A GoodLinks alternative that is not tied to Apple
GoodLinks is a well-made read-later app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, sold once rather than as a subscription. Two things send people looking elsewhere: a Windows or Android device, and wanting to share more than one link at a time.
If you are all-Apple and mostly read what you save, GoodLinks is a fine, fair-priced tool. If you switch between a work laptop and a personal phone, or you want a folder someone else can open, ceevo works in any browser and gives every folder a page.
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Mac.
- Any browser, any device. Native iPhone app coming.
- Saving
- Share sheet, Safari extension.
- Paste a link or write a note on the web. Share to ceevo from any app on your phone.
- Organising
- Tags, starred, read and unread.
- One level of folders you name yourself. Flat on purpose.
- Reading
- Reader view, offline.
- No reader view. ceevo opens the original page.
- Sharing
- Share a single link.
- Any folder becomes a public page under your name with one switch.
- Price
- One-time purchase.
- Free. If paid plans ever come, nothing you saved gets locked.
Where GoodLinks wins
It is native, fast, and offline. It syncs through iCloud with no account. The reader view is good and the one-time price is refreshing. If your devices are all Apple and you like reading in the app, there is little reason to leave.
Where ceevo is different
It runs on the web, so a Windows laptop at work and an iPhone at home see the same folders. Sign in with Google, Apple, or your email and it is there.
It is built around folders and pages rather than a reading list. Any folder can be public in one switch and becomes a page at ceevo.me/you/folder-name. That is the feature GoodLinks does not try to have.
Notes are items. A thought sits next to the link that caused it, in the same folder.
Honest gaps
No offline mode, no reader view, no native app yet. ceevo is a web app that behaves well on a phone, not a native one. The iPhone app is coming.
Questions
- Does ceevo work on Android?
- Yes. It is a web app, so any modern browser works, and you can share to it from other apps.
- Does ceevo work offline?
- No. It needs a connection.
- Is there a Mac app?
- Not yet. ceevo runs in the browser on a Mac.