Version: 4.5.1
Operating System: macOS
Developer: OpenIn
Interface language: English
OpenIn - Advanced Link Handler
A menu-bar router for people who keep more than one browser, mail client, or editor, and are tired of macOS sending every click to a single default.
From a click to one app or a short picker
Web links need it as the default browser, mailto addresses are chosen in Mail settings, and a file extension is added in Settings then assigned with Finder's Get Info and Change All. OpenIn then walks an ordered rule list for that handler - Browsers, Mail, Tel, a scheme such as magnet, or a file type - and keeps only the target apps that still match.
Specific rules belong above the catch-all. A Zoom join URL can open Zoom, an Apple Music link can be rewritten to the music scheme, and a company domain can stay in a work profile. One remaining app opens at once. Several remaining apps bring up a compact picker you click or drive with Return, Space, arrows, Tab, number keys, or custom bindings. Holding Command, Option, Shift, Control, or Fn can select a different rule, so an automatic default and a forced choice can sit side by side.
Profiles, mail, files, and scripts
Where a browser exposes a launch path, a target can be a named profile or a private window in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium- or Firefox-based browsers. Profiles that live only inside the browser UI cannot be chosen from outside. A mailto link can open Mail or webmail such as Gmail or Fastmail. File rules can depend on path, the sending app, AirDrop, Handoff, the Share menu, or the browser extension, which forwards a link from the toolbar or context menu unless you opt into broader capture.
JavaScript on a rule or target app can strip tracking parameters, rewrite a URL, or hide apps in the picker. A zsh script can stand in as a target. Searchable history of what opened, and which rule decided it, stays in a local database.
Price, sandbox, and the macOS floor
The Mac App Store edition is $11.99 once, with Family Sharing. That build is sandboxed, so changing defaults and clearing a quarantine flag on a file you trust needs the separate OpenIn Helper. The direct download and Setapp edition skip the helper; licenses do not move between the store and the direct build. The trial always shows the picker. macOS 15.1 or later is required (macOS 14 stops at 4.2.2). Focus rules use a hint string you set in OpenIn and in System Settings, because Focus names are not readable. Those limits are unchanged in version 4.5.1, released 25 September 2026.
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PROS[*]The picker accepts a click or a full keyboard pass, including custom bindings when the number row is already taken.
[*]Rules can key off domain, source app, modifier keys, a Focus Hint, AirDrop, Handoff, the Share menu, or the browser extension.
[*]Named browser profiles and private windows are targets when the browser exposes a launch path.
[*]JavaScript and zsh scripts cover tracking-parameter cleanup and launches that the rule form cannot express.
[*]Searchable history records which rule chose the app, which helps when a link opens in the wrong place.
[*]The App Store price is a one-time $11.99 with Family Sharing, and the direct build skips the sandbox helper.
CONS[*]macOS 15.1 is the floor, so a Mac still on macOS 14 is limited to OpenIn 4.2.2.
[*]The trial never auto-opens a single match; the picker appears on every link until you buy.
[*]App Store and direct licenses do not transfer, and the store build needs OpenIn Helper for several default-handler actions.
[*]Profiles work only when the browser offers an external launch switch; some apps keep profiles inside their own UI.
[*]Focus matching depends on a hint string you maintain in two places, not on the Focus name macOS shows you.
[*]A broad rule placed above a specific one silently wins, so a long scripted list is easy to mis-order.
What's New in 4.5.1 Show details [*][History search] - Finds links when the query is three or more words, and treats ? and * as ordinary characters.
[*][Script failure] - If a script attached to a link or file type fails, OpenIn shows the error and continues routing instead of stopping.
[*][Script editor] - Running a rule's script in the script editor now supplies that rule's apps to the script.
[*][File rules] - Patterns with a stray space or line break around them now match.
[*][Safari profiles] - Links sent to a Safari profile window on another desktop open in that window.
[*][App picker] - The picker no longer waits up to an extra second when opening a link also launches OpenIn.
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OpenIn - Advanced Link Handler 4.5.1 for Mac (19 MB)
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