GoodLinks Downloads & RevenueGoodLinks: Read Later · App Store
GoodLinks: Read Later is #1 in News Paid in United States and charting in 15 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026GoodLinks: Read Later update history & changes
Last change · 31 events since 10 Jun 2020Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 31 events
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: renamedGoodLinks → GoodLinks: Lire plus tard · FR
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: renamedGoodLinks → GoodLinks: Read Later · 12 countries
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: renamedGoodLinks → GoodLinks: あとで読む · JP
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: description updated· ES
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new iPad screenshots· ES
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · ES
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: renamedGoodLinks → GoodLinks: Leer después · ES
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: renamedGoodLinks → GoodLinks: Später lesen · DE
- 📦GoodLinks: Read Later updated to version 4.1.3- Ready for iPhone Duo.
- Various improvements and bug fixes. - 📦GoodLinks: Read Later updated to version 4.1.2- Ready for iPhone Duo.
- Various improvements and bug fixes. - ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new iPad screenshots· ES
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · ES
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new iPad screenshots· 14 countries
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 14 countries
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · JP
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new iPad screenshots· FR
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · FR
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new iPad screenshots· DE
- ✏️GoodLinks: Read Later: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · DE
- 📦GoodLinks: Read Later updated to version 4.1- Ready for iPhone Duo.
- Various improvements and bug fixes. - 📈GoodLinks: Read Later hit #1Top Paid · News · RU
- 📈GoodLinks: Read Later hit #1Top Paid · News · GB
- 📈GoodLinks: Read Later hit #1Top Paid · News · IT
- 📈GoodLinks: Read Later hit #1 in 2 chartsTop Paid · News · BR · Top Paid · News · DE
- 📈GoodLinks: Read Later hit #1Top Paid · News · AE
- 📈GoodLinks: Read Later hit #1Top Paid · News · CA
- 📈GoodLinks: Read Later hit #1Top Paid · News · FR
- 🆕GoodLinks: Read Later first spotted by AppInsider#4 in Top Paid · News · Canada
- 📦GoodLinks: Read Later version 4.0.3No release notes
- 🆕GoodLinks: Read Later released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
News PaidGoodLinks: Read Later at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
GoodLinks is a privacy-focused, iCloud-synced bookmarking and read-later app for iOS and macOS that removes web clutter to provide a clean reading experience without requiring user accounts. The app demonstrates strong paid utility demand in the News category, holding the #1 position in Brazil, South Korea, and Italy while maintaining top-3 rankings across major markets including the US, UK, and Japan.
Similar apps: Pocket, Instapaper, Readwise Reader
GoodLinks: Read Later on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
GoodLinks: Read Later declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
GoodLinks: Read Later downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where GoodLinks: Read Later's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: Paid app
How GoodLinks: Read Later makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Amazing Tip | |
| 2 | Generous Tip | |
| 3 | Massive Tip | |
| 4 | Small Tip | |
| 5 | Nice Tip | |
| 6 | Annual Feature Upgrade subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NewsPaid | #1 |
 Japan | NewsPaid | #2 |
 South Korea | NewsPaid | #1 |
 United Kingdom | NewsPaid | #2 |
 France | NewsPaid | #2 |
 Germany | NewsPaid | #3 |
 Saudi Arabia | NewsPaid | #1 |
 Italy | NewsPaid | #2 |
| Canada | NewsPaid | #5 |
 India | NewsPaid | #5 |
 Brazil | NewsPaid | #7 |
 Indonesia | NewsPaid | #5 |
| Japan | NewsGrossing | #63 |
 Russia | NewsPaid | #7 |
| South Korea | NewsGrossing | #35 |
 Australia | NewsPaid | #14 |
| Saudi Arabia | NewsGrossing | #20 |
 United Arab Emirates | NewsPaid | #7 |
| Russia | NewsGrossing | #75 |
| Brazil | NewsGrossing | #99 |
Apps near GoodLinks: Read Later on the chart
News Paid, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about GoodLinks: Read Later
From the 58 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly praise GoodLinks as a clean, privacy-focused, and efficient replacement for Pocket, particularly valuing its one-time purchase model and native iOS integration. However, complaints focus on technical bugs like crashes, unreliable article parsing, and issues with browser extensions.
Mostly positive (76% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Features & content: “Would love an audio feature”
- Ease of use: “Minimal, fast, simple, the best”
- Price & subscription: “Earns it’s subscription!!”
- Useful: “This app is a serious lifesaver!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “GoodLinks is a simple yet expensive app”
- Crashes & bugs: “All URLs are working and recently added (not broken/can be navigated to on any separate browser app)”
- Updates: “Developer charges you for future updates”
- Features & content: “You pay and after a year, the developer charges you again for the future updates or you will lose access to features”
About GoodLinks: Read Later
GoodLinks is a powerful bookmarking app with a sleek reading experience. Save the content of the link while eliminating the ads and other clutter.
Adding and viewing links is super simple and lightning fast. If you want to dig deeper, GoodLinks can be fully customized.
No account. No ads. No creepy spying. GoodLinks just works.
KEY FEATURES
• Universal App :: GoodLinks is a single app that works on all of your iOS and macOS devices, so you can access your articles anywhere.
• No Account :: Sync links, tags, and reading position without needing another web service account. iCloud Sync means all you have to do is install the app.
• Simple :: Save articles from anywhere with a powerful Share Sheet extension. GoodLinks is so easy it feels like part of the operating system.
• Readability :: Put the emphasis where it belongs—on the article you want to read. GoodLinks extracts the article text and removes web advertisements and other distractions to provide a wonderful reading experience. Pick the perfect font, spacing, and size.
• Highlight & Note :: Highlight important information within articles and add notes to them, making it easier for you to remember key passages.
• Organize :: Tame a large list with tags and starred articles, so you can always find what you need. You can also search based on title, author, and description.
• Actions :: Actions help you manage and share links. You can add article to Starred, share to other apps, export to PDF, plain text or Markdown... Build your own actions to export and share your saved links.
• Customize :: Adjust how your links and lists look, change swipe behavior, and more. Tailor GoodLinks to fit your style.
• Themes :: Switch between beautiful themes: Light and Sepia for light mode, Dark and Night for dark mode.
• Siri Shortcuts :: Deep support of iOS Shortcuts. Save a new link, query links, open a specific view, and more.
• Log in to Sites :: Log in to paywalled sites to get full access to their content.
• Widgets :: Get quick access to a list, or open a random unread link from your home screen.
• Summarization :: Get a summary of any article with Apple Intelligence or external LLM services using your own API keys.
• Archive :: The full rich text of each article gets saved in GoodLinks, and your reading history provides a natural archive if you need it. Save as many links as you want.
• Private :: Your reading history and favorite articles should only be private by default. GoodLinks doesn’t track you or your information, and nothing is shared online unless you choose to share it.
• VoiceOver :: GoodLinks is fully accessible via VoiceOver.
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When you purchase GoodLinks today, you will get *permanent* access to all the current features, including any new ones released one year from your date of purchase. After your one year o
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