Marks

A native iOS client for linkding, the self-hosted bookmark manager.

Built from scratch in SwiftUI targeting iOS 26. Replaces the previous Flutter-based app.

Features

  • Browse and search your bookmarks
  • Swipe to delete or archive
  • Add bookmarks manually
  • Share to Marks from any app (share extension)
  • Tag browser — see all tags sorted by count, tap to filter
  • Native search tab with instant client-side filtering
  • AI enrichment via OpenRouter — auto-generates summaries and tags for each bookmark
  • Semantic search — rank bookmarks by relevance using AI
  • Smart Collections — AI groups your bookmarks into themed collections
  • Pagination — loads more as you scroll

Requirements

  • iOS 26+
  • A running linkding instance with API access
  • (Optional) An OpenRouter API key for AI features

AI Features

All AI features are optional and powered by OpenRouter using google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001 — one of the cheapest available models (~$0.075/M input tokens).

Feature What it does
Auto-enrichment Generates a one-sentence summary and 3-5 tags for each bookmark
Semantic search Ranks your bookmarks by relevance to a natural language query
Smart Collections Groups up to 150 bookmarks into 3-6 themed collections

Add your OpenRouter API key in Settings to enable these features.

Building

Requires xcodegen.

brew install xcodegen
xcodegen generate
open Marks.xcodeproj

Then build and run in Xcode. The project uses automatic signing — set your development team in project.yml under DEVELOPMENT_TEAM.

Architecture

  • SwiftUI with @Observable and @MainActor throughout (Swift 6 strict concurrency)
  • LinkdingAPI — thin wrapper around the linkding REST API
  • ClaudeService — OpenRouter client for AI enrichment, semantic search, and collections
  • BookmarksViewModel — central state: bookmarks list, pagination, search, enrichment progress
  • App Groups — share extension and main app share credentials via group.com.magicive.marks
  • UserDefaults — AI summaries and tags cached locally by bookmark ID

Project structure

Marks/
  Models/         Bookmark, ServerConfig, SmartCollection
  Services/       LinkdingAPI, ClaudeService
  Views/          BookmarksView, TagsView, SearchView, SettingsView, …
  Assets.xcassets App icon and assets
ShareExtension/   iOS share extension (zero-tap bookmark saving)
project.yml       xcodegen project spec
Description
Native iOS client for linkding — SwiftUI, iOS 26, AI enrichment via OpenRouter
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