Every link, right where it belongs.

BrowThere sits between your apps and your browsers. Click a link in Slack, Mail or Teams and it opens in the right browser, profile or Arc space, picked by your rules or from a picker you call up with ⌥.

Download for macOS View the source Free and open source. Needs macOS 14 or later.
Routing a link

Clicked in Slack

Cleaned

Matched a rule

Opened

·
Waiting for a link
 

Your rulesfirst match wins

Finds the profiles in the browsers you already use

  • CChrome
  • HHelium
  • AArc spaces
  • FFirefox
  • ZZen
  • BBrave
  • EEdge
  • VVivaldi
  • SSafari

Profiles, not just browsers.

Work account in one Chrome profile, personal in another, a client in Helium? BrowThere reads the profiles you already have, with their names, emails and colors, and treats each one as a destination.

  • Found for you in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Helium and other Chromium browsers, and in Firefox, Zen and other Gecko browsers.
  • Arc spaces show up like profiles, and links open as a new tab in that space.
  • Anything else can be added by hand, with a profile folder, a profile name or your own launch arguments.
CGoogle Chrome3 profiles
WWork alex@acme.io PPersonal alex@gmail.com CClient
AArc3 spaces
RResearch SSide project HHome
FFirefox2 profiles
Ddev-edition Ttesting

Rules that read like sentences.

Match a domain, a domain plus a path like gitlab.com/my-group, the full URL, a wildcard or a regex, or the app the link came from. Combine conditions, then send matches to any browser, profile, space or app.

  • Rules are checked from the top, and the first match wins.
  • Open matches in a private window, in Zoom, Figma or Slack, or show the picker.
  • Paste any link into the built-in tester to see which rule catches it.
When a link
Siteis or is undergitlab.com/my-group
Source appisSlack
Open it in
C
Google Chrome
Work · alex@acme.io
Change
Private windowOpen matching links in an incognito or private window.
gitlab.com/my-group/api/-/merge_requests/12 matches

Hold ⌥ and choose.

No rule for it, or want somewhere else this once? Option-click any link and a command bar drops in. Type to filter by browser, profile or email, then press return.

  • ⌘1–⌘9 pick straight away, ↑↓ and ↩ select.
  • ⇧↩ opens a private window.
  • ⌘↩ always opens this site there, by writing the rule for you.
figma.com
Browsers & profiles
figma.com/design/Kq3…/Onboarding Open in Chrome ↩ Private ⇧↩ Always here ⌘↩

Links arrive clean.

Before anything opens, BrowThere unwraps redirect links so your rules see the real site, and drops tracking parameters you never asked for.

  • Unwraps Outlook and Teams Safe Links, plus Google, Facebook, Instagram, Slack, LinkedIn and YouTube redirects.
  • Strips utm_*, fbclid, gclid, YouTube's si and more.
  • Add your own: a name, a prefix*, or domain:name for one site.
You clicked
BrowThere opens

So light you'll forget it's running.

BrowThere is native Swift, with no web view and no timers running in the background. It waits for a link, routes it in a few milliseconds, and goes back to sleep. The whole app is a 2 MB download.

  • Opens at login and stays out of the way in the menu bar, or hidden entirely.
  • A link that's already open in a profile lands as a tab in that window, not a new one.
BrowThere at rest
Memory18 MB
CPU0.0 %
Threads3
Download2 MB
Measured on an Apple Silicon Mac, a few seconds after routing a link.

Set it up in a minute.

Download the latest release, then make BrowThere your default browser. It hands every link to the browser you'd have picked yourself.

Download for macOS
  1. Move it to ApplicationsUnzip the download and drag BrowThere into your Applications folder.
  2. Allow it the first timeIf macOS says it can't be verified, open System Settings, then Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway. Or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/BrowThere.app
  3. Make it your default browserOpen BrowThere and click Make Default. Your current browser becomes the fallback.
  4. Add your first ruleOr just hold ⌥ on your next link and press ⌘↩ to remember the choice.