Comparison

Leaf Bookmarks vs LinkBuckets

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

Head to head
About

Leaf Bookmarks

Organize and revisit saved links with rich details and AI-powered features. Transform your saved content into a usable library for research, inspiration, or personal knowledge.

Highlights
  • Save links from app or share sheet
  • Organize with folders and tags
  • Add summaries, thumbnails, and descriptions
  • Quickly reopen saved links
  • AI-powered summaries and suggestions
  • Create a personal knowledge library
Features
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Leaf Bookmarks is your personal space for links worth keeping. Every day you come across articles, videos, products, ideas, recipes, references, and notes you may want to revisit. The hard part is not saving them. It is finding them again later, remembering why they mattered, and keeping everything from becoming another messy pile of tabs, bookmarks or notes. Leaf helps you turn saved links into a library that is easier to browse, understand, and use. Save links from the app or the share sheet, organize them with folders and tags, add notes, customize thumbnails, and choose how your cards should look. Leaf also works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so your saved links stay close wherever you are working or reading. With Leaf Pro, your library becomes even easier to maintain. AI-generated summaries, smart tag suggestions, and folder recommendations help every saved link land in the right place with less effort. What you can do with Leaf: • Save links from the app or the share sheet. • Organize web links with folders and tags. • Add custom thumbnails so links are easier to recognize. • Customize card layouts for the way you read. • Add notes, descriptions, and summaries. • Use Leaf Pro AI to summarize and organize links faster. • Enjoy a link library that works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Leaf is useful for reading later, collecting research, organizing products, planning trips, saving inspiration, or building your own personal knowledge library. Your links, now, organized with Leaf. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://leafbookmarks.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://leafbookmarks.com/privacy

About

LinkBuckets

Features
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LinkBuckets is the tidy, effortless alternative to a messy pile of bookmarks. Save any link in a tap, organize it your way, and actually find it again later — on every device. Whether it's recipes to try, articles to read, products to buy, or inspiration for your next project, LinkBuckets keeps it all sorted and beautiful instead of buried in browser tabs and scattered bookmark folders. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Share links straight from any app on your phone • Add the browser extension to save pages as you browse • Drop in a URL and we instantly fetch the title, description, and preview image ORGANIZE HOWEVER YOUR BRAIN WORKS • Group links into visual buckets with their own icon, emoji, or photo • Nest buckets in folders for bigger collections • Add tags to cross-reference across buckets • Pin what you use most for one-tap access FIND IT IN SECONDS • Fast search across every link, title, and note • Rich previews make links instantly recognizable • Add your own notes and details to any link SYNC EVERYWHERE Your buckets and links stay in sync across your iPhone and the web, so your collection is always with you. FREE TO START Use LinkBuckets free, and upgrade to Premium whenever you want more buckets, more links, and more AI power to keep everything organized. Start turning your messy bookmarks into something you'll actually use. Download LinkBuckets today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Leaf Bookmarks4 screens
LinkBuckets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LinkBuckets at 16.0 against Leaf Bookmarks's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Leaf Bookmarks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and LinkBuckets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Leaf Bookmarks versus LinkBuckets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeaf BookmarksLinkBuckets
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB54 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTomas FrechouRuslan Stadnik

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Leaf Bookmarks

Subscriptions2
  • Leaf Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Leaf Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
2 purchases

LinkBuckets

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$2.991 Month
  • Premium$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Leaf Bookmarks free?
Leaf Bookmarks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LinkBuckets free?
LinkBuckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Leaf Bookmarks or LinkBuckets have ads?
Neither Leaf Bookmarks nor LinkBuckets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Leaf Bookmarks or LinkBuckets?
Leaf Bookmarks ships an update weekly, and LinkBuckets weekly. Most recently, Leaf Bookmarks was updated on September 23, 2026 and LinkBuckets on October 15, 2026.

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