Ask HN: Bookmarklet App for iOS?

1 points by derekzhouzhen 4y ago ↗ HN

I use quite a few bookmarklets on my desktop browsers. However, bookmarklets have serious usability issues on a mobile device, if work at all.

On Android, there is the nice little app called URL Forwarder by David Laurell: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.daverix.urlforward/ that can save the day.

My question is: Is there an equivalent App on iOS that can do the same, which is to forward an URL and optionally the title, to another website with the proper encoding and formatting? A naive search on the Apple app store yield nothing.

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volderette 4y ago ↗

I don’t understand your use case 100% but it sounds like the native Apple Shortcuts app could do the trick. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios

derekzhouzhen 4y ago ↗

thanks. I want to use web apps instead of native apps. So far the easiest approach seems to be asking users to install bookmarklet in a Mac and sync the bookmarks to the iPhone.