Comparison

Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark vs Pluck

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

Head to head
About

Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark

A unified browser and history manager for Apple devices. It offers smart bookmark collections, tags, notes, and automations to organize browsing across multiple platforms. Ideal for both casual users and professionals needing to manage research and debug web applications.

Highlights
  • Unified multi-browser history
  • Smart bookmark collections
  • Tags, notes, and reminders
  • Web Inspector and Network Monitor
  • Automated Web Triggers
  • Dedicated browsing workspaces
  • Media Viewer
Features
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Surfed is a browser and unified history + bookmark manager for iOS, macOS, and visionOS that keeps a global, multi-browser history with smart bookmark collections, tags, notes, and reminders synced across devices. Search any session with powerful filters across all the context Surfed captures, then save those queries as personal, self-updating smart bookmark lists that surface the right pages at the right moment. The browser includes a built-in Web Inspector, Network Monitor, HTML Playground, JavaScript Console, and Web Triggers automations that run as you browse and can be built from extensive actions or installed from a gallery—so casual readers, normal users, and everyday browsers get a friendly UI while researchers, students, and professionals can organize knowledge and debug complex web apps. ### A Browser for Every Workflow - Create dedicated browsing workspaces with unique profiles, search engines, and automations for each context. - Use the Media Viewer to surface every image, video, and audio asset found on the current page. - Open a split browser view to compare sources or multitask across two sites at once. - Use the enhanced download manager with Live Activities, URL clean-up tools, and Share Sheet support. - Extend Surfed’s features directly inside Safari with the Surfed Safari extension for quick history, bookmarks, and automations. ### Smart Bookmark & History Manager - Keep a complete history of all your browsers across iOS, macOS, and visionOS that is fully searchable. - Build dynamic collections, reminders, and saved searches that update automatically as you browse. - Tag everything, track time-on-page, surface statistics, and protect sensitive sessions. ### Made for Power Users & Developers - Inspect layouts, watch network calls, test snippets, or prototype ideas inside the HTML Playground without leaving the page. - Edit source code live with Web Inspector + HTML Playground to test changes. - Automate repetitive steps with Web Triggers, Shortcut Actions, and JavaScript or AI-generated code—there are actions for everything. - Build browsing automations that trigger as you surf, either by composing your own Web Triggers from the extensive action catalog or installing prebuilt recipes from the gallery. - Customize search engines, clean URLs in one tap. ### Organize Research, Work, and Study - Capture ideas with notes, website tags, and Spaces dedicated to each project. - Attach Markdown notes to individual webpages and jot down per-Space notes to track decisions and next steps. - Turn history into personalized research dashboards that stay in sync across devices. - Listen Later and Read Later queues keep long-form content accessible whether you are commuting or studying. - Capture and annotate articles with Markup Mode, then share them using tons of built-in browser actions or Shortcuts workflows. ### Optional AI Assistance - Ask questions about your current browsing session or a single webpage inside the AI Chat to extract the answers you need. - Let AI tagging classify websites automatically so your collections stay organized. - Summarize long-form articles with one tap to save time during research or study. ### Privacy-First Sync - Your browsing data lives only on your devices and is protected with Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode. - Surfed does not collect analytics or diagnostics. Sync happens via secure, native Apple services. In-app purchases unlock Surfed Pro features on iOS, macOS, and visionOS. App Privacy: All browsing history is stored locally on your device and cannot be viewed by anyone else, including us. We do not collect analytics or diagnostic data. Follow @surfedapp on X and @Surfed@indieapps.space on Mastodon for updates. Privacy Policy: http://surfed.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: http://surfed.app/terms.html

About

Pluck

Features
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Tap the paper. Pluck is a smart document scanner that turns every scan into something you can use. Instead of a PDF that sits in your files, Pluck pulls out the phone numbers, emails, addresses, dates, and key info, ready to tap and act on. See a number on a bill? Tap to call. Address on a flyer? Tap for directions. Due date on a statement? Tap to add a reminder. No retyping. No switching apps. What Pluck does • Scans pages with your camera or imports PDFs and photos • Reads the text and finds the details that matter — phones, emails, links, addresses, dates, tracking numbers, any key info • Lets you tap any extracted item to act on it: call, email, navigate, copy, create a contact, set a reminder, open a link • Organizes everything with tags, stars, and search so nothing gets lost • Syncs your scans across iPhone and iPad through iCloud Why people use Pluck instead of a regular scanner Other scanners give you a picture. Pluck gives you the data inside the picture. Receipts you can search by amount. Bills with one-tap "pay" links. Business cards that become contacts in a tap. Long PDFs you can analyze a page at a time. Private by default No account required. No tracking. Your scans live in your iCloud, not on someone else's server. Stop scanning, never sign up. -- Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: http://privacy.pluck-app.com

Screenshots

Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark4 screens
Pluck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pluck at Free against Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark's $17.99. Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark's advantage is device support (5 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pluck is free to download; Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark costs $17.99 up front. Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Pluck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark versus Pluck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurfed Pro Browser & BookmarkPluck
Price$17.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB21 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperHOsy - intelligent software.Lonely Star Software, Inc.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$8.99
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  • Ultra Tip$44.99
2 purchases

Pluck

Subscriptions2
  • Pluck Pro3 Days trial$3.001 Month
  • Pluck Pro3 Days trial$20.001 Year

Questions

Is Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark free?
Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark costs $17.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Pluck free?
Pluck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark or Pluck have ads?
Neither Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark nor Pluck shows ads.

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