favorites.
  3. Click ⋯ at the top → Export favorites.
  4. Save the HTML file somewhere you can find it.

Firefox

Version 115 and newer, on desktop.

  1. Open Firefox on your desktop.
  2. Press ⌘⇧O on a Mac, or Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows and Linux.
  3. Choose Import and Backup → Export Bookmarks to HTML…
  4. Save the HTML file somewhere you can find it.

Safari

Export lives on the Mac, not on iPhone.

  1. On your Mac, open Safari.
  2. Choose File → Export → Bookmarks…
  3. Save the HTML file somewhere you can find it.
  4. AirDrop it straight to your iPhone — it is the fastest route.

Brave

Same format as Chrome.

  1. Open Brave on your desktop.
  2. Menu → Bookmarks → Bookmark Manager.
  3. Top-right ⋮ → Export Bookmarks.
  4. Save the HTML file somewhere you can find it.

Opera

Same format as Chrome.

  1. Open Opera on your desktop.
  2. Menu → Bookmarks → Bookmarks…
  3. Import / Export at the bottom → Export bookmarks as HTML.
  4. Save the HTML file somewhere you can find it.
What comes across

An import that keeps
what you organised.

The point of importing is not to end up with a flat pile of URLs. If you spent years putting bookmarks into folders, those folders arrive with them.

One honest note: the free tier has a cap on how many links a vault can hold. If your export is bigger than the cap, the app tells you before it imports anything and lets you decide — it never silently drops the overflow.

  • Page titlesExactly as your browser had them — nothing is re-fetched or renamed behind your back.
  • Folder structureNested folders come across as nested folders, so a decade of filing is not flattened into one list.
  • Dates addedWhere the export includes them, links keep their original date, so your vault reads in the right order.
  • Tags & notesSpreadsheet exports that carry tags or notes bring them along rather than dropping them.
Coming from another link app?

Spreadsheet exports work too.

Most read-later and bookmarking services will hand you either an HTML bookmark file or a CSV. LinkWell reads both, and works out which is which from the file itself — there is no format to pick.

.html

Bookmark files

The standard bookmark format every browser exports, and the one most read-later services offer as well. Folder structure is preserved.

.csv

Spreadsheet exports

The common shape used by bookmarking services — URL, title, tags, date. Titles, tags and dates are carried over where the file has them.

.txt

A plain list of URLs

If all you have is a text file of links, that imports too. LinkWell fetches the titles and icons for them afterwards.

Got an export LinkWell will not read? Send the file to support@aroralabs.org and we will add support for it — that is usually a small change.

Do the export now, import on day one.

Exporting your bookmarks is worth doing regardless — it is the only real backup of a folder tree that otherwise lives inside one browser profile. Join the waitlist and the import is waiting for you at launch.

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