# Anybox - Bookmark & Read Later — user reviews > 132 indexed App Store user reviews of Anybox by Anybox LTD, rated 4.70/5 from 512 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/anybox-bookmark-and-read-later/id1593408455/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/anybox-bookmark-and-read-later/id1593408455.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 436 · 4★ 36 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of Anybox? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and useful - 👍 Intuitive and well-designed - 🔒 Respects user data privacy - 💡 Powerful features for power users **Cons** - 🐛 Sync issues between devices - 🔍 Tagging system could be improved - 💰 Expensive for some users **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent behavior with reader mode - Issues with bookmark syncing **Most requested features** - Add ability to manually add links - Improve duplicate detection - Allow sorting of tags/folders - Implement private bookmark folders ## Newest reviews (14 of 132) ### 3/5 — Ultimatums *2026-08-08, version 2.13* Pinned to the top of my head and then going nowhere. Just sayin’! This is my opinion and I’m sticking to it. ### 2/5 — Only 50 *2026-07-22, version 2.14* Only lets you save 50 links and then it makes you pay monthly if you want to save more… ### 4/5 — Need In App Browser *2026-07-22* App Is Good , But if you guys can then please provide in app browser ### 4/5 — Good, useful app with lots of room to grow *2026-07-07, version 2.14* Nice app. Would like to see the dev team add some more features to make it a great app! ### 4/5 — Very useful *2026-07-03, version 2.14* Just need the auto archive functions tidying up, atm that’s confusing and not smooth. Very useful to make an archive from some of the cloud bookmark managers, useful again, this app makes that use seamless. Hopefully this is developed further….. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t sync from iOS to Mac *2026-03-23, version 2.13* I bookmark articles every morning, with Anybox, on my M1 iPad Pro. I bookmarked several articles a couple days ago. I’m looking at my bookmarks on my Mac. The most recent bookmarks I can see are from 2 months ago. I’ve tried all suggestions. Both devices report syncing is on and up to date a few minutes ago. Sometimes discarding the bookmarks on Mac and re-syncing them works, other times not. The tagging etc is pretty good (so two stars) but the syncing issue reduces the utility of the app. ### 3/5 — Pretty okay *2026-03-11, version 2.12.5* Pretty close to being excellent, except for the baffling decision to obfuscate the domain name for each of your links. Of all the metadata for your links, the domain name is perhaps the most important yet it’s treated as of secondary importance, and effectively hidden in the interface with a dark grey font on an even darker grey background in dark mode. Developer wasn’t interested in entertaining the idea of addressing this. Even lightening the font colour to make it more accessible was too much. Disappointed in this product and developer. ### 3/5 — Update review: Improve tagging system *2025-12-30, version 2.12.2* Update: why can’t a user add a link directly to the app instead of updating the link file. Please add this. Need to improve tagging so user can assign a tag to multiple links at once. Tagging currently requires assigning a tag to each individual link one at a time. Come on, fix this! Do you realize how much time this will save across all users? ### 3/5 — Improve tagging system *2025-12-01, version 2.12.2* Need to improve tagging so user can assign a tag to multiple links at once. Tagging currently requires assigning a tag to each individual link one at a time. Come on, fix this! Do you realize how much time this will save across all users? ### 3/5 — Can’t sort links alphabetically *2025-11-08, version 2.12.3* I really like the app, but there’s one issue that bothers me. I can’t properly sort my bookmarks alphabetically by website name because the app includes prefixes like “www,” “http,” and “https.” I can partly fix it by removing “www” from links that use “https,” but if a link uses “http,” it still messes up the order. It would be great if the app could ignore these prefixes when sorting bookmarks. ### 4/5 — Literally almost perfect *2025-11-07, version 2.12.3* This is one of the best apps in its class. It would be THE best if it had AI functionality like the new wave of bookmark managers coming out. Even something simple like being able to ask about your library in a chat interface. Hopefully this comes soon! ### 3/5 — Terrible Sync *2025-09-21, version 2.12* The only thing this bad at staying in sync is Safari itself. This app is trash. ### 2/5 — Sync Issues *2025-09-08, version 2.11.2* I stopped using Safari bookmarks because they do not sync between iOS and macOS. Anybox has the same issue. I have to force re-sync on a regular basis. Why is it so difficult to keep bookmarks in sync? Also, Anybox constantly opens all links in reader mode. There is a toggle switch in the app for this that absolutely does not work. I do not want reader mode every time I open a link. ### 2/5 — Sync from iOS to Mac doesn’t work *2025-07-08, version 2.11.2* I see now that this is a known issue and may have gotten worse over the past year. The developer’s suggestions don’t help. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Update review: Improve tagging system *2026-06-27, version 2.13* Update: why can’t a user add a link directly to the app instead of updating the link file. Please add this. Need to improve tagging so user can assign a tag to multiple links at once. Tagging currently requires assigning a tag to each individual link one at a time. Come on, fix this! Do you realize how much time this will save across all users? ### 1/5 — If you switch off iCloud the local cache will wipe *2026-04-01, version 2.13* What a letdown. I would have lost data because of this app (but for backups). It defaults to having iCloud switched on and consumes an enormous amount of data. I don't need the sync feature and I prefer local where possible. I'd already started using the app, some tagging, some folders, then realized I was 3GB in on my iCloud account so switched syncing off and deleted the iCloud usage in iCloud. The app carried on with an import (10K links) in progress telling me all is well while at the same time destroying the imported data as well as wiping out my previous data. Nice. So now out of morbid curiosity and with no data at all, I tried a fresh import and while it worked and persists I do NOT want to become vested in this app and lose everything a second time. I'd love a refund but that's not going to happen is it. ### 1/5 — What’s the point? *2026-02-20, version 2.12.5* I thought this was just the app I was looking for, until I got all of my folders organized and had spent a couple hours starting to sort through hundreds of unorganized bookmarks only to find out there’s no synchronization between this app and Safari. Without that, what’s the point????? ### 1/5 — App Doesn’t Sort Folder Names *2026-02-05, version 2.12.3* App is useless at moment until developers add feature to sort folders by name. How anybody is praising this app when the folders are sorted merely by folder-creation order is beyond me. This is a critical feature for users to categorize urls, etc. Otherwise, app’s good features are its simplicity to use and the prevention of pasting duplicate urls. I like that it is keeping your data in the icloud and not on their servers. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t Sync *2025-08-06, version 2.11.2* Issues with syncing ### 1/5 — Deserves 5 stars, BUT… *2025-06-27, version 2.11.1* Please add the ability to add keywords to links without keyboard ### 1/5 — Pro不能同步到其他裝置 *2025-02-06, version 2.9.1* 為了能夠同步到其他裝置升級了pro，結果還是一樣不能同步，希望能夠快點改進 ### 1/5 — Sync between iOS and Mac BROKEN *2024-12-14, version 2.8.1* Very very frustrating that any bookmarks on iOS don’t show up on Mac and those on Mac dont show up on iOS despite both apps showing cloud synched. More over the time that it kinda works is only then the AnyBox app is explicitly opened on OSX. Adding bookmarks via the shortcuts does not result in synching. I’ve gotten into very bad situations where I added an important bookmark on my Mac, left home and on the road checked my iPhone only to see the important links not added. Rating this as a 1/5 purely for it’s TERRIBLE synch. Switching back to Raindrop.io which is atleast very reliable. ### 1/5 — Failure to Sync *2024-11-30, version 2.8.0* The app is unable to sync bookmarks between iOS and macOS appropriately. Save your money. This is a huge rip-off. ### 1/5 — One star for this *2024-10-31, version 2.7.1* One minute after first run app ask for review so I give review, what I can give after one minute? One star. And my question is do you have a brain? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Works like a well oiled machine *2026-07-30* I’ve over 3k entries, links works, syncs fine , no crashes . ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-06-29, version 2.13* Having found Anybox I’m never going back to any other solution ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-05-09* All in one app for storing all important book marks ### 5/5 — Buy it! *2026-04-21, version 2.12.3* Excellent. Recommended. ### 5/5 — Best place to store anything *2026-04-01* I was looking for some app where I can put everything and forget. This app stores all types of files, links, et cetera. Very easy to organise by tags folders and smart list. ### 5/5 — Nice and functional *2026-03-26, version 2.13* Just works and helps me sync things across devices nicely without relying on other services outside of iCloud. ### 5/5 — Anyboc *2026-02-11, version 2.12.3* I would definitely recommend very easy to use and understand ### 5/5 — Hands down the best bookmarking tool for and across Apple *2026-01-18, version 2.12.2* I love the fact that this has a one time purchase option but was a little bummed when I saw it was around $40 or so….$40 for a bookmarking tool after having already bought and (wasted) around $500 or so on apps for the year…I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Fast forward - Goodlinks doesn’t have folders and is unusable for that reason alone; Raindrop has just been an absolute time suck for me, and Cubox and Reader are just weird tools. If I could go back in time, I would buy this, get an annual subscription to Ulysses, Recall AI, use Brave for both iOS and macOS and add Gistr as a chrome extension…that’s it. All the other stuff isn’t necessary (at least for me). ### 5/5 — Fast & Useful *2025-12-27, version 2.12.4* Anybox is one of the few apps I’ve paid for on Mac and iPhone. I love the fact that it’s native, fast, and follows Apple Design guidelines. Also, it supports all native Apple “Share” features. I switched from Raindrop and I couldn’t be more satisfied with this app. ### 5/5 — Surprising *2025-11-26, version 2.12.2* Great bookmarks manager with power users in mind. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*