SupaSidebar

About SupaSidebar

SupaSidebar is a beautifully crafted, Arc-inspired sidebar application for macOS designed to transform how you interact with your digital workspace. It acts as a universal command center, seamlessly integrating with your workflow to keep links, files, folders, and apps instantly accessible. Built for professionals, researchers, creators, and anyone who multitasks across browsers and applications, SupaSidebar solves the common pain points of digital disorganization. Its core value proposition lies in fostering a synergistic relationship between you and your Mac, reducing context-switching and keeping you in a state of flow. By placing a powerful, searchable hub just a keyboard shortcut away, it ensures that everything you need—from a recently viewed article to a critical project folder—is available without breaking your concentration. It’s more than just an organizer; it's a collaborative partner in your productivity journey, working quietly in the background until you call upon it, then delivering exactly what you need to move forward efficiently.

Features of SupaSidebar

Universal Command Panel

The Command Panel is your gateway to effortless control. Activated with a simple shortcut (⌘ + ⌃ + K), it allows you to search through everything SupaSidebar manages. Find and open saved links, recent websites, local files, folders, and even applications instantly. You can search within specific websites or open any link in any browser you choose, all from a single, unified interface. This feature embodies teamwork between you and the tool, streamlining actions that would normally require multiple steps across different apps into one fluid motion.

Live Tabs & Recents Overview

This feature provides real-time visibility and effortless recall, creating a cooperative environment for your browsing sessions. Live Tabs shows you every open tab across all supported browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Arc, Brave) in one glance, so you never lose track of your research or work. Meanwhile, the Recents section automatically logs every website you visit in the last 48 hours. Together, they act as your digital short-term memory, ensuring you can instantly jump back to any page without digging through history, making your workflow a collaborative effort with persistent context.

Smart Pins & Organizational Spaces

Keep your essential resources within immediate reach through Pins and organizational Spaces. You can pin your most important links, files, and folders to the top of your sidebar for one-click access. For deeper organization, Smart Folders (powered by tags) and Pro Spaces allow you to categorize and separate items by project, topic, or workflow. This creates a synergistic system where your digital tools are organized exactly to support your tasks, enabling smooth transitions between different work modes and collaborative projects.

Lightweight Native macOS Integration

SupaSidebar is designed as a true citizen of the macOS ecosystem. It runs as a lightweight, native menubar app that blends perfectly with your operating system's aesthetics and performance standards. It stays discreetly out of your way until invoked, ensuring it doesn't drain resources or create clutter. This thoughtful design represents a harmonious partnership with your Mac's environment, providing powerful functionality without compromising the smooth, integrated experience you expect from native software.

Use Cases of SupaSidebar

Academic Research and Writing

For students and academics, SupaSidebar becomes an indispensable research companion. As you gather sources from multiple browsers, you can save articles, journal links, and PDFs directly to dedicated project Spaces with a shortcut. The Live Tabs feature helps manage dozens of open research papers, while the Recents list lets you instantly return to a citation you viewed yesterday. This collaborative organization keeps all reference material unified and searchable, streamlining the writing and synthesis process.

Cross-Browser Web Development and Design

Developers and designers constantly switch between browsers to test compatibility, access documentation, and manage project assets. SupaSidebar facilitates this workflow by allowing you to save and open URLs in any browser from one panel. You can pin your local development server, design prototypes, and GitHub repositories. The ability to see all open tabs across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari in one place prevents tab sprawl and makes context-switching between testing environments a cooperative, seamless task.

Creative Project Management

Creative professionals juggling inspiration, assets, and project tools benefit greatly from SupaSidebar's organizational synergy. You can pin mood boards from the web, save links to brand guidelines, and quickly access local folders containing project files like PSDs or video edits. Using Smart Folders with tags for different clients or campaigns keeps everything sorted. The Command Panel lets you rapidly open design software or project management apps, creating a centralized launchpad for the entire creative process.

Daily Productivity and Personal Organization

For everyday users, SupaSidebar eliminates the friction of daily digital tasks. Quickly save recipes, shopping lists, or travel booking links for later access. Pin your most-used banking site, calendar, or cloud storage folder. The Recents feature is perfect for finding that one news article you saw earlier but didn't bookmark. It acts as a cooperative partner in managing the digital clutter of daily life, ensuring the tools and information you use regularly are always just a keystroke away, saving time and mental energy.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is SupaSidebar a browser extension?

No, SupaSidebar is not a browser extension. It is a standalone, native macOS application that runs from your menubar. It works cooperatively with your browsers through lightweight system-level integration, allowing it to capture URLs, see open tabs, and open links in any browser you choose without requiring a separate extension for each one. This approach ensures broad compatibility and a consistent, system-wide experience.

Which browsers does SupaSidebar work with?

SupaSidebar is designed for synergy with all major browsers. It fully supports Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Brave, and the Arc browser. This multi-browser cooperation allows you to save links from or open links to any of these browsers seamlessly, and the Live Tabs feature will display your open windows across all of them in real time.

What macOS version do I need?

To ensure a smooth and integrated experience, SupaSidebar requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or a later version. This requirement allows the app to utilize modern macOS APIs for its system integrations, keyboard shortcuts, and native design language, fostering the best possible cooperative performance with your operating system.

Where is my data stored?

Your data privacy and security are paramount. All the data you save into SupaSidebar--including your pins, saved links, and organizational structures--is stored locally on your Mac. Nothing is sent to external servers unless you explicitly use a cloud-sync feature in the future. This local-first approach means you retain full control and ownership of your information.

Pricing of SupaSidebar

SupaSidebar offers a straightforward and honest pricing model designed to build trust and partnership with its users. There is a fully-featured Free Forever plan that supports one Space and all major browsers, perfect for daily use, which includes a 7-day trial of Pro features. The Pro plan unlocks advanced functionality for $9.99 per year when billed annually (using the code REPUBLIC50 for 50% off during the sale), which breaks down to approximately $0.83 per month. This plan includes unlimited Spaces for advanced organization, early access to new features, and priority support directly from the developer. All plans are backed by a 14-day money-back guarantee, ensuring you can explore the tool's benefits cooperatively and without risk.