Open Link Pro left the Mac App Store. Here is a free alternative

Burly vs. Open Link Pro: the quick take

The quick take: Open Link Pro can no longer be bought, so the real choice is what replaces it. If you want its tracker stripping and rules, Velja is the closest match. Burly is the pick if the job is getting links into the right profile, Safari profiles included, and you want it free with nothing to configure.

Other Open Link Pro alternatives

If you are looking for Open Link Pro alternatives now that it is gone, sort them by whether you need profiles. Velja ($10) is the closest match in spirit, with rules, native-app routing, and tracking-parameter stripping, and it adds Chromium and Firefox profiles. OpenIn ($11.99) goes further still, with regex rewriting and Safari profiles. Bumpr ($2.99) is the simple, cheap browser picker. Burly is the free one that routes to profiles, Safari included. Here is the shortlist.

Why people switch from Open Link Pro

The biggest reason is that Open Link Pro is no longer on the Mac App Store, so it cannot be installed on a new Mac and will not be updated for future macOS releases. The other is that the question many people needed answered was not "which browser" but "which profile". Its picker and rules chose between Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, and Opera, and nothing in its listing reached the profiles inside them. Burly costs nothing and routes to the profile itself.

Is Burly a good Open Link Pro alternative?

Open Link Pro was a broad utility, and with its App Store listing gone, existing copies will get no further fixes for new macOS releases. The other reason to look past it is depth rather than breadth. It decides which browser opens a link, and its listing never mentioned profiles, so Chrome is as far as it goes. If one browser holds two lives, a work profile and a personal one, that is the gap. Burly is free, discovers every profile automatically, and treats Safari profiles as destinations. You would give up Open Link Pro's tracker stripping, AMP skipping, regex rules, and link history.

How to switch from Open Link Pro to Burly

1. Download Burly and drag it to Applications.
2. Set Burly as your default web browser in System Settings, under Desktop & Dock.
3. Burly lists every profile in every installed browser, the level Open Link Pro's picker does not show.
4. If you relied on Open Link Pro to strip tracking parameters, keep a cleaning extension in each browser, because Burly passes links through unchanged.

What you give up

Open Link Pro did several things Burly does not do at all. It removed tracking parameters and AMP wrappers before a page loaded, routed by regex or keyword without asking, opened Zoom and Slack links in their apps, and kept a searchable history of links you opened. If those were the reason you bought it, you will miss them, and running Burly means handing those jobs to other tools.

Open Link Pro, listed on the Mac App Store as Open Link for Chrome & Firefox, is a feature-dense browser picker by Cristian Gav. It sits in the menu bar, offers a number-key picker, and routes by website, keyword, source app, or regex. It also strips more than 70 tracking parameters, skips AMP pages, sends Zoom, Slack, Figma, and Spotify links to their apps, keeps a searchable link history, and ships a Safari extension. Its listing names browsers, not profiles. It was a free download, with Pro at $14.99 a year or $19.99 for a lifetime license. As of November 2026 it is no longer on the Mac App Store, so it can no longer be bought or installed there.

Burly vs. Open Link Pro, feature by feature

Features checked against the Open Link Pro site as of September 2026, when version 3.6.71 was current. Open Link Pro was removed from the Mac App Store in November 2026 and can no longer be bought there. Its last listed price: Free; Pro $19.99 lifetime.

Where Open Link Pro is the better pick

• •If you still have it installed, Open Link Pro strips more than 70 tracking parameters, including utm, fbclid, and gclid, and skips AMP pages before they load.
• •Its rules match by website, keyword, source app, or regex, so routine links route without a prompt.
• •It keeps a searchable history of opened links and has a Safari extension for sending the current page elsewhere.

The verdict

Open Link Pro was a good fit if you wanted one app that picks the browser, cleans the link, and remembers it, but it can no longer be bought, and an existing copy will not be updated. Burly is the free choice when the profile is what matters: it sends each link to Work or Personal inside the browser, Safari profiles included, through a radial picker with per-profile keys.

Want them side by side instead? The comparison hub puts every macOS link router in one table, and the Mac link router guide explains what these apps do and how to set one up.