Anybox - Bookmark & Read Later 4+

Something very interesting going on here

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.

Inconsiderate update

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!

Developer Response ,

The new short actions are capable of more. You can easily replace the old ones with them.

Well featured bookmark manager

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.