Perch
A sidebar that sits beside Safari on the Mac, with spaces, tab search and hands-free voice control.
- Year
- 2026
- Runs on
- macOS
- Built with
- Swift, SwiftUI, AppKit, Groq Whisper
- Links
- Open the app
Screen recording coming soon
The problem
Safari is fast and private, but with dozens of tabs across different projects it turns into a row of unreadable icons. The browsers that fix this ask you to leave Safari behind.
What I built
Perch lives in the menu bar and opens a sidebar next to Safari. It groups tabs into spaces, finds any open tab as you type, and has a hands-free mode: say “Hey Perch” and ask it to switch tabs, scroll or click.
It’s a native SwiftUI and AppKit app, notarized by Apple, and it works with Safari through the system’s automation permissions rather than a browser extension.
Result
Version 0.1 is available to download for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.