Cookie for Mac
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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 7.9.2
- added suppression checkbox to removal alerts
- improvements to Safari database parsing
- DuckDuckGo support
- Zen browser support
- improvements to initial setup
- fixed a potential startup issue
- fixed a potential permissions issue when resetting Safari permissions
- Turkish localization, thanks bilgi
- support for Arc Profiles
- updated Sparkle
- fixed a potential window flicker on startup
- small startup improvements
- small localization corrections
- improvements to Safari Profile icon rendering
- added missing Safari Profile icons
- improvements to initial setup
- improvements to Firefox cache removal
- filesystem access improvements
- fixed a potential display issue with databases
- improvements to Browser Extension Installation
- improvements to removal via Browser Extension
- added an option to remove Cookie Browser Access from the Advanced Browser config tab
- code optimization
- UI cleanup
- memory improvements
- fixed a potential issue with settings not being correctly synced to iCloud
- fixed an issue with the Browser config view for users being unpopulated
- fixed Browser config button highlight color
- fixed an open at login regression added into v7.4.5
- added a new menu to change font size
- fixed a potential issue with the menu not showing
- improvements to setup
- improvements to extension helper installation
- improvements to Full disk Access notifications
- fixed a potential startup issue
- fixed a potential issue with permissions requests failing
- fixed a potential permissions issue with Browser extensions
- fixed a potential issue with permissions requests for disabled browsers
- improvements to open at login
- fixed a potential crash
- more Safari 18 compatibility improvements
- improved compatibility with Safari 18
- improvements to permissions request handling
- fixed an issue with Safari cookies potentially not loading on first launch
- updated some German strings
- fixed a crash when switching to Full Screen
- improvements to Notifications handling
- improvements to ux when enabling iCloud
- small UI fixes to Settings
- fixed an issue with favorite sync for Safari bookmarks
- fixed an issue with icloud sync restoring old favorites
- improvements to browser sourcelist state
- fixed an issue with browser enable button potententially being enabled in error
- permissions improvements
- fixed a potential issue with permissions requests for Disabled browsers
- fixed a potential issue with duplicate Safari users
- improvements to Safari History removal
- small ui changes
- fixed removal of databases with emoji content
- fixed a potential issue with Firefox database removal
- fixed a potential issue with the removal alert panel
- fixed a potential issue with remove button availability on launch
- support for Safari FileSystem databases
- opening setup view will now also open main window if it is not yet open
- Deutsche localization improvements. Thanks Mac.
- updated Sparkle
- sync build number with App store
- added a button to delete all icloud data in settings
- improved icloud sync
- fixed a potential issue with inability to uncheck some favorites
- fixed a potential drawing issue
- small updates to Settings
- optimizations to extension helper
- added a new browser configuration view with ability to enable or disable selected browser, view current access permissions, and enable/disable the browser extension
- the sourcelist menu now shows the selected browser for disabling
- disabled browsers now opens expanded in the sourcelist
- fixed a potential crash
- fixed a potential issue with browsers being disabled after a restart
- code optimizations
- improvements to parsing iCloud updates
- fixed display of Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi and Edge user avatars
- fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts wouldn't work until menubar has been opened
- fixed a potential crash when disabling "Run in Background" when the menubar is not being shown
- fixed a potential issue where neither the dock icon, or the menubar icon would be shown
- fixed a potential issue where no browser would be selected upon restart
- fixed a potential crash
- statusMenu now updates instantly when changing "Run Cookie in the Background" setting
- fixed some issues with favorites
- fixed timer menu validation
- fixed a potential issue with Safari History validation
- Cookie now groups removal notifications per browser
- fixed some some potential issues with data removal via the Cookie helper browser extension
- fixed an issue with removal of Safari Webpage Previews
- fixed horizontal scroll on Simple View Browser table
- fixed Opera support
- fixed a regression in the state of the main window Remove all unwanted data button
- fixed an issue with the remove all data button/menu button
- decoupled main interface removal buttons from menu buttons
- updated menu order to match main interface
- performance optimizations
- fixed menu tracking/non favorite counts and status
- Safari 17 support
- Mullvad browser support
- removal optimimsations
- removed unnecessary permission requests
- code refactor
- small ui improvements
- disabled Browsers no longer show users
- updated Sparkle
- fixed an issue with Extensions not being correctly identified at first launch
- fixed an issue with showing Safari Technology Preview correctly in the Simple View
- localization corrections
- startup optimizations
- purchase status fixes
- updated Sparkle framework
- fixed an issue with Safari History removal
- fixed a potential issue with chrome cache removal
- fixed an issue with the login helper potentially showing in the dock
- setup installer now resumes your position if you need to quit part way through
- another attempt at fixing an issue with installing the helper script
- removal for browsers with Cookie extension installed are now quicker when Browser is not running
- fixed a potential crash with chrome based browsers
- fixed an issue with installing the helper script
- fixed an issue with chrome data removal
- new Icon
- Better support for data removal via browser with the new Cookie Web Extension (Chrome/Firefox based browsers only)
- added a remove button to the cookie view contextual menu
- cookie view font size is now configurable via the sourcelist contextual menu
- added an advanced option to disable live cookie updating for older computers
- support for Waterfox
- support for Arc
- support for Opera Developer
- support for Brave Nightly
- support for Chrome Beta
- support for Edge Beta
- support for Edge Dev
- support for Edge Canary
- major code refactor to make supporting new browsers easier
- removed Flash support as it has now been deprecated
- many other small improvements
- macOS 12.0+
Cookie for Mac
$24.99
In English
Version 7.9.2
What users say about Cookie
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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(273 Reviews of Cookie)
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User Ratings
Mar 18 2025
Version: 7.7
v7.8 is out. "Cookie 7 history • Zen browser support improvements to initial setup fixed a potential startup issue fixed a potential permissions issue when resetting Safari permissions"
Dec 14 2024
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. 😘
Sep 27 2024
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."
