About Burly
Every link has a home. Burly gets it there.
Most people don't run one browser anymore. They run several, split across profiles. Safari for personal, Chrome for work, a separate Chrome profile for development, maybe Firefox for testing. Each profile is its own world of logins, history, and extensions.
macOS never got the memo. Click a link in Mail, Slack, or Terminal and it opens in one fixed default browser, usually the wrong one. So you copy the URL, switch browsers, find the right profile, and paste. All day. Burly exists to delete that little tax.
When Burly is your default link handler, every external link pauses for a fraction of a second to ask one question: where does this belong? A compact, keyboard-first picker lists your browser profiles as the destinations, not just browsers, so the link lands in exactly the right context.
How it works
Profiles are first-class
Burly discovers your installed browsers and every profile inside them, then lists each one as a destination you can pick directly.
Fast and keyboard-first
The picker appears the instant a link arrives. Choose with number keys, arrows, or the mouse. It vanishes the moment you decide.
A bypass for the common case
Hold a modifier while clicking to skip the picker entirely. Skipped links go to your last-used profile, or to one you pin, and the gesture inverts if you would rather pin a profile and hold the key to choose.
Private by default
All routing happens locally on your Mac. No account, no backend, no browsing data ever leaves the device.
Join the Burly community on Discord
Ask questions, report bugs, share your profile setups, and hear about new releases first. It's free to join and open to everyone.
Join the Discord“Private by default” is a promise, not a slogan, so it is written down: the Privacy Policy spells out exactly what Burly does and does not collect, and the Terms of Use cover how the app is licensed.
Built by Matt Senter
Burly is made by Matt Senter, an independent founder and developer who designs, builds, and ships small, focused products end to end. Burly is one of them, a tool he wanted on his own Mac and decided to make properly. No team, no investors, no roadmap by committee: just software built with care and shipped when it's ready.
