How LinkBuckets works

LinkBuckets is a home for the links you want to keep. You save a link once, put it where it belongs, and find it again when you need it. This page walks through everything the app does, in the order you are likely to meet it.

Buckets: where your links live

A bucket is a collection of related links — "Recipes to try", "Work reading", "Trip to Lisbon". Every link lives in exactly one bucket. Give a bucket a photo, an emoji or an icon, and a colour, so you can spot it at a glance.

Home screen with two folders and a list of colourful buckets — Inbox, Recipes, Photography and Reading List — with their link counts

You also get an Inbox: a bucket that is always there, pinned to the top, for anything you save without choosing a place. It can't be deleted and doesn't count towards your plan's bucket limit. Sort it out later — or never; it is just another bucket.

Set appearance sheet with the Photo / Emoji / Icon picker, the row of colour swatches and a grid of emoji

Saving links

From the app

Tap the + in the middle of the tab bar, paste a link, and choose a bucket. LinkBuckets fetches the page's title, description and picture for you, so every link is recognisable at a glance. Anything you type yourself is never overwritten.

Add Link screen with the Recipes bucket chosen, a pasted Wikipedia link and the picture fetched from it

From any other app

Share a link from Safari, Chrome, YouTube or any other app and pick LinkBuckets in the share sheet. Your most-used buckets appear right in the share sheet too, with their own picture, so you can save straight into one in a single tap.

The Save to bucket sheet opened from another app's share sheet, with a bucket search field and the list of buckets

From your computer

The browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Opera and Firefox saves the page you are on into any bucket, and lets you browse your buckets and open links without leaving the browser. Safari is on the way.

Organizing

Folders

Group buckets into folders, and folders into other folders, as deep as you like. Move a bucket or a folder at any time from its ⋮ menu.

The Trading folder opened from Home, with the Home › Trading breadcrumb above, a nested subfolder and a bucket inside it

Pins

Pin the buckets you open every day and they move to a Pinned section at the top of Home. Pin a link and it stays at the top of its bucket.

Home screen with the Reading List bucket in the Pinned section at the top, marked with a pin icon, above the folders and buckets

Finding things again

Search looks through your links, buckets and folders at once. Results are grouped by type and show where each one lives, so you know which "Ideas" bucket you are looking at. Before you type, your recent searches and links are one tap away.

Search screen with “Ram” typed and three matching links, each showing the folder and bucket it lives in

Reading, highlights and notes

Reader mode

Tap Read on a link to open the article on its own — no ads, no pop-ups, no cookie banners — in your theme and the text size you like. Once opened, it is saved on your device and readable offline, and it reopens exactly where you stopped reading.

Highlights

Select any passage while reading and tap Highlight, in the colour of your choice. All highlights of an article are in one list — tap one to jump straight back to it in the text.

An article in reader mode with two passages highlighted, one in green and one in purple

The Highlights sheet over the article, listing its highlights with their colour dots

Notes

Add notes to any link — why you saved it, what to do with it. Highlights show up next to your notes on the link's page, and a filter switches between only highlights and only notes.

AI assistant

The AI tab does the tedious parts for you:

Explain — a short summary of what a link is about.
Compare — how two links differ.
Suggest tags — tags and a category for a link.
Find duplicates and Find dead links — clean up your whole library. These two are always free and never use your AI requests.

Explain, Compare and Suggest tags use AI requests: 10 a month on the Free plan, 30 on Premium. The AI tab shows how many you have left.

AI tab with the remaining requests counter, and the list of actions with Find duplicate links and Find dead links marked Free

An Explain result: a short summary of a saved recipe page, with the requests used and left, and Copy and Again buttons

Tap Share in a bucket, or use its ⋮ menu on Home:

Share as text sends the bucket's name and its links as a list, through Messages, WhatsApp, email or any other app.
Share with a friend sends a copy of the whole bucket to another LinkBuckets user by email. They tap the link in the email, open it in the app, and get their own copy — with its picture and every link. Tags, pins, notes and highlights stay yours.

A bucket's ⋮ menu on Home with Pin, Move, Share as text, Share with a friend and Delete

The Send a copy sheet for the Recipes bucket with a friend's email address entered and the Send invitation button

Send the same bucket again later and your friend's copy picks up the links you added since — nothing they added themselves is touched. Invitations expire after 14 days.

Trash

Deleted links and buckets go to the Trash first, with their notes, tags and highlights. Changed your mind? Tap Undo right away, or restore them from Trash in Settings. Trash empties itself after 7, 30 or 90 days — you choose.

Settings

In Settings you choose a light or dark look (or follow your phone), set or change your password, see your plan, open the Trash and decide how long it keeps things. Privacy, terms and the open source licenses are at the bottom.

Plans

LinkBuckets is free to use. Premium lifts the limits:

Free — 4 buckets (plus the Inbox), 10 links per bucket, 10 saved articles in reader mode, 10 AI requests a month. Folders, tags, search, highlights, sharing and the browser extension are all included.
Premium — unlimited buckets, links and saved articles, and 30 AI requests a month. Monthly or yearly.

Reaching a limit never deletes anything: what you have stays, and you are offered Premium when you try to add more. To go back to Free, cancel your subscription in the App Store or Google Play — you keep Premium until the end of the period you paid for.

Need help?

Have a look at the FAQ, or email us at support@linkbuckets.com — we read every message.