No longer save sites on iPhones
Update: A nice idea but over time it has become increasingly less reliable. The iPhone app version often hangs, or brings up an error page leaving you frustrated. This is one reason I don’t use subscription apps thus cementing myself within systems that at some point become unusable, less reliable, or worse abandoned. I find using the old browser bookmarks system at this point far more dependable with syncing across devices. Unfortunately unlike a concept like Start.me which provides a means of accessing important sites across different browsers, the browser bookmarks are still prisoners within which ever browser one uses; a problem if you are a multi browser user.
It is too bad this app seems to suffer so often as it is a terrific concept and its layout and functionality is very easy and well thought out. I only wish it could be more dependable and work with far less hassle or doubt as to whether it will work at all whenever I try to use it. My iPhone is only less than two years old so it shouldn’t be an issue of Apple bricking it… yet. Which will probably begin by its third year at which point I’m abandoning Apple anyway for Linux. I’m pretty old school in the belief that when spending thousands for devices that I should actually own them and be free to expect functionality and freedom of choice in how they can be used and owner repairable. After 34 years with Apple, these past 14 have been increasingly terrible. And Apple’s current pulling away from supporting third party app developers, increasing fees and charging new fees to developers on the App Store demonstrates apple’s ongoing plan to imprison it’s loyal but less technically oriented base within its high security electric fenced in prison yard while converting them into live atm machines for subscription services that they shouldn’t be found into for their devices full functionality.
Update: 2026.05.02- Still no improvements to using Start.me with new iPhones. I’ve begun pulling out saved bookmarks from start.me and saving them within Firefox and Vivaldi a Chrome browser. Hello hello helloAs of 2025, Apple no longer wants us to use chrome based browsers.
I don’t and will not use safari as it doesn’t suit my needs, nor is it as safe as either Firefox and Vivaldi, nor do I like being forced into using particular apps just to have full functionality with my phone.
After 33 years as a dedicated Apple user I have begun migrating to Linux, and will do as many of my friends and family have already done this past year which is trading in or cease purchasing iPhones altogether and leaving the high security barbed wire fenced in prison yard Apple ecosystem. I don’t need a company dictating how I can utilize devices I pay good money for just to suit their bottom lines. One of which is intentionally making it difficult for third party developers to create apps for Apple products. Today’s Apple is by far not the same company it was prior to Steve Jobs passing in 2011.
——As of August 2025 Start.me can no longer save websites regardless of whichever browser one uses. Apple devices do not play well with third party software and it’s grown worse over years. I suspect that this more to do with Apple than Start.me as this is a recent problem. What once was the so called walled in garden has become a fenced in high security prison yard complete with turreted armed guards and electrified barbed wire barricades. I wish I never bought the iPhone 16.
It is too bad this app seems to suffer so often as it is a terrific concept and its layout and functionality is very easy and well thought out. I only wish it could be more dependable and work with far less hassle or doubt as to whether it will work at all whenever I try to use it. My iPhone is only less than two years old so it shouldn’t be an issue of Apple bricking it… yet. Which will probably begin by its third year at which point I’m abandoning Apple anyway for Linux. I’m pretty old school in the belief that when spending thousands for devices that I should actually own them and be free to expect functionality and freedom of choice in how they can be used and owner repairable. After 34 years with Apple, these past 14 have been increasingly terrible. And Apple’s current pulling away from supporting third party app developers, increasing fees and charging new fees to developers on the App Store demonstrates apple’s ongoing plan to imprison it’s loyal but less technically oriented base within its high security electric fenced in prison yard while converting them into live atm machines for subscription services that they shouldn’t be found into for their devices full functionality.
Update: 2026.05.02- Still no improvements to using Start.me with new iPhones. I’ve begun pulling out saved bookmarks from start.me and saving them within Firefox and Vivaldi a Chrome browser. Hello hello helloAs of 2025, Apple no longer wants us to use chrome based browsers.
I don’t and will not use safari as it doesn’t suit my needs, nor is it as safe as either Firefox and Vivaldi, nor do I like being forced into using particular apps just to have full functionality with my phone.
After 33 years as a dedicated Apple user I have begun migrating to Linux, and will do as many of my friends and family have already done this past year which is trading in or cease purchasing iPhones altogether and leaving the high security barbed wire fenced in prison yard Apple ecosystem. I don’t need a company dictating how I can utilize devices I pay good money for just to suit their bottom lines. One of which is intentionally making it difficult for third party developers to create apps for Apple products. Today’s Apple is by far not the same company it was prior to Steve Jobs passing in 2011.
——As of August 2025 Start.me can no longer save websites regardless of whichever browser one uses. Apple devices do not play well with third party software and it’s grown worse over years. I suspect that this more to do with Apple than Start.me as this is a recent problem. What once was the so called walled in garden has become a fenced in high security prison yard complete with turreted armed guards and electrified barbed wire barricades. I wish I never bought the iPhone 16.
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Outdated, glitchy UI
This app is just an old PWA wrapper—skill installing it and just add the start.me page to Home Screen & open as a web app.
Fantastic
Great app but the webversion is much better
No longer save sites on iPhones
As of August 2025 Start.me can no longer save websites regardless of whichever browser one uses. Apple devices do not play well with third party software and it’s grown worse over years. I suspect that this more to do with Apple than Start.me as this is a recent problem. What once was the so called walled in garden has become a fenced in high security prison yard complete with turreted armed guards and electrified barbed wire barricades. I wish I never bought the iPhone 16.
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Response from developer
Thanks for informing us about this issue, Databanktwo. We've also noticed some issues with saving, and we're investigating as to its causes. We hope to find a solution soon. And as as workaround, you can always copy the link to the page you want to save, and paste it to a bookmarks widget. Just press the pencil icon, and paste. We hope this helps for now!
The best bookmark manager
I love the widgets specially rss widgets. It’s very useful if you use different browsers.
