theatlantic.com
The quiet cost of never finishing what you start reading
iPhone · iPad · Mac
Save links, and actually read them.
Everyone has a folder of tabs they mean to get back to. LinkVault takes the page the moment you share it, pulls out the title, the image and a summary, files it for you, and keeps the article in a reading view worth opening.
en.wikipedia.org
Bauhaus
swift.org
Concurrency, one task at a time
Share sheet on iOS
Safari extension on Mac
Reading view
Syncs across devices
Works offline
No cross-app tracking
One gesture
Share it. That's the whole step.
From Safari, Mail, Messages, a podcast app, anywhere with a share button: tap LinkVault. The page is fetched, the title and hero image are read off it, a summary is written, and a collection and tags are proposed. You confirm, or you don't — the link is already saved either way.
On a Mac, the Safari extension does the same thing from the toolbar, without leaving the page you are reading.
Title and hero image extracted
Summary written for you
Collection and tags proposed
en.wikipedia.org
Bauhaus — the school that taught the century to look at a chair
Reading
A reading view, not a web page.
The article opens in a serif face chosen for long reading, on a measure that stops before your eye gets lost. No cookie banner, no newsletter modal, no sticky header eating a third of the screen. Text size is yours to set, and it follows your system accessibility settings.
Set the text size
Adjustable in the reader, and it respects Dynamic Type.
Kept, not linked
The text is stored with the link, so a page that disappears doesn't take your reading with it.
en.wikipedia.org
Design history
Bauhaus
The school lasted fourteen years and moved three times, and by the end of it the way a lamp, a chair and a building were expected to look had changed everywhere.
Form follows function — but the function had to be found first, and that was the part they taught.
What survived was not a style so much as a method for arriving at one: begin with the material, ask what the object is for, and let the answer decide the shape.
Organising
Filed before you think about filing.
Collections, tags and search — the three that actually get used. LinkVault proposes where a link belongs as you save it, choosing only from collections and tags you already made. It never invents a folder you didn't ask for.
Collections
Named the way you'd name them, with an icon each. A new account starts with one inbox, so there is always somewhere to put things.
Tags
Cross-cutting, so one article can be work and reference and Tuesday's reading at once.
Search
Across titles, domains and summaries — including the ones you saved months ago and half remember.
Read and unread
Favourites
Archive
Reading time
Highlights
Everywhere
On the train, in the tunnel, on the other device.
Your library syncs through your account across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Saving does not wait for the network: the card appears immediately, and fills itself in when you reconnect. Articles you have already saved stay readable with the radio off.
iPhone, iPad and Mac
One account, one library. iPad gets a sidebar and a grid; iPhone gets the floating dock.
Offline first
Saves queue on disk and flush on reconnect. Nothing is lost because a tunnel arrived at the wrong moment.
Widget, Spotlight, Shortcuts
A widget shows what to read next. Spotlight and Shortcuts open a link straight from the Home Screen.
Who it's for
Anyone with forty tabs open.
Researchers
Sources kept with their text, tagged by topic, searchable a year later.
Developers
Docs, RFCs and blog posts filed off the tab bar and readable on the commute.
Writers and editors
A reading pile that survives the browser session, with the quotes still in it.
Students
Course reading in collections per module, offline for the library basement.
Anyone keeping up
Newsletters and long reads out of the inbox and into one place worth opening.
Tab hoarders
You know who you are. Close them; they'll be here.
Privacy
What you read is not the product.
LinkVault does not track you across other companies' apps and websites, and the privacy manifest says so rather than leaving you to guess. The ads in the free version are non-personalised. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the article is read and summarised on your device, and the text never leaves it for that.
Sign in with Apple or Google
An account exists so your library can follow you between devices. That is all it is for.
Delete it whenever
Account deletion is in Settings, in the app, and it takes your data with it.
Price
Free, and honest about why.
Everything above works in the free app. It is funded by advertising, which appears in the library as clearly marked cards. If you would rather not see them, one subscription removes them and changes nothing else.
LinkVault
Free
- Unlimited links, collections and tags
- Reading view, offline saving, sync
- Share extension, Safari extension, widget
- Non-personalised ads
LinkVault Premium
€1.99 / month
- Everything in the free app
- No advertising anywhere in the app
- Cancel from your App Store settings, any time
LinkVault Premium is an auto-renewing monthly subscription bought inside the app. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage and cancel it in your App Store account settings. There is no trial and no other purchase.
The details
Before you download.
- Devices
- iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later · iPadOS 17.0 or later · macOS 14.0 or later
- Price
- Free, ad-supported · optional Premium subscription at €1.99 / month
- Account
- Sign in with Apple or Google, required for sync
- Extensions
- Share extension and widget on iOS · Safari extension on Mac
- Languages
- English · French
- Age rating
- 4+
- Version
- 1.0
Questions
The ones people ask.
What is LinkVault?
A read-it-later app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. You share a link to it from any app; it fetches the page, extracts the title, the hero image and a summary, suggests a collection and tags, and keeps the article text in a clean reading view you can open later, online or not.
How do I save a link?
On iPhone and iPad, use the share button in any app and pick LinkVault — Safari, Mail, Messages, RSS readers, podcast apps, anything with a share sheet. On a Mac, the Safari extension saves the current page from the toolbar. You can also paste a URL directly into the app.
Does it work without a connection?
Yes, in both directions. Saving works offline: the card appears straight away and completes itself when you are back on the network. Reading works offline too, because the article text is stored with the link rather than fetched each time you open it.
Is LinkVault free?
Yes. The app is a free download with every feature included, funded by non-personalised advertising shown as clearly marked cards in the library. LinkVault Premium, an auto-renewing subscription at €1.99 per month, removes all advertising and changes nothing else.
Do I need an account?
Yes — sign in with Apple or Google. The account is what lets one library exist across your iPhone, iPad and Mac rather than three separate ones. You can delete it, and everything in it, from Settings inside the app.
Does LinkVault track me?
No. It does not track you across other companies' apps and websites, and the ads it shows are non-personalised. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the article is read and summarised on your device.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad on iOS 17.0 or later, and Mac on macOS 14.0 or later. The iPad and Mac layouts are not stretched phone screens: at a wide window you get a sidebar with your collections and an adaptive grid of cards.
What happens to a page that gets taken down?
If LinkVault managed to extract the article, the text stays in your library and remains readable. The original URL is always kept too, so you can open the live page — or what is left of it — in Safari.
Can I still get to the original page?
Always. Every link keeps its URL, and one tap opens it in Safari. On a page with no readable article body — a video, an app page, a paywall — the reader says so and offers exactly that.