Buchen (pronounced like bookin’) is a simple bookmark manger that allows you to manage your bookmarks for multiple browsers, tags, and folders.
Some of the feature of the app include:
- Tag your bookmarks with an interface that allows you to easily add new tags and suggest existing ones.
- Organise your bookmarks in folders. Folders can have as many sub-folders as you need to organise your bookmarks.
- Pin your bookmarks, tags or folders
- Add notes to your bookmarks.
- Import / Export bookmarks as JSON or HTML. When the optional fields added date, tags, or notes are available in either import format, Buchen will use those too.
- Shortcuts for adding bookmarks or searching bookmarks.
- An “Add Bookmark” action for the Share Sheet. This allows you to add bookmarks directly from Safari and other apps.
- A variety of keyboard shortcuts for iPad users.
- Create QR Codes in a variety of colours for your bookmarks. You can view or share the QR Code from the bookmark detail view or with a left swipe / long-press on a bookmark.
- Choose between different bookmark styles. You can choose different styles in the Bookmarks and Tags sections.
- When you choose a bookmark style that shows its tags, you can navigate to that tag from any bookmark.
- Choose from multiple colors to style the app and widgets.
- Select which browser will open your bookmark. Note: Browsers other than Safari are only an option if they’re installed on the device. Read the help for the list of compatible browsers.
- Lock Buchen with Face ID / Touch ID / Passcode. Either fully lock it down or enjoy some convenience and allow widgets and shortcuts to show your data.
- Search your bookmarks against their name, URL, notes, browser, tags or even creation date (YY-MM-DD format).
Buchen also comes with Widgets in all 4 sizes. Medium, Large and Extra Large widgets let you open links from the Widget.
Add lock screen widgets for easy access to bookmarks, tags, and folders.
Importing bookmarks can use the Buchen JSON format, Firefox JSON backup files or standard bookmark HTML files.
Exporting bookmarks can use the Buchen JSON format or the standard bookmark HTML format.
Notes from HTML imports require using the Delicious / Pinboard HTML format.
Honestly it's a very good app but need new update with function to automatically get title from website when you want to save a bookmark from Share Sheet. No one wants to do it manually all the time.
Developer Response
Thank you and there is already functionality in the test version for getting the title from the URL so that is coming in the next version.
Delighted with this superb app
Sarassine
Excellent app with a pretty UI and intuitive, pleasant workflow. Kudos to the developer for not infecting the app with analytics or telemetry trash. I would like to pay for such exquisite little gem, but see no option? Very pleased with the application, thankful it exists.
Can you extract title from webpage and use as title?
burnsac100
Please and thank you. It would be very convenient to not have to enter each one
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback. This functionality is now being tested in should be released in two releases (version 2024.07).
A nice start
dodihitjhh
I won’t use it because it will not import folders of bookmarks. But I do like what I see except the search/Add section takes way too much space. Covers lots of small phone screens. Oh well I will keep looking. No folders is the real killer .
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback and I appreciate that folders can be important. They are currently being developed but I appreciate if people cannot wait. However, I hope everyone who wants folders will see when the new version with folders is out and give it a try.
- The QR Code image on the bookmark detail view is now draggable to other apps.
- Deleting a tag or folder has two options now. You can just delete the tag / folder or delete it along with all of its contents. When deleting a folder and not it's contents, everything is move to the parent folder.
- On the initial Folder listing, searching for folders will now search all folders rather than filtering the list of root folders.
- Added a share option for tags and folders. This will provide all the bookmarks in the tag / folder.
- Tag / Folder listings now use lists instead of a grid.
- Tag / Folder listings have swipe actions for pinning, editing and deleting.
- The add / edit bookmark views make better use of space.
- There is now a macOS specific version of the app. Note: If you used the 'Designed for iPad' version. You may need to uninstall that first.
- Bug Fixes.
Version 2025.05
The developer, William Baer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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