Blink

Blink is a small native macOS app that sits between your apps and your browsers. When you open a link from Mail, Slack, Notes or anywhere else, Blink either asks which browser to use or sends the link straight to the browser your rules pick.

What it does

• A compact picker opens next to the pointer with your browsers and the link’s host. Press 1 to 9, use the arrow keys, or click.
• Rules route links by domain and path, for example example.com/team to a work browser. The first matching rule wins.
• It knows browser profiles: Arc spaces, Dia, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Zen and Firefox. A rule can send a domain to one profile.
• When a browser is missing or refuses a link, Blink keeps the link and lets you retry, pick another browser or copy it. It never falls back silently.
• Everything stays on your Mac. Settings live in one JSON file, there’s no history, no network request, and URLs are never logged.

Install

Download the DMG from the GitHub releases, or install it with Homebrew:

brew tap marek-e/blink https://github.com/marek-e/blink
brew install --cask marek-e/blink/blink

Releases aren’t signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so macOS blocks Blink the first time you open it. Open it once, then go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. You only need to do this once.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.