Plinth 0.2.1

Plinth 0.2.1

Plinth now has pin folders, points and levels that unlock new icons and colours, suggested pages when you open the search bar, and password saving that works on far more sign-in pages.

Highlights

• Pin folders. Right-click a pinned site and choose Move to Folder to group pins under one tile. A folder takes one tile's width however many pins it holds, and shows a small mosaic of their icons. Click it to open a tray of its pins; right-click it to rename or ungroup. Folders sync with your pins when iCloud Sync is on.
• Points & Levels. Plinth now gives points for using it: for each day you use it (more on a streak), for sharing your level, for trying a feature for the first time, and a bonus for using it on both Mac and iPhone. Six levels, from Footing to Cornerstone, each unlock an app icon and a matching accent colour. See yours in Settings › Points & Levels. Points stay on your devices, and with iCloud Sync on they add up across them. Private windows earn nothing.
  • App icons. Settings › Appearance & Bar has six icons in the brand colours: Sunrise, Dusk, Meadow, Ember, Midnight and Mono. The icon you pick shows in the Dock while Plinth is running.
  • Brand accent colours. The colour of each level you reach can be used for the current page, buttons and switches, in light and dark.
  • Share card. Share your level as an image with your badge and points. It shows no pages or sites.
• Suggested pages. Open the search bar with nothing typed and Plinth lists the pages you go back to most, above the ones you recently put away. With iCloud Sync on, that includes pages you visited on your other devices.
• Passwords work on many more sites. Plinth now finds sign-in forms that appear late, have no form around them, sit inside a frame, or ask for your user name and password on separate steps, and offers to fill and save there. Sign-up and change-password forms are no longer filled by mistake, a wrong password no longer prompts you to save, and a sign-in with a slow two-factor step still offers to save. A login saved for example.com also fills on www.example.com.
• Passkeys. Sign in and create passkeys on websites, using the passkeys in your iCloud Keychain or a security key. This is the first release with passkeys, so treat it as new.
• Faster resume cards. The "where you left off" card now takes one step to write, so it appears sooner.
• A first page. A brand-new Plinth opens getplinth.dev as its first page, once. Typing "plinth" in the search bar suggests it too.

Fixes

• Search suggestions stay quick with a very long history, and keep up after history arrives from or is cleared on another device.

Good to know

• A chosen app icon shows only while Plinth is running. The icon in Finder and the Applications folder stays Sunrise, and the Dock goes back to it when Plinth quits.
• Changing your Mac's clock can earn extra days of points. Points are for fun, so Plinth doesn't police it.
• With iCloud Sync on, pin folders and points reach your other devices once those run 0.2.1 or later. A Mac still on 0.2.0 keeps syncing pins and simply doesn't show folders.
• Pins are grouped from the right-click menu; dragging one pin onto another doesn't make a folder yet.

Requires macOS 26. The AI features need a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on.

Plinth 0.2.0

Plinth 0.2.0

Plinth now has bookmarks, private windows, sites that fold down to their icon, and iCloud sync you can turn on.

Highlights

• Bookmarks. ⌘D saves the page you're on and shows a small card where you can rename it, pick a folder or remove it. ⌥⌘B opens the Bookmarks panel: search, folders, rename, move and remove. Bookmarks also show up in the command bar under their own heading.
  • Imported bookmarks keep their folders. Importing from Safari, Chrome, Arc or Zen now puts bookmarks in Bookmarks under "Imported from …" instead of spreading them across the shelf.
• Private window. File › New Private Window (⇧⌘N) opens a separate, dark-tinted window with a Private badge. It keeps no history, shelf entries, resume cards or search index, and its cookies and site data are thrown away when you close it. Private pages aren't restored at the next launch and aren't synced.
• Fold a site. Click the icon at the head of a site with several pages to fold it down to just the icon, with a count of its pages. Click again to open it back out. Going to any of its pages another way opens it too.
• iCloud sync. Plinth › iCloud Sync turns on syncing of pins, the shelf and history between your Macs, plus a read-only list of each Mac's open pages. It's off by default and uses your own private iCloud storage. This is the first release that can sync, so treat it as new.
• Search suggestions you can see. As you type a search, suggestions from your default search engine now appear as their own rows, with the part that continues what you typed in bold. Before, they looked like repeats of "Search for …". Private windows don't ask for them.
• Click the pin you're on to edit its address. Clicking a pinned site that's already active opens the address, the same as clicking the page you're on.
• Groups work when you press Group. Pressing Group on a suggestion now moves you onto a page in the group, so the other sites actually leave the bar. Before, the site you were on stayed put and nothing seemed to happen.
• Clearing history reaches your other Macs. With sync on, Settings › Privacy › Clear browsing data now removes the cleared history everywhere, so it doesn't come back.

Good to know

• Bookmarks don't sync between Macs yet.
• Inside a private window there are no pins, no shelf and no reopen closed page. Files you download there stay on disk; only their rows in the downloads tray go when the window closes.
• With sync on, clearing a time range (last hour, today) can miss a page another Mac hasn't uploaded yet. Clearing all time has no such gap.
• Passkeys and Apple Passwords autofill still aren't available. They need an entitlement from Apple, which has been requested.

Requires macOS 26. The AI features need a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on.

Plinth 0.1.2

Plinth 0.1.2

Plinth now has its own password manager, a dark mode, a welcome guide, smarter address-bar suggestions, a History view, and a downloads tray.

Highlights

• Back, forward and reload. Buttons at the left of the bar. Back and forward grey out when there's nowhere to go, and reload turns into stop while a page loads. ⌘[, ⌘] and ⌘R still work.
• Passwords. Plinth offers to save logins and fills them in on later visits, stored in your Mac's Keychain, with no Apple Passwords app needed. Manage them in Settings › Passwords (Touch ID to reveal or copy). Logins only fill on the exact site they were saved for.
  • Import saved passwords from Chrome, Arc and Zen, or from a CSV. Safari doesn't allow other apps to read its passwords, so export a CSV from Safari instead. Chrome and Arc ask for Keychain access. Zen can't be imported if it has a primary password set.
• Dark mode. Settings › Appearance & bar has System, Light and Dark. The bar, shelf, panels and Settings all follow it. Heads up: with System, the bar now follows your Mac rather than each page's colour.
• Welcome guide. The first time you open Plinth you get a short animation and a four-card guide to the bar, the command bar, the shelf and search by meaning, and importing. Replay it any time from Plinth › Show Welcome Guide. Existing users aren't shown it.
• Smarter address bar. Suggestions put the page you most likely want first, collapse the many near-duplicate links to the same page, show at most two history rows per site, and learn from what you pick.
• History. ⌘Y opens a History panel: search, filter by Today / Yesterday / 7 days / 30 days / All or by site, grouped by day, with repeat visits merged.
• Edit the address from the bar. Click the page you're on to open its address with the URL selected, ready to change.
• Sign-in popups work. Pages that open a sign-in or payment window ("Sign in with Google" and similar) now get a real popup window that can talk back to the page, instead of opening a second, disconnected page.
• Shelf: Clear all. Clear everything on the shelf at once, with Undo for 15 seconds.
• Downloads tray. A button beside the shelf shows download progress, speed and time left; open a file, show it in Finder, cancel, or clear the list.
• Smoother. Less work on every layout pass of the bar, while dragging the split divider, and when opening the shelf.
• Versioned downloads. The disk image is now named after its version, for example Plinth-0.1.2.dmg. The usual download link still always gets the newest version.
• Version in Settings. Settings › General has an About section showing the version and build number, with Check for Updates….

Good to know

• Passwords: sign-ins in two steps (username on one page, password on the next) and logins inside frames aren't captured yet.
• Downloads can be cancelled but not paused.
• Plinth updates itself in the background; the new version applies the next time you reopen it.

Requires macOS 26. The AI features need a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on.

Plinth 0.1.1

Plinth 0.1.1

Plinth now has a Settings window, and a few 0.1.0 features that had never been tried by hand are checked and fixed.

Highlights

• Settings (Plinth › Settings…, ⌘,). A window styled like Plinth, with sections for:
  • General: make Plinth your default browser, and choose your search engine: Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Ecosia, Brave Search, or your own URL.
  • Privacy & security: ad and tracker blocking, third-party cookie blocking, always use HTTPS (asks before opening a site that has no secure version), Global Privacy Control, and Clear Browsing Data.
  • Downloads: choose the folder, ask where to save each file, and open safe files after downloading.
  • Startup & pages: restore your last session or start fresh, and choose what a new page shows or set a homepage.
  • Appearance & bar: accent colour, how long pages stay on the bar, default page zoom, and font sizes.
  • On-device AI: the master switch, plus separate switches for search by meaning and page summaries.
  • Import: bring bookmarks and history from Safari, Chrome, Arc and Zen. Plinth has no bookmark folders, so bookmarks are added to the shelf, grouped by site. Arc has no bookmarks file, so its saved sidebar tabs are imported instead; Zen's pinned tabs are not. Safari needs Full Disk Access for Plinth.
• Fixed: Ask About This Page (⌘J) no longer acts on a hidden window when a mini window is in front.

Good to know

• Content blocking and cookie changes are fully applied after a page reloads. Font-size changes affect text sized relative to the page, not fixed pixel sizes.
• Switching "Fade pages to the shelf" re-checks the bar straight away and can put pages away.

Requires macOS 26. The AI features need a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on.

Plinth 0.1.0

Plinth 0.1.0

The first public release of Plinth: a native macOS browser with one floating bar instead of tabs.

Highlights

• The bottom bar. Open pages are listed by name and grouped by website. Drag to reorder them, or drop one page on another to split.
• Adaptive fading. Sites you stop using fade out and drop onto a searchable shelf.
• Pinned sites, split view and peek (⇧-click a link), plus a mini window for links opened from other apps.
• On-device AI with Apple Intelligence: resume cards, ask page / ask site (⌘J) and search history by meaning. One switch turns it all off.
• Group suggestions for sites you keep open together.
• Built-in content blocking, a downloads indicator, find in page and zoom.
• Automatic updates. This version and later ones update themselves.

Requires macOS 26. The AI features need a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on.