Bookdog5.3.21

So either because this app hasn't been updated or because it wasn't intended to do it - it can't import Opera bookmarks and can't even see them. Only Firefox and Safari bookmarks can be imported.

So either because this app hasn't been updated or because it wasn't intended to do it - it can't import Opera bookmarks and can't even see them. Only Firefox and Safari bookmarks can be imported.

OMG omg, we get to go back to BookDog! Which has always been more than enough ... and which was sorely missed. Total bookmark fanatics can always use BookMacster--but this is a unique utility (unfortunately--there should be more bookmark managers for OS X.) Yes, the interface is ... strange ... and there could be a few less clicks, a built in sync-saver instead of having to open a file ... but right now, this is the best. (Please do not *think* of buying URLManager Pro.)

I've been a VERY longtime BookDog user and supporter. SheepDog reports that iCloud sync and BookDog don't play well together, necessitating a side-grade over to their new app, BookMacster. Downloading and trying BookMacster, it seemed to work just fine. But I have to be honest here - seeing the BookMacster interface (a more lively and colorized implementation of the old BookDog interface) reminded me that this app is impossibly complex-looking and non-intuitive for such a simple task set. Maybe this is ingratitude after years of loyalty, but I just didnt want to spend $20 merely to sort my bookmarks - all I really need from BookDog. So I downloaded a free quick n' dirty utility that does it - and that's when I realized.... I guess the fact that SheepDog has been so attached to what has to be one of the worst app icons in the Mac OS world, while its not a crime to love an awful icon (and we have to give them some slack, it's obviously an icon of a beloved pet) this is evidence that they just don't put much stock in making user interfaces that are intuitive, and - dare I say it? - delight the eye. BookDog's interface looks like a Gannt chart for complex project management software, when a simple set of checkboxes could do the same thing faster, easier and more attractively. So, four stars for a great app that does sorting and a whole lot more (particularly, migrating bookmarks between various browser apps), but some points off for a needlessly counterintuitive interface.

The Texas-sized spread of tabs almost made me forget how ugly the app's icon is. Or maybe it was the ugly icon that nearly distracted me from the GUI atrocities. This app works well enough, but it has the mangiest coat I've ever seen.

It's great to see that Sheep Systems is still updating Bookdog even though they have their newer app BookMacster out. I will stay with Bookdog as it (IMO) is better at what it and even BookMacster's intended functions are, less prone to problems (BookMacster is not only more complicated to setup and use; but ruined my bookmark structure (thankfully I had a backup available) so bad that I had to replace the file in Safari (my primary browser). What for me sets Bookdog apart from it's competition (and why partially I keep using it) is it's ability to verify sites still exist, sorting of bookmarks and keeping things organized between various browsers (I know the way it does this mayn't be as well designed (supposedly) as BookMacster; but I find Bookdog's implementation works better and has never (let me repeat that), never ruined my bookmark structure) effortlessly. If Sheep System's can take a single (though I doubt I'm the only one) customer's suggestion, do away with BookMacster, renew Bookdog and leave it that way. The foray into BookMacster was for a valid reason; but it (by user comments) isn't what users seem to want, whereas Bookdog is still going strong (due to user demand) well after it was officially shelved to be replaced by BookMacster.

If you are just looking for something that will sort your bookmarks alphabetically, SafariSort is worth trying: http://www.sullysrants.com/2010/02/safari-bookmark-sorter-app-free/

Typical of this fine developer to include support for something like an Opera beta! I've used this program for several years now, and it has never failed me or messed up my bookmarks, though it's powerful enough to cause problems if you don't get the syncs going in the right direction or don't understand what a "bi-lateral" sync does and the like. Recently, I made a real bonehead mistake on a sync, (my fault - I put the settings wrong) and ended up with thousands of duplicates in Safari. Rather than try to sort it out, I used time machine to get back the Safari folder from earlier in the day. If you have problems, contact the developer. The personal support has always been fantastic.

Good Idea but badly wrapped into a ugly skin. This utility needs a new interface.

Looks like crap, complicated as hell (this is supposed to be a bookmark manager, not a quantum mechanics experiment), but here's to hoping for BookMacster. So far, one of the most useless purchases I ever made. (Or rather: "unused", but the end result is the same.)

Good Gracious! We're up to Firefox 3.6 already! This developer might be the very salt of the earth, but he is like molasses. I have used it, but his tardiness has rendered it unfit for human consumption.

Ok I just realized checking the website that Bookdog will be left to die and replaced by Bookmacster... the way this new piece of software deals with collections seems to be better according to the developer.. I tried the beta.. and I found it more complicated than bookdog and definitely as ugly (I hate ugly interfaces.. especially these days that the MAc has becom so refined in ym view.., so I think I'll be changing once again.. as I have when I stopped using URL Manager Pro years ago... sometimes developers do weird things.. As far as I'm concerned the "Bookmark niche" is once again free for someone who develops a truly great product that synchs all my browsers or I'll do it with scripting.. Webbla looks good it seems but crashes on my system.. and all other offerings are outdated and no good. The singing chairs game has officially begun ;-)

Interface is dog-ugly and so is the icon but Bookdog works very well.. so I guess it does not matter... though I think if it looked really modern it could attract more customers.. looks do matter Mr developer ;-) Anyway... I'm here to ask Flock support !!!!!

WebSense filtering software has this company on its blacklist and blocks all access to it. Reason: The Websense category "Malicious Web Sites" is filtered.   URL: http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/bookdog/

Do not leave home with out it ! Great application.

I have been using Bookdog since it was first released. Without a doubt one of the best little apps to have if you browse the web. Discreet, fast updates, well worth the money. I do not mind the icon as this application has so much substance, and I like the developer.

This is PRECISELY what I have been looking for. I've just scratched the surface, but it's fast and flawless so far. I've got my bookmarks synced between Safari, FF2 & 3 and Camino. It's also checking my bookmarks in the background as I type this. Something I've needed to do for a long time. I hate the icon, though.

bookdog is great!!!!!!! indispensable. it does so much more than alphabetize/sort (at levels one can control) browser bookmarks (it's pitiful that safari doesn't include such a basic feature when it comes to bookmakrs). i do not use most of its features, frankly, but like the fact they are there and at its reasonable price, it's worth it for just the sorting/validation/duplication identification features. developer was very responsive to an unusual request of mine (how to sort by date of creation/modification) with a workaround and upgrades - free - are almost weekly and painlessly installed and BBD relaunched. a must have rich ratzan

Really nice app. Syncs my three browser bookmarks flawlessly and the developer is extremely quick to respond to problems. I had a major glitch with BD unable to read my bookmarks in Firefox 3 beta (Minefield) and the developer spent several days working to find and correct the problem-which, it seems, was unique to me. Any software developer with this kind of response to user problems is NUMBER ONE in my book!

MacZot has a 35% discount on Bookdog today (16 hours left).

Great product-I have used this for a while, comparing it with URL Manager Pro. Both do a great job, but I find Bookdog to be better for my needs. It's simpler to understand, and it's easy to quickly update your bookmarks, sort, and copy as needed. Works well with Leopard. Highly recommended!

I've been using Bookdog for a couple of years. Works flawlessly for ALL my macs with Safari, FireFox and Camino on 'em. Syncing bookmarks between the my three browsers work fine too.

Something must be wrong with or unique to your system or your bookmark files. I have been using Bookdog for months and it's never caused a bit of problem, and I use it with all the browsers you mention. Perhaps you should contact the developer and see if you can get the problem sorted out, as it's certainly not an endemic problem.

Intuitive and easy to use. Does what it says and it's amazing how many obsolete and duplicate bookmarks I just got rid of!

Same issue here - can't install due to privileges problem.

Can't install because pop-up says I don't have the proper privileges, but the app doesn't give me a signin screen!

Good .app. I found the GUI a little non-intuitive and aesthetically insipid. I prefer the cocoa aqua gooey look. To each his own, right. Nevertheless, this .app is an essential to keeping my bookmarks organized. Good features. Stable. I thought it was a little expensive at first but upon further use I relized how much effort the developer must of put in to make this happen. Ugly icon... I replaced it with this http://www.iconfactory.com/preview.asp?type=search&id=218&query=puppy. Overall... Sweet!

Great potential. Personally, my biggest beef is that Bookdog verifies by searching for the full path and not the domain (root) URL. There are a lot of commercial sites out there that use some sort of script when accessing the site. An example is amazon.com where you go to the root URL and the site loads a script so that the URL no longer reflects the root URL. Bookdog isn't sensitive to this and when completing verification wants to change the bookmark URL to reflect the script based URL. This is BAD for sites where the script URL changes often or each time you visit. The bookmark no longer reflects the domain (root) URL and you are forced to enter it manually and change the bookmark back to the "correct" domain URL.

As anyone who uses BookDog knows, it does much more than merely organise bookmarks. Great app - many thanks from a happy registered user.

Firefox has a free bookmark sorter extension

found something easy an apple script someone made, tested it and it works perfectly sorts safari bookmarks http://scottmckaygibson.com/apps/Safari%20Sorter.dmg

I have been using this program since it was SafariSorter. I gladly paid the modest shareware fee when it ceased to be freeware, and the program works beautifully. The developer is continually updating and enhancing the application, and the one or two requests I made to the developer were all implemented in a short time. Unlike some other shareware schemes, there has been no additional upgrade fee between major versions ... my original license still works. The program actually does more that sort bookmarks; it also checks for duplicates and verifies links. The GUI is still a little funky (though, IMO, not hard to use). The app icon has improved dramatically FWIW.

Camino 1.0 has the ability to sort bookmarks and I don't think it will be long before the others do the same.

I first tried this when it was freeware under the name SafariSorter. But I love this thing! I have no regrets buying the license. It runs in the background and I always can easily find my bookmarks...and I have a ton of 'em! I do lots of research and reference in my job. It's easy to use, very user friendly.

I used safarisorter when it was free, then kept using it as bookdog which is not free. To the developer I say "thanks for a great product at a fair price". To his critics that say bookdog should be free I say "you're entitled to your opinion but I do not agree with you". For those folks that cannot get past paying for software, insisting that it be provided at no cost, I ask that you first direct your efforts at the oil industry and get us all free gasoline for life, then come back and work on this developer.

3.0 is a mess; 2.3 is fine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I don't care how much of a spit-polish they put on the interface, they're still asking $15 for a program that sorts my bookmarks. Talk about pricing yourself right out of the market. I'm still waiting for some developer to think up a $29.95 application that shuts down your computer.

This is a must have app, but the new icon is very ... erm ... un-OS-X- like. Please!!!

This is simply a wonderful app and worth every penny. I have been using it since it was the free Safari Sorter and it works flawlessly. I only wish StickyBrain would incorporate the same idea into their software. Thought I'd throw that in since I contacted SBrain's developer and posed the same request. Nothing has changed yet. Oh well...

The revisions of this app are always manifold in a positive way. It happily resides on my Mac's doing what it needs to do in a transparent manner. I grow tired of those who cannot seem to get past the "free" stage of software, as they remind me of those youth who grow up and still believe that mommy and daddy should pay their bills. Too bad as they miss the value of this app, and I am sure many others aspects of life. To the Developer: Please keep up the great work and please ignore the whiners.

I appreciate this piece of software for various and valid reasoning. It, for one, does exactly what it says and does it very well. The developer has been nothing but nice and very pleasant when dealing with me and a few bug/errors I didn't like. Now for the wishy-washy people out their all pushed over because this developer is now asking for a very small a reasonable fee need to get over your greedy ways! Think this developer is wealthy and doesn't need to eat? Well everyone makes a living someway and his small utility is a method of that. Besides $14.95 is going to break the bank huh? I thank you for the utility and had no problem paying for my license :)

I have to agree with the others that state Bookdog is overpriced for the functionality that it delivers. Saft (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12402) has a more reasonable price tag considering Safari bookmark sorting is just one of its many features. I wouldn't pay more than $5 for a product like Bookdog. This might be a moot point because I'm sure eventually the Safari team will include sorting in a future version.

Free to $15, no one gets rich quick and no one is that dumb dude.

I agree with the other recent posts, but I'll be more positive. Wouldn't it have made business sense to keep this free and use it as a honeypot to attract people to your company's website, then sell other titles based on the great advertising of the free software? I would at the most pay $5 for this, but that's a maybe, as out-of-order bookmarks I can still live with, I just order my most frequently visited ones near the top. I am quite sure that someone will be motivated enough and community-minded enough to do their own version for free. You do deserve something for your hard work, but occasionally we all give something back to the community anyway, because everyone benefits that way.

This is a total rip off.

For nearly 15$ I expect an application that can sort and sync bookmarks between all installed browsers with a nicer interface. Also it should make RSS-feed-bookmarks in all browsers.

This revision is very well done. I've used BookDog since the its beginnings, and it does what it does, when it is supposed to do it. The change in its icon is welcome, although I set BookDog (those of you whoa actually use BookDog will know what I mean) and forget it, so I never really see the icon.

This program is remarkably useful! It tends to give a very simple interface yet with powerful results. All aspects of the application are very intuitive. I am a very satisfied user; I highly recommend this program for organizing checking the validity of your bookmarks. A+++

FYI: 1.2 is out today ... and it's cooooooooool! No, I'm NOT the developer. ;-)

Great little utility. The interface shows a great deal of thought and it works as advertised. There's even an uninstaller. Well worth the price.

A must-have complement to Safari 2.0. Bookdog takes all the work out of keeping one's bookmarks and bookmark folders organized. It not only gives you options for what's to be included in the alphabetical sorting of url's and their folders, but it also hunts for duplciates and allows you to choose which, if any to delete. Its developer provides excellent support and listens to suggestions. I used it as donate-ware in its earlier form as SafariSorter and was very pleased that its developer created Bookdog for Tiger and Panther's OS 10.3.9. Respectfully, Norm

Just installed and ran through the registration wizard, and the price comes up as $9.95 so I registered (I agree $19.95 is steep). Works as advertised.

the price of this app is ridiculous - 5 bucks, maybe, but 19.95?

The latest version is 1.1

I just bought it as you get two (2) copies for $9.95, up until the end of this month. Hey, I used the bloody thing for free for a long time, so helping this Developer out was no issue for me.

To expensive and ugly Icon. Was a great app once apon a time.

I tried this app after it was mentioned in the June Macworld (p. 50, "Jerry Krinock's SafariSorter (free [donations accepted]). This makes the price even more offensive because it looks like greed sparked by knowing a mention in a trade magazine means a lot of hits on the Web site. I know the alphabet and will do it myself, saving the $20.

SafariSorter was a handy little utility when it was free, but for $20, I'll take the time and sort my bookmarks by hand. I agree with the previous poster that $5 would have been much more reasonable.

$20??!! Not worth it for me. I can take a couple of minutes and sort bookmarks myself. Too bad. It's a nice little app, and, like a previous poster mentioned, $5 would've been ok -- $20 is way over the top for what this does.

Were all Mac programs this slick and effective, seeking Nirvana would seem like a waste of time. Watching this program do its work is like like watching the little 7UP character say at the end... "Show 'em my motto!"

Very happy with this programme! Thank you!

Does what it's supposed to do and keeps out of the way. Tip: Can force sort order by the old Classic way of adding 1 or more spaces to bring items to top or ~ to send to bottom of list.

I have used this app since it first came out and now it's transparent to me as I let it run in the background, managing my many bookmarks. I am thankful for this app and the political view is not forced upon you at all. I feel it is important to learn all facets of politics, so I hold no grievance toward this Developer.

Jerry, you da man. Thanks for such a useful application.

Fabulous! It just keeps getting better and better!! THANKS

This works great !

Fantastic! I can't tell you how frustrated I've been, and how many times I've emailed Apple about having to sort bookmarks manually. Thank you Jerry. The program works flawlessly. By the way, I agree with you 1000 percent on the payment issue:-)

It works! it's great !!!! Thanks!

This patch is more than bingo