Comparison

GoodLinks vs Flux

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

Flux

Consolidate your RSS and Atom feeds into a streamlined reading experience across Apple devices. Organize articles, discover content through images, and enjoy immersive reading modes. Listen to articles with text-to-speech and utilize AI summarization.

Highlights
  • Consolidates RSS and Atom feeds
  • Organize articles into folders
  • Browse stories with Feed Wall (images)
  • Full-screen immersive reading mode
  • Text-to-speech article playback
  • AI article summarization (Apple Intelligence)
  • iCloud library sync across devices
Features
Currently charting
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Flux brings your RSS and Atom feeds together in a reading app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Follow your sources, organize your articles and find what interests you. TODAY'S ESSENTIALS The Today view offers a daily selection of your articles. The Feed Wall lets you browse stories through images. On iPad and Mac, full-screen mode makes reading more immersive. YOUR SOURCES, YOUR ORGANIZATION Add feeds, organize them into folders and save articles for later. Import and export your library to keep your sources together. READ YOUR WAY Open articles in the reader or visit the original page. Listen with text-to-speech. On compatible devices, Apple Intelligence can summarize articles directly on your device. This feature requires Apple Intelligence to be enabled and available in your language. ACROSS YOUR APPLE DEVICES Flux offers an interface tailored to iPhone, iPad and Mac, widgets, and iCloud library sync when you use iCloud. No Flux account required. You choose the sources you want to follow.

Screenshots

GoodLinks4 screens
Flux4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flux at none against GoodLinks's 6. Flux also leads on price ($3.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). GoodLinks's advantage is chart position (#1 vs #137) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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 Flux $3.99 up front. GoodLinks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Flux asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GoodLinks ships an update fortnightly, Flux every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
GoodLinks versus Flux: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoodLinksFlux
Price$9.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.7 (647 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings647 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#1 — better#137
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size224 MB19 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperNgoc LuuAdrien DONOT

Customer experience

GoodLinks

All ratings643 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews535 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative12.0%

Flux

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Flux

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

Flux

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GoodLinks free?
GoodLinks costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Flux free?
Flux costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do GoodLinks or Flux have ads?
Neither GoodLinks nor Flux shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GoodLinks or Flux?
GoodLinks ships an update fortnightly, and Flux every 3 days. Most recently, GoodLinks was updated on November 11, 2026 and Flux on November 8, 2026.
Which is more popular, GoodLinks or Flux?
GoodLinks currently peaks at #1 in the App Store charts, and Flux at #137. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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