GoodLinks 4+

Been a longtime Instapaper user but then found this app and was pleasantly surprised. While instapaper is good it just feels outdated and old. GoodLinks gives a much fresher feel and offers a lot more customization and options, iCloud sync also works great. It is also way better than Pocket which just feels intrusive at this point. This is definitely my new go-to app for saving links and reading later!

Update: Now it supports log in for paywalled sites as well making it even better. Best app read later app available right now, hands down. If I had one thing to complain about it would be the lack of the Seravek font, a font available in safari reader view which I personally prefer when reading.

Update: Boom! Seravek font (and others) added in the latest update, thanks so much!!!

I’ve been a happy (and therefore loyal) user of GoodLinks on every Mac I’ve been using these last years (I don’t dare estimating the number though—we’re living in strange times…).

GoodLinks is one of five or six extensions I need to have installed right from the get go in order to use Safari. That’s true for my iMac and MacBook Air, and equally if not more important for the last couple of iPads I’ve been enjoying using.

That’s good enough, not least for a browser extension. However, GoodLinks is a full feathered all by itself and it does excel at being somewhat plain and simple at first glance.

GoodLink looks and feels like something built by a true Apple developer, with an intuitive feeling and deep know-how of what makes these two platforms great — and how third party apps ought to behave and function.

I couldn’t be happier. No pesky IAP subscription which drives someone like me away after a while as well as the majority of all regular users. I’d be happy to pay for software. But GiodLinks is less about paying for server-side storage and computing and a lot more about building your own read it later collection. Tags, organization, the content itself — its saved on your local device. (Yes, it sounds like sci-go, but these things are apparently possible with today’s computing power… 😉)

Features are consistent on macOS as well as iPadOS—even the UI is instantly recognizable with the same paradigms. To me, this is one of the hardes things to pull off for an app supposed to be on two or more platforms with different input methods, screen sizes and general form factors. Hats off 👏

Just to end my rambling ovation: It’s not just on the Mac and iPad I trust in GoodLinks to quickly import whatever I stumble upon online via Safari. It’s on my iPhones as well. I believe I have owned at least three different models, all with different screen sizes and dimensions, Touch or Face ID, big talk screens and one smaller with a 9/16 form factor.

Here’s a shocker: it’s equally important for me in iPhone and more impressively, it works flawlessly there. In fact, I’d trust GoodLinks a lot more than any web browsers own built in bookmarking features. That sounds like a slogan. I swear it didn’t come about like that, but feel free to use it. 😉

— @celebritarian

Love having all my read later articles in my own depository and able to export them in different ways to process those I choose for specific projects. 👍🙏