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Fluid for Mac

Create site-specific browsers for your favorite Web apps.

$5.00
In English
Version 2.1.2
4.1
Based on 61 user rates

Fluid overview

Fluid gives your favorite Web apps a home on your Mac OS X Desktop.

Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or an insert-your-favorite-webapp-here fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab? If so, site-specific browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your webapp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite Web apps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your OS X desktop including Dock icon, menu bar, and logical separation from your other Web browsing activity.

How does it work? Fluid itself is a very small application. When launched, Fluid displays a small window where you specify the URL of a webapp you'd like to run in a site-specific browser. Then provide a name, click 'Create' and you'll be prompted to launch the new native Mac app you've just created. Use it to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other webapp as a separate desktop application. Anytime you click a link to another site in an SSB, the link is opened in your system default Web browser, keeping your SSB dedicated to the original site you've specified.

What’s new in version 2.1.2

Version 2.1.2:
Fix:
  • Clicking a Bookmark in the Bookmarks bar opens the link in the current tab

Fluid for Mac

$5.00
In English
Version 2.1.2
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4.1

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Robio
Robio
Apr 26 2020
2.1.2
4.0
Apr 26 2020
4.0
Version: 2.1.2
I've been using Fluid for several years to make light-weight, free-standing apps for social media (can't follow me now, Facebook!), various Google Drive accounts, Workflowy and another note-keeping app, and various mail accounts. I've tested three other apps that do basically the same thing, and Fluid 2 is the clear winner for me: Its stand-alone apps are smaller and faster, tabbed browsing is better, it remembers its state between sessions (unlike fancier-looking, more expensive competitors that abandon all but one tab), it fully compatible with standard browser-navigation keyboard shortcuts (unlike fancier-looking, more expensive competitors that only switch tabs with a mouse click). I bought the pro version just to support development (the additional features weren't of interest to me). I just hope the developer keeps at it, seeing as it's been almost 2 years since the last update, and his blog hasn't had a post in 5 years.
steveh2011
steveh2011
Oct 17 2019
2.1.2
3.0
Oct 17 2019
3.0
Version: 2.1.2
I like Fluid when it works; then, it is an invaluable tool. What I don't like is that when there is an issue, there is absolutely zero support for customers who paid for the full version. Having come up against an issue in August, I emailed the author. It's now October and zero, zip, nada response. Now left searching for an alternative.
iMacWare
iMacWare
Jun 22 2019
2.1.2
4.0
Jun 22 2019
4.0
Version: 2.1.2
Fluid is nice, runs on webkit and works with Adguard.
Cowicide
Cowicide
May 5 2019
2.1.2
4.0
May 5 2019
4.0
Version: 2.1.2
Something going on with WebKit and Android Messages. Fluid worked great with it until Google did some kind of update and the Fluid app is broken. I created a new Fluid app with their new url and same problem.

The interface goes nuts when attempting to alternate between different people and unable to scroll through text messages. It's just frozen on a few text messages and won't scroll.

I built a basic WebKit browser in Xcode and got the same results. Safari works perfect and so does Android Messages Desktop, the electron app:

https://github.com/chrisknepper/android-messages-desktop

Hopefully an update of some kind to Fluid in the future can make it compatible again.
Uncoy
Uncoy
Mar 16 2019
2.1.2
4.0
Mar 16 2019
4.0
Version: 2.1.2
Where can I get a v2.x.x which works on El Capitan? Paid user here who's had to abandon his heavily used Fluid apps over the last two years as they don't work. It's really obnoxious that there's no update notifications in Fluid v1 which work to let us know about the new version. Fluid has been one of my top five favourite software tools but not knowing about the update and not being able to use it and the lack of distribution of info about the update is pretty frustrating.
iLeopard
iLeopard
Dec 20 2023
2.1.2
4.0
Dec 20 2023
4.0
Version: 2.1.2
aguycalledkwest
aguycalledkwest
Sep 16 2021
2.1.2
4.0
Sep 16 2021
4.0
Version: 2.1.2
Robio
Robio
Apr 26 2020
4.0
Apr 26 2020
4.0
Version: null
steveh2011
steveh2011
Oct 17 2019
3.0
Oct 17 2019
3.0
Version: null
iMacWare
iMacWare
Jun 22 2019
4.0
Jun 22 2019
4.0
Version: null
PRjohnson
PRjohnson
Apr 19 2019
5.0
Apr 19 2019
5.0
Version: null
Hans_K
Hans_K
Oct 15 2018
2.5
Oct 15 2018
2.5
Version: null
LeMerlot
LeMerlot
Oct 12 2018
5.0
Oct 12 2018
5.0
Version: null
Thebryceman
Thebryceman
Jul 16 2018
4.5
Jul 16 2018
4.5
Version: null
BobbyThompsonRocks
BobbyThompsonRocks
Jul 10 2018
2.5
Jul 10 2018
2.5
Version: null
MichaelHaeusler
MichaelHaeusler
Jul 10 2018
4.5
Jul 10 2018
4.5
Version: null
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Jul 10 2018
5.0
Jul 10 2018
5.0
Version: null
Nuttawut
Nuttawut
Jul 14 2017
5.0
Jul 14 2017
5.0
Version: null
eli-ny
eli-ny
Apr 6 2017
3.5
Apr 6 2017
3.5
Version: null
Aargl
Aargl
Feb 24 2017
4.0
Feb 24 2017
4.0
Version: null
Finkel
Finkel
Aug 7 2016
2.0
Aug 7 2016
2.0
Version: null
ylluminate
ylluminate
May 17 2015
5.0
May 17 2015
5.0
Version: null
lovesmac
lovesmac
May 15 2015
0.5
May 15 2015
0.5
Version: null
Julien-M
Julien-M
Mar 26 2015
5.0
Mar 26 2015
5.0
Version: null
Edeerly
Edeerly
Dec 25 2014
4.0
Dec 25 2014
4.0
Version: null
Strider72
Strider72
Nov 29 2014
2.5
Nov 29 2014
2.5
Version: null
Dana_Nau
Dana_Nau
Nov 4 2014
4.5
Nov 4 2014
4.5
Version: null
antoniong
antoniong
Oct 31 2014
4.0
Oct 31 2014
4.0
Version: null
FireMuffin
FireMuffin
Aug 30 2014
2.0
Aug 30 2014
2.0
Version: null
Valdimar-Thor-H
Valdimar-Thor-H
Aug 29 2014
5.0
Aug 29 2014
5.0
Version: null
Cowicide
Cowicide
Jun 25 2014
4.0
Jun 25 2014
4.0
Version: null
cantor
cantor
May 31 2014
5.0
May 31 2014
5.0
Version: null
Lhutz
Lhutz
May 2 2014
5.0
May 2 2014
5.0
Version: null
Ededed
Ededed
Apr 22 2014
4.5
Apr 22 2014
4.5
Version: null
nink
nink
Mar 22 2014
3.5
Mar 22 2014
3.5
Version: null
tomtomklub
tomtomklub
Dec 23 2013
5.0
Dec 23 2013
5.0
Version: null
Bento de Espinosa
Bento de Espinosa
Nov 30 2013
5.0
Nov 30 2013
5.0
Version: null
katlinquinn
katlinquinn
Aug 29 2013
3.5
Aug 29 2013
3.5
Version: null
afm369
afm369
Aug 23 2013
5.0
Aug 23 2013
5.0
Version: null
b-0-m
b-0-m
Jul 25 2013
4.5
Jul 25 2013
4.5
Version: null
Yavari
Yavari
Jul 9 2013
4.5
Jul 9 2013
4.5
Version: null
Zeebie
Zeebie
Jun 20 2013
2.5
Jun 20 2013
2.5
Version: null
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Sep 17 2012
4.5
Sep 17 2012
4.5
Version: null
JoshiSm
JoshiSm
Aug 14 2012
5.0
Aug 14 2012
5.0
Version: null
Rcpettengill
Rcpettengill
May 22 2012
1.5
May 22 2012
1.5
Version: null