Mail

GitHub review requested on flick#42

Never open the
wrong browser again.

Click a link anywhere on your Mac and it lands where you want it. The right browser, the right app, the right inbox. Rules do it silently, or a picker appears at your cursor and one key finishes the job.

Get flick on the Mac App Store

Free for 14 days, no account, no card. The picker stays free forever.

flick is a Mac app. AirDrop the link to your Mac, or send it to yourself.

Thirty seconds of flick, recorded on a Mac.

No mockups. The picker at the cursor, one key, a rule that sticks, a Safe Link opening clean, email, a Figma link landing in Figma, and rules written as one sentence.

flick 2.0

What happens in the forty
milliseconds after you click.

Every link takes the same short trip. Scroll, and watch this one go through, step by step.

  1. 01

    Unwrap

    Outlook Safe Links, Google and Facebook redirects, YouTube, LinkedIn, Slack and Reddit wrappers and AMP pages are peeled off first, three layers deep if it comes to that.

    → github.com/flick/flick/pull/42?utm_source=mail&fbclid=IwAR2x

  2. 02

    Clean

    utm_source, fbclid, gclid and dozens of their friends are stripped before anything opens. Everything you actually wanted in the address stays byte for byte intact.

    → github.com/flick/flick/pull/42

  3. 03

    Decide

    A rule for the site wins, and a rule pinned to the sending app beats a general one. No rule? Your Focus picks the browser, then work hours, then the habit flick has learned from you. Still unsure? The picker.

    → github.com from Mail → Chrome

  4. 04

    Open

    A browser, or the app that owns the link: Zoom, Teams, Figma, Notion, Spotify, Linear, Discord and Slack open themselves instead of a tab. Email goes to Mail, Outlook, Spark or webmail in the browser you chose.

    → opened in Chrome, 38 ms

  5. 05

    Remember

    Host, browser and sender stay on your Mac, so next time the picker starts on the right one. Full links only if you turn Remember full links on. Forget Everything erases it all in one click.

    → github.com in Chrome, from Mail

When nothing decides for you, you do. One key.

This page is the demo. Click any link below and the real thing appears at your cursor. Number keys open, arrows and Return choose, S scans, 0 opens the app, esc dismisses.Tap a browser to open, or the shield to scan. Tick Always and that site never asks again, on this page too.

Slack, #design

deia The new mockups are up, thoughts before standup?

Messages, team

Standup in 5!

Terminal

$ open

Mail, Junk?

Totally Real Prizes Congratulations, claim inside!!

Press S on this one

Notes, reading list

The utm junk is gone before it opens.

Notes, contacts

Jane, procurement

Email addresses get the same picker. New in 2.0.

No rules yet. Tick Always in any picker, and that site routes itself from then on.

Small app. Deep pockets.

flick 2.0 is the biggest release yet: email, Send this tab, Recents, iCloud rules and Control Center, on top of everything the first version already did.

Email, not just links

Make flick your default email app and every address you click gets the same picker: Mail, Outlook, Spark, or Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail and Fastmail composing in the browser you choose. Write a rule by recipient domain and every message to work opens where work belongs.

Send this tab

Press ⌃⌥S and the page you are reading opens in any other browser: Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera and their siblings. Safari gets a Send to flick button in its toolbar too. Read in one, act in another, without copying a single address.

Rules, the way you talk

Type "send youtube to firefox" and flick writes the rule. Pin one to the app a link came from, and let each Focus pick its own browser.

A router that learns you

The picker preselects the browser you usually choose for a site, and once it is sure, links open silently with a one tap undo.

Apps, not tabs

Zoom, Teams, Figma, Notion, Spotify, Linear, Discord and Slack links open the app itself, offered the first time a matching site shows up.

Link Scan before you click

Press S in the picker and flick follows the redirect chain, names the final destination and flags lookalike domains.

  • Recents and SpotlightEvery routed link, searchable. Full links and Spotlight are opt in.
  • Rules on every MaciCloud syncs your rules through your own account, never your history.
  • Route copied linksPress ⌃⌥L and every link on the clipboard opens through its own rule.
  • Today in LinksA daily digest of where your links went and what a rule could save you.
  • Control Center and ShortcutsEvery tool is a control on macOS 26, a Shortcuts action and a Spotlight action.
  • Built for agentsA local MCP server and a flick:// scheme, so agents open links through your rules.
  • Nine languagesWith a picker in Settings to switch on the spot.

Your hands never leave the keyboard.

Every action in the picker is one key. Open the demo picker, then press any key on the map and watch it act.

Every action in the picker is one key. Here is the whole map.

or just press 2

In the picker

1Open the first browser
2The second
3The third
4 … 9And so on
↑Move up
↓Move down
⏎Open the selected one
SScan the link first
0Open in the native app
⌘0Always in the app
⌘CCopy the clean link
escDismiss, nothing opens

Anywhere on your Mac

⌥ clickForce the picker past any rule
⌃⌥LRoute copied links
⌃⌥SSend this tab

Nothing pressed yet. Try 2, then S.

Nothing leaves your Mac.

No account, no analytics, no server of mine to talk to. Sandboxed by macOS, sold only through the App Store. Here is the complete traffic from one click, and the four things that can ever leave, each behind a switch you flip yourself.

Rules and history
A JSON file in the app's own sandbox container. Hosts and picks, never full links unless you turn Remember full links on.
Settings
UserDefaults, on this Mac.
Claude key and trial date
Your Keychain. Forget Everything wipes the memory and the Spotlight index together.

Read the privacy policy

Traffic, one click
  1. 09:41:02.118github.com→ Chromeyours
  2. 09:41:02.118Analytics0 bytesnone
  3. 09:41:02.118Telemetry0 bytesnone
  4. 09:41:02.118Accountno such thingnone
  5. 09:41:02.118A server of minedoes not existnone
  6. 09:41:02.118App Store privacy labelData Not Collectedevery category
Only if you switch it on
  • Link Scan fetches the page you are about to open, 16 KB at most.
  • Rules sync through your own iCloud. History never does, anywhere.
  • A Claude key you supply, kept in your Keychain. No key, no AI calls.
  • Send this tab reads one address, the front tab's, after macOS asks you once per browser.

Free forever. Pro when you want more.

Every Pro feature is unlocked for 14 days from first launch, automatically. No account, no card. When the trial ends nothing breaks: links keep opening and your rules keep routing.

Free

$0 Forever

  • The picker, at your cursor, keyboard first
  • Tracking cleanup and link unwrapping
  • Default browser and default email setup
  • Up to five rules
  • Every keyboard shortcut

flick Pro

$1.99Per month$14.99Per yearBest value$39.99Once, forever
  • Unlimited rules, and rules in plain English
  • Email routing, and Send this tab
  • Recents, Spotlight, and iCloud rules
  • The learning router, and native app routing
  • Link Scan, Today in Links, Route Copied Links
Start the 14 day trial

The trial starts on your Mac, the first time you open flick.

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in App Store settings. Prices in USD; your storefront shows local pricing.

Questions, answered.

The ones people ask before they install. Everything else is in the support reference, or write to [email protected].

Give every link the right landing.

Set flick as your default browser once. Every link after that goes exactly where you want it.

Download on theMac App Store

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Spotlight results need macOS 15, Control Center buttons macOS 26.

flick is a Mac app. AirDrop the link to your Mac, or send it to yourself.