The Best Browser Picker for Mac in 2026

A browser picker, sometimes called a link router or browser chooser, sits between a clicked link and your browser. Instead of every link landing in whatever browser macOS has set as default, a picker lets you send each one where it belongs: a specific browser, or better, a specific profile inside that browser. If you keep separate work and personal profiles, a picker is the difference between links that land in the right place and a constant copy-paste-switch dance.

There are several good options on macOS, and the right one depends on whether you want to write rules, click a choice, or never see a prompt at all. Here are the leading picks for 2026, with an honest read on who each one is for. The table below compares the nine best known at a glance, and each app is covered in detail underneath it, along with two newer pickers worth knowing about.

Browserosaurus: the free picker, now retired

Browserosaurus was a free, open source picker that popped up a grid of your installed browsers when you clicked a link, each on a keyboard shortcut. It was friendly and did its one job well. The catch is that it chose browsers, not profiles, so it could not tell your Work Chrome from your Personal Chrome, and it was built on Electron rather than native code. As of 2025 its developer retired the project and archived the repository, so it is no longer maintained. The source is still readable and forkable, but if you are choosing a picker today you want one that is still getting updates. The Browserosaurus alternative page covers what replaced it.

Finicky: scriptable routing for developers

Finicky is free, open source, and the most programmable option here. You describe your routing in a JavaScript config file and Finicky sends each link to the right browser or profile silently, with no picker in the way. It can target Chrome and Firefox profiles and version-control your rules. The trade-off is the config file itself: there is no picker and no automatic discovery, so it rewards people who are comfortable writing and maintaining code.

Velja and Choosy: polished rule-based routers

Velja ($10 one-time, by Sindre Sorhus) and Choosy ($10 one-time) are the mature, paid rule engines. Velja routes links by host or source app, can open links in native apps, and strips tracking parameters. Choosy has the deepest rule engine on macOS, matching on URL, source app, and even time of day, and hooks into Share, Handoff, and AirDrop. Both can target Chromium profiles. Neither can target Safari profiles. If you want automatic, conditional routing and do not mind paying, these are excellent.

OpenIn: route everything, not just web links

OpenIn ($11.99 one-time, or on Setapp) is the most full-featured router on this list. It routes web links, mailto links, phone numbers, and files, with regex URL rewriting and scriptable targets. Like Burly, it can open links in a specific browser profile, including Safari profiles. If you want a single utility to route every kind of link with deep automation, OpenIn is worth the price.

BrowserFairy: rules plus a keyboard launcher

BrowserFairy is a long-running, actively maintained router on the Mac App Store. It routes links by exact domain, wildcard pattern, or source app, and opens a keyboard launcher on Command-Option-B for everything else. It reaches profiles in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Helium, and Opera, but profile routing and unlimited rules are on its Pro tier ($0.99 a month or $8.99 a year; the free tier includes three rules), and its own documentation says Safari profiles are not supported. It is a good fit for rule lovers whose profiles live outside Safari.

Open Link Pro: a browser picker that cleans links

Open Link Pro, listed on the App Store as Open Link for Chrome & Firefox, is the feature-dense option among browser-level pickers. It strips more than 70 tracking parameters, skips AMP pages, routes by website, keyword, source app, or regex, keeps a searchable link history, and ships a Safari extension. It is a free download with Pro at $14.99 a year or $19.99 for life. Its listing names browsers, not profiles, so it is the right pick when tidy links matter more than which profile they land in.

AltBrowse and Openly: newer, simpler pickers

AltBrowse is a new native picker with six picker layouts, one of them radial, plus source-app and domain rules, for free with a $4.99 one-time Pro upgrade. Openly comes as two App Store apps that switch browsers from the menu bar or a Safari extension, and one of them also switches mail apps and webmail. Neither advertises browser profile routing, so both belong with Bumpr in the pick-a-browser group rather than the pick-a-profile one.

Bumpr: a tidy picker for web and email links

Bumpr ($2.99 one-time, on the Mac App Store) shows a small popup of your browsers under the cursor when you click a web link, and offers your email apps instead when you click a mailto link, so it routes email as well as web links. It supports per-domain rules, number-key shortcuts, and browser extensions for right-click routing. Like Browserosaurus, though, it picks browsers and apps, not profiles, so it cannot target a specific browser profile or a Safari profile. If routing email links matters to you and you only switch between whole browsers, it is an inexpensive, polished choice.

Burly: the free, profile-first picker

Burly is a free, native macOS app built around one idea: the profile is the destination. Click a link and a radial picker blooms under your cursor, showing every browser profile on your Mac, each on a keyboard shortcut. It discovers your profiles automatically, with nothing to configure, and it can target Safari profiles, which Velja, Choosy, Finicky, BrowserFairy, Bumpr, and Browserosaurus cannot. It also adds per-profile emoji, colors, and global hotkeys to open any profile without a link, and can send every link to one profile when you would rather skip the picker entirely.

Burly does not have a rules engine, does not route mail or files, and is not open source, so if you want silent rule-based automation, Finicky, Choosy, or OpenIn will serve you better. But if you want a free, fast, picker-first tool that treats every profile as a first-class destination, Burly is the one to try.

Which browser picker should you choose?

If you want the picker out of the way entirely, Burly can always open links in one profile and bring the picker back only when you hold a modifier. Pick Finicky if you are a developer who wants scriptable, version-controlled routing with no picker. Pick Velja or Choosy if you want polished, paid rule engines for Chromium profiles. Pick BrowserFairy if you want rules and a keyboard launcher for Chromium and Firefox profiles, and Open Link Pro if clean, tracker-free links matter more than profiles. Pick Bumpr if you want a cheap, tidy picker that handles email links as well as web links. Pick OpenIn if you want to route every kind of link, not just web links. Browserosaurus was the simple free pick, but it is retired now, so reach for a maintained app instead. And pick Burly if you want a free, picker-first app that routes to any browser profile, Safari profiles included, with zero configuration.