Comparison

GoodLinks vs Bulletins

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GoodLinks

Save articles and links for later reading, with a clean, ad-free experience. Organize, highlight, and take notes on your saved content across all your devices. Enjoy a private and customizable way to manage your reading list.

Highlights
  • Save links and articles
  • Ad-free reading experience
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Highlight and take notes
  • Organize with tags and stars
  • Customizable interface
  • Private and secure
Features
Currently charting
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Save links effortlessly. View them later, from anywhere, on all your devices. Sync, organize, and share your links—privately, without ever creating an account. GoodLinks is a powerful bookmarking app with a sleek reading experience. Save the content of the link while eliminating the ads and other clutter. Adding and viewing links is super simple and lightning fast. If you want to dig deeper, GoodLinks can be fully customized. No account. No ads. No creepy spying. GoodLinks just works. KEY FEATURES • Universal App :: GoodLinks is a single app that works on all of your iOS and macOS devices, so you can access your articles anywhere. • No Account :: Sync links, tags, and reading position without needing another web service account. iCloud Sync means all you have to do is install the app. • Simple :: Save articles from anywhere with a powerful Share Sheet extension. GoodLinks is so easy it feels like part of the operating system. • Readability :: Put the emphasis where it belongs—on the article you want to read. GoodLinks extracts the article text and removes web advertisements and other distractions to provide a wonderful reading experience. Pick the perfect font, spacing, and size. • Highlight & Note :: Highlight important information within articles and add notes to them, making it easier for you to remember key passages. • Organize :: Tame a large list with tags and starred articles, so you can always find what you need. You can also search based on title, author, and description. • Actions :: Actions help you manage and share links. You can add article to Starred, share to other apps, export to PDF, plain text or Markdown... Build your own actions to export and share your saved links. • Customize :: Adjust how your links and lists look, change swipe behavior, and more. Tailor GoodLinks to fit your style. • Themes :: Switch between beautiful themes: Light and Sepia for light mode, Dark and Night for dark mode. • Siri Shortcuts :: Deep support of iOS Shortcuts. Save a new link, query links, open a specific view, and more. • Log in to Sites :: Log in to paywalled sites to get full access to their content. • Widgets :: Get quick access to a list, or open a random unread link from your home screen. • Summarization :: Get a summary of any article with Apple Intelligence or external LLM services using your own API keys. • Archive :: The full rich text of each article gets saved in GoodLinks, and your reading history provides a natural archive if you need it. Save as many links as you want. • Private :: Your reading history and favorite articles should only be private by default. GoodLinks doesn’t track you or your information, and nothing is shared online unless you choose to share it. • VoiceOver :: GoodLinks is fully accessible via VoiceOver. GOODLINKS PREMIUM When you purchase GoodLinks today, you will get *permanent* access to all the current features, including any new ones released one year from your date of purchase. After your one year of feature upgrades is up, any new features introduced will require the GoodLinks Premium subscription to unlock. Once unlocked, those features are yours to keep *forever*, even if you choose to unsubscribe right after subscribing. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://goodlinks.app/privacy/

About

Bulletins

Features
Currently charting
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Read your RSS feeds. On the iPad they are displayed in a magazine style format or a scrolling style format, the scrolling style format is available on the iPhone. Bulletins doesn't require any other 3rd party subscription, subscribe to feeds directly from the app and organize your feeds into folders.

Screenshots

GoodLinks4 screens
Bulletins2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bulletins at none against GoodLinks's 6. Bulletins also leads on price ($2.99 vs $9.99). GoodLinks's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and chart position (#1 vs #147). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

GoodLinks costs $9.99 and Bulletins $2.99 up front. GoodLinks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Bulletins asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GoodLinks ships an update fortnightly, Bulletins every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
GoodLinks versus Bulletins: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoodLinksBulletins
Price$9.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.7 (645 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings645 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#1 — better#147
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size224 MB7 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperNgoc LuuGuy Shaviv

Bugs and requests

GoodLinks

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Syncing problems between devices
  • Crashes and freezes reported
  • Inconsistent article rendering

Requested features

5 requests
  • Annotation and highlighting support
  • Folder-based organization
  • Improved search and filtering
  • PDF export and annotation
  • RSS feed integration

Bulletins

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

GoodLinks

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Feature Upgrade$4.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Nice Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$4.99
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  • Massive Tip$9.99
  • Amazing Tip$19.99
None

Bulletins

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GoodLinks free?
GoodLinks costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Bulletins free?
Bulletins costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do GoodLinks or Bulletins have ads?
Neither GoodLinks nor Bulletins shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GoodLinks or Bulletins?
GoodLinks ships an update fortnightly, and Bulletins every 4 months. Most recently, GoodLinks was updated on October 29, 2026 and Bulletins on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, GoodLinks or Bulletins?
GoodLinks currently peaks at #1 in the App Store charts, and Bulletins at #147. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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