Bookmarks vs Words When It Counts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookmarks
Save, organize, and read web content with this app. It offers a distraction-free reader, text highlighting, and offline access to articles. Powerful search and folder organization help manage your saved links.
- Save links instantly
- Distraction-free reader
- Highlight text and add notes
- Offline reading
- Organize with folders
- Import & export bookmarks
- iCloud Sync
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Bookmarks - Read Later is your all-in-one app to save, organize, and read the web. Paste a URL, bookmark from Safari, or queue articles for later, with a clean reader, highlights, and powerful search built in. Download now and turn scattered links into a library you actually use. KEY FEATURES: • Save links instantly Copy a link or tap + to save. The app automatically fetches the thumbnail, title, and site info for a rich preview card. • Read Later & article reader Send pages to your reading list, track progress, and read in a distraction-free reader with optional dark mode. • Highlight text Select passages while reading, color-code highlights, add notes, and export them as Markdown. • Offline reading Download Read Later articles for offline access — perfect for flights, commutes, and spotty Wi‑Fi. • Quick search Find bookmarks fast by title, host name, or keywords. • Organize with folders Create folders with custom icons and keep your library tidy — nested folders supported. • Share Extension Save links directly from Safari and other apps. Tap Share and choose Bookmarks - Read Later. • Siri Shortcuts & widgets Add bookmarks with Shortcuts, open unread articles, and glance at your queue from a Home Screen widget. • Lock bookmarks Lock sensitive bookmarks to hide them behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. • Import & export Back up your library as JSON or import bookmarks from your browser’s exported HTML file. • iCloud Sync (Bookmarks Pro) Keep bookmarks, folders, and highlights in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • Privacy first No analytics or tracking. Your data stays on your device. Bookmarks - Read Later works beautifully on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. For more information, visit https://indiegoodies.com/bookmarks Terms of Use: https://indiegoodies.com/bookmarks/terms Privacy Policy: https://indiegoodies.com/bookmarks/privacy
Words When It Counts
This app helps you craft impactful speeches for significant life events like eulogies and wedding toasts. It guides you through answering questions to generate a personalized speech or allows you to write your own and refine it. Practice your delivery with a teleprompter-style mode.
- AI-generated speeches from guided questions
- Write your own speeches from scratch
- AI-powered speech refinement
- Teleprompter-style practice mode
- No account or subscription required
- Factually accurate content generation
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Anyone can ask an AI to write a speech. Getting one that actually sounds like you, doesn't invent things that didn't happen, and is ready to stand up and deliver — that takes more than a prompt. Words When It Counts is a speechwriting system built for one moment: the eulogy, the wedding toast, the thank-you, the congratulations — the speech you only get one shot at. WHAT IT COSTS, UP FRONT - The app itself is free to download. No account, no subscription, ever. - Writing your own speech in The Desk is free, always. - Generating an AI-written speech is $12.99, one-time, and includes 3 free refinements on that speech. - Table Read — an AI reshape of a speech you wrote yourself — is $1.99, and includes 2 reshape passes. - The Lectern (practice mode) is free to open, with an optional one-time $0.99 unlock for additional practice features. - If a generation fails or gets declined, you're not charged — you're sent back to fix your answers at no cost. WHY NOT JUST USE A GENERAL AI CHATBOT? You don't need to know how to prompt. Answer a few plain questions about the person and the moment — your relationship, a memory, how they made people feel — and the app turns that into a properly structured, occasion-specific speech. It won't put words in your mouth. Every speech is built around a simple rule: nothing goes in that could be factually wrong and wasn't something you actually told it. No invented memories, no fabricated quotes, no guessed-at details standing in for real ones. It's not one draft — it's a pipeline. Every generated speech goes through a first pass and a second AI-driven pass that tightens pacing and phrasing, the way a second set of eyes would, before you ever see the result. WHAT'S INSIDE - Generate — answer a few guided questions, get a complete first draft written for your specific occasion - The Desk — prefer to write it yourself? Start from a blank page, no AI required - Table Read — send your own Desk draft through an AI reshape pass that tightens tone, structure, and phrasing without inventing anything you didn't write - The Lectern — a teleprompter-style practice mode so you can rehearse actually delivering it, with adjustable pacing, text size, and a timer No account. No sign-up. No running chat history sitting next to your other conversations. This is a single-purpose tool for a single important moment — private, focused, and done when you're done. Find the words. Then go say them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Words When It Counts at 5.0 against Bookmarks's 4.3. Bookmarks's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 2 one-off in-app purchases and Words When It Counts sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Words When It Counts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bookmarks has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Bookmarks | Words When It Counts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Khuong Pham | Robert Laramee |
Customer experience
Bookmarks
Words When It Counts
In-app purchases
Bookmarks
- Unlimited Access$9.99
- Pro$14.99
Words When It Counts
- Full Lectern Teleprompter$0.99
- Table Read$1.99
- One Speech$12.99
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