Save Links keeps the links and text you meant to come back to. Share a link from any app, or select text and tap Save, and it is stored at once with no questions asked.
The app sorts what you save into categories on your phone, using the site address and the app you shared from. There is no account, no sync and no server of ours. What you save stays on your phone.
What it does
Save from the share sheet
Share a link or text from a browser, chat, video app or shop and choose Save Links. It saves in an instant with only a short confirmation. You can share several links or texts at once.
Save from selected text
Highlight text in any app and tap Save in the selection menu, next to Copy. It works for a sentence you want to keep as a note, not only for links.
Sorts itself as it arrives
Links are filed into categories such as Videos, Reading, Shopping, Code, Places, Music and Social. Plain text goes to Notes, Contacts for an email address or phone number, or Code. An item can sit in several categories, so a YouTube link is under both Videos and YouTube.
Learns from your corrections
Move an item to another category once and the app remembers that site. It also offers to move the items you already saved from the same site.
Search and sort
One search box looks through titles, links, descriptions, your own notes, site names and categories. Sort by newest, oldest, recently opened, most opened or title. You can pin items to the top.
Expiry that hides, not deletes
Give an item an expiry date, such as a parcel tracking link or an offer that ends soon. When the date passes, the item leaves your list and waits in Expired, where you can restore it or clear it.
App Lock and Private items
App Lock asks for your fingerprint, face or screen lock before showing what you saved. Private hides chosen items from the list, search and categories until you verify. Saving still works while the app is locked.
Backup, restore and export
Save a backup file, or have one written on a schedule into a folder you choose. Restore it later or on a new phone. You can also export your links as HTML bookmarks, CSV or Markdown.
Where your data lives
What you save stays on your phone, in the app's private storage. There is no account, and no server of ours receives your links or text. The app uses the internet in three ways. First, to show a link's title and picture, it asks the saved page's own website for them, and that site can see your IP address, as in any visit. Second, Google services the app relies on use the internet. Third, a crash report goes to Firebase Crashlytics if the app crashes. Neither of those carries what you save. Backup and export files are made only when you ask or on a schedule you set, and you choose where they go. They are not encrypted. Android's cloud backup carries nothing from this app. A new phone set up by copying from this one receives your saved items.
Questions
How do I save a link from another app?
In the other app, tap Share and choose Save Links. It saves at once. You can also select text in any app and tap Save next to Copy. Several links or texts shared together are saved as separate items. Only links and text can be saved, not images or other files.
How does the auto-sorting work? Does it happen on my phone?
Yes, on your phone. Rules built into the app read the site address, the shape of the text and the app you shared from, when Android tells it. There is no server and no AI. Sorting runs after the item is saved. If it guesses wrong, move the item once and it remembers.
Does Save Links load the web page? What goes over the network?
It asks the saved page's own website, from your phone, for the title, description and preview picture, or the site's icon if there is no picture. The site sees your IP address. For YouTube links it first asks YouTube's public oEmbed address. No other saved item is sent, and no outside service is used.
Can I search and read my saved items without a connection?
Your list, notes, titles, preview pictures and saved text are stored on your phone, so you can browse, search and read them whenever you open the app. The web page itself is not downloaded. Tapping a link loads it from the site, in the app that owns the address or in your browser.
How do I back up or export my saved items?
In Settings, back up to a file you can send to Drive or Gmail or keep on the phone, or set a daily or weekly backup into a folder you choose. Restore skips items already saved. The file is not encrypted, so keep it safe. Export gives HTML, CSV or Markdown, without Private items.
How do I move to a new phone?
If you set up the new phone by copying from the old one, on Android 9 and newer, your saved items and learned rules come across. Settings such as App Lock stay behind. Google's cloud backup carries nothing. Otherwise, make a backup file on the old phone and restore it on the new one.
What happens to my saved items if I uninstall Save Links?
They are deleted. The app has no account and no copy on a server, so we cannot restore them. Backup files you saved elsewhere are not touched by uninstalling. Restore one after reinstalling to get your items back, though preview pictures are fetched again.
Does Save Links work on tablets?
Yes. Phones use portrait. Tablets and open foldables can rotate, and the screens keep a readable width on large displays.
Requirements
- Android 7.0 or later
- Phones and tablets
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