Bookmarks vs Bridges
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookmarks
Organize your web links with this powerful bookmark manager. Save URLs, categorize them with folders and tags, and customize their appearance. Seamlessly sync across Apple devices and choose your preferred app for opening links.
- Save and import bookmarks
- Organize with folders and tags
- Customize bookmark appearance
- Open links with third-party apps
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Nested folders and hashtags (Pro)
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Bookmarks is a simple url manager app. Create and manage bookmarks the way you like - Save unlimited links Copy a url and tap + and easily save to the app. I you use safari’s bookmarks, you can long press and tap “Copy Content” to move multiple bookmarks. On browsers with support for exporting bookmarks, this app has support for importing using HTML. - Organize with folders Create folders using preset or your own colors, and match with icons Purchase Bookmarks Pro to add nested folders - Tags Easily filter bookmarks from multiple folders using tags. Tags can be added by long pressing a bookmark and tapping “edit” -Customize appearance Open settings and tap customize. This will allow you to pick gradients or icons for bookmarks that do not contain any images. By settings “Use for all bookmarks” will apply this to all. - Open With Select which third party app to open your links with. Bookmarks supports, major browsers, twitter, reddit, mastodon, and etc. - iCloud Sync Sync data between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision - AI Use Apple Intelligence to get suggestions for title, folder and hashtag. When creating a folder get icon suggestion. - Bookmarks Pro Unlock nested folders, hashtags, pinning, and custom icons. Purchase by a one time purchase, and share the purchase within family sharing. -And more! Search, widgets, customizing Home Screen icons, and more -Like the app? Support the app by tipping in the settings screen Give @BookmarkApp_ or follow the developer @yidev0 on Twitter Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Bridges
Easily collect and format links for your projects. Save links with custom titles and export them in various formats like Markdown or HTML. Organize them into folders for quick access and sync across devices.
- Custom link formatting
- Multiple export formats (Markdown, HTML, JSON, URL)
- Folder organization
- iCloud sync across devices
- Rich link previews
- Share sheet integration
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Bridges is the best way to collect custom formatted links. Saving a link for your podcast, newsletter, or blog post has never been easier. If you’ve ever had the task to collect links for a project you’ll love Bridges. Bridges eliminates any tedious URL editing for making a raw URL more human readable. When saving a link to Bridges you give it a title and it can be used when you copy the link later on. Need a link with a custom title in markdown? One tap away. Need a URL as a hyperlink? One tap away. Even better if you set all the links into a folder you can copy all of these links in the format you need in a few taps. The supported formats include: Hyperlink, Markdown, JSON, HTML, URL. Organize the links into different folders and keep each folder in a section. All your data is stored locally and synced with iCloud so all your devices are up to date. If you download the separate macOS app for Bridges all your links and data will be there. Use the share sheet to save links to Bridges quickly and easily. When saving a link it will show a rich preview of the links info: Link Title, Hero Image, Favicon, and URL. From the share sheet it’s easy to save to any folder you’ve made in the app. The custom title for the link is automatically filled in with the URL’s link title. With Bridges saving links is easy and fun. Bridges is built by one person and aims to give you more time back by reducing tedious tasks. For more information about the app visit https://www.bridgesapp.app/. To see our privacy policy: https://www.bridgesapp.app/privacy-policy. Terms of service: https://www.bridgesapp.app/terms-of-service.
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Verdict
Bookmarks and Bridges both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of Bridges's written reviews are positive against 59% of Bookmarks's. Bookmarks's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (63 vs 17). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Bookmarks sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 2 months and Bridges sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Bookmarks against 4.4 for Bridges. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 17 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Bookmarks's written reviews are positive against 75% of Bridges's.
Bookmarks ships an update every 4 weeks, Bridges every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bookmarks | Bridges |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (63 ratings) — better | 4.4 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuto Iwakami | Jonathan Ruiz |
Customer experience
Bookmarks
Bridges
In-app purchases
Bookmarks
- Supporter$1.992 Months
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Bookmarks Pro$4.99
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- Large Tip$5.99
Bridges
- Nice Tip$0.99
- Very Nice Tip$2.99
- Generous Tip$4.99









