Lives in the menu bar
No windows hanging around. Negligible idle CPU.
A tiny URL router for your Mac
Links should know
where to go.
Work links in Work. Personal links in Personal.
Rootie quietly sends them
to the right Chromium profile.
here’s the whole trick
One click.
Right place.
Links from outside your browser pass through one small set of rules. A match picks a profile. No match just uses your default.
you clicked
github.com/acme/launch
W
Workbecause /acme matched
✓
P
Personalyour default
tiny on purpose
It does one thing.
Then gets out of the way.
Your config is just a file
Readable JSON at ~/.rootie/config.json.
Nothing leaves your Mac
No account, analytics, cloud sync, or mystery service.
ready when you are
Set up in a
minute or two.
The little CLI finds your installed browsers and profile names. Pick a default, add a few rules, and you’re done.
ChromeHeliumBraveEdge
ChromiumVivaldiyour weird custom fork
Terminal
$ brew install --cask hmbakhsh/tap/rootie
✓ Rootie was successfully installed!
$ rootie setup
Chromium browser:
1) Helium (default)
2) Google Chrome
› 1
Not notarized just yet—macOS may ask you to approve the first launch in Privacy & Security.
config.jsonthe whole source of truth
{
"defaultProfile": "Personal",
"rules": [{
"name": "Acme stuff",
"profile": "Work",
"enabled": true,
"match": {
"host": "github.com",
"pathPrefix": "/acme"
}
}]
}no new language to learn
Rules you can
actually read.
Exact domains, subdomains, or path prefixes. First match wins. That’s really it.
See the config guide →