Most bookmark managers treat your phone as a second-class citizen — a cramped web view, or nothing at all. Marqly ships a native iOS app, free on the App Store, that carries your entire library: every page saved from your desktop browser, already AI-tagged and summarized, searchable by describing what you remember. The phone turns out to be where a bookmark manager matters most, because the moments you need a saved link — in a store, mid-conversation, in a waiting room — rarely happen at your desk.
Your desktop saves, in your pocket
The honest architecture of Marqly: the browser extension is the core of the product. Desktop is where heavy capture happens — one-click saves from the toolbar, the tab saver that commits a whole research session at once, the highlighter marking key passages in six colors, the YouTube bookmark button that saves videos with their transcripts attached.
The iOS app is where all of that becomes useful away from the desk. Standing in a hardware store trying to remember which drill the review recommended; a friend asks for that pasta recipe; you’re at the doctor’s office finally clearing your reading backlog. Your library is there, and — critically — so is semantic search. Type what you remember, in plain words: “the noise-cancelling headphones review,” “that video about sourdough starters.” Marqly matches meaning across titles, content, highlights, and transcripts, which is what makes a phone-sized screen workable — you never scroll a 2,000-item list, you just describe the thing. Our guide to searching bookmarks with AI shows why this beats folder-diving, especially one-handed.
AI summaries pull their weight on mobile too. Phone moments are short; a summary lets you triage a saved article in the elevator instead of committing to a full read.
Saving from your iPhone
Capture isn’t desktop-only. You can add links to your library from the iOS app itself, and the web app at app.marqly.com works in any mobile browser signed in to your account. Whatever you add from the phone gets the same treatment as a desktop save: AI auto-tagging files it without you deciding where it goes, and summaries are attached so future-you knows what it was.
Boards round out the mobile story. A board groups related links and highlights — gift ideas, an apartment hunt, a trip in progress — and can be shared as a public page that anyone can open without a Marqly account. That makes the phone the natural handoff point: someone asks for your Lisbon restaurant list at dinner, you send the board link, and they’re browsing it before dessert. No export, no screenshots of screenshots.
The practical rhythm most people settle into: bulk capture and highlighting on the desktop, where the extension’s full toolkit lives — quick adds and constant retrieval on the phone. Both feed one library, so nothing depends on which device you were holding when you found something.
One library across iPhone, Mac, and any browser
The iOS app is one door into an account-wide library, not a silo. Sign in once, and everything syncs across your devices: saves made in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox at work appear on your iPhone; on your Mac, the Safari extension covers Apple’s own browser; on any machine, the web app fills the gaps. The rating history backs the desktop half of the pairing up — the extension holds a 4.8 on the Chrome Web Store — and the same account spans all of it, so there’s never a “which app has my stuff” question.
Worth stating plainly, because Apple users often share households with Android users: there is no Android app. The web app works in Android browsers, so an Android phone can reach the same library — but the native mobile experience is iOS only today.
Getting started
- Download Marqly from the App Store — more in our iOS app FAQ.
- Sign up free (no card) or sign in with your existing account; your library appears immediately. The free tier covers the core save-and-search loop; Pro — $48 a year (about $4 a month billed annually) or $8 monthly, with a 7-day free trial — adds features like chatting with your saves.
- Install the browser extension on your computer — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari — so desktop finds flow to your phone.
- Test the loop: save an article at your desk, then find it on your phone by describing it.
Fit note, no varnish: if you’re looking for a phone-first tool and never touch a desktop browser, know that Marqly’s richest features — the highlighter, the YouTube AI card, save-as-PDF, the tab saver — live in the desktop extension, and the app is the companion that makes that library portable. If your saved links currently rot in Safari bookmarks or a Notes file, the app-plus-extension pairing is exactly the cure; see how it compares to phone-capable rivals in our best AI bookmark manager rundown, then try it free.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Marqly iOS app free?
Yes — the app is a free download on the App Store, and Marqly's free tier requires no card to sign up. Pro, which unlocks features like chatting with your saves, is $48 per year (about $4 a month billed annually) or $8 billed monthly, with a 7-day free trial. One account covers the iOS app, the web app, and all four browser extensions.
Is there an Android version?
No — there's no Android app. Android users aren't locked out entirely, though: the web app at app.marqly.com works in Android browsers, so the same library, search, and boards are reachable from an Android phone. But the native mobile app today is iOS only. If Android support matters to you, the web app is the honest current answer.
Do bookmarks saved on my computer show up on my iPhone?
Yes, automatically. Your library lives in your Marqly account, so anything saved through the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari extensions — or the web app — appears in the iOS app when you sign in with the same account. That includes the AI tags, summaries, and highlights attached to each save. Save at your desk during the day, find it from the couch that night.