Help & support

• Download Anchor, open the DMG, and drag Anchor into Applications.
• Open it from Applications. It lives in your menu bar — look for the anchor icon at the top right.
• The welcome window walks you through appearance and importing your Chrome bookmarks.
• Needs macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon and Intel.

The extension lets you save the page you’re on with ⌃⇧B.

• Install the Anchor extension from the Chrome Web Store. It works in Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi.
• Open Anchor at least once after installing it, then restart your browser.
• In Anchor, open Settings → Connections → Show pairing code.
• In your browser, click the Anchor toolbar icon → Settings, type the six digits and press Connect. The code lasts 60 seconds.

⇧⌘B makes text bold instead of opening Anchor. Anchor takes ⇧⌘B while it’s running, which overrides Bold in other apps. Change it in Settings → Shortcuts if you’d rather keep Bold — and check Anchor is running (menu bar icon).

The extension says Anchor isn’t available. Make sure Anchor is open, then quit and reopen the browser completely. If you moved Anchor out of Applications, open it once from its new place so it can tell the browser where it is.

Pairing code rejected. Codes expire after 60 seconds and work once; show a new one. After five wrong tries pairing pauses for five minutes.

macOS says Anchor can’t be opened. Download it again from this site — every release is signed and checked by Apple, so this usually means the download didn’t finish.

A saved page shows only its web address. Anchor reads titles in the background; if the site blocks that, it keeps the address. Edit the title with ⌘E in the launcher.

Anchor checks for new versions once a day and offers to install them. To check now, choose Check for Updates… from the menu bar icon. See what changed in the release notes.

Your library is a single file on your Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Anchor/anchor.sqlite. Time Machine backs it up along with everything else. It never leaves your Mac — see the Privacy Policy.

• Quit Anchor from its menu bar icon, then drag it from Applications to the Bin.
• To remove your library too, delete the Anchor folder in ~/Library/Application Support. This can’t be undone.
• Remove the extension from your browser’s extensions page.

In the app, choose Send Feedback… from the menu bar icon — it attaches your Anchor and macOS versions so you don’t have to. Or use this form:

Email hello@aehbstudio.com. For a bug, it helps to include your macOS version, your Anchor version, and what you did just before it happened.