When comparing Papaly vs Turtl, the Slant community recommends Turtl for most people. In the question“What is the best alternative to XMarks for syncing and organizing bookmarks across different browsers and devices?” Turtl is ranked 1st while Papaly is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Turtl is:
Turtl has applications for all the major operating systems, as well as Android. In addition, there are extensions available for Firefox and Chrome that cooperate with the downloadable applications.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easily customizable
You can organize your bookmarks however you want.
Pro Great bookmark resource
Simple and well designed bookmarklet with a lot of useful features.
Pro Cross platform
Pro Multiple Platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, Firefox, Chrome)
Turtl has applications for all the major operating systems, as well as Android. In addition, there are extensions available for Firefox and Chrome that cooperate with the downloadable applications.
Pro Open source
The app is licensed under GPLv3 making it open source. This means that anyone can use the code and contribute. This also makes it easy to use on one's own server or for company solutions.
Pro Good security
After assigning a password to your account in Turtl, a key is created to encrypt the entire account. No data is stored on their servers meaning they have no access to unencrypted content. This is a huge leg up when comparing to other Evernote alternatives.
Cons
Con So far impossible to delete account
Menus only give option to deactivate, not delete account. Can't log into helpdesk with main account credentials (as it says you should), so no way of tracking submitted ticket. Deleting account should not require helpdesk input.
Con It is slow on Chrome web browser
A new tab opens slower than on others.
Con No Android App
Con No iOS app
While many other operating systems have a client, iOS does not have one yet (though it is planned).
Con No image embedding
Instead of image embeddings, there's a sort of poor man's substitute: image + description. If you add an image, you can create a description of any size and with all the formatting features. It can be used instead of image embedding but much more limited: only one image and only at the very top.
Con Internet dependent
Requires Internet connection to initiate offline mode, loses access to notes without Internet or server.