Browserosaurus alternative
A maintained Browserosaurus alternative that knows your profiles
Browserosaurus was a friendly, free, open source browser picker, but it was retired in 2025, and it picked browsers, not profiles. If you need a maintained app that routes to a specific profile, Work Chrome versus Personal Chrome, or a Safari profile, Burly is the free, native alternative to try.
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 Its developer retired the project in 2025, and the repository is now archived and no longer maintained.
Is Burly a good Browserosaurus alternative?
If you are after a Browserosaurus alternative, there are now two reasons. It was retired in 2025 and its repository is archived, so it no longer gets updates, and even while it was active it could only pick between browsers, not profiles. Browserosaurus was a lovely, free grid picker, but it could not tell Work Chrome from Personal Chrome, and it had no concept of Safari profiles. Burly is the natural step up: it is also free, but it is actively maintained, makes each profile a destination, runs as a native app rather than Electron, and adds per-profile emoji, colors, and hotkeys.
Burly vs. Browserosaurus, feature by feature
| Feature | Burly | Browserosaurus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Actively maintained | ✓ | Retired in 2025 |
| Picker at your cursor | Radial, under the cursor | Grid popup |
| Keyboard shortcuts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Opens links in a specific browser profile | ✓ | ✗ |
| Targets Safari profiles | ✓ | ✗ |
| Per-profile emoji, account photo, and color | ✓ | ✗ |
| Global hotkey to open a profile (no link needed) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Modifier-key bypass and routing modes | ✓ | ✗ |
| Native macOS app (not Electron) | ✓ | ✗ |
Feature data verified against each vendor's site in June 2026.
Where Browserosaurus is the better pick
- Browserosaurus was free and open source, and its source remains available to read and fork even after the archive.
- If you only juggle browsers and never profiles, it did that one job simply and well.
- As an archived project it is now stable and unchanging, with no telemetry and no surprises, though also no fixes.
The verdict
Browserosaurus was a lovely free pick if you only needed to choose between browsers, but it was retired in 2025 and is no longer maintained. The moment one browser holds two profiles, Work and Personal Chrome, or two Safari profiles, it could not tell them apart. Burly makes each profile a first class destination, Safari profiles included, stays native rather than Electron, is actively maintained, and adds per-profile keys, a modifier bypass, and global hotkeys.
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