Release Notes
Features, improvements, and fixes to Plinky
A SMALL bug fix, but I've been working on some BIG features that I REALLY can't wait to show you. :)
Not your ordinary performance improvement, thanks to some intense work Plinky will be much faster now.
A series of small bug fixes that fix certain settings not being updated.
Plinky 4.0 takes organization to the next level!
New Features
Reminders: Never lose track of an important link again. Your links will resurface when you need them, right in Plinky — no to-do list apps required.
Set a reminder for:
• A link you want to show a friend later today.
• A recipe to cook tomorrow at 6 p.m.
• February 29, 2028, at 12:01 a.m. — because you’re already planning for the next leap day.
Pinned Folders & Tags: Tired of digging through Plinky to open your most-used folders and tags? Now, you can pin them to the top for easy access. Whether it’s your reading list, daily favorites, or links for your husband—just pin, tap, and you’re all set.
Customize Folder & Tag Order: Plinky now lets you tailor your workflow to match how you organize links.
You can:
• Reorder Tags and Folders across the interface to fit your preferred workflow.
• Hide Folders or Tags entirely if you don’t use them.
• Plinky adapts to you — whatever your workflow.
Smaller Changes & Fixes
New Shortcut: Get Link Details. Retrieve a webpage’s title, description, URL, and more in Shortcuts without complex web scraping.
Save PDFs: There was a bug that prevented Plinky from saving PDFs, but now you can!
Smarter Folder Navigation: Your current folder now appears as a dropdown in the navigation bar, making it easier to switch between views.
Tags Bar Redesign (iPhone): A cleaner, more streamlined way to browse and remove tags.
Easier Untagged Links Selection: Managing untagged links is now much simpler.
Edit Link Reminder: If you forget to save changes while editing a link, a prompt will help you get back to it.
Noir Theme in the Save Screen: The Save Screen now reflects Plinky’s Noir color scheme.
Recent Links Widget Fixes: The widget now loads all your saved links, even if you have many. If you still experience issues, let us know.
Performance Enhancements: Thanks to Harlan Haskins, Plinky is now faster and smoother across the board.
Discover everything Plinky can do with a brand-new way to explore its features. Trust me, you’ll notice it. 😉
Two new Shortcuts: Open Folder and Open Tag, complementing the Open Link shortcut introduced in Plinky 3.0
Introducing an Undo Save, Save Action. Perfect for those moments when you save a link, but quickly change your mind. (Thank you Suyash for suggesting this!)
Plinky 3.0 — Widget Look At That!
New Features
Widgets Galore: Introducing 27 configurable widget variants, to view your Recent Links, Pinned Links, or the links from a Folder or Tag.
Choose from:
• Small, Medium, and Large widgets for your home screen.
• Lock Screen and Control Center widgets that provide key information at a glance.
• In 13 colors, to match your tastes whatever those may be.
• Configurable with a button that lets you quickly save a link, open a Folder or Tag, or instantly head to search.
Smarter Search: Quickly find your saved links by typing a few letters in your iPhone or iPad's search bar. No need to open Plinky first!
Fresh New App Icons: Ready for iOS 18.
• Plinky's primary app icon is now compatible with iOS 18's dark and tinted modes, ensuring it always looks at home on your Home Screen.
• Even better, every existing app icon has been redesigned from scratch, featuring subtle pops of color.
• I've also added 10 new colorful icons, with a fun style that looks cute as a button on your home screen.
Plinky 2.1 is a fun update focused on reading, fixes, and nice touches.
New Features
Cleaner Reading Experience: You can now choose to open links in Safari’s Reader Mode, for a cleaner reading experience. This isn’t a full offline reader mode yet (that's coming in the future), but it should make many webpages that are littered with ads much more readable.
A new…sletter from Plinky: Links You’ll Love. I'll deliver a nice weekend treat, directly into your inbox. Three heartwarming, thought-provoking, and enjoyable links to read, along with a few funny posts from the internet straight to your inbox. I just thought it would be nice to curate a few articles for Plinky users to read. :)
Smaller Changes & Fixes
There is now an Archived Links Folder, letting you simply view just the links you’ve archived.
The Settings screen has gotten a little face-lift, to make updating your preferences clearer and easier.
There is now a live counter showing you how many links will be displayed on the app icon badge when you select or deselect Folders and Tags/Archived/Unsorted links.
There are five new deeplinks, including three to open screens in Settings. You can now open the Link Customization Screen, App Icon Badge Settings Screen, and the Save Screen Preferences Screen from any automation. You can also open any link in Plinky's browser, or link to Plinky's newsletter (though I'm not sure why you would do that).
The Include Untagged Links button no longer a button, but a simpler toggle.
Fixed a long-standing bug where it wasn’t possible to unselect certain tags that were selected.
When deleting a tag or folder that was currently selected, the tag or folder will now properly be unselected after deletion.
There should be performance and data consistency improvements when saving a link.
Sounds are now disabled by default.
And last but not least, I’ve added more logging to make it easier for me to debug any problems that may arise.
Small tweaks, improvements, and polished up buttons to keep Plinky looking beautiful.
Plinky 2.0 is all about customization. Introducing a Customizable Save Screen, Customizable Long Press Actions, and a Customizable App Icon Badge.
New Features
Customizable Save Screen: Saving links in Plinky has always been quick and easy, today’s update features a power up to the Save Link Screen. Previously when saving a link you could tap the Edit Link button and edit a link’s Title, Notes, Folder, or Tags.
Now there are 3 customizable buttons and 8 actions, all available without ever leaving the Save Link Screen. Build your perfect workflow by assigning these actions:
• Add Link To Folder
• Add Tags To Link
• Pin Link
• Copy Link
• Open Plinky
• Archive Link
• Share Link
• Edit Link
To choose your preferred actions open Plinky’s Settings and tap the Save Screen menu.
Customizable Long Press Actions: Remember all of those actions I mentioned on the Save Link Screen? Good news, they’re all available in the app whenever you long press on a link. The same way you can customize Plinky’s Swipe Actions you can customize the Long Press Actions you’d like to use, to ensure you’re not overwhelmed by a swath of choices.
Customizable App Icon Badges: There are many ways to use Plinky, and none of them are wrong — to me you’re perfect! I’ve noticed that a lot of people are using Plinky as a place to read articles they’ve saved for later, so this improvement is for those people, and the beginning of an upcoming feature. ;)
Previously whenever you saved a link that wasn’t archived, your app icon’s badge (the little number you see on the Plinky app icon) would go up. That isn’t conducive to many people’s workflows, and goes against the spirit of making Plinky the perfect home for your links.
Now you’ll have the ability to customize what Folders or Tags make that number go up, whether to include Unsorted Links, and if that number includes your Archived Links. The best thing about this, it’s… you guessed it… customizable. Want to see how many Unsorted Links you have? No problem. Want to only see your links tagged with Reading List? Consider it done. Go ahead and build your own system.
Smaller Changes & Fixes
You can now Add a Link to a Folder and Add Tags to a Link in one tap. Thanks to Plinky’s new actions it’s easier than ever to organize your links.
The Save Link Screen is easier to exit. If you don’t want to wait for the animations to finish just tap outside of the box, and move on with your day.
Folders are now displayed full width across the app, and tags take up as much space as they need to display all of their text. This improvement means you can always read the name of a Folder or Tag, even if your Folder has a long name like My Private Links — Stay Out Mom.
There was a bug where the titles of color packs looked like COLOR_PACK_PRIMARY or COLOR_PACK_PASTELS, my bad. Thank you Romain and Sophia for letting me know!
Fix for a crash for Plinky specifically on the Mac that could occur with the new empty links screen: thank you Padraic for the bug report.
For those of you who like to get to Inbox Zero, you will now see a simpler screen when you run out of links. It's not as simple as it looks though, I recommend playing with the link and text to see what happens. ;)
Long-pressing on the Plinky logo gives you three quick access options: Re-Sync All Links, Sync Latest Links, and Sign Out. Tapping on it still as always will scroll you to the top of the screen, weeeee.
Adding a new home screen quick action to change your app icon, how whimsical!
There was a crash that would occur on some iPads and Macs when trying to create a new Folder or Tag, it should now be resolved.
Your Plinky ID is now retrievable by using the deeplink plinky:///x-callback-url/actions/lookup?value=plinky_id, which will show a prompt to allow other apps or Shortcuts to access your Plinky ID.
The Folders/Tags sidebar on iPad and Mac was slightly off-color, my apologies for missing that detail.
Links can now be saved from more of Apple's apps such as the App Store, Maps, etc.
Swapped the placement of the Create Folder and Create Tag buttons with the Suggested Folders and Suggested Tags button for the sake of consistency.
Making the Folders and Tags list text a little less bold and a little more nimble.
Moved the Plinky Pro subscription status text to the bottom of the screen so it's not always in your face whenever you open Settings.
Shrinking some file sizes to create a smaller download size.
Support emails no longer say Plinky Beta Support, because Plinky is no longer a beta. They will also say "on macOS" in the operating system field when the iPad app is running on macOS, because it's the little things that matter.
I updated some placeholder text to say Wikipedia page instead of Wikipedia article, you'll have to look around to find out where.
Continuing on the journey of making Plinky easier and easier to use, the latest version updates Plinky's tutorial cards to be even clearer and more obvious with how to get started using Plinky.
I spent the last few days watching people use Plinky and came away with a lot of great suggestions! I've made a bunch of changes that should make it easier to get started with Plinky, which really is what I want you to do. :D
It's now easier to tell how many unarchived links are in a folder or have a tag.
This version swaps the order of the Save Link and Settings buttons in the main menu, to make saving the first option.
It's now easier to tell how many unarchived links are in a folder or have a tag.
Plinky launched! I just didn't tell anyone because I had pre-launch bugs to fix.