Set Switchboard as your default browser. Each link then opens in the right browser, profile or private window: by rule, or from a picker at your cursor.
Switchboard sits between every app and every browser. It decides on its own, and asks you only when it should.
In Slack, Mail, Notes, a terminal or any other app. macOS hands it to Switchboard, your default browser.
Work domains go to your work profile. Meeting links go to the browser you trust for calls. The first matching rule wins.
No rule? A small picker opens at your cursor. Press a number and the link opens. Hold ⌘ to turn that choice into a rule.
macOS lets you pick one default browser. Real work needs more than that.
macOS can't target a profile, and Chrome sends outside links to whichever profile it chooses. Switchboard lists every Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera and Chromium profile by name, so you pick the exact one, or make a rule like work.example.com → Chrome · Work.
Set Switchboard as your default browser. Every link without a rule opens a picker at your cursor. Press 1–9 and it opens there.
Yes. Add a rule for the source app: links clicked in Slack go to your work profile, everything else follows your other rules or the picker.
Make a site rule, for example meet.google.com → Chrome, while everything else stays in Safari. Or hold ⌘ when picking a browser and Switchboard saves the rule for you.
Hold ⌥ in the picker, or turn on Private window in a rule. Works with Chromium browsers and the Firefox family.
Switchboard strips tracking parameters such as utm_*, fbclid, gclid and msclkid from every link you open, and unwraps Outlook SafeLinks and Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Slack redirects, all on your Mac.
System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Default web browser. The full walkthrough, with fixes for when it doesn't stick, is in the default browser guide.
Comparing options? See Switchboard vs Velja, Finicky, Choosy, OpenIn and other Mac browser pickers.
Everything you need to stop copy-pasting links between browsers. Nothing you have to babysit.
Opens right where you clicked. Press 1–9, Return for the first row, or Esc to cancel.
Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera and Chromium profiles are read from disk and listed by their real names.
“When a link is on zoom.us and was clicked in Mail, open it in Safari.” Sites, source apps and URL patterns.
Hold Command while picking and Switchboard saves a rule for that site. Most rules get made without opening Settings.
Hold ⌥ for an incognito or private window, or make a rule always open privately. Chromium and Firefox families.
Strips utm_source, fbclid, gclid and other trackers, and unwraps Outlook SafeLinks, Google and Slack redirects before your rules run.
No account, no analytics, no network calls. Settings live in one JSON file you can read, back up or edit by hand.
A native Settings window covers everything: default-browser status, what happens to links without a rule, your rules, and which apps appear in the picker.
| 1 – 9 | Open in that row |
| Return | Open in the first row |
| ⌘ + choice | Open there, and always use it for this site |
| ⌥ + choice | Open in a private window |
| ⌘ C | Copy the link instead |
| Esc | Cancel |
Hold Shift when you click a link to get the picker even when a rule matches.
Download the app, or install it with Homebrew to skip the security prompt entirely.
Homebrew builds Switchboard on your own Mac, so macOS never shows the "Not Opened" dialog.
Prefer to build it yourself? git clone the repo and run ./scripts/build.sh --install.
Click Make Default in Switchboard's Settings and confirm the macOS prompt.
Click any link. Pick a browser, or hold ⌘ to remember it.
I build small, focused open-source tools for the Mac and for AI assistants. Switchboard started as the browser picker I wanted for myself. More of what I build at adityarajsingh.com.
⌘ while picking a browser to create one instantly.~/Library/Application Support/Switchboard/config.json.brew install justadityaraj/tap/switchboard, which builds the app on your Mac.Free, open source, and two minutes to set up.