Bundole vs Buchen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bundole
Save and organize all your interesting articles, videos, music, and map locations in one place. Access your saved content quickly from your phone or computer. Automatically categorizes saved items and allows for tagging and custom boards for organization.
- Save articles, videos, music, and map locations
- Organize content with categories and tags
- Create custom 'boards' for grouping
- Quick access from phone and computer
- Automatic categorization by source
- Add annotations to saved items
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Cannot find an article you saw days ago? You might have seen it on a social media, in a text message, on an app or a web page? No more wondering and searching. Bundole keeps all your interesting articles in a one simple app, gives you quick access to them from your phone or computer (bundole.com). Each saved article automatically gets a category and associated with its source web site. You may add tags, annotation, or link them to your own "board", which works like a folder for you to organize articles into different groups. Our recommended news articles will bring you interesting reads, they are updated frequently that you don't miss what's happening. You may easily save them into your own collection for you to read later, and even combine the saving with tagging, adding to board or annotation. After installing Bundole app on your phone, when seeing an interesting article, video, music, or map location that you want to keep, simply use the "Share" function, click on the Bundole icon to save it to your account. Happy bundole with us! Bundole LLC
Buchen
Manage your web links with this bookmark organizer. Tag, sort into folders, and add notes to your saved sites. Import/export bookmarks and access them via widgets or share sheets.
- Tagging and folder organization
- Bookmark pinning
- Add notes to bookmarks
- Import/export bookmarks (JSON, HTML)
- Share sheet integration
- QR code generation
- App styling and widgets
- Biometric app lock
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Buchen (pronounced like bookin’) is a simple bookmark manger that allows you to manage your bookmarks for multiple browsers, tags, and folders. Some of the feature of the app include: - Tag your bookmarks with an interface that allows you to easily add new tags and suggest existing ones. - Organise your bookmarks in folders. Folders can have as many sub-folders as you need to organise your bookmarks. - Pin your bookmarks, tags or folders. - Remove common trackers from URLs with one click when adding / editing a bookmark. - Add notes to your bookmarks. - Import / Export bookmarks as JSON or HTML. When the optional fields added date, tags, or notes are available in either import format, Buchen will use those too. - Shortcuts for adding bookmarks or searching bookmarks. - An “Add Bookmark” action for the Share Sheet. This allows you to add bookmarks directly from Safari and other apps. - A variety of keyboard shortcuts for iPad users. - Create QR Codes in a variety of colours for your bookmarks. You can view or share the QR Code from the bookmark detail view or with a left swipe / long-press on a bookmark. - Choose between different bookmark styles. You can choose different styles in the Bookmarks and Tags sections. - When you choose a bookmark style that shows its tags, you can navigate to that tag from any bookmark. - Choose from multiple colors to style the app and widgets. - Select which browser will open your bookmark. Note: Browsers other than Safari are only an option if they’re installed on the device. Read the help for the list of compatible browsers. - Lock Buchen with Face ID / Touch ID / Passcode. Either fully lock it down or enjoy some convenience and allow widgets and shortcuts to show your data. - Search your bookmarks against their name, URL, notes, browser, tags or even creation date (YY-MM-DD format). Buchen also comes with Widgets in all 4 sizes. Medium, Large and Extra Large widgets let you open links from the Widget. Add lock screen widgets for easy access to bookmarks, tags, and folders. Importing bookmarks can use the Buchen JSON format, Firefox JSON backup files or standard bookmark HTML files. Exporting bookmarks can use the Buchen JSON format or the standard bookmark HTML format. Notes from HTML imports require using the Delicious / Pinboard HTML format.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bundole at 4.7 against Buchen's 4.1. Bundole also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Buchen's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bundole holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Bundole's written reviews are positive against 62% of Buchen's.
Bundole ships an update fortnightly, Buchen every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bundole | Buchen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better | 4.1 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 61.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Chinlung Lee | William Baer |
Customer experience
Bundole
Buchen
In-app purchases
Bundole
No in-app purchases
Buchen
No in-app purchases








