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LinkLane

live macOS since 2026 English & German one-time purchase, no account

A Mac app that opens every link in the right browser and profile: work links in your work profile, personal links in your personal one.

Mac App Store linklane.app

LinkLane's rule list

What you can do

  • Rules by domain

    Send a domain, with or without its subdomains, to a browser and profile. Narrow it to a URL prefix if you need to.

  • Rules by source app

    All links from Slack or Teams open in the work profile, wherever they point to.

  • Choose just once

    Hold fn or Shift while clicking a link to pick a browser for this one link. Your rules stay as they are.

  • Seven browsers

    Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Dia, Firefox and Safari, with fixed profiles and private windows where the browser allows it.

  • Link history

    See which rule opened each link and where it came from, and turn any entry into a new rule.

  • Cleaner links

    Optionally remove tracking parameters and unwrap redirect links, entirely on your Mac.

LinkLane's link history shows the rule and source app for every link

Under the hood

  • Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit. A menu bar app without a Dock icon. Forwarded links never open a LinkLane window.
  • Source app from the Apple Event. LinkLane reads the sender of the “open URL” event and maps helper processes to their app’s bundle ID.
  • Stable profile IDs. Rules store the profile folder (e.g. Profile 3), not its name, so renaming a profile breaks nothing.
  • A helper for the sandbox. The App Store sandbox drops browser launch arguments. A small, notarized helper opens fixed profiles and only accepts requests signed by LinkLane.
  • Local only. No account, no analytics, no server. Rules and history stay on your Mac.

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