Plinky: Easily Save Links 4+

I use this app every day!

I started using this app when it was in beta and it’s easily become a go-to app that I use every day. Whenever I see a TikTok video that I want to share with a friend, I save it to Plinky. When I come across an article I want to read later, I save it to Plinky. When I see a recipe I want to try, I save it to Plinky. I love how easy it is to use the share extension on any site so I can come back later and easily view all of my saved links.

Unimpressive and expensive

It appears to work as advertised, but it doesn’t do anything new. It saves links via Apple share sheets, which you can label and put in folders once you’ve saved them. You can’t set tags and folder from the share sheet, which is faster initially, but you now have a new inbox to keep up with. There are a number of other apps, some one-time purchases, which have better features. There’s no magic either. For example, in Apple Mail you can’t use share sheets for an email, but you can for selected text within an email. Plinky can’t do anything with email. I don’t think it uses iCloud, which would put your links in the hands of a third party if you want to sync it across multiple devices. Finally, there’s the annual subscription cost: in my opinion, it’s high for what the app does.

Developer Response ,

Hiya, very much can appreciate that Plinky isn't the right app for you, but just in case it helps change your mind in due time I wanted to let you know about some upcoming features and hopefully assuage your concerns about privacy.

I am very transparent about how I handle user data, you can view the full privacy policy here: https://plinky.app/privacy-policy

In plain English, my personal view is that I'm morally opposed to the existence of the digital ads industry, and I've built Plinky with that in mind. Plinky's privacy policy is the definitive source of truth for who data is shared with, but I'll say directly that your data is never re-sold and is only shared expressly for the purpose of running Plinky the service. All of the services Plinky uses are paid services, as is Plinky, to avoid any user's data being harvested as best I can.

The reason Plinky doesn't use iCloud is because of Plinky's integrations with other services, it was much easier to build a server to handle all of the data and work with browser extensions, Zapier, and other apps — it can be reasonably challenging to do that and ensure that data integrity when using Apple's CloudKit framework.

Coming in two releases (after I build a feature to import your links from other services that people have been asking for) will be post-save quick actions. Right now you can tap the Edit button to categorize links into Folders or add Tags, but soon you'll be able to do that, add a reminder, pin a link, copy the link, re-share the link, etc, all with one tap from Plinky's share extension. I hope that will improve the experience of saving and organizing links for people like yourself, because I truly want you to do anything you want with Plinky.

As for a subscription, I completely understand if that's a dealbreaker. As a solo developer I've set Plinky's price to find a way to sustainably run Plinky as my full time job, and based on the value I believe the app provides users. If you don't get that amount of value out of the price that's completely reasonable! I wouldn't pay for something I didn't get value out of, and have no ill will at you not wishing to do so either.

Sorry Plinky wasn't for you, but I hope that you give Plinky a shot in the future and find it more to your liking!

Crazy fast way to save and organize links

Part of what stops me from really taking care to manage my bookmarks is the laborious process of going through folders and nesting said folders inside of folders.

Plinky completely changes my approach to this by doing two things: making the UX of saving links extremely fast and leveraging both tags and folders.

Bonus points that the UI is just so unlike stock iOS which is such a huge plus. I’m personally into apps that stray from the norm of making the UI a little whacky and their own

Love this app and am working on migrating everything into it.