A bookmark manager for macOS
Every tab you meantto come back to.
Anchor puts every bookmark one keystroke away, and shows you the ones you saved and forgot. No folders to dig through, no account, no sync you didn’t ask for.
Imports from
Chrome · Safari · Brave · Edge · Arc · Firefox · Vivaldi · Opera · Zen · and 20 more, or any HTML export
⇧⌘B anywhere on macOS
Spotlight finds anything on your Mac.Anchor finds what you meant to come back to.
They do different jobs. Spotlight indexes the whole machine, which is exactly what you want when you have forgotten a file’s name. Anchor holds only what you chose to keep — links you saved, and documents you added yourself — so the list is short and the top result is usually the one.
It is also the only one of the two that can tell you which of your five thousand bookmarks you have never once opened.
- ↩Type the letters you remember, in orderFuzzy search over titles, sites, tags and collections
- ★Ranked by what you actually openRecency, frequency and favourites — not alphabetical
- @Narrow it with a prefix@github.com · t:swift · f:Work/Design · *fav
Anchor does not index your disk and does not replace Spotlight. It searches the bookmarks you made — web links, and files you explicitly added.
New — file bookmarks
A document you saved and a page you saved are the same kind of thing.
Anchor stores a security-scoped bookmark — macOS’s own reference to a file rather than a path typed into a box. Rename the document, move it to a different folder, and ⇧⌘B still opens it.
Add from anywhere
⌘⇧ODrag a file onto the window, use Add File or Folder…, or paste a path.
Folders count too
A folder is exactly the kind of thing worth returning to.
Filed like everything else
Tagged, put in collections, and searched in the same list as your links.
Survives being moved
The reference follows the file. A renamed document is still one keystroke away.
Bringing things in
Twenty-nine browsers, read straight off the disk.
Anchor reads each browser's own bookmark store where it sits. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is launched, and duplicates collapse on the way in.
- CChromium — Reads the JSON Bookmarks file in each profileChrome · Brave · Edge · Vivaldi · Opera · Chromium · Yandex · Dia · Comet20 browsers
- FFirefox — Reads places.sqlite directly, without launching the browserFirefox · Zen · Waterfox · LibreWolf · Floorp · Tor Browser6 browsers
- AArc — Its own sidebar store, which is not shaped like anyone else'sArc1 browser
- SSafari — Reads Bookmarks.plist — the one import that needs Full Disk AccessSafari · Safari Technology PreviewFull Disk Access
- ↧Any Netscape-format HTML export — the file every browser can produceThe universal fallback, for anything not in the list abovealways
Straight answer on how well-tested this is: Chrome’s and Safari’s profile locations are the two verified against a real machine. The other twenty-seven come from each vendor’s own documentation. Anchor checks that a profile exists before it reads anything, and says so plainly when it can’t find one rather than failing silently.
Organising
Collections that nest, and move where you drag them.
A flat list of folders stops working somewhere around the second hundred. Anchor's collections hold collections, and the sidebar reorders and reparents by drag.
- ↳Nest as deep as it needs to goWork / Design / Grid systems — the whole path is searchable with f:
- ⇅Drag to reorder and reparentIn the sidebar, and from the library onto a collection
- ★Favourites and archive, separatelyArchive takes something out of the way without deleting it
Make it yours
Six themes, each with a light and a dark palette.
Appearance and theme are two independent choices, so every palette exists in both. Change them here — this is the app's own preview, painted from the same colour definitions the real window reads.
Where your data lives
One file, on your Mac, that you can open yourself.
Your library
~/Library/Application Support/Anchor/
A SQLite database. Back it up, copy it to another Mac, or open it with any SQLite tool. Delete Anchor and the file stays exactly where it was.
- ∅No account, at any pointNo sign-up, no email required, no server to sign in to
- ◦No trackingAnonymous download counts only; usage stats only if you opt in
- ⌥Works with no network at allSearching, opening and saving never touch the internet
- ⇄The extension talks to the app, not a serverOver a local socket, with a token in your Keychain you can revoke
Early access
Free while it’s early.
Anchor is free during early access — the whole app, no card, no account. It will become a paid subscription later; you’ll hear well before anything changes, and everything you saved stays yours whatever happens.
| What you can do | NOWEarly accessFreeno card |
|---|---|
| Search and open everything you've savedThe ⇧⌘B launcher, the library window, the ranker | yes |
| Edit, tag, file and archive | yes |
| Your library filePlain SQLite on your Mac — yours either way | yes |
| Save new bookmarksFrom the extension, the launcher or an import | yes |
Everything, free for now. Anchor becomes a paid subscription later, with plenty of notice first — and nothing you saved is ever locked, hidden or deleted.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel