Frigoligo vs LinkBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Frigoligo
Access and manage your saved articles offline. This client synchronizes with your wallabag instance, ensuring your content is always available and up-to-date. It offers a fast and user-friendly experience for reading saved links.
- Offline article access
- Wallabag synchronization
- Fast and easy to use
- Open source
- Ad-free experience
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Take your links anywhere and keep them fresh! Frigoligo is a wallabag client striving to be simple but also fast and easy to use. Just like wallabag, Frigoligo is free to use, ad-free and open source. You need a wallabag instance to use this application.
LinkBuddy
This is a free, open-source client for a self-hosted bookmark management service. It allows users to add, edit, archive, and search bookmarks, with support for a share sheet extension and an in-app browser. It's privacy-focused and ad-free.
- Add, edit, archive, delete bookmarks
- Search bookmarks (active, archive, unread, untagged, shared)
- Share sheet extension for external app sharing
- In-app browser with Safari Reader View
- Dark and light mode themes
- iPad compatible
- Privacy focused and ad-free
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LinkBuddy is a free and open source client for linkding, a selfhosted bookmark management service. NOTE: This does not work without a selfhosted instance of linkding and an associated API access token. Please see more information about setting up linkding here: https://linkding.link/ Features: - Add, edit, archive and delete bookmarks - View and search your active, archive, unread, untagged, and shared bookmarks - Supports share sheet extension to share URLs from other apps into LinkBuddy - Open and view links in in-app web browser - Supports Safari Reader View via in-app web browser - Supports dark mode and light mode themes - iPad compatible - Privacy focused - this app doesn't store or track any personal user information, logs, or display any ads - Free and open source: https://github.com/peterto/LinkBuddy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Frigoligo at 12.0 against LinkBuddy's 15.1. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Frigoligo against 5.0 for LinkBuddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Frigoligo ships an update every 5 weeks, LinkBuddy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Frigoligo | LinkBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Martin Chaine | Peter To |
Customer experience
Frigoligo
LinkBuddy
In-app purchases
Frigoligo
No in-app purchases
LinkBuddy
No in-app purchases
