URL Manager Pro App Reviews

I have used URL Manager Pro for the past 10 years and it is by far my favorite tool on my iMac. I recommend it +++ if you are looking for a way to manage all your URLs in an easy and complete manner. I cant live without it now!

I’ve been using this bookmark manager since power PC and Classic days, love it! No matter which browser tickles my fancy, my bookmarks are always available. I particularly like it with the Camino browser because when I click on a bookmark in the handy drop-down menu, it automatically opens the URL in another tab, without any extra modifier keys, and it does not write-over the other tabs I have open.

Ive used URL Manager Pro since it first came on the market. No other bookmark manager is its equal. It makes it possible to use multiple browsers and have a single bookmark database. You can have several if you wish. You can organize, sort, validate and clean the database to suit your needs. I would be lost without it and was sweating bullets when Lion was released without Rosetta. But Alco Bloom came through and put out an Intel version almost immediately.

When working full screen (Mountain Lion) the app makes weird things, sometimes everything inside disappears. Selecting all bookmarks, when theyre all expanded, makes it crash. It doesnt import bookmarks from the latest Firefox (Italian), exporting to the latest Safari is also glitched.

Ive used URL Manager Pro for years and years and absolutely love it. Because I can use it across multiple browsers, my hundreds of bookmarks are always available. I store the data file on my iDisk and its available identically on work and home machines. I can export an html version and access it on my iPad and iPhone. I recently started using the Menu Bar drop-down option and wonder why I never used it before-its even faster than using the application window! In short, this has been one of those golden programs (sorry, now its an App) that has always lived up to expectations and for which I am happy to pay the reasonable upgrade fees every several years when a major version change is offered.

Its that good an app! Seriously, theres nothing like it anywhere. All my bookmarks, available in all my browsers, all the time, no syncing needed! Well worth many times even the price after September 1!!! ;-)

I have been using URLMP since 2000, running it on Mac OS 9. It has been the best bookmark manager I have tried, and is one of my top utilities. I am so glad to finally have an Intel version. This release means I am no longer using any programs that need Rosetta, so I can now move to Lion. Thanks Alco!

All of my Bookmarks in every browser I use. I have been using for over ten years and have refined my bookmarks and want them in any browser I use. The author provides support after the sale and has plans to improve it yet, so I am glad to pay to upgrade to an Intel version after more than ten years of free upgrades! Alco is like an old friend after all the support he has provided over the years. Support like that and now updated for my Intel machines!

Ive used this app for many years. The only failing is that its not cross platform, since I use Windows as well as Mac. I could ding it a bit because it uses the Services menu instead of a hotkey to make a book mark in Firefox, but thats not a huge disadvantage, merely an annoyance, albeit a continuing one. It also tends to show garbage characters for some characters in the URL. All in all, a nice program that I use a lot.

cant type Chinese characters, please restore.

I owned URL Manager Pro from version 1 in the late ‘90s, and remember it as a very useful utility. These days we have sync services like XMarks to help manage our bookmarks, but as I seem to keep running into sync conflicts, I gave this new version of an old friend a fresh try. First tiny problems: Why on earth are there “Fonts” and “Finder” buttons in the toolbar? I’m not going to change the fonts of my URLs, and finding the Finder is not a problem. The black-and-white menu bar icon is simply ugly. Second, the interface just feels old. Anachronisms include: Instead of a modern interface with a search field in the toolbar, searches open in a drawer that’s giving me Panther flashbacks. I’m supposed to select my HTML editor based upon its nostalgic creator code. But those are all minor issues. The critical problem is that Japanese text (whether imported or manually edited) is immediately mangled into gobbledegook, in a way that I dimly recall from the pre-Unicode bad old days of Mac OS 9. Changing the font has no effect. I haven’t seen that in years — how can that even happen on a modern OS? Whatever the reason, this last problem makes URL Manager Pro 4 useless to me in its current state. Hoping for updates. In the meantime, it’s back to XMarks’ dodgy syncing.

I dont think this is worth the price. I had and am still having trouble getting the hang of it. It needs some work to be more user friendly. Their help guide wasnt that helpful, either. This should be no more than $10.

more of a complaint & venting of frustration as th program crashes each time I try to open it, so no joy for me

I have no idea why this app gets 4 stars, because the User Manual does not match its actual behavior. For example, after loading up the "Sample" document, the user manual shows that under the Extra menu (the URLMP System menu on the upper right), there are supposed to be folders of bookmarks and bookmarks draping downwards in a hierarchy. There is only "URL Manager Pro" with an arrow to the right that shows nothing significant. Another example: the User Guide discusses a nonexistent button to choose a bookmark file to open at app startup. There is no such button in the prefs. There are other major disappointments: why do I have to open a file with a huge window to clutter up my desktop just to see my bookmarks? Why cant the bookmarks simply appear in a hierarchy, and leave the ugly window closed. This developer has been around since before Mac System 7, and should by now have some idea of how to design a user interface. I have worked with this program and its User Guide for 4 hours straight, and am unable to make it behave as documented. If someone can tell me what I am doing wrong, I would appreciate it.

Avoid this program at all cost. Unless you enjoy sorting through bookmarks for hours oganizing them just right; only to have it all disappear without notice. I just wonder how may of those 5 star reviews now wish they had not gave it 5 stars. I only wish I could give it zero stars.

Good to find an a bookmark manager keeps data on your local machine instead of web based. Coming from the PC world, this is the closest thing I could find that works like my old bookmark manager teleport. It would be nice if this manager supported favicons or thumbnails of the webpage to help me remember what the bookmark was about.

Program is still unreliable even after the recent version 4.2 update. Sometimes it works well and other times when you want to access one of your saved Bookmarks all you get is the “beach ball of death”. The only way to get the program to start reliably working is to re-start your computer and “to hope and cross your fingers” that the program will allow you to access your bookmarks! Out of respect for others time and money I cannot recommend this program. Earlier versions (prior to the last two versions or maybe prior to Mountain Lion?) of the program were highly reliable and very useful - NOT ANYMORE. I did try to get support from the program creator but nothing he recommended fixed the program’s buggy behavior.

I have been a user of this program for many years. It broke under Lion. It works intermittently for me lately. It is a fantastic program when it is working correctly.

Sadly, this program is consistently locking up in Mountain Lion when I try to add a bookmark from the menu item. I have used URL Manager Pro for many years. I hope that will continue with an update.

I was a long-time user of this app before Lion, but I havent been able to get it working on Mountain Lion with any consistency, even with direct patch versions outside of the App Store. Looking for an alternative now...