Surfed
Unified History & Bookmark Manager
on macOS, iOS and visionOS
Your unified browsing history with a powerful search.
Surfed is a powerful companion for browsing.
Organise your links and browsing history with Surfed, your personal search engine for your history and links.
With Surfed, finding visited websites has never been easier and faster.
App Features
Surfed is the perfect companion for surfing the Internet. Surfed offers a lot of functions that are not only useful for power users. Below you can see an overview of the main functions of Surfed.
Browser History
Surfed keeps a detailed record of your browsing history, helping you easily revisit or find previously visited web pages. On macOS Surfed records all your browser history on Safari, Chromium browsers like Chrome, Edge, Arc, Brave, Opera and Firefox.
Bookmark Manager
Organize your favorite websites effectively with Surfed’s intuitive bookmark management tools.
Tags
Tag websites faster with latest used tags and an intuitive user interface.
Actions
More than 80 actions helps you to be productive with your links, history and articles.
Statistics
Have an overview of your browsing activities.
Web Automation
Automate web tasks and processes with Surfed’s web automation capabilities.
Listen Later
Have articles from websites you visit read aloud to you and create your own newscast.
Read Later
Read articles from visited websites in a distraction-free mode, even offline.
Spaces
Organise your links and history in different spaces.
Work, home, children, projects, private browsing... all organised separately.
Focus Filter
Select an specific space automatically and focus on these items or toggle Web Trigger execution.
AI Actions
Summarise articles or tag websites with AI actions.
Reminder
Set recurring or non-recurring reminders for Websites.
Widgets
Add a personal widget to your home screen.
Private Search
Safely and securely search through your browsing history with Surfed’s private search engine.
Shortcuts
Surfed will be delivered with a lot of powerful actions to handle your tasks in the background.
Tag Actions
Perform automatically actions when opening a link from a tag list.
Link Formatter
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Screens
Filter History and Lists & Actions
Use multiple filters to find your link and perform actions on it. Multi select allows you to perform actions on multiple links.
Global Search
The global search allows you to quickly find and open links, tags, collections, favourites, lists and spaces. On Mac also from the menu bar.
Statistics
Statistics view shows the sum of all activities for specific time periods. The day view is also available as a widget.
Share Sheet
Quickly assign tags or smart collections to a link. Favourite or flag a website or run actions on it.
History Details
Get details, when of visited a website, how often and how long.
Article View
Get details, when visited a website was visited, how often and how long.
Smart Collections
Smart collections are powerful. You can create your own dynamic website collections with multiple search filters to easily find and access your links and history.
Web Trigger
Run automated actions when browsing websites in Safari.
Gallery
In the Gallery you will find many pre-configured Smart Collections and Web Triggers. Everything is set up with just one click.
Available for
iPhone & iPad & Mac & Vision Pro
- Sync across all your devices (Surfed 2.0)
- One purchase
- Native app
- Multiple windows (iPad & Mac & Vision Pro)
- Keyboard shortcuts (iPad & Mac & Vision Pro)
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Contact meBrowsing history is private and personal. All data is stored only on your device and cannot be viewed by anyone else, including us.
Surfed does not collect analytics and diagnostic data.
Sure! Syncronise all your browsing history, Tags, Collections, Web Trigger and Settings across your devices with iCloud.
Yes! Most actions are available via keyboard shortcuts on the iPad. Long press the command key to get a list of available keyboard commands for the current selection. You can navigate between views with the Tap-Key.
Absolutely! Collections and Tags can be searched via the iOS spotlight search.
Long press on an selected item will show you a context menu with available actions. List items have trailing and leading swipe actions. On the iPad all actions are available via keyboard shortcuts.
Filter
| Filter | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Key Fields (Title, URL, Meta Description) | a:{term} |
| URL | u:{term} |
| Title | t:{term} |
| Meta Description | m:{term} |
| Tag | #{term} |
| Note | n:{term} |
| Article | c:{term} |
| Author | p:{term} |
| Language | l:{term} |
| HTML Source | Web Trigger |
Replace {term} with your search string.
Add a ! before the shortcut to negate the filter e.g. !u:{term}.
State
| Filter | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Flagged | :f |
| Favorited | :s |
| Private Mode | :f |
| Listened | :l |
| Listening | :lg |
| Read | :r |
Date and Time
| Filter | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Today | :t |
| Yesterday | :ld |
| Current Week | :w |
| Current Month | :m |
| Current Day | :d |
| Current Year | :y |
| Current Weekday | |
| Current Hour | |
| Last Week | :lw |
| Last Month | :lm |
| Last Day | :ld |
| Last Year | :f |
| Hour | Select from list |
| Day | Select from list |
| Month | Select from list |
| Year | Select from list |
| Weekday | Select from list |
| Last day of month | Smart setup |
| Last number of days | Smart setup |
| Session Time | Smart setup |
| Morning | :tm |
| Afternoon | :ta |
| Evening | :te |
| At Night | :tn |
Smart setup are only available in Smart Collection and Web Trigger setup.
Location
| Filter | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Device | Select from list |
| Space | Select from list |
Conditions
| Condition | Availability |
|---|---|
| is | Filter, Date, State, Location |
| is not | Filter, Date, State, Location |
| contains | Filter |
| contains not | Filter |
| begins with | Filter |
| ends with | Filter |
| matches regular expression | Filter |
| before | Date |
| after | Date |
| less than | Date |
| more than | Date |
Actions
| Type | Background Action | Notification Action |
|---|---|---|
| Run Shortcut | ||
| Open App Scheme / URL | ||
| Background Web Request | ||
| Copy to Clipboard | ||
| Show Notification | ||
| Perform JavaScript | ||
| Toggle Favourite State | ||
| Toggle Flagged State | ||
| Tag with latest Tag | ||
| Add Tag… | ||
| Tag website with… | ||
| Assign to Space | ||
| Open URL | ||
| Reminder | ||
| App Badge | ||
| Listen Article | ||
| Add Tags with AI | ||
| Summarise Article with AI | ||
| Add Note | ||
| Show Article |
Setup Functions
| Type | |
|---|---|
| Custom Parameter | |
| Custom Color | |
| Comment | |
| Search & Replace | |
| Remove String | |
| Regular Expression | |
| URL Encode | |
| URL Decode | |
| Unshorten URL |
Setup Parameters
| Parameter | |
|---|---|
| URL | |
| Title | |
| Meta-Description | |
| JSON-Dictionary | |
| HTML-Source | |
| URL-Components | |
| Formatted URL | |
| Article | |
| Formatted Article | |
| Author | |
| Language | |
| Reading Time | |
| Session Time | |
| Total Session Time | |
| Daily Session Time | |
| Visits | |
| Favourites as JavaScript-Array | |
| Today as JavaScript-Array | |
| Collection items as JavaScript-Array | |
| Tag items as JavaScript-Array |
Nearly everything can be reached via deep link:
| Item | URL Scheme |
|---|---|
| History | surfed://history |
| Today | surfed://today |
| Favorites | surfed://favorite |
| Top Pages | surfed://statistic/sites |
| Top Domains | surfed://statistic/domains |
| Session Time | surfed://statistic/time |
| Reminders | surfed://reminders |
| Search | surfed://search/*term* |
| Collection | surfed://collection/*name* |
| Tag | surfed://tag/*name* |
| Web Trigger | surfed://webtrigger |
| Device | surfed://device/*uuid* |
| Space | surfed://space/*uuid* |
| Show Article | surfed://article/*uuid* |
| Speak Article | surfed://speak/*uuid* |
| Summarise Article | surfed://summarize/*uuid* |
Replace *uuid* with the UUID of the item or replace *name* with the item name.
Yes, Surfed is localised into English, German, French and Chinese (simplified).
If you find a typo or wrong translation or if you want to add a new localisation, follow this link or contact me.
A Tag Action will be performed automatically if a URL, tagged with this tag, is opened. As part of this action, you can remove the tag from this URL and add new tags to it. This could be very useful for a #Readlater tag. Add this tag to a URL if you want to read it later. Then, when it is opened, you can remove it or, for example, move the URL to a #Done tag.
Yes, you can search your history, collections and tags right from the terminal, without opening the macOS app. Navigate to Surfed.app/Contents/MacOS/surfed-cli.app/Contents/MacOS and run ./surfed-cli to get a help with all parameters.
Feature Comparison
| Feature |
Free
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Pro
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|---|---|---|
| Unlimited Browser History | ||
| Record Safari, Chromium, Firefox history on macOS | ||
| Unlimited Tags | ||
| Spaces with iOS 17 Safari Profiles support |
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| Search Filters | ||
| Multiple Search Terms | ||
| Full-Text Search | ||
| Browser Dashboard | ||
| Article Reader View | ||
| Spotlight Search | ||
| Configurable List Actions | ||
| Hide Items | ||
| QR Code Link | ||
| Link Notes | ||
| Link Actions | ||
| Messages Extension | ||
| iCloud Sync | ||
| Password Protection | ||
| Listen Articles | ||
| Share Article as Audio | ||
| Unlimited Smart Collections | ||
| Unlimited Web Triggers | ||
| Shortcuts Automation | ||
| Focus Filter | ||
| Widgets | ||
| Reminders | ||
| Statistics | ||
| Export | ||
| Tag Action | ||
| AI Actions OpenAI API-Key needed |
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| Print Lists | ||
| PDF Export | ||
| CSV Export | ||
| Blacklist websites from history | ||
| Backup and Restore | ||
| Custom Colours and App Icon |