Bukku

Bukku is a Spotlight-style launcher to control tabs, open bookmarks and history items across all your browsers.

Open it from anywhere with one global shortcut.

Jump to an active tab, close a tab, open a bookmark, open a history item, copy any link - all from the keyboard.

Works offline. Everything stays on your Mac.
No account. No cloud. No telemetry.

Features

Unified Fuzzy Search

One search bar over tabs, bookmarks, and history. Sub-keystroke matching across thousands of entries.

Scoped Search

Narrow the search scope with a one-letter prefix: {prefix}␣{query}

• b␣ to search bookmarks only
• t␣ to search tabs only
• h␣ to search history only

Tab Management

Jump to or close any open tab from anywhere, without leaving the keyboard.

• Activate - jump straight to any open tab.
• Close - close any tab without switching to it first.

Copy Links

Copy the URL of any tab, bookmark, or history item without opening the browser.*

*The browser must be open for tabs - history and bookmarks copy even when it's closed.

Browser Support

• Safari - full support
• Chrome - full support
• Brave - full support
• Edge - full support
• Vivaldi - full support
• Arc - full support
• Opera - full support
• Firefox - search history and bookmarks only; Firefox doesn’t support AppleScript, so Bukku can’t switch or close its tabs

Built-in Commands

A command palette for quick Bukku actions - type / to see all commands available.

Apple Shortcuts Integration

Query Bukku from your own shortcuts, from Spotlight, or by voice. Each action takes a query (optional, except for Search Browsers) and an optional limit (all results by default), and returns each item with its type, browser, title and URL.

• Get Browser Tabs - open tabs across every supported browser.
• Get Browser Bookmarks - bookmarks across every supported browser.
• Get Browser History - history, most recent first.
• Search Browsers - tabs, bookmarks and history in one search.

Native, Not Electron

SwiftUI + AppKit, Spotlight-native look and feel.

Command Line Interface†

Script Bukku from the terminal, with the same four operations as Shortcuts. JSON by default, --output csv for CSV.

# Once: put `bukku` on your PATH
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /Applications/Bukku.app/Contents/MacOS/Bukku /usr/local/bin/bukku

# Search tabs, bookmarks and history for "github"
bukku search github

# Open tabs, bookmarks or history, optionally filtered
bukku tabs
bukku bookmarks docs
bukku history github --limit 20

†Not available in the App Store version: Apple doesn’t allow sandboxed App Store apps to add a command-line tool.

Tips

• Type a slash (/) to open the command palette.
• Bukku respects macOS sandboxing - grant browser access once in the permissions center.

FAQ