Compass for Windows

User Reviews

• Once the King, sadly abandoned

  lvwolfman--2008January 20, 2013

  Pros

  Small, easy to use and FAST

  Cons

  Hasn't been updated in 12 years, iffy on Windows Vista and newer, doesn't support modern browsers. Developer support is non-existent.

  Summary

  For a decade or more, Compass was my go-to program for bookmark management in Windows. The only program I've found that comes close is Bookmacster which only runs on Macs. If you're still running XP, it is still worth using Compass. But if you haven't yet bought Compass, don't bother. Spend your $25 on something that is supported. I got my $25 worth of use out of Compass, it's time to find a replacement.

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• Didn't do anything- just crashed!

  keimanzeroFebruary 19, 2010

  Pros

  Terrible I hate it!

  Cons

  Does not work and I still have 30K bookmarks to find dupes of and eliminate!

  Summary

  I want something that finds duplicate bookmarks and then gets rid of them for me. This does nothing!

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• I have to vote a 3 Thumbs for this software.

  whocares333January 26, 2010

  Pros

  2 years ago, this was a good bookmark manager. Now....

  Cons

  It doesn't make me happy :(

  Summary

  does what you expect but there are bugs.

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• Still Charging $25 For This One Trick Pony?

  Nick_OhioOctober 12, 2009

  Pros

  Pros - I can only think of pros in prior versions; the latest one seriously hosed me when it lost oh, five hundred or so of my bookmarks, just because... Luckily I had most of them on a floppy...lol (back in the olden days)

  Cons

  The author is clearly out of the loop - no effort to keep this application viable. If you use it, keep in mind it WILL lose some or all of your bookmarks. The $25 is still valid though.

  Summary

  There is no way he should be charging $25 for this program. Take my word for it - stay away at all costs. If he has no desire to maintain this once-powerful tool, or even not answer emails about it, then he should take down the latest version, or turn it over to open source and let someone fix it for today's use. Use at your own risk. Back up your bookmarks before you try it out, if you must. But, it is seriously a lame, dangerous and hard to work with application whose parade has long since passed.

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• Was the best -- no updates

  djadisDecember 10, 2008

  Pros

  Easy to use, great interface

  Cons

  No updates in years, doesn't work with Mozilla well.

  Summary

  I loved this program... Have used it for many years, but they failed to keep up to date. There is no true Firefox support, have to fake it to use Firefox instead of the built in defaults. Needs to be updated, but I'm looking to switch to something else now.

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• After 7 years, corrupted database, no developer response - avoid at all costs!

  Fredo33March 10, 2008

  Pros

  Seven years ago, this was an excellent bookmark manager. But the developer has not kept the product up to date and it has serious flaws.

  Cons

  I have thousands of bookmarks in hundreds of folders. I periodically make backups of the database. Nevertheless, I discovered that about 4 months ago, hundreds of my bookmarks were moved from within my folders to the very end of the folder list - which I had no reason to notice without scrolling to the bottom of the folder list. What a conundrum: lose four months of data, or try to recover the current bookmark file.<p>I contacted the developer, Daniel Liu, daily for four days. No response.<p>With the help of my favorite editor (Vim), I was able to edit the latest bookmark file, remove all unique Compass html tags. I found that many entries not only included meta descriptions, but also javascript embedded in the website header section!! Indeed, some entries included portions of the website html body!. It took hours and hours to clean up the corrupted file. Never again!<p>Based upon ratings, downloads, features, and release frequency, I have selected the following as the top bookmark managers:<p>Link Commander<p>URLBase<p>Bookmark Buddy<p>InBookmarks<p>I am currently evaluating Link Commander and URLBase and will ultimately go with one of these products.

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• harrysamuelDecember 19, 2007

  Pros

  It is a great product, but has not been updated. I can not get it to work with FireFox. I need to cut the url, paste it to Internet Exporer and then save it to Compass. Compass is a great product, does it right. compatiblitiy is its only problem now.

  Cons

  Compass needs updating !!! Charge for the upgrade !!!! But upgrade it, please.

  Summary

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• Still the best

  stu2421August 5, 2005

  Pros

  Nothing beats direct "searching as I type" <p>my 6700 links and notes in 570 folders and <p>getting the info >immediatly<. <p>  <p>Personally I don't need an update and <p>stability only was an issue when i had <p>10000+ links and way too many notes <p>(export took care of that). <p>  <p>Check it out and click around, there's <p>more than first hits the eyes.

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• Good product; last updated in 2001

  May 27, 2004

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  Summary

  Compass was an excellent bookmark manager, but it hasn't been updated since 2001. I finally gave up and replaced it with URLBase.

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• Good concept, but unstable and inconsistent performance.

  March 25, 2004

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  Summary

  Concept and design are very good, but the implementation is poor. Buggy and inconsistent performance under Windows XP. I purchased the product, and have been using it for about 18 months, hoping there would be an upgrade that would resolve its problems. I've given up, and will switch to a different bookmark application.

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