Choosy alternative
A free Choosy alternative with Safari and Firefox profiles
Choosy is a powerful $10 browser chooser with deep rules. If you want profile first routing for free, including the Safari and Firefox profiles Choosy cannot reach, Burly is the alternative to try.
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.
Is Burly a good Choosy alternative?
People looking for a Choosy alternative usually fall into two camps: those who find its rule engine more than they need, and those who want to route to Safari or Firefox profiles, which Choosy cannot do. Burly is built for the first camp and capable for the second. There are no rules to write; you click a profile, or press its hotkey, and the link opens there. If conditional, time-of-day routing is the reason you used Choosy, Burly will feel simpler by design, which may or may not be what you want.
Burly vs. Choosy, feature by feature
| Feature | Burly | Choosy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $10 one-time |
| Opens links in a specific browser profile | ✓ | Chromium only |
| Targets Safari profiles | ✓ | ✗ |
| Targets Firefox profiles | ✓ | ✗ |
| Picker at your cursor | Radial, under the cursor | Menu or list |
| Rules engine (URL, source app, time of day) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Share menu, Handoff, and AirDrop routing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Per-profile keyboard shortcuts | ✓ | ✗ |
| Global hotkey to open a profile (no link needed) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Per-profile emoji, account photo, and color | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free, local, no account | ✓ | Paid, local |
| Native macOS app | ✓ | ✓ |
Feature data verified against each vendor's site in June 2026.
Where Choosy is the better pick
- Choosy has the deepest rule engine here. You can combine conditions across URL, source app, and time of day to route automatically and never see a picker.
- It integrates with macOS Share, Handoff, and AirDrop, so links from those flows route too.
- More than a decade of releases make it stable and well understood.
The verdict
Choosy is the pick if you want heavy, conditional rule based routing and deep macOS integration. Burly is the pick if you want a free, profile first picker with zero rules to write, that also reaches the Safari and Firefox profiles Choosy cannot target, plus per-profile keys and a system wide hotkey for every profile.
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