Comparison

LiquidText vs Save Links

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

Head to head
About

LiquidText

This app provides a dynamic workspace for reviewing and organizing information from documents and webpages. It allows users to extract key facts, connect ideas across different sources, and annotate content for research, writing, or study.

Highlights
  • Import documents and webpages
  • Extract and organize excerpts
  • Connect ideas with ink links
  • Compare document sections
  • Annotate PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Search across all documents
Features
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*** Named “Most Innovative iPad App of the Year” by Apple App Store *** LiquidText offers a fast, natural way to review, gather, and organize information across all your documents and webpages—then apply the results to writing reports, meeting prep, or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together, squeeze a document to compare sections, draw a line to connect ideas in different documents, comment on multiple pages at once, build upon your thoughts, and much more. ► WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: * "If you want to experience the power of going beyond paper, you can download LiquidText" – Cult of Mac * One of Macworld’s Top 24 Apps for iPad Pro * One of Time Magazine's Ten Best apps for iPad Pro * * "There's a better way to organize your research, and the app is it." – iMore, Serenity Caldwell * “All you need for deep research projects.” – Macworld, Jackie Dove * "The world changed with...LiquidText" – Law360, Paul Kiesel * "LiquidText may just be *the* app for reviewing and annotating PDFs using Apple's tablet and stylus." – CIO Magazine, James Martin * “One of the most powerful, original iPad apps I've tried in years” – Federico Viticci, MacStories.net ► LIQUIDTEXT’S COMPLETE FEATURE SET INCLUDES: (Features with * require a paid upgrade.) Import • Create a workspace and import all the documents and web pages you need • Compatible with PDF, Word, and PowerPoint document types • Import from Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Box, email, and more • Import content from webpage or send to LiquidText directly from Safari • Instant OCR to select text in scanned documents; do a full document-OCR to search as well!* • Import documents & metadata directly from reference managers (supports Zotero and Mendeley)* Interact • Pull excerpts from all the documents in your project into the Workspace area • Add your own notes (typed or written) to the Workspace area • Freely draw on your notes, or on the workspace itself* • Organize excerpts and notes into groups • Connect anything - draw live “ink links” that span pages, documents, notes, and more* • Create mind-maps by drawing “ink links” connecting your excerpts/notes to one another * • Get context - tap notes and excerpts to find original source Compare • Pinch a document to compare different distant pages side by side • Collapse text to see annotated parts side-by-side • Collapse text to view search results(s) side-by-side • Import unlimited number of documents into a project, view up to 3 at once* Annotate • Freely draw* or highlight on your document, notes, or the workspace itself • Add margin notes/comments to text, images, notes, and excerpts • Comment on two or more selections simultaneously • Replace document with a newer version (and annotations are brought to new doc)* Search • Search for keywords across all your LiquidText documents • Find keywords in title or text of your documents* • Bulk highlight, tag, or link to your search results* Realtime Collaboration • Invite colleagues into your shared projects and work together in near realtime* • Leave comments and notifications for your collaborators* • Privacy controls: set whether each workspace & document in your project is shared or private* Easy Export • Export your project as a PDF (includes your Workspace and documents) • Export your project as a Word file (converts your notes/excerpts into a linear document) • Send a full LiquidText file for those with the app. • Send files by email or to Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Zotero, and more* Sync & Backup* • Real-time, cross-platform sync • Continuous cloud backup • Multi-device display: • Use your desktop or tablet as additional display for your other device • Use your tablet for freehand inking while viewing and keyboarding on your desktop See our terms of use at https://www.liquidtext.net/terms-of-use Learn more at LiquidText.net | Better Than Paper

About

Save Links

Features
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Save links and bookmarks from any app, read them later, and get reminded of the ones that matter. Save a link in one tap and Molwee brings it back to you: on your home screen widget, in your weekly digest, and in Worth revisiting on Saved. Most read-later apps are a pile you never return to. Molwee is built around the return. HOW IT WORKS 1. See something worth keeping, in any app 2. Tap Share and choose Molwee 3. Get back to what you were doing WHAT BRINGS IT BACK - Home screen widget that shows what you saved earlier - Worth revisiting - older saves that connect to others you kept - Weekly digest of what you saved, with a Sunday reminder you can turn off - Search by title, site, note, or tag WHAT IT DOES WITH WHAT YOU SAVE - One tap from any app that can share a link - Knows where it came from, with the real logo: LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, Reddit, Medium, GitHub, and each website's own icon - Rich previews with titles, descriptions, and thumbnails - Saved, grouped by date - filter by Unread, Starred, Archived, platform, tag, or collection - Collections for links that belong together - Tags, stars, and private notes on anything you keep - Swipe to star or archive, or swipe to delete with undo - Select many links at once to tag, archive, delete, or add to a collection - Light and dark mode, or follow your iPhone - Import a Pocket export, browser bookmarks, a CSV file, or a Molwee backup - Export as CSV, HTML, or a full JSON backup - No account, no sign-in - Local-first - your library is stored on your device MOLWEE PRO A one-time purchase, no subscription. It adds: - Remind me - pick a day and get a reminder for any link, with a note - Saved text - keep the text of the articles you save, readable offline (some sites, like paywalled ones, don't allow it) - Search inside articles - find a link by what the article said Everything above stays free. Molwee is a calm place to put things, built so they find their way back to you.

Screenshots

LiquidText4 screens
Save Links4 screens

Verdict

The call

LiquidText and Save Links are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. LiquidText sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month and Save Links sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LiquidText ships an update every 2 weeks, Save Links every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LiquidText versus Save Links: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiquidTextSave Links
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (6.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size317 MB19 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLiquidText, Inc.Omer Ko caolu

Bugs and requests

LiquidText

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frequent crashes and data loss issues
  • Inconsistent behavior with Apple Pencil
  • Text selection and highlighting problems
  • Sync issues between iPad and Mac versions
  • Unexpected changes to existing annotations

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved palm rejection and writing experience
  • Better export and sharing options
  • Thumbnail/outline view for easier navigation
  • Ability to rotate and resize text/image annotations

Save Links

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

LiquidText

Subscriptions10
  • LiquidText Live, Monthly, Stu7 Days trial$5.491 Month
  • LiquidText Live, Monthly, StPr7 Days trial$5.491 Month
  • LiquidText Unlimited, Mo, Stu7 Days trial$10.901 Month
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  • LiquidText Live, Monthly7 Days trial$10.901 Month
  • LiquidText Live, Monthly, Upg7 Days trial$10.901 Month
  • LiquidText Unlimited, Yr, Stu7 Days trial$19.001 Month
  • LiquidText Live, Yearly, Stu7 Days trial$54.901 Year
  • LiquidText Live, Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • LiquidText Live, Yearly, Upg7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • LiquidText Unlimited, Yr7 Days trial$189.991 Year
One-time3
  • LT Pro - For Students$19.99
  • LiquidText Pro$29.99
  • LiquidText Pro II$89.99
1 purchases

Save Links

One-time1
  • Molwee Pro$9.99

Questions

Is LiquidText free?
LiquidText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Save Links free?
Save Links is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LiquidText or Save Links have ads?
Neither LiquidText nor Save Links shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LiquidText or Save Links?
LiquidText ships an update every 2 weeks, and Save Links every 9 days. Most recently, LiquidText was updated on October 29, 2026 and Save Links on October 24, 2026.

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