SiteWrap

SiteWrap turns the websites you live in into apps of their own. The mail, the chat, the board you check forty times a day: give each one its own window, its own icon and its own place in the Dock, so it stops being tab number nine and starts being something you can switch to.

Everything happens on your own computer. There is no account to create and nothing to upload: SiteWrap simply opens the address you give it in a window built for that one site.

Highlights

1. A real app in about two seconds - press Export and SiteWrap writes a finished application with the site's own icon, ready to launch from the Dock, Launchpad or Spotlight. Nothing to install, nothing to compile, no waiting.
2. Two accounts, signed in at once - each site can keep its cookies in a jar of its own, apart from your browser and from every other site. Work mail in one window, personal mail in another, both signed in, neither logging the other out, and both still signed in tomorrow.
3. Quieter pages - known advertising and tracking servers are dropped before they load, and the usual ad slots and cookie walls are hidden, so the window shows you the thing you came for.
4. Links stay where they belong - anything that leads away from the site opens in your normal browser instead of hijacking the window. Your chat app stays a chat app.
5. A dark version of sites that have one - switch a site to night mode and it is asked for its real dark theme, not covered with a filter that turns photographs inside out.
6. Make it fit the window - set the zoom, remember the size, float it above everything else for a player or a chat, or hide the title bar entirely and let the page run edge to edge.
7. Change the site itself - a few lines of your own styling can hide a banner, widen a column or shrink a sidebar, and they are applied every time the window opens.
8. Ask for the layout you want - some sites hand a different page to a phone than to a desktop. Pick which one you would rather have, and get a narrow, single column view in a small window.
9. The controls a window needs - back, forward, reload and home on a small pill that appears when you reach for it, plus the keyboard shortcuts you already use, and a menu item to copy the address or hand the page to your browser.

How it works

Paste an address. SiteWrap reads the page, suggests a name and picks up the site's own artwork, and the entry appears in your library. Press Open and it is a window; press Export and it is an application sitting in your Applications folder with that same artwork on it.

Everything about a site lives on one panel: how big its window opens, whether it keeps a private sign in, how quiet the page should be, what happens to outside links. Change something and it is saved as you type, ready the next time you open it. An app you exported keeps the settings it was built with, so you can keep one version pinned and carry on changing the other.

Perfect for

1. Anyone whose working day happens inside three or four web apps and wants them out of the browser.
2. People juggling a work account and a personal account on the same service.
3. Anyone who wants one site open and undistracted, without the other forty tabs a click away.
4. Teams with an internal tool that only lives in a browser and deserves to look like software.