Linkboard vs Curio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Linkboard
Organize bookmarks into folders, archive old links, and save content from other apps. Subscribe to news feeds and read articles directly within the app. Collaborate with others on shared collections and sync across devices.
- Custom bookmark folders and subfolders
- Archive unused bookmarks
- Drag and drop bookmark saving
- Save bookmarks from other apps
- Tag filtering for bookmarks
- Subscribe to RSS feeds
- Collaborate on shared bookmark collections
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Linkboard keeps every bookmark, article, and RSS feed you save in one organized place: searchable, taggable, and in sync across all your devices. • Organize links into folders and subfolders, and archive the ones you want to keep without cluttering your view • Add bookmarks in a second with drag and drop on every device, or save straight from Safari, Chrome, and any other app • Find anything fast with tags, favorites, and an "unread" status for links you haven't gotten to yet • Search your entire library straight from your home screen: every bookmark and feed article is indexed in Spotlight • Subscribe to RSS feeds from your favorite blogs and news sites, and read full articles in a clean, distraction-free Reader Mode • Follow podcasts and YouTube channels alongside your feeds, with a built-in player and lock screen controls • Get an AI summary or a live translation of any article in one tap, plus recommendations based on what you've read and liked • Share a collection and collaborate on it with teammates or friends • Switch over in minutes with one-tap import from Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or Brave • Stay synced everywhere with iCloud, and enjoy a beautiful dark mode day or night Linkboard is designed, built, and supported by a single independent developer who reads every piece of feedback personally, and your suggestions genuinely shape what gets built next. Available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac. Download Linkboard and bring your bookmarks and news feeds into one place today.
Curio
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Curio is a social RSS reader and read-later app that brings content from different platforms into one personal library. Save what interests you, then read your favorite creators in one app, without getting lost in social media feeds. Save articles, blogs, newsletters, and social posts to a clean reading library. Or follow creators across X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and 10+ more sources, Curio adds their new public posts to your library automatically, checked once daily. Read on your time, offline, without ads and without an algorithm deciding what you see. FOLLOW PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS Paste a creator's profile link. Curio checks their public posts daily and adds new ones to your reading library, so you never miss what matters, without opening five different apps. SAVE ANYTHING WORTH READING Send articles, blogs, newsletters, and social posts to Curio with a single tap. Everything is formatted into a clean, distraction-free reading view. READ OFFLINE, FOREVER Content is saved locally on your device the moment you add it. Read on a plane, on the subway, or anywhere without internet. Even if the creator deletes the original post, your saved copy stays with you. READ WITHOUT NOISE No ads. No pop-ups. No suggested content. Just the reading you chose. BUILT FOR THE SOCIAL WEB Curio supports content from X , Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Substack, Medium, Hacker News, LinkedIn, Xiaohongshu, Bluesky, Facebook, Pinterest, Weibo, Lemon8, Snapchat, Tumblr, Threads, Twitch, Vimeo, Kick, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xigua Video, Bilibili, WeChat Official Accounts, WeChat Channels, Zhihu, 36Kr, Huxiu, SSPai, and ifanr, covering 32+ platforms, and any public webpage. Availability varies by platform, account visibility, content type, and regional access. Curio does not bypass paywalls or access private. PRICING • Free: Unlimited web saves, 30 social saves per month. • Curio Plus: Unlimited saves, follow up to 50 creators, daily auto-fetch. Monthly or annual, with a 7-day (monthly) or 14-day (annual) free trial.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Linkboard at fortnightly against Curio's every 5 weeks. Linkboard also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Curio's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Linkboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Curio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Linkboard ships an update fortnightly, Curio every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Linkboard | Curio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Francesco Leoni | Wiphox |
In-app purchases
Linkboard
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99
Curio
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
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