BookMacster

The Bookmarks Master for your Mac.

BookMacster merges and manages bookmarks among Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Camino, iCab, Opera, Chromium, and OmniWeb, on the web with Delicious, Diigo, Pinboard, and Google Bookmarks, and on into your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, via Apple's iCloud.  When used with an online file syncing service such as Dropbox, BookMacster takes cross-browser bookmark syncing to all of your Macs. BookMacster keeps bookmarks alphabetized (sorted), verified, and checked for duplicates. BookMacster supports tags, comments, and shortcuts.

BookMacster users can add bookmarks directly from within browsers, and access all bookmarks while in any app from their menu bar, and OS X Lion users can access history via Lion's Auto Save and Versions features.

BookMacster is the successor to Bookdog.

What it can do for you…

The Bookmarkshelf you'll create in BookMacster is a document file which not only contains and manages your bookmarks, but also knows the Clients – web browsers and other places where you want them synced with.  BookMacster can synchronize bookmarks with Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Camino, Google Bookmarks, Diigo, Pinboard, iCab, Delicious, Opera and OmniWeb.  Most users combine all of their bookmarks into a single Bookmarkshelf.  By checking a couple of boxes, you can move your Bookmarkshelf into your cloud folder using your preferred cloud-syncing service such as Dropbox, and tell a BookMacster Agent to keep your bookmarks synced across multiple browsers and multiple Macs.  An Agent can also keep your bookmarks sorted (alphabetized), verified, and checked for duplicates.  A typical Agent might automatically import bookmarks from one or more browsers or from the cloud whenever bookmarks changes are detected, merge them together, perform sorting or checking for duplicates, and then automatically export back out to one or more browser apps, and push them back to your Dropbox cloud so that your other Macs will get them.

Besides importing, you can add bookmarks directly to BookMacster using a bookmarklet, or in Firefox and Chrome, a convenient toolbar button or menu item.  And besides exporting, you can access your bookmarks using BookMacster's menulet or Dock menu.

You can search for bookmarks, reorganize, and edit bookmarks' attributes.  BookMacster carefully tracks and stores all these attributes — tags, shortcuts, keywords, descriptions, dates, folder location, and more, so that nothing is lost when importing and exporting back and forth from one browser to another.  In addition to the browser apps on your Mac account, BookMacster can access bookmarks in user accounts on other networked Macs, and in loose files.


Screencasts

Our short screencasts show you how to get BookMacster doing what you want in a few minutes.  Click the word Screencasts, above.

Upgrade from Bookdog

Although Bookdog will continue to be updated when necessary to maintain system and browser compatibility, new capabilities and features will be added to BookMacster only.  Scroll down for the current special introductory price discounts for Bookdog users.  (Bookdog Licensees: In order to obtain your discount automatically, do not delete your Bookdog preferences, and do not use any of those app-deleting or app-zapping apps on Bookdog until after you have purchased a BookMacster license.)  In case you've, oops, already done so, enter your info into our Lost License form , and in the Remarks, request a coupon code for upgrading to BookMacster, so you won't need to reinstall Bookdog.

BookMacster's Help Book contains a Guide for Bookdog Graduates.


Help and Documentation

BookMacster comes with an Apple Help Book in its Help menu.  The Help Book for the latest version of BookMacster is available online, here.  


Trying and Buying

Free Demo (Trial)

Simply download BookMacster and start using it.  When you attempt to save or export bookmarks, click the "Demo" button.  In a few seconds, BookMacster will request, retrieve and install your Demo license which will be good for 3 days.  You may do this 3 times, thus receiving 9 days of active demo time.

What is the Regular License?

The Regular License allows operation of BookMacster on your choice of either (a) one user on multiple Macs or (b) multiple users on one Mac.  You'll also get free updates for at least one year.  This is spelled out in our license.

Pricing

A Regular License for BookMacster is priced at $22.95 USD.  We also offer volume and academic licensing, and the following special introductory pricing for Bookdog licensees:

Time since Bookdog Purchase     Price for BookMacster
Up to 12 months     $0.00 USD
12 to 18 months     $8.95 USD
18 to 24 months     $16.95 USD
over 24 months     $19.95 USD


How do I get my discount for being a Bookdog user?

Automatically, of course!  When you click "Purchase", BookMacster looks for the License Information in your Bookdog preferences.  If found, it is sent to our server which looks up the date of your purchase, and returns an order form with the price as indicated above.


How to Buy?

To purchase a Basic license, launch BookMacster and click in the main menu:

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