Comparison

Bookmarks vs Words When It Counts

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Save links instantly
  • Distraction-free reader
  • Highlight text and add notes
  • Offline reading
  • Organize with folders
  • Import & export bookmarks
  • iCloud Sync
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Bookmarks4 screens
Words When It Counts4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bookmarks versus Words When It Counts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookmarksWords When It Counts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (23 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB4 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKhuong PhamRobert Laramee

Customer experience

Bookmarks

All ratings23 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral20.0%
Negative13.3%

Words When It Counts

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bookmarks

One-time2
  • Unlimited Access$9.99
  • Pro$14.99
3 purchases

Words When It Counts

One-time3
  • Full Lectern Teleprompter$0.99
  • Table Read$1.99
  • One Speech$12.99

Questions

Is Bookmarks free?
Bookmarks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Words When It Counts free?
Words When It Counts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bookmarks or Words When It Counts?
Words When It Counts is rated higher. Bookmarks averages 4.3 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Words When It Counts averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bookmarks or Words When It Counts have ads?
Neither Bookmarks nor Words When It Counts shows ads.

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