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Getting the sites you live in out of the browser, on a Mac.
Turning a website into an app on a MacBook
How to turn a website into an app on a MacBook, which of the three routes fits, the four tests that decide which tabs deserve their own icon, and what wrapping does not fix.
Turning a website into an app with Safari
What Safari builds when you turn a website into an app, how it differs from a Safari profile, which settings matter, and the three points where the built in route stops being enough.
Open as window is missing from Chrome: what to do
The Chrome create shortcut open as window checkbox is missing because the feature split in two. Where the windowed app option moved, and what it costs on a Mac.
Why Coherence X leans on a Chrome extension
What the Coherence X Chrome extension does, why a wrapper built on someone else's browser needs one, what breaks without it, and how per app extensions work.
Coherence X on a Mac: how it builds apps from sites
What Coherence X actually builds on a Mac: the browser engine it borrows, the extension inside every app, the three app modes, and what a licence covers.
Putting a web shortcut on the Mac desktop
How to create a web shortcut on the Mac desktop, what a .webloc file can and cannot do, and the point at which a shortcut should become a real app window.
How to turn a website into an app
How to turn a website into an app, split by the two jobs hiding behind that phrase: a private app on one Mac, or a shippable app for other people to install.
Nativefier on a Mac in the years after it stopped
Nativefier Mac builds still run in 2026, but every one of them ships Chromium 114 and never updates. What still works, what breaks, and where to move next.