Nine Soundscapes, composed as they play

Satori composes background sound on your Mac as it plays. Nothing is downloaded, and Soundscapes are off until you turn them on.

Soundscapes are background sound that Satori composes on your Mac as it plays, so nothing is downloaded. There are nine: Focus, Energetic, Calm, Work, Meditative, Boost, Study, Ambience, and Nature.

Energetic is drum and bass at about 172 BPM. Boost is lo-fi hip-hop at about 80 BPM. Nature and Ambience have six scenes each: Nature includes rain, a forest, and a fire, and Ambience includes a café, a street, and a library. Very quiet binaural tones play underneath, best with headphones. Settings › Soundscapes turns them off.

Soundscapes are off by default. Turn them on from the Soundscapes button, from View › Soundscapes, or from Settings › Soundscapes. Picking a sound in the popover turns Soundscapes on if they were off.

Choosing a Soundscape

They stay out of the way. Soundscapes fade out while a tab plays sound, and return two seconds after the tabs go quiet. They pause while a call uses the microphone, in Zoom, Slack, Meet, or FaceTime, and return a few seconds after the call ends.

When Soundscapes are off or faded out, their sound engine stops and uses no CPU. Web apps have no Soundscapes.

Release notes for Satori 0.12.0

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Translate just the words you selected

Select text, right-click, and read its translation in a small card, worked out on your Mac.

Fold the sidebar away

Tabs down the left can now shrink to a narrow rail of icons, and open again to the width you chose.

Find the page by what it said

History can search the text of pages you read, and the address field finds them too. The switch is off until you turn it on in Settings › Privacy.

Easier to live with

A private tab now says what it keeps. The tab layout switches from a right-click. Focus can sit in the top bar.

Save a video from a page

Right-click a video and choose Save Video. A video that streams in pieces is joined into one file in your downloads folder.

See what Shield blocked

The Shield icon in the address field shows what was blocked on the page, by kind, and whether a cookie banner was closed.

Use Bitwarden in Satori

Pick Bitwarden in Welcome or Settings › Passwords. Satori installs its extension after you read what it may do, and its own suggestions step aside.

Bring your bookmarks and passwords

Welcome brings passwords and bookmarks over from Chrome, Arc, and other Chromium browsers in one click. Safari bookmarks come in as an HTML file.

Bookmarks in a panel you can search

⌥⌘B opens bookmarks with folders, search across all of them, and sorting. ⌘D adds the page you are on.

A minute of setup

The first time Satori opens, a few short steps set it up the way you like. Every step can be skipped.

Open as many windows as you need

⌘N opens another window with its own tabs and Spaces. Drag a tab out past the edge to move it to a new window.

Satori speaks your Mac's language

The whole interface is translated into Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Your Mac's language setting chooses.

Links from other apps open in a small Kensho window

A link from another app opens in a small Kensho window first, so you can see the address before the page takes over.

Copy a link without tracking tags

Copy Address (⇧⌘C) strips tracking tags and click IDs from the link. Copy Original Address keeps them.

Select several tabs at once

⌘-click and ⇧-click pick tabs together, to copy, bookmark, move, or close them in one step.

Why the page comes first

Satori steps back from the page. Focus hides the tabs and the bar, and Reading mode shows only the article.

Spaces keep your tabs apart

Each window holds up to nine Spaces, each with its own name, icon, and tabs. ⌘1 to ⌘9 switch between them.

The window wears the site's color

Satori remembers each site's color. The top bar, the sidebar, and the window around the page take it, and a ring on the tab's icon shows loading.

Split View puts two pages side by side

Drag a tab onto another tab or onto the page. A divider sets the width of each page.

What stays on your Mac

Satori has no account, no sync, and no telemetry. Here is where your data is kept, and what leaves the Mac.

Translate a page on your Mac

⇧⌘Y translates the page with Apple's translator, on your Mac. The globe beside Settings holds the language for each site.

Listen to an article

Listen reads an article aloud, paragraph by paragraph. Space pauses it, and it picks up at the same paragraph later.

Idle tabs go to sleep

A tab you have not used for half an hour sleeps and gives its memory back. Keep Awake keeps the tabs you need ready.

Satori is here

Satori is small, fast, and quiet, with one field for addresses and searches.

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Satori is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. macOS may ask you to confirm the first time you open it, but there is no malware or unidentified-developer warning. Updates arrive on their own through Sparkle.

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