As a 60+ year old I’m not that much into apps. Plinky won me over by a combination of simplicity, being cute , and ultra practical for my needs. I use it only to store links. What a convenience after all my other attempts to save links and keep them
As a 60+ year old I’m not that much into apps.
Plinky won me over by a combination of simplicity,
being cute , and ultra practical for my needs. I use it only to store links. What a convenience after all my other attempts to save links and keep them
In app purchase never works. Just reverts to the screen that asks for money.
Developer Response
Did you happen to get a chance to try the instructions I provided over email support? I would absolutely love to make sure you get a chance to use the product you paid for — I have no intentions (or ability to) make you pay again!IOSPad version crashing problem was fixed. Fixed quickly and thouroughly. The developer responded to my emails and solved the problem quickly.
Developer Response
Hi @mbchamb, as confirmed in our emails the problem where creating a Folder or Tag was addressed and fixed in version 1.0.9. My apologies that you had to deal with this bug, but thank you so much for reporting it to me so I could fix it for everyone!Like the creator, I have longed for an app like this - something simple, yet powerful.
Tried Read It Later apps, bookmarking apps, you name it, I've tried it. Plinky takes the cake!
It has room for improvement, definitely, but as it is, it scratches my itch!
Kudos to the creator! Thank you for this.
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.
Unfortunately the app and extension does not work. I tried using it on different websites to save the link and it just won’t do it with Plinky :(
Developer Response
I'm so sorry you ran into this issue, I accidentally shipped a bug that prevented users who were logged out from saving links for about 12 hours. This was a silly mistake and completely my fault, but if this is the problem you encountered you should now be able to save links without any issue.
Would you be able to try again to see if now it works for you? If not I would love to help get this fixed for you so you can try Plinky and see if it's an app that can help you with your link-saving needs, you can reach me by emailing support@redpanda.club.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.
As of version 2.0 there are what Plinky calls Save Screen Actions, which allow you to set up what actions you would like to do when saving a link, including setting a Tag or Folder from the share sheet. It's fully configurable, so if you change your mind or want access to other actions like Pin, Edit, Share, Copy, or more, it's available too. I hope knowing that improves your experience saving and organizing links, 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!Does exactly what’s needed in an elegantly designed way that’s fun to use.
Plinky is a fantastic app for saving, organizing, and sharing links. Its generous free tier makes it easy to try it and judge whether Plinky will fit into your workflow. I recommend it.
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