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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy when link bubble was first released my Google+ feed exploded and that's usually a pretty good indication that it's an application that I should be checking out so in this review we're gonna see if link bubble really is that good so what does link bubble actually do it's a floating window web browser that opens links in the background so you don't lose your spot in whatever it is that you're doing this can be helpful for a number of reasons especially if you surf the web fairly frequently what happens is you find a link and then you click on it and then link bubble will have a little floating icon that lets you know when the target is finished loading there are two ways you can use this application you can have the auto opening abled which will open the website up as soon as it's loaded or you can go into these settings disable the auto open and then the site will load in the background and you can deal with it as you please the developer has recently updated the application to make this easier and the option to change this is now better labeled other than the main function you can share links to practically anywhere in the top-left is your main sharing service which can be changed in the settings to whatever service you want it to be in the top right is the full list of places to share if you're sharing it somewhere else if you want to close a page you literally fling it toward the bottom of your screen to close it if you want to close all of the bubbles you manually drag just one bubble to the bottom and wait for it to say it close all and then let go overall it's a fairly easy and simple application to use once you get the flinging bubbles thing down controlling everything is practically second nature and you can go on with your business while link bubble takes care of links in the background if you're a fan of measuring stats there's even a function that will show you how much time you've saved by not waiting for websites to load link bubbles design is very minimal when you're not using it it's like it's not even there and when you are using it it's just a floating window with a couple of floating icons that you can easily get rid of if you need to everything is organized in a manner that makes sense it takes a second to logically explain why there are two share buttons but really that's just so you can expedite sharing to the service you regularly use which we ended up finding quite useful the big design elements are the controls flinging the bubbles around to make them do your bidding seems a little off-putting at first because you're usually not used to flinging anything around on an Android phone however like we stated earlier once you get used to it you can fly through your open tabs it doesn't take all that long to get used to okay so here's what we liked about link bubble this is truly unlike anything I've ever used before if I were asked if there were apt they could perform the same functionality I would draw a blank because I really don't know of any other ones it's technically a web browser but the way it operates is unlike any other web browser for people who browse on a frequent basis opening up a lot of links at once and dealing with them later is infinitely more preferable to opening a link than going back to the app and then opening another link etc it really does save you quite a bit of time so far we've seen virtually no incompatibility is it opened pretty much all of the content we asked it to without too much of a problem I'm sure there are some sites or video streaming formats that the app doesn't support but we couldn't find them you can customize the share buttons to whatever you want them to be so if you're a Twitter person you can make your quick share to Twitter or if you're a Google+ fan you could make it to Google+ this was a really nice add-on and really helped expedite the sharing process on links that I actually wanted to share perhaps my favorite part of this application is how browser loading times don't really matter anymore if it takes 15 or 20 seconds to load a web page so be it you're not sitting there looking at the blank screen waiting for it to load you can go do your own thing until it's done and then come back and read it and that is something that I thought was really special and here's what we didn't like so much there is a wide gaping chasm between the paid and the free versions I'm not complaining about prices or anything because the price is very reasonable but you can't really experience the brilliance of this application on the free version arguably it's best feature is the ability to open an assemblage of links let them load in the background and then browse them at your leisure the free version limits you to a single tab so users of the free version won't get that experience and that's just a little bit of a shame we did run into some occasional lag and a force closer to it's a new release so it's not that big of a deal and we're sure future stability and performance improvements will rectify these issues but for now they are still there overall this is an amazing application when you fork over the $4.99 for the paid version you will literally cut the time you spend staring at a blank web browser waiting for a page to load to almost zero it makes surfing social media more enjoyable because in my experience I found that I was clicking links I may not have otherwise clicked on because I didn't want to wait around for them to load or worry about losing my place in the other app so it allowed me to have a more rich experience on my current Android device it did have a few very minor issues here and there but most of it will probably be fixed in coming releases between the moment I started reviewing this app and the moment I released this video there have already been at least two updates and that's very encouraging at the very least you should try the free version it doesn't give you the full experience but it does give you an idea of what you're in for and what you're in for is something pretty awesome once again i'm joe hindi the android authority app guys don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel and if you want to follow android authority myself or the rest of the YouTube team you can find our social media links in the video description below if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of awesome videos for you to watch right over there including Josh with regards comparison of the aqwal fine 7 to the Oppo n1 and the Oppo fine 5 finally don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description below for all of the download links as always thank you for watching and have a wonderful day