How Burly compares

Velja is a polished, well loved browser picker by Sindre Sorhus. It routes links to the right browser, profile, or native app using rules you set per host or per source app, and it can strip tracking parameters from URLs on the way. It costs $8 as a one time purchase, with a free trial.

Choosy is a long running macOS browser chooser with the deepest rule engine of the bunch. Rules can match on URL, source app, and even time of day, and it hooks into AirDrop, Handoff, and the Share menu. It can route to a specific profile in Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi, and costs $10 as a one time purchase.

Finicky is a free, open source, actively maintained browser router for macOS. You describe your routing in a JavaScript or TypeScript config file, and Finicky sends each link to the right browser or profile with no picker in the way. It can target Chrome and Firefox profiles and is endlessly scriptable, which makes it a favorite among developers.

Browserosaurus was a free, open source browser picker for macOS. Click a link and it popped up a grid of your installed browsers, each on a keyboard shortcut, so you could choose where the link opened. It was simple and friendly, but 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. Its developer retired the project in 2025, and the repository is now archived and no longer maintained.

Bumpr is a tidy macOS link picker on the Mac App Store. Click a web link and it shows a small popup of your installed browsers under the cursor; click a mailto link and it offers your email apps instead, so it routes email as well as web links. It supports per-domain rules, number-key shortcuts, and browser extensions for right-click routing. It picks browsers and apps, not profiles, so it cannot target a specific browser profile or a Safari profile. It costs $2.99 as a one time purchase.

OpenIn (OpenIn 4) by Loshadki is the most full featured router on this list. It sends not just web links but mailto links, phone numbers, and files to the app of your choice, with regex URL rewriting, scriptable targets, and a selection dialog when more than one target matches. Like Burly, it can open links in a specific browser profile and can target Safari profiles. It costs $11.99 as a one time purchase, or comes with Setapp.