Finicky Alternatives

finicky reviews and mentions

• BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2026

  There is an open source web browser proxy thing called finicky [0]. I use at work that lets me redirect urls clicked in other apps like slack to specific browers (firefox / chrome) or even specific chrome profiles. It'll also allow you to rewrite the urls.

  [0] https://github.com/johnste/finicky

• McLovin: the cross-platform link router
  6 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2026

  On Mac I used Finicky. I switched to Linux with Omarchy almost a year ago and went looking for an equivalent. Junction only asks every time, mimi doesn't carry routing rules. The remaining path was "build your own", and I did. It worked well, with a TUI that paired nicely with Omarchy. Then I thought: this should be a built-in feature on every OS, the same way each OS has a rule for which app opens PDFs. So I decided to do McLovin the right way: a cross-platform router, configurable by anyone, with a browser picker when nothing matches and rules to send every link to the right place.

• [PT-BR] McLovin: o roteador de links multiplataforma
  6 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2026
• Link routing: the feature OSes and browsers pretend isn't there
  9 projects | dev.to | 3 May 2026

  On Mac I used Finicky for this. For anyone who never saw it: it lets you write rules that decide which browser opens each link. You set Finicky as the system's default browser, and it applies your rules to every link clicked in any app, picking the right one. Rules are short scripts in JavaScript, simple or as elaborate as you need. It can even rewrite the URL before opening it: force HTTPS, strip tracking parameters, or convert it into an internal link that opens the desktop app directly. If no rule matches, it falls through to a backup browser you define.

• [PT-BR] Roteamento de links: a feature que SO e browser fingem não existir
  9 projects | dev.to | 3 May 2026
• Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2025

  In addition to making the link look shady, it adds considerable lag to opening the link.

  I'm using Finicky[1] on Mac to rewrite the URL by extracting the original URL from the query params[2].

  1: https://github.com/johnste/finicky

  2: https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/31e3d18fe5f51b2fd8...

• Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2025

  Related: https://github.com/johnste/finicky, “A macOS app for customizing which browser to start”. Write a JSON file to tell it when to open a link in a certain browser, to strip certain strings like utm codes, etc

• Show HN: I built a small utility that handles multiple browser instances for you
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
• Use Finicky to direct urls to multiple Chrome profiles at workplace
  1 project | dev.to | 13 Mar 2024

  Finicky is a macOS utility that allows you to configure rules for directing URLs to different web browsers or browser profiles. Using it to direct URLs to multiple Chrome profiles at the workplace can be useful for separating work-related browsing from personal activities or for managing different projects. With this optimal way, you can gain the benefit of not wasting your time to re-do actions to make it works well with your browser sessions.

• Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023

  I'm currently experimenting with "link eye" from FDroid on Android. There's also [finicky](https://github.com/johnste/finicky) for MacOS.

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