RePaper Web PDF Highlighter vs Saved Links
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
Annotate web pages, PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint documents with customizable highlights and comments. Organize your content into folders and sync across devices using iCloud. Share and export your annotated files to various cloud services and other apps.
- Highlight web pages and PDFs
- Add comments in multiple colors
- Reader View for web and PDF
- Organize content in folders
- iCloud synchronization
- Share and export annotations
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One app to highlight Web pages, PDF, Word and Powerpoint documents, synchronized to iCloud. Our users say: - "Highlight Delight" - Cat North - "Only app that highlights properly" - Sparticle - "Exactly what I was looking for" - Bren With RePaper: - Open web pages and PDF files from anywhere - Add your highlight and comments in several colors - "Reader View" like Safari but works for Web and PDF files (text only) - Organize your articles in folders - Synchronized with iCloud - Share your highlights on social media and email - Export to other apps like iBooks, DropBox, Box, Drive and Evernote
Saved Links
Save articles and links for later viewing across all your devices. Organize them with tags and sections, and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Share links privately without needing an account.
- Save links effortlessly
- Sync across all devices
- Privacy-oriented link saving
- Distraction-free reading
- Organize by tags and sections
- Widgets for quick access
- Customizable article viewing
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Save links effortlessly. View them later, from anywhere, on all your devices! Sync, organise, and share your links privately, without creating a account. Features - Privacy oriented, your links can only be seen by you! - All your Links syncs seamlessly between all your Apple devices - Distraction-free reading, your articles will only contain the important parts - with no distractions! - Widgets see your links in the way you want them - Customise your article viewing as you like it: fonts, sizes, & much more - Organise your links by tags and by sections (unread, starred, read, untagged, all) - Universal App, Saved Links can be used wherever you want, iPhone, iPad, and MacOS - Siri Shortcuts can also be used to interact with Saved Links - Share your links directly with Saved Links by the Share Sheet
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RePaper Web PDF Highlighter at none against Saved Links's 3. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Saved Links's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and review sentiment (50% vs 32%). On rating, 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
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99 and Saved Links $0.99 up front. Saved Links sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.1 for RePaper Web PDF Highlighter against 3.0 for Saved Links. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RePaper Web PDF Highlighter has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 32% of RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's written reviews are positive against 50% of Saved Links's.
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, Saved Links weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RePaper Web PDF Highlighter | Saved Links |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (11 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 32.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | AppBlit LLC | Nikolaj Jensen |
Customer experience
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
Saved Links
Bugs and requests
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
Reported bugs
24 issues- Things don’t sync between devices if folders aren't created
- Text in reader font can’t be adjusted
- Deleting a paper seems temporary
- Tutorial video gives code 404 message
- Instruction video is missing, link broken
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- Video tutorial has been removed
- Bookmarklet doesn't work
- App will not find documents
- Won't allow highlighting on iPhone
- Force closes when extracting files
- Cannot use on PDF documents saved in iBook, PDF, and Dropbox directly
- Stubborn highlighting, difficult to adjust selection
- App shuts down after 30 seconds
- Crashes multiple times or does not highlight
- App crashes when hitting save
- Undefined is not an object error
- Doesn't work at all
- No selection made
- Says 'no selection found'
- Does not allow highlighting more than one word at a time in a PDF
- Does not allow highlighting more than one sentence at a time
- Highlights only in its own browser
- No logical segregation in library
- Takes 10 to 20 times to make one highlight
Requested features
10 requests- Cloud support
- More obvious new folder creation
- Consistent stable operation without folders
- IOS 8 extension
- Bookmarklet
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- Shortened link to highlighted article
- Comments pop up automatically
- Ability to comment on highlighting
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Saved Links
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
No in-app purchases
Saved Links
- Coffee-Sized Tip$0.99
- Lunch-Sized Tip$4.99
- Pizza-Sized Tip$9.99
Questions
Is RePaper Web PDF Highlighter free?
Is Saved Links free?
Which has better reviews, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Saved Links?
Do RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Saved Links have ads?
Which is updated more often, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Saved Links?
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