Start.me vs VisiMarks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Start.me
Organize your online life by saving and accessing bookmarks, news feeds, notes, and to-do lists. Customize your homepage with widgets and share it with others. This tool helps you save time and create a personalized hub for everything you need online.
- Bookmark saving and access
- Customizable homepage widgets
- RSS news feeds
- Note-taking
- To-do lists
- Broken link checker
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With start.me you can quickly save and access bookmarks to everything you love online. And with many other widgets or features to choose from, you can make your homepage a hub you’ll want to share with your friends, colleagues, or students. start.me goes beyond bookmarking, with features like: - News (RSS) feeds - Notes - To-do lists - Google Analytics & Charts - Broken link checker - Beautiful backgrounds and colors to choose from. start.me is easily the most versatile, complete, and reliable bookmark manager on the market. Creating a free account takes less than a minute. Saving time online has never been easier.
VisiMarks
Organize your favorite web pages with visually appealing thumbnail bookmarks. Easily create folders for categorization and save articles to read later directly from your browser. Supports multiple browsers for seamless access.
- Thumbnail bookmarks for easy visual identification
- Folder creation for bookmark organization
- Read Later feature for saving articles
- Multi-browser support for opening bookmarks
- Add bookmarks directly from your browser
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Thumbnails Bookmarks with thumbnails make it easy to find your favorite web pages. Thumbnail-based bookmarks are visually easier to find than text-based bookmarks. Organize You can easily organize your bookmarks by creating folders. Read Later You can add bookmarks from your browser in a few simple steps. You can add bookmarks to your collection of articles and web pages that you are interested in. Multi-browser support You can easily change the browser in which you open bookmarks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VisiMarks at 4.5 against Start.me's 3.9. VisiMarks also leads on ratings volume (359 vs 15) and review sentiment (60% vs 52%). Start.me's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. VisiMarks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Start.me asks for nothing beyond the download.
VisiMarks holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VisiMarks has 359 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Start.me's written reviews are positive against 60% of VisiMarks's.
Start.me ships an update fortnightly, VisiMarks every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Start.me | VisiMarks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) | 4.5 (359 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews | 60.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 359 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | start.me | Ryoichi Fukugawa |
Customer experience
Start.me
VisiMarks
In-app purchases
Start.me
No in-app purchases
VisiMarks
- Remove Ads (One-Time Purchase)$9.99
