Read-later tools come and go, and the ones that stay mostly store a link. If you're picking a new home for the things you save, these are the questions that decide whether the library is still useful later — and how Fav answers them.
A bookmark is a promise that someone else keeps their page online. Posts get deleted, accounts go private, and platform media URLs are signed and expire within hours. Fav copies the images and video into your own storage when you save, so your copy keeps working. If a tool only stores the URL, assume some share of your library will quietly go blank.
The reason saved links go unread is that nothing tells you what they were. Fav writes a title, summary, and tags for every save, and reads text out of images with OCR so a screenshot is searchable text. Ask of any candidate: a year from now, will a list of 500 saves be recognisable, or just 500 URLs?
Keyword search only works when you remember the keyword. Fav searches by meaning — describe the thing ("that article on focus") and it surfaces, with an explanation of why each result matched.
Read-later apps are usually built around articles. A lot of what people actually save now is video and screenshots. Fav treats those as primary: video is kept and playable, images are OCR'd, and every one gets the same AI metadata as a link.
Fav saves photos and video back to your device gallery at the quality you choose, and the account and everything in it can be deleted from inside the app. Check the exit before you commit to any library — including this one.
Not yet — saves are added by sharing into Fav or pasting a link. Bulk import is on the list; if you have an export file you want to bring over, tell us what format it's in.
Partly. It's a library rather than a queue: it optimises for finding something again months later, and treats video and images as first-class rather than article-first.
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