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Show HN: Ulry – Lightweight and fast link archiver app for iOS
Hey HN!
Ulry is a link archiver that allows you to save and organize your favorite links in one convenient place. It uses SQLite under the hood and it does not require any kind of registration. There are many other features like full-text search, ability to add notes to every link and URL redirections, folder, tags and a lot more.
I initially created this project because I couldn't keep up with a lot of HN links that ended up in the front page and that I wanted to read in the future. At the time, I was not able to find a simple link archiver that worked without registration and I hated the fact that almost every link archiver that I tried scraped all the text inside of any URL that I saved just to give me an in-app reading experience that I did not want.
Ulry is very fast, simple and lightweight AND it does not require registration. Under the hood, the app is going to make a simple HTTP request to the links that you want to save and it will parse meta tags like `og:title`, `og:description`, `og:image` and save it in the local SQLite database (that you can export and inspect whenever you want), ready to be shown in the app.
I've been working on Ulry for more than a year as a side project and to improve my iOS skills, mainly for fun. I decided to open-source the project as I have received a lot of positive feedbacks and feature requests but I do not have the time to work on it anytime soon. I've had quite a positive experience in the past with the OS community, plus, I don't want to stop people from improving the product or customise it further with new features or simply learn from it as I consider this to be an intermediate level app. So that's why I'm here!
Disclaimer: At the moment the app misses some crucial features like iCloud sync between devices, but I initially designed the app for myself and my usage and for the moment I am 100% satisfied with it.
If you want to take a look at the app, you can navigate to the very basic webpage that I created for it at https://ulry.app https://ulry.app, there you will also find the App Store link.
I'm eager to find out what you think about the app and hopefully I'll work on it with some of you in the future :)
- subtract-smiles 3y agoI like it! I gave it a try and it does exactly what I would expect from a link archiver. As others have mentioned, being able to store offline versions of pages would be nice, but for me personally it's not a deal-breaker.
- mattrighetti 3y agoThanks for the feedback! I see offline archiving as a potential feature too, I will look into it for sure
- realitylabs 3y agoDoes this have offline archival ability or link to something that does? I struggle with saving links that are then offline when I use them for supplementary research sometimes months or years later and would like to have something that will download the site as well when I add it to the tool..
- mattrighetti 3y agoUnfortunately it does not at the moment, I was working on that feature before jumping onto a new project and I was not able to deliver it in time. It’s probably going to come in the future though
- kranthikc 3y agoLooks promising. Will give it a try.