# Pearltrees review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Visual collections for organizing links, files and notes Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Pearltrees lets you save web pages, files, photos and notes and arrange them in collections that can be public or private. It has web, iPhone and Android apps and a web clipper, and it adds an AI assistant aimed at teachers. - **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks - **Made by:** Pearltrees - **Website:** https://www.pearltrees.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if your collections must stay private on a free account, as they're visible to everyone. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Pearltrees has a free plan, and paid plans start at $2.99 per month, or $29.99 per year. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** A free account to organize and share content; the FAQ says Premium adds advanced features and more storage. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Save web pages, files, photos and notes and organize them in collections. | | Personal | $2.99 per month, billed monthly ($29.99 per year) | 100 AI generations a month, 10 GB of storage, public or private collections, full customization and offline mode. | | Advanced | $4.99 per month, billed monthly ($49.99 per year) | 500 AI generations a month, 100 GB of storage, and archiving of web pages on top of Personal. | | Professional | $9.99 per month, billed monthly ($99.99 per year) | 1,000 AI generations a month, 1 TB of storage, and professional security on top of Advanced. | Read from https://www.pearltrees.com/premium on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pearltrees before buying. ## Key features - **Collections of mixed content:** Add web pages, files, photos and notes to collections, then arrange them visually and set each one to public or private. - **Web clipper:** Add the page you are viewing to your account from the browser. The FAQ says the clipper is available for Chrome and Firefox on a computer. - **Mobile apps:** iPhone, iPad and Android apps can search the web from inside the app, and Android can add content through the Share button. - **Pearltrees AI:** Premium plans include monthly AI generations. The FAQ describes Pearltrees AI 1.0 as designed for teachers. - **Web page archiving:** The Advanced and Professional plans list archiving of web pages that you collect. - **Offline mode:** Listed on all three paid plans, alongside customization of how collections look. ## Good for - People who think in visual maps of links rather than flat folders - Teachers who want shared collections plus an AI assistant - Collecting mixed material, such as files and notes beside web pages ## Worth knowing - The FAQ says collections are visible to everyone on a free account; private collections are a Premium feature. - Web page archiving is listed only from the Advanced plan. - The web clipper is offered for Chrome and Firefox only; the FAQ says the extension cannot be installed on iPhone or iPad. - The AI assistant's 1,000 monthly queries for teachers is a separate allowance from the paid plans' generation counts. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Pearltrees is a place to save web pages, files, photos and notes in collections, with a Chrome and Firefox clipper and phone apps. Free accounts have collections visible to everyone, so private collections cost $2.99 a month. Archiving web pages starts higher at $4.99. - **Value for money: B.** Personal is $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year, which works out to $2.50 a month, the cheaper-quarter line for reading apps. Page archiving needs Advanced at $4.99. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free account saves and organizes content, but the FAQ says collections are visible to everyone. Private collections are Premium, and there's no trial. - **Features: C.** Mixed collections, a clipper, AI, offline mode and apps. Web page archiving is only from Advanced and the AI is capped at 100 generations a month on Personal. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You build and arrange your own collections, which takes some setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS, Android and a Chrome and Firefox clipper, with Facebook and Twitter sharing. No desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Pearltrees's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among read-later and bookmark apps - Pearltrees's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 7 of the 52 other read-later and bookmark apps we grade, and level with 13. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 28 of 52) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $2.50 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $3.33 for the category: 8 of the 32 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/reading ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Pearltrees you could make: bookmarks and web clipper. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 32 of the 52 other read-later and bookmark apps grade higher. It costs $29.99 a year. - You could make: Bookmarks and web clipper: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Facebook, Twitter **Tags:** Bookmarks, Web clipper, AI features, Works offline, Real-time collaboration ## Alternatives - [Raindrop.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/raindrop-io): Bookmark manager with collections, tags and highlights. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pearltrees-vs-raindrop-io) - [Wakelet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wakelet): Visual collections for saving, sharing and presenting links. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pearltrees-vs-wakelet) - [Symbaloo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/symbaloo): Tile-based start page for bookmarks and learning resources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pearltrees-vs-symbaloo) - [Are.na](https://toolgpa.com/tools/arena): Save and connect images, links and notes in shared channels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/arena-vs-pearltrees) - [Pinboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pinboard): Paid bookmarking site with tags, privacy and page archiving. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pearltrees-vs-pinboard) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.pearltrees.com/premium - https://www.pearltrees.com/ - https://www.pearltrees.com/s/faq - https://www.pearltrees.com/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pearltrees Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).