iBar For Mac

If you don’t clear your browsing history frequently, you likely have thousands of archived pages that can be difficult to sift through when you’re trying to find something. It also doesn’t help that browsers don’t typically offer great history search tools.

iBar was meant to work like a Spotlight for your browsing history, as well as a web search launcher. It works with Chrome, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, and it lets you quickly find specific pages from your history, copy them to the clipboard without context switching, or just launch a new search from your desktop.

The app will only work with your default browser, so it’s not ideal if you use more than one. Once you launch the command window (⌥+Space by default), you will see your most recent page visits and can navigate through them to the one you want.

If what you need isn’t very recent, you can just start typing to see a list of matches from your entire browsing history. These can then be copied to the clipboard, at which point the command window will be closed automatically.

More than just a history browser, iBar lets you search for things on Google without bringing up a browser beforehand. You can search within supported websites that have search functions of their own.

Hotkeys can speed things up, such as holding down Control when pressing Enter in order to trigger a search without navigating to said option in the list. Sadly, however, no other search engines are supported.

iBar is a great tool in the hands of users who don’t clean their search history and need a quicker way to find websites they’ve visited. However, since only the major Chromium-based browsers are supported, Safari and Firefox users can’t rely on it. Also, it would help if it were possible to search multiple browsers at the same time, not just the default one.