When comparing Checkvist Web Clipper vs Pinboard, the Slant community recommends Pinboard for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Evernote Web Clipper to save URLs?” Pinboard is ranked 5th while Checkvist Web Clipper is ranked 9th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Lots of useful features
Pro Keyboard-centric nature
Shortcuts very intuitive.
Pro Keyboard shortcut to invoke clipper
Pro Can specify where to place the stored clip
Pro Clean and minimal interface
Pro Not expensive
Pro A great deal of customizations
Includes CSS tuning for the geeks (or not like).
Pro An ad-free site with no third-party tracking
Pro Cheap
The standard account is $11/year. The pro account ($25/year) provides you:
- A permanent personal copy of every bookmark you save.
- Full-text search of all your bookmarks
- Dead link and error detection
Pro A searchable archive of all your tweets and favorites
Pro Easy tagging
Pro Excellent API
Pinboard has an API that gives you access to all features used in the webapp, so you can build scripts and apps that work against it very easily.
Pro Paid service
The service receives direct income from its customers so it is less likely to disappear overnight like so many free services, taking all your bookmarks with it.
Pro Easy download of all your data
Pro The ability to bookmark by email from your iPhone
Pro A way to save notes and other snippets of text as bookmarks
Pro Built-in sync of links and favorites from multiple Twitter accounts
Pro Built-in integration with Instapaper
Cons
Con It is a URL and notes list manager, NOT a clipper
Con Paid service
Costs $11/year. Many features are available elsewhere for free.
Con Unresponsive support
Don't expect a response from their support email. Developer is very active on twitter, perhaps a tweet might work better.
Con Can't provide service paid for
I paid for an archival account for 5 years; as my subscription was about to end, there was no way to download my archive. The download button accomplished nothing, emails went unanswered, my post to the pinboard google support group was not approved, dm on twitter was unanswered. A public comment on twitter got me a reply that he'd "look into it", then nothing. $100+ down the drain! Save your money and look elsewhere.