Bamboo vs Link Bucket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bamboo
This app is a Markdown note-taking tool for organizing knowledge and utilizing AI features. It allows users to capture ideas, write long-form content, and connect notes with wiki links. AI assistance is available for drafting, summarizing, and brainstorming, with users controlling their AI provider.
- Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Wiki link creation for connecting notes
- AI assistance for drafting and summarizing
- Organize notes into collections
- Cross-device synchronization
- Import and export content
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Bamboo is a Markdown notes app for writing, organizing knowledge, and using AI on your own terms. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Web Clipper support, Bamboo helps you capture ideas anywhere and continue working across devices. Capture quick notes, long-form documents, tasks, reminders, research, meeting notes, reading highlights, and personal knowledge. Bamboo keeps your notes in Markdown so they stay portable, readable, and easy to manage. WRITE AND CAPTURE Use a focused Markdown editor with syntax highlighting, task lists, tables, wiki links, footnotes, highlights, math, images, and attachments. Keep ideas, notes, reminders, and tasks together so writing, thinking, and planning stay in one place. ORGANIZE AND CONNECT Organize notes into collections for projects, areas, archives, or research spaces. Connect ideas with wiki links, pin important notes, star favorites, and build a knowledge base that stays easy to navigate as it grows. AI ASSISTANCE, UNDER YOUR CONTROL Bamboo Pro lets you connect supported AI providers and use assistant features directly in your notes. Draft, rewrite, summarize, brainstorm ideas, and work with selected content without leaving your workspace. You stay in control of the provider and model you use. KEEP YOUR NOTES YOURS Your notes stay in Markdown, making them easy to move, back up, and keep for the long term. Search across notes, revisit recent work, import and export your content, create backups, and keep your work available across devices with optional Bamboo Pro features such as iCloud Sync, HTML export, and PDF export. Bamboo includes optional auto-renewable monthly and yearly Pro subscriptions. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://zhigui.github.io/app-docs/bamboo/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Link Bucket
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Save links from any app, find them in seconds, and keep them in sync on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Private folders, no ads, no tracking. Link Bucket is one place for everything you want to come back to: articles, videos, recipes, tools, products and research. Tap Share in Safari or any other app, and the link is saved with its title, icon and preview image. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Save from the Share menu in Safari, YouTube, Reddit, Messages and any other app • Paste a link straight from the clipboard • On iPad, drag a link from Safari right into Link Bucket • Add a note so you remember why you saved it ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Sort links into folders and give each folder a color • Mark the links that matter as bookmarks • Drag and drop links between folders • Move many links at once with a searchable folder picker FIND IT AGAIN • Search titles, notes and web addresses at once • Rich previews show what each link is at a glance • Open links in the built-in browser or in your default browser PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Lock private folders with Face ID or your passcode • Links in private folders stay out of search and other lists • No account, no ads, no tracking. Your links sync through your own iCloud, and we collect no data. ALSO ON YOUR MAC • iCloud sync keeps your iPhone, iPad and Mac up to date • One app for iPhone, iPad and Mac • Share any link as a QR code SAFE AND RECOVERABLE • Deleted links stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days • Export backups and restore them at any time, including from iCloud Drive Great for read-later lists, research, shopping ideas, recipes, design inspiration and work resources.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Link Bucket at none against Bamboo's 2. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Bamboo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Link Bucket asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bamboo | Link Bucket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 志贵 陈 | Gentlemen's s.r.o. |
In-app purchases
Bamboo
- Monthly Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Link Bucket
No in-app purchases









