LinkMemo vs Backmark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LinkMemo
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LinkMemo is the simplest read-it-later app for reading and text-to-speech with customized view. Core Features: - Strip away all clutter and save the content of web pages. - Offline Support: Download the full text of articles for offline reading and text-to-speech. - Multi Theme: Light, Sepia, Night, Dark, and more. - Customized view: Customize the font, text size, and line height.
Backmark
Save links, screenshots, files, and places from any app to organize and find them instantly. Transform your saved items into trip plans and checklists with on-device intelligence. Your data remains private and accessible only on your iPhone.
- Save links, screenshots, files, and places
- Searchable Memories with source links
- Organize content into custom Boards
- Generate trip plans and checklists
- On-device AI for summaries and captions
- Private by design, no account needed
- Export and restore all data
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Save links, screenshots, files and places from any app, find them in seconds, and turn them into trip plans and checklists. Private, on your iPhone. SAVE WHAT MATTERS Deliberately share links, text, screenshots, files and map links to Backmark from other apps. Each becomes a searchable Memory that keeps its original source link, alongside useful text and previews. Import bookmarks exported from Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Edge, sorted by folder or by topic on your iPhone. FIND IT AGAIN Browse by where each save came from, by topic, or with your own tiles, and search everything at once. Make tiles for trips, recipes or gifts, and add or remove any save by hand. Mark favorites, and open, edit, share or delete your saved content whenever you choose. BUILD WITH IT Group saves into manually maintained Boards and drag them into the order you want. Add places from map links you share and see a planned walking or driving route between a Board's places. Share a Board as a set of images with every original link, or save the images to Photos. BOARD STUDIO AND ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE On compatible iPhones with Apple Intelligence available, Board studio answers questions about a Board using only its saves, and writes a caption, trip plan, checklist or summary you can edit, copy or share as images. Create a Board cover from its places and topics with Image Playground. Backmark also summarises Memories, sorts imported bookmarks and makes tile icons on the iPhone. Normal saving, text recognition and search remain available without generative AI. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your Memories and Boards stay on your iPhone. Backmark requires no account and has no backend, analytics, advertising or silent cloud AI fallback. Place search and routes use Apple Maps with only what they need. Export everything as one zip you can open anywhere, restore it later, or delete all local Backmark data from Profile. Works with larger text sizes and VoiceOver. A one-time purchase, with no subscription or in-app paywall. Save your first link today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LinkMemo at Free against Backmark's $4.99. LinkMemo also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
LinkMemo is free to download; Backmark costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LinkMemo ships an update every 5 days, Backmark fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LinkMemo | Backmark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yugo Ogura | Mohamed Saliha Abdul Azeem |
In-app purchases
LinkMemo
No in-app purchases
Backmark
No in-app purchases









