Canopy
Safari extension · macOS & iOS

Never open the same tab twice

Canopy keeps folders of pinned sites in your Safari toolbar. Click one and it activates the tab that already has that page open — across every window — instead of opening another copy of it.

What it actually does

Safari bookmarks always open a new tab. After a day of work that means four tabs of the same inbox and no idea which one you were using. Canopy looks first.

Finds the tab you meant

Every open tab in every window is checked before anything opens. A match is activated and its window brought forward.

Matching you control

Per link: the exact page, the exact page ignoring its query string, or any page on that site — so one pin can mean “my bank” rather than one URL of it.

Branches

Named sets of folders — work, research, whatever. Switch from the header. They are Canopy's own, so a branch can match a Safari profile, a client, or nothing at all.

Reuses an empty tab

If the tab you are on is genuinely untouched, Canopy uses it rather than leaving a blank one behind.

Your iCloud, not ours

Branches, folders and links sync between your Mac and iPhone through your own iCloud account. There is no Canopy server to sync to.

Icons that behave

Site icons are found automatically and cached on each device. Where a site refuses, you can set the icon yourself.

Setting it up

  1. Install Canopy, then enable the extension in Safari → Settings → Extensions.
  2. Set it to Always Allow on Every Website. This one is not optional: Safari only reveals a tab's address to an extension that has permission for that site, so without it Canopy cannot see your tabs and every click opens a duplicate.
  3. Click the toolbar icon and press Page or Site to pin whatever you are looking at.
  4. Install it on your other device and sign in to the same iCloud account. Your branches follow.
Keep your own backups. Canopy can export everything to a single JSON file from Settings → Sync, and restore from one. Bookmarks you would be upset to lose are worth exporting occasionally — see the Terms for what that means in practice.

What Canopy knows about you

Nothing. There is no account, no server, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind. Your pins live on your devices and in your own iCloud, which Canopy has no more access to than any other app you own.

The only network requests Canopy makes are to the sites you pin, to fetch their icons — the same request your browser makes when you visit them. Details are in the Privacy Policy.