Your Mac makes you dig through System Settings to change your default browser. BrowserSwap makes it one click from the menu bar. Free, because charging for this felt rude.
Loved by people who keep too many browsers on purpose
Changing your default browser on a Mac is a scavenger hunt. Open the menu, pick a browser, done. That’s the app.
Open the menu, pick a browser, done. Links now open where you told them to. Your first ten browsers get ⌘1 through ⌘0, because if you’re going to have a browser problem, you may as well have a fast one.
BrowserSwap scans for every real browser you’ve installed and lists them with their icons. Apps that merely volunteer to handle links — looking at you, terminal emulators — don’t make the cut.
⌘1 through ⌘0 for the first ten browsers. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Arc, Brave, and the other six you swear you’re going to uninstall — all a keystroke away.
This browser from 9:00 to 17:00, that one for the evening, another for whatever you get up to at 2 AM. Each block repeats daily, or fires once on a specific date.
Menu bar only. No Dock icon, no window taking up residence on your desktop. Launch at Login, hide browser icons if you prefer your lists austere, skip preferences once you’re set.
No subscription. No in-app purchases. No “Pro” tier that unlocks the second browser. No ads, no account, no newsletter, no tracking. It changes a system setting and goes back to being a small icon.
Up there. In the menu bar. You’ve done the System Settings scavenger hunt a hundred times. You’ll do it a hundred more, unless you click once.
From the menu bar
Changing your default browser on a Mac is a scavenger hunt: open System Settings, squint at the search field, find the one dropdown that matters, do it again tomorrow. Or you could click once. Links now open where you told them to.
For the compulsively organized
Set up as many time blocks as you like: this browser from 9:00 to 17:00, that one for the evening, another for 2 AM. Each block repeats daily, or fires once on a specific date if you prefer your commitments non-binding.
Outside every block, your primary browser takes over. Boundaries are respected to the minute, and BrowserSwap re-checks the clock when your Mac wakes from sleep... so shutting the lid doesn’t leave you in the wrong browser until Thursday.
The tiny icon with purpose
Launch at Login is one toggle, handled properly through macOS. Hide the browser icons in the menu if you prefer your lists austere. Skip the preferences window at launch once you’ve set things up. Menu bar only, no Dock icon, no window taking up residence on your desktop.
No subscription. No in-app purchases. No “Pro” tier that unlocks the second browser. No ads, no account, no newsletter, no tracking... the app has no idea what you browse and no way to tell anyone. It changes a system setting and goes back to being a small icon.
Download it, set it, forget it. BrowserSwap is a tiny menu bar app that switches your default browser instantly. That’s it. That’s the app.
Download on the Mac App Store