How it works

Bookmark smarter

Four steps, and only the first needs you. The rest is what has to happen for a link to still be findable long after you have forgotten saving it.

  1. 1

    You save a link in one tap

    Share sheet, paste, or the browser extension. There is no folder prompt and no tag picker, because a prompt at save time is what turns a two-second habit into a decision you eventually stop making.

    Everything lands in Inbox until you say otherwise.

  2. 2

    Favourl reads the page

    The title, description, preview image and source are fetched and stored beside the URL. This is the step browser bookmarks skip, and the reason a browser bookmark from 2019 is a string of characters you cannot identify.

    If a page cannot be reached, the bookmark is still saved — you never lose a link to a failed fetch.

  3. 3

    It is written to your device

    Local storage first, sync second. That ordering is why saving works with no signal, why search never waits on a network round trip, and why an outage on our side does not stop you working.

    Sync is a background reconciliation, not a prerequisite.

  4. 4

    You find it, months later

    Search covers titles, descriptions, sources and your notes. You look for what the thing was about — the way you actually remember it — rather than the exact words in a headline.

    Filter by folder or by site when you know roughly where it came from.

Why on-device first is the whole design

Most tools in this category are a web app with an offline mode bolted on, so a weak connection means a spinner and a save you are not sure happened. Favourl treats your device as the source of truth and the server as a copy. The practical difference shows up on a train, on a plane, and on the day the server has a bad hour.

Try it once

Send it your first link

Share sheet, a forwarded mail, or a WhatsApp message. You will see it in the app before you have switched back to it.