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Cookie for Mac

Protect your online privacy.

$24.99
In English
3.7
Based on 148 user rates

Cookie overview

Cookie prevents third parties from hijacking your browsing experience. The sites you visit store "cookies" in your browser without your knowledge or consent. Some are helpful, but others are frustrating and invasive. Cookie can help.

Features:
  • Consolidate all your browser privacy settings
  • Simplified View that takes care of all the technical details for you
  • Advanced View which puts you in total control of all your privacy settings
  • Combined cookie view displaying all cookie/flash/localStorage data in one easy to manage view
  • Cookie's can be favorited on a per domain, or per cookie basis. You decide
  • Individual Browser settings. It is possible to configure different automatic removal options for each browser. In the case of Chrome/Chromium/Canary/Brave you can even configure settings per user!
  • A number of removal schedules are possible: When quitting Cookie, when a Browser is Quit, on computer login, On computer waking from sleep, on a customizable time schedule, or entirely manually
  • Hotkey support, so you can remove all unwanted data quickly and easily
  • Customizable tracking cookie definitions
  • Whitelist individual tracking cookies
  • Clean, modern and Intuitive User Interface
  • Helpful setup window
  • Browser extension protection
  • Full Screen support
  • iCloud support
  • Dark/Regular theme

What’s new in version 7.4.6

  • Added a new menu to change font size
  • Fixed a potential issue with the menu not showing
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Cookie for Mac

$24.99
In English
Version 7.4.6

What users say about Cookie

Just-Annutha-Dewd
By Just-Annutha-Dewd on Dec 14 2023 for v.7.1.7

Ease of use: 4.0

Nothing's perfect, and sometimes it can be confusing to manage how cookies are handled between different browsers, but that's more the nature of the beast. It doesn't help that macOS gets in the way with its security, but that's not a BAD thing, Cookie does walk you through dealing with it.

Reliability: 1.0

Right now, it's very unreliable. Cookie is randomly deleting cookies from favorite websites that it should NEVER be deleting automatically and has long been set to not do so. This behavior just started a few months ago, and to be clear... I've been a paid user of Cookie for perhaps 8-10 years now and more importantly, have touted this app in forums I'm involved in, so I very much understand how to use it.

Other user ratings:

Value | 1.0
Features | 5.0
Customer support | 2.0
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What customer like

Security
Privacy

What needs improvements

Support
Bug fixing

Cookie qualities

Value
1.0
Ease of use
4.0
Features
5.0
Reliability
1.0
Customer support
2.0

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3.7

(271 Reviews of Cookie)

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  • User Ratings

Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Dec 14 2024
7.4.4
5.0
Dec 14 2024
5.0
Version: 7.4.4
v7.4.6 is out. "Fixed an open at login regression added into v7.4.5." - - I consider Cookie to be an ESSENTIAL on macOS. Just so you know. 😘
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Oct 11 2024
7.4.2
5.0
Oct 11 2024
5.0
Version: 7.4.2
v7.4.3 is out. "improvement to open at login"
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Sep 27 2024
7.3.6
5.0
Sep 27 2024
5.0
Version: 7.3.6
v7.4.2 is out. "7.4.2 fixed a potential crash. 7.4.1 more Safari 18 compatibility improvements. 7.4 improved compatibility with Safari 18 improvements to permissions request handling fixed an issue with Safari cookies potentially not loading on first launch."
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Jul 14 2024
7.3.4
5.0
Jul 14 2024
5.0
Version: 7.3.4
v7.3.5 is out. "• improvements to Notifications handling • improvements to ux when enabling iCloud • small UI fixes to Settings"
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Jun 13 2024
7.3
5.0
Jun 13 2024
5.0
Version: 7.3
v7.3.1 is out. "improvements to Safari History removal". - - BTW, FYI: This version of Cookie is exhibiting a crash during Sleep on my MacBook Air M1 running macOS 14.5. AND the same crashing is happening with ProtonVPN on the same computer. I'm interacting with both developers about the situation assuming that either some other process on my machine is causing it, OR that macOS 14.5 is causing it (which would not surprise me, Craig Federighi, grumble). At least macOS itself has stopped crashing during sleep as of 14.5. It's typically lousy memory management code.
zlazkow
zlazkow
Aug 26 2021
6.5.7
5.0
Aug 26 2021
5.0
Version: 6.5.7
pfuzerharry
pfuzerharry
May 17 2021
6.4.1
4.0
May 17 2021
4.0
Version: 6.4.1
iLeopard
iLeopard
Jan 13 2021
5.0
Jan 13 2021
5.0
Version: null
Designg
Designg
Dec 17 2020
1.0
Dec 17 2020
1.0
Version: null
johric1
johric1
Oct 31 2020
5.0
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5.0
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Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Oct 19 2020
5.0
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5.0
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artie505
artie505
Sep 23 2020
1.0
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1.0
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forouhcr
Sep 7 2020
1.0
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1.0
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saturnpluto0
Dec 20 2019
1.0
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1.0
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DragonMaster
Nov 10 2019
5.0
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TeRRyZx
Sep 28 2019
2.0
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2.0
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Aeschylus
Aug 20 2019
5.0
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5.0
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Kenm22
Jul 14 2019
5.0
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iMacWare
May 25 2019
5.0
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5.0
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Toni23
Toni23
Mar 21 2019
5.0
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5.0
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Hal-Itosis
Hal-Itosis
Dec 24 2018
3.0
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3.0
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mjwoolf
mjwoolf
Dec 12 2018
1.0
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1.0
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MichaelHaeusler
MichaelHaeusler
Nov 7 2018
5.0
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5.0
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John-Hook
John-Hook
Oct 18 2018
0.5
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0.5
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june8
Oct 13 2018
5.0
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5.0
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bmolch
bmolch
Aug 17 2018
2.5
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2.5
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Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Jun 19 2018
5.0
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5.0
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anonymous-gerbil-5319
anonymous-gerbil-5319
Apr 13 2018
3.5
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3.5
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guyt
guyt
Apr 10 2018
5.0
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5.0
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zajizee
Mar 24 2018
5.0
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J-DD
Sep 23 2017
2.0
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2.0
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Rusta
Sep 22 2017
2.0
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2.0
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Hanstyo
Jul 24 2017
1.0
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1.0
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Galileo
Jun 29 2017
2.5
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2.5
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terrytrinder
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5.0
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Big Johnson
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1.0
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fiery12
Apr 17 2017
3.0
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3.0
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jcastilla
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5.0
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5.0
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George6
George6
Dec 3 2016
2.5
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2.5
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ladyinred
ladyinred
Jul 26 2016
4.5
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4.5
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Mhoutman
Jul 12 2016
5.0
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5.0
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Bk1200
Bk1200
Jun 21 2016
1.0
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1.0
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mi2hikojp
Apr 22 2016
1.5
Apr 22 2016
1.5
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anonymous-tapir-4715
anonymous-tapir-4715
Mar 16 2016
5.0
Mar 16 2016
5.0
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JBob2047
JBob2047
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5.0
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5.0
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