--- title: "Profile Porter · Every link opens in the right browser profile" description: "A Mac menu bar app that opens every clicked link in the browser profile where you're signed in: Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Firefox or Safari. No rules to write. Windows is coming to the Microsoft Store." url: "https://profileporter.com/" --- # Every link opens in the right browser profile. Make Profile Porter your default browser. Links from Slack, Mail and the terminal go to the profile where you're signed in, in Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Firefox or Safari. No rules to write, and it asks when it isn't sure. [Download](https://profileporter.com/download/) For Mac (Windows soon). €12 once, with a 14-day refund. [See how it picks ↓](https://profileporter.com/#how) How it picks ## It reads the signs you already left. Which profiles are signed in to the site, where you saved the password, where you visit it and type it. It ranks your profiles in about 20 ms and says why. Sign-ins are read from cookie _names_. Saved passwords count by site name only. A tie ## When it's a tie, it asks. Two profiles signed in and used as often? A picker opens where you are, even over full-screen apps. Press 1–9. Tick “Always use Work (Acme) for github.com” and it won’t ask again. Every pick teaches it. Undo ## Undo the wrong one. Wrong profile? Press ⌃⌥Z. The tab moves to the next-best profile, and it remembers. Spotlight ## Your sites, straight from Spotlight. Press ⌘Space and type a site or a profile’s name. The sites you use most in each profile are there, each marked with the profile it opens in. Press Enter and it opens there. Spotlight’s index stays on your Mac. Settings › Privacy turns it off and removes them. Profile order ## Work first at nine. Personal after dinner. The panel lists your profiles by when you use them: Work on weekday mornings, Personal in the evening and at weekends. It learns this from your history, so there are no hours to type in. Prefer another order? Settings › General › Profile order: Most used, Last used, Open profiles first or Alphabetical. What it learned ## See what it learned. Forget any of it. Every pick and every Undo teaches it. Settings › Sites lists each site with the profiles you picked, which app the link came from and when. Forget one site or all of them, or turn a steady habit into a rule with one click. Kept on your computer. An old choice counts half after two months. Privacy ## Your browsing data stays on your computer. It reads history and cookie names from your browsers' own files. It never reads cookie values or passwords, and never uploads anything it reads. ## Small things, done right. The links that usually land in the wrong window. ### Terminal sign-ins `gh auth login` and `aws sso login` open in the profile that's signed in, not a random one. ### Magic links go home An emailed sign-in link opens in the profile you were just on, so the session lands where you asked for it. ### Clean links Tracking parameters come off before the page opens. ### Knows the app Links from your work Slack go to Work. The toast says where each link came from: Slack, Mail, Raycast, the terminal, any app. ### The right Google account Gmail, Docs and Drive open as the account that belongs to the profile. ### Search your profiles Press ⌃⌥Space, type a service, press Enter. It opens where you use it. ### Open a copied link Copy a link anywhere and press ⌃⌥V. It goes where a clicked link would, with Undo, and only asks when it isn't sure. ### Colours that suit you It follows your system: on a Mac, Differentiate Without Colour turns red and green into blue and orange, and Increase Contrast gets its own colours; on Windows, a contrast theme does. Signed in or out always shows an icon too. Or go calm: fewer colours, the same feedback. ### Already open? It comes forward Pick a profile that already has a window open and that window comes to the front, instead of a second one. ### Set up in a minute A short setup on first launch: two permissions and a few choices. Skip it and the defaults just work; everything is in Settings too. ### Find a page again Forgot where you watched that show? Type a word from its title and the panel finds the page, in any profile or browser. Your bookmarks too. Off until you turn it on. ### Rules, when you want them It needs none, but you can add your own in Settings › Sites: a site that always opens in one profile, or every link from an app, like Slack, in Work. ### Hold ⇧ to choose Hold Shift while you click a link and the picker asks where it goes, even when a rule decides or it’s sure. ### A private window Hold Shift as you pick a profile and the link opens in a private window of it. Nothing is learned from that pick. Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox; Safari has none to ask for. ### Straight to the app When a site says its app opens a link, like a Zoom call or a Figma file, the link goes to that app on your computer instead of a browser tab. No list to keep up. The first time, it says so, with “Use the browser instead”. ### Turn it off for a while Click Pause at the bottom of the panel, or right-click its icon in the menu bar or tray. Links open in your browser as they are until you click Resume, without quitting the app. ### Hide a profile An old profile you never pick? Turn it off in Settings › General and it leaves the panel and the picker. Links can still go there when you use a site there. ### Take your rules along Export your rules and what it learned to one file, and import it on another computer, Mac or Windows. Profiles are matched by browser and name. ### From a script or a launcher `profileporter://` links open a link in a profile you name, or the panel with a search: from Raycast, Alfred or a shell script. ### Shortcuts actions “Open URL in Profile” and “Find the Profile for a Site” are in the Shortcuts app, to use in your own shortcuts. ## Works with the browsers you already use. Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers. Firefox profiles and containers. Safari profiles (Safari 17+) on a Mac. - Chrome - Edge - Brave - Other Chromium browsers - Firefox profiles - Firefox containers - Safari 17+ profiles macOS 14 or later. Windows 10 and 11 are coming to the Microsoft Store. ## Pricing €12, once. [Buy a license — €12](https://profileporter.com/buy) [Download](https://profileporter.com/download/) - Everything included, no paid extras - Updates for 1.x - Up to 3 computers, Mac or Windows - No subscription, no account: the key comes by email Not for you? Write to us within 14 days of buying for a full refund. ## Questions ### What does it read? Browser history, the browser's own site-engagement score, cookie names and dates (to tell signed in from signed out) and the site names of saved passwords. Never passwords, cookie values or page content. ### Does anything leave my computer? Your browsing data doesn't. The app goes online for a weekly license check, update checks and a few public lists: web address endings, browser apps, and the link-cleaning rules while “Remove tracking” is on. For a site whose app is on your computer, it reads that site’s own list of apps, and a page or two of yours there, without cookies and at most once a week, to learn which links the app opens. Only if you turn on “Expand short links” does it fetch the list of short-link sites and ask them where a link goes. [The privacy page](https://profileporter.com/privacy/) lists each one. ### Which browsers? Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers; Firefox, old and new profiles and containers; Safari 17+ profiles on a Mac. It needs macOS 14 or later, or Windows 10 or 11. ### Is it safe as my default browser? It only hands a browser web links, never something the browser would take as a setting. Web addresses are compared and shown as they really are, so a look-alike of apple.com can’t pass for it. Updates, and the list of updates, are signed, so the app only installs real Profile Porter releases. ### Is there a free trial? No. Profile Porter is €12 once, and if it doesn’t work for you, you get your money back within 14 days of buying. Until you enter a license, it doesn’t pick profiles: links open in your browser as they are. ### How many computers can I use it on? Up to 3 at once, Mac or Windows. Each activation belongs to its computer, so it can’t be copied to another. To move it, open Settings › License on the computer you no longer use and click Deactivate. ### Does it need to be online? Only now and then. The license is checked once a week and keeps working for 30 days without a check, so a month offline is fine. ### Why does it need Full Disk Access on a Mac? macOS protects the folders where browsers keep their history and cookies. Full Disk Access lets Profile Porter read those files. Windows doesn’t ask for it. Settings › Privacy lists exactly what it reads. ### Does it slow my clicks down? About 20 ms per link, measured on a real Mac. The browser takes longer to draw the tab. ### Can I use it at work? Yes. Keeping work and personal apart is what it's for: work links open in your work profile, everything else in yours. ### Refunds? Yes. If it doesn't work for you, write to [support@profileporter.com](mailto:support@profileporter.com) within 14 days of buying. A refund turns the license off, and so does a chargeback. ## Stop copying links into the right window. [Download](https://profileporter.com/download/) €12 once, with a 14-day refund. macOS 14 or later; Windows soon.