United StatesRight from within your browser, create a bookmark file with a .webloc or .url ending that links to the website you are currently on - and store it in any of your cloud storage drives set up on iOS. By storing your bookmarks individually as link files right along your other files on a project or topic, you save yourself duplicating your folder structure inside the browsers bookmark feature. This is how it works: 1. Tap the share icon in your web browser and chose 'Bookmark to File' 2. Keep the website title as the filename for the bookmark link, or change it to what you like. 3. Select your cloud folder where to save the bookmark file to - and hit save - that's it! Works from Safari, Chrome, Opera and Edge browsers on iPhone and iPad. Firefox is NOT yet supported. Works with any cloud drive provider that can also be used with the Apple File App. This includes Google Drive, iCloud, OwnCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and many more.
A five-star gem of an app
I’m updating my original review to assign 5 stars to this little app. The developer has been extremely responsive to feedback and with the latest release the last known (to me at least) annoyance is gone: no more & like characters in URL titles. I joe use this app routinely on my iPhone at the gym when finding something useful that I want to store on my MacBook Pro; when traveling I do the same thing using my iPad Pro. Like I said in my original review: with so much usefulness I can’t comprehend why people don’t rate this app more frequently.
United StatesPretty useful tool especially when you’re traveling with only an iPad
This little app does one thing only, and does it well: it saves web shortcuts in webloc or url format as files—exactly like on the Mac. This way when I’m traveling I can save whatever pages interest me on the iPad or an SSD connected to it then transfer everything to the Mac when I get back home. As the instructions clearly state, you have to add the sharing action so it becomes visible. As of now (December 2020) the only outstanding bug I can see is incomplete support for dark mode, hence the 4 stars. At $0.99 it’s a steal; I can’t possibly imagine I’m the only one saving weblocs as files as opposed to cluttering the iPad’s Home Screen, so I don’t understand the lack of reviews.
United StatesRegularly locks up on share sheet of app using it
Good basic concept, unfortunately poor execution. After only three uses of trying to save a .webloc to iCloud from inside the Twitter app, it reliably locks up the Twitter app without saving the url, requiring a force quit of the Twitter app. I presume some memory problem, improperly handling of an error from iCloud (for instance a file name error) or some other bug is causing this lockup. There is no crash. That this error cropped up so quickly bodes poorly for this app.
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- Improved handling of website titles with special characters or consecutive white space in the middle of the title - Updated for latest iOS versions
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