Frequently asked questions

Yes. Satori is free to download and use.

Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later. There is no Intel build.

Download Satori.dmg, open it, and drag Satori into Applications. If your Dock has been customized, Satori adds itself to it once.

No. Ads and trackers are blocked and cookie banners are closed from the first launch. The Welcome then offers a few choices: a search engine and what to bring over, a theme, where the tabs go, a Soundscape and an icon, and, on macOS 15.4 or later, where passwords live. Every step can be skipped. Welcome… in the Satori menu opens it again.

Yes, from Chrome, Arc, Dia, Brave, Edge, Opera, and other Chromium browsers. Satori does not import from Safari. Import passwords from Passwords, and bookmarks from the bookmarks window: choose your browser, and macOS asks once for permission to read its keychain entry for passwords. Bookmarks from any browser, Safari and Firefox included, come in through Import from File… as an HTML file. Passwords can also come in from a CSV file.

Arc stops working on December 22, 2026. Satori can import your Arc passwords, bookmarks, and Spaces with their pinned tabs, and it has tabs down the side. The Arc page lists what comes over and what does not.

No. There is no sign-in, no sync, no telemetry, and no crash reporting. Satori sends no analytics.

The pages you ask for, their icons, and update checks to brandkit.pro. Updates download from GitHub. Two things can happen before you press Return: on a blank tab, Satori starts loading the page it suggests from your history, and if you type a single word Satori doesn't recognize, it checks whether that word is a .com address. The full list is on the Privacy page.

Not before you press Return. Search words go to the search engine only after you press Return. The one exception is a single word that is not in the dictionary: Satori looks up that word with .com added, so your DNS resolver sees the name.

In encrypted files under ~/Library/Application Support/Satori/. The key sits in your login keychain, so the files are protected from other apps and other macOS accounts. Settings, site icons, extensions, and the data websites store (cookies, caches) are not encrypted by Satori.

No. Saved passwords are offered under the address field, and a password fills in only after you click its account. The one exception is a sign-in dialog for a password-protected folder. When there is one saved login for that site, Satori answers the dialog, but only over https.

In your login keychain, as internet passwords labeled Satori. During an import, macOS asks once for permission to read the other browser's keychain entry. Nothing changes there.

Yes, by default. To turn blocking off for one site, click the Shield button in the address field. Satori also answers "no" to cookie banners. To leave one site's banner alone, switch off Close cookie banners on that site in the same Shield button.

Run the EFF's Cover Your Tracks test in Satori. It checks tracking ads, invisible trackers and fingerprinting, and shows the result on one page. Run the test yourself.

Nothing in history, downloads, or bookmarks. The one exception is an element you hide in a private tab, which stays hidden the next time you open that site privately.

It does not trust that certificate for every site. Satori trusts the Russian Ministry of Digital Development's root only for addresses ending in .ru, .su, and .рф. You can turn this off in Settings › Privacy & Security.

Idle tabs sleep after half an hour and give their memory back. Pinned tabs and tabs set to Keep Awake stay awake.

Satori has no battery setting, and it does not publish a battery figure. It cuts idle work instead: idle tabs sleep, and a tab out of sight gets fewer timers.

WebKit is the engine macOS already includes, and Safari uses it too. Satori does not ship its own browser engine.

Yes. Press ⇧⌘S, or choose the position in Settings › Tabs.

Separate sets of tabs in one window. Each window can have up to nine Spaces, each with its own name and icon.

A link from another app opens in a small Kensho window first, so you can see the address before the page takes over. Press ⌘O to keep the page in Satori, or turn Kensho off in Settings › General.

Yes. Focus (⌃⌘S) hides the tabs and the bar until you point at the edge.

Not for now. Chrome extensions are switched off. Bitwarden works, on macOS 15.4 or later.

Yes, one at a time, as each one is known to work.

Through Sparkle. Satori downloads updates in the background and installs them when you quit; the new version opens the next time you launch. You can turn automatic checks off in Settings › About.

On the Release notes page. Each release has its own entry.

Satori is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. macOS may ask you to confirm the first time you open an app you downloaded; there is no malware or unidentified-developer warning.

No. Click the tab and the page loads again.

That is expected. Soundscapes pause while a call uses the microphone and return a few seconds after the call ends. Turn this off in Settings › Soundscapes.

Satori's code is MIT licensed. The source repository is private for now. It may be opened after an independent security review. The public repository at github.com/tretten/satori holds builds, releases, and issues.