Laytr vs Indexd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Laytr
Save links, articles, videos, and more from any app to access them later, privately and offline. Content is stored on your device and resurfaces at a scheduled time, with full-text search and export options.
- Save from any app's share sheet
- Offline access to saved content
- Scheduled content resurfacing
- Full-text search including screenshots
- Export archive as Markdown/HTML
- Import from Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore
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Save anything from any app, pick when you want it back, and Laytr puts it at the top of the app that day. Links, recipes, videos, screenshots and PDFs, all in one place, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. You save things all day, and most of it disappears into whatever app it was saved in. Laytr keeps it in one place and hands each thing back on the day you picked. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER OF OURS There is no Laytr account and no Laytr server. Your saves live on your phone, and if you leave backup or sync on, in your own iCloud, where we cannot read them. Nothing you save passes through us, so it can't be scanned, profiled or sold. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Laytr sits in the share sheet, so it works from Safari, Photos, Files, Maps, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and anywhere else you can share from. Links, articles, videos, places, PDFs, images and screenshots each get a card that fits what they are. Saving takes two taps. You can file things properly later, or never. IT COMES BACK WHEN YOU SAID Tonight, this weekend, next week, a date you pick, or Someday. Each choice shows the actual time it means, like "Sat 9:00 AM". When that time arrives, the save appears at the top of the Now tab. If it's a bad moment, "Not now" sits right next to "Done", and nothing nags you afterwards. There are no streaks and no overdue badges. READ IT LATER, KEPT FOR GOOD Saving an article stores the full text and images on your phone, not just the link, so it still opens years later, when the original site is gone. The reader has three page themes, serif or sans-serif type, adjustable text size, and it remembers where you stopped. SEARCH INSIDE EVERYTHING Search covers titles, sources, notes, tags, the full text of saved articles, and the text inside your screenshots. Screenshot text is read on the phone using Apple's Vision framework; the images are never sent to us. Filter by kind, browse by tag, change the sort. ONE LIBRARY ON EVERY DEVICE Sign in to the same Apple Account on your iPhone, iPad and Mac and you have one archive across all of them: the same saves, cases and tags, the same things you put away or deleted. It goes through your own iCloud, so there is still nothing of yours on a server of ours. It is on when you install Laytr, free on every plan, and Settings has a switch that turns it off there. EXPORT AND IMPORT Your whole archive exports as one ZIP: Markdown and HTML you can read anywhere, plus your original files, unchanged. Export is available on every plan, including free, always. There are importers for Pocket, Instapaper and Omnivore, and Laytr re-imports its own exports. FREE, THEN PREMIUM The free version holds 30 saves. Premium removes the limit, and that is the only difference. $1.99 a month, $14.99 a year, or $39.99 once. Since there's no server of ours, a fair question is what a subscription pays for. It pays for the app itself: Laytr is built by one person, and Premium funds that work. There is no infrastructure you're renting, which is why a one-time lifetime price can exist, and why cancelling costs you nothing. If you stop paying, every save stays, and reading, search, export and the copy between your devices keep working. The one thing that pauses is adding new saves while you're over 30. Nothing you saved is ever deleted, hidden or locked, on any device. Save now. Come back Laytr. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Laytr Premium is available as a monthly subscription at $1.99 per month, or an annual subscription at $14.99 per year. Lifetime is a one-time purchase at $39.99 and never renews. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period and price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://laytr.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://laytr.app/privacy
Indexd
This app acts as a central hub for saving and organizing anything you find online, from articles and videos to products and travel ideas. It helps you retrieve saved content easily through search and visual browsing, and allows for collaborative stack sharing.
- Save any internet content as Index Cards
- Organize content into customizable Stacks
- Search and browse saved items
- Add notes for context
- Share Stacks with others for collaboration
- Visual browsing of saved items
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The internet is full of things you want to come back to. A video. A recipe. A product. A post. A restaurant. A travel idea. An article you want to read later. Something you do not need right now, but know you will want again. So you screenshot it. Text the link to yourself. Bookmark it in Safari. Save it inside Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or another app. And when you actually need it, you cannot remember where you saved it. Indexd gives it all one place to live. Your card catalog for the internet. SAVE ANYTHING Save posts, products, videos, recipes, articles, guides, places, ideas, and links as Index Cards. When you find something you want to come back to, tap Share and send it to Indexd. You can also paste a link directly into the app. Indexd brings in useful details like the title, source, and thumbnail so the things you save are actually recognizable later. KEEP EVERYTHING TOGETHER Organize your Cards into Stacks for whatever matters to you. Travel ideas. Recipes to try. Things to buy. Videos to watch. Research. Gift ideas. Restaurants. Home inspiration. Anything else you want to find again. Instead of having one thing saved in a browser, another buried in screenshots, another sitting in your messages, and five more scattered across different apps, they can all live together in Indexd. FIND IT AGAIN Your Index is your personal library of everything you saved. Search across your Cards and Stacks when you need something instead of trying to remember which app you originally found it in. If you saved it, you know where to look. SHARE STACKS WITH OTHER PEOPLE Some things are better collected together. Planning a trip with your partner? Building a shared wishlist? Collecting restaurants with friends? Researching something together? Share a Stack and invite someone to view it or help edit it. Everyone can keep the useful links, ideas, and Cards for that topic together instead of sending links back and forth through messages. You stay in control with View only and Can edit sharing options. REMEMBER THE CONTEXT Sometimes the link is not enough. Add Notes to a Card so you remember why you saved it, what you liked, who it was for, or what you wanted to do with it. BROWSE WHAT YOU SAVED Not every search starts with knowing exactly what you want. Browse through your Cards visually and rediscover the things you meant to come back to. ONE PLACE FOR THE INTERNET YOU WANT TO REMEMBER Indexd is not another place to collect bookmarks. It is a personal card catalog for everything worth coming back to, no matter where on the internet you found it. No more digging through screenshots. No more texting yourself links. No more trying to remember which app you saved something in. Save anything. Find it again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Indexd at none against Laytr's 4. Indexd also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, 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. Laytr sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Indexd asks for nothing beyond the download.
Indexd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Laytr's written reviews are positive against 100% of Indexd's.
| Parameter | Laytr | Indexd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Waitery Inc | Jamey Dogom |
Customer experience
Laytr
Indexd
In-app purchases
Laytr
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual$14.991 Year
- Founding Patron$24.99
- Lifetime$39.99
Indexd
No in-app purchases









