Top Feature: Surfed is now a full-featured browser – easy for everyday users, powerful for researchers, automators, and power users. Browser • Space Notes & Tasks: Add research notes or tasks in markdown style to a synced note or text file. • Media Viewer: Swipe through all media files from websites. • Search Engines: Quickly select a search engine or install new ones from the gallery. • Split View Browser: Show two browser views in one window. • Split View Actions: Display your favorite action in split view. • Download Manager: Choose different save paths for each Space. • Developer Tools: View source code, HTML playground, JavaScript console, and other dev tools. • Markup Action: Mark up any content on a website. App • iOS 26 Support: Ready for the next major iOS version. • Apple Intelligence: All AI features now integrated with Apple Intelligence. • Chat with AI: Ask AI questions directly related to one or more websites. • Multiple Spaces: Each window can have its own Space. • Translated Articles: Articles can now be translated for reading and listening. • PDF Export: Export or annotate articles as PDF. • Filter & Sort Options: Improved filter and sort for sidebar tags. • Smoother List Loading: Faster and smoother list display. • Total Item Counter: Shows total items in lists. • CSV Export: Export history and lists as CSV. • Bulk Export Actions: Export all list items via CSV, PDF, or print. • Dashboard Type on iOS: Change dashboard type for Unified Space on iOS. • Notes: Access website notes from the sidebar with Markdown and rich preview. • Pause History: Option to pause browser history recording. • Private Mode & History Independence: Separate settings for private mode and history. • Presentation Mode Option: Browse in Presentation Mode via In-App Browser. • Respect App Sort & Filter: Lists now honor global sort and filter settings. • Tag with Latest Tag: Quickly tag links using the most recently used tag. • Quick Look Plugin: Preview Surfed files with Quick Look. • Performance Improvements: General enhancements for performance. • Per-List Sort & iCloud Sync: Each list can have its own sort settings, synced via iCloud. • Fixed: Show All Tag Links: All tagged links now show correctly, even if not in history. • Fixed: Private Mode: Private mode items are hidden in Unified Mode. • Fixed: Crash: Fixed specific crashes. • Fixed: List Action Sync: Corrected syncing of list actions after iCloud sync. Shortcuts • Search History & Open Link: Search your history and open links via shortcut. • Space Note (Get, Set, Append): Use shortcuts to manage Space Notes. • Add Space Task: Add tasks directly to a Space using shortcuts. • Open Search Engine: Perform search using the selected engine. • Open URLs in Split View: Open two URLs side-by-side. • Open HTML Source: Open current page’s HTML source via shortcut. Web Trigger • Web Trigger Execution: Triggers work even when history is paused. • Alert Action: Show custom alert messages. • Browser Split View: Open two browser views side-by-side. • Split View Action: Auto-display actions in split view. • Sleep Web Trigger: New action: Sleep. Browser Extension • Blank Page Dashboard: New dashboard type: Blank Page. • Multi-Select Links: Select multiple links in dashboard lists. • Selected Link Actions: New options: Open, Copy URL. • Fixed: Key Command Conflict: Resolved shortcut conflict (CMD+SHIFT+H) in Safari on Mac. • Fixed: Extension Warning: Fixed warning for invalid suggested key.
New: Browser Extension: - Direct search from the URL bar and select a tab History: "su :his" Favourites: "su :fav" Lists: "su :col" - Show the list title in the favorites bar. - Setting to hide or show the favorites bar. - Sort list items by sort type from the app. Fix: App: - Share sheet actions that require opening the app. - Recording in-app browser history - Hiding private tags and collections in the Unified space Browser Extension: - UI fixes - Hide cover view on direct search - Prevent adding multiple identical search tokens - Show a notice if tags or collections are empty - Hide private tags and collections - Show localized time in cover view
New: • iOS 18: Dark and tinted app icons • iOS 18: Control Center Actions: Open Search, Open Favorite URL, Toggle Record History, Toggle Run Web Trigger • Pause recording browser history (setting, focus filter, browser extension UI) • Item counter in list title • Browser Extension: Settings panel with options to toggle record history and run web trigger • Browser Extension: Cover view to optionally hide content • Browser Extension: Show tag and collection items and improved list selection • Browser Extension: Tags are sorted by last used Fixed: • Issues in browser extension (Favorites, Add Tag) • Gallery View item could not be opened • Minor UI fixes
New: - Updated browser extension interface - Set Surfed dashboard in browsers as the "New Tab" interface (customizable for every Space) - Set a custom URL as the "New Tab" action (customizable for every Space) - Rename and delete devices - New filter type application - New web trigger actions: Add CSS to website, Append HTML to website, Replace website HTML, Search & Replace website content, Base64 decode, regular expression match all, regular expression replace, close tab, new tab, reload tab - Enter multiple search tokens at once. Example: u:foo.bar t:test :ld (searches for: URL contains foo.bar, title contains test, date is yesterday) - macOS: Added a setting to hide the system menu bar item - Web trigger list: Filter by event type - Web trigger list: Menu item to assign web trigger to space - Web trigger list: Filter by value search - Surfed Actions (Share Sheet): Added edit URL action - Command Line Interface (CLI): New parameter, Maximum number of results - Raycast Extension Fixed: - Database migration crash - iCloud conflict (with long articles) - Minor fixes Support will end in a future version: - Web trigger JavaScript action
Fixed: • Activating purchase or subscription (Regular App) • Safari Extension: Popup loading (Pro App)
New: • New copy actions (HTML-Link, Title, Description) Fixed: • Startup crash • Safari extension: fixed rare bug, that some websites could not be added to history • Show Spaces menu to access private mode items • Issue that was hiding the sidebar column when the window was resized
**iCloud Sync** Synchronise your Browsing History, Smart Collections, Tags, Web Triggers, URLs, and App Settings across all your devices. **Spaces & Profiles** Organise your items in different spaces. Compatible with Safari iOS 17 Profiles. **New App Icon** Matthew Skiles has designed a fresh app icon. **Multi-Select** Select multiple items in lists and perform actions. **Focus Filter** Select your Space and Web Trigger behaviour with our new Focus Filter. **Activity Widget** Monitor your daily browsing activity with a heatmap widget. **Hidden Items** Hide items in history, smart collections and tag lists with custom filter terms. **Location Filter** Filter lists by space or device with the new Location Filter. **Web Trigger Action “Assign to Space”** Automatically assign browsing history to a selected space while browsing in Safari. **Shortcuts Action “Listen Article”** Start listening articles with Shortcuts or Siri from a tag, collection or links. **Shortcuts Action “Switch to Space”** Switch to a selected space with Shortcuts. **Global Web Trigger Setting** Option to disable automatic Web Trigger actions. **Import Bookmarks** Import bookmarks from browsers or third-party apps. **Web Trigger** Added rules filter device, location, private mode and new article parameter reading time. **Listen Article** Listen articles in a queue, use playback actions like next, previous, skip, change playback position and save the latest listening position and select your preferred voice. **Share Article as Audio** Share an article as an audio file. **Read Article** Font and Size settings, text selection **Filter Rules** Added new rules filter device, location, private mode, session time, morning, afternoon, evening, at night, and article: listened, listening, read **Global Search** Added context menu actions **Session Time** Sort lists by the visited time or use the session time as filter rule in smart collections. **CSV Export** Export your history, tag items and links as comma separated list. **Print & PDF** Print or save lists as PDF. **New Actions** Show URL parameters, Copy URL components actions, Listen all, From this domain, Reload Image
New: • added date search term "current day" Fix: • fixed date search term current month • fixed add button in terms section • updated Chinese translation by zshbleaker
**Colors** Use colors for Tags and Smart Collections as the main color in list view. Choose your own accent color in Surfed. **Tag-View and Share-View UI-Update** With the updated Tagging and Share Sheet view, it's now even easier to tag web pages in Safari or in Surfed. **Tag-Search: New Filters** With new filters it is now even easier to find the tag you are looking for **New**: • App Accent Colour • Coloured Tag & Smart Collection Lists • QR-Code Action: Share URL as QR-Code • Add URLs manually to Tags, Collections and Favourites • Web Trigger: Syntax Highlight Editor and Find & Replace • New "Add Tag" Button in Lists • macOS: Use system accent colour • French localisation **Fix:** • Web Trigger: Import Web Trigger from Gallery • "Open all URLs in Browser" Action • Alternate Icons on iPad
Web Trigger Functions Prepare actions with the new available Web Trigger functions: Search and Replace, Remove String, URL decode/encode, un-shorten URL New main Actions: Show Article, Listen Article Share Sheet Action The share sheet has a new action extension to quickly run URL actions and Web Triggers on the current Safari website Share Sheet Run Web Trigger, Article and AI Actions directly from the Share Sheet Latest Tags Configure how many latest tags should be shown New: • Show OpenAI errors • Reset uncritical settings with URL scheme • Safari Popup: Added flag action • Web Trigger: Added support for nested custom parameters • Web Trigger: new parameter "URL ID" • URL parameter "auto-run-web-trigger=false" append to URL to prevent automatically run Web Triggers Fix: • Limit OpenAI API key length • iPad crash
** Full-text search, Article View, Listen Article** Experience seamless reading and listening with new features. Full-Text Search and Article View help find saved articles and improve distraction-free reading. Listen Article integrates with iOS media player to listen to articles with additional info. **Notification Actions** Customize up to 11 actions per notification Web Trigger for Safari with options like running shortcuts, opening app schemes, adding note or tags, listening to the article, adding a note, tagging and summarizing the article with OpenAI and more. Make changes to personalize notification actions and view them based on trigger rules. Also, try pre-configured notification actions from Web Trigger gallery. **Auto-Tagging** Tagging websites has never been easier with our latest Web Trigger action - "Tag With...". This feature allows you to automatically tag websites while browsing, making it easier for you to organize and categorize your web content. **Quick Filter Bar** New filter bar now in all lists and global search to quickly select filters from various options. Quick Filter Bar helps in finding URLs in browsing history and bookmarks easier than ever. **Configurable List Actions** With this feature, you can configure every list with its own select, leading, and trailing swipe actions. This allows you to customize your browsing experience and access the actions you need quickly and easily. **OpenAI Actions** With OpenAI Actions, you can easily add tags or summarize an article by OpenAI, making it easier for you to organize and categorize your web content. This feature is optionally and requires an API key. Nothing will be sent without user interaction, ensuring your privacy is always protected. **New Web Trigger Actions** • Color Custom Parameter • Comment Block • Show App Badge • Add Note • Speak Article • Summarise Article with AI • Add Tags with AI • New custom parameter "Daily Total Time" **New App Actions** • Open in… (open URLs in installed Browsers and selected Apps like Zoom, Apollo) • Show Actions Menu • Run Web Trigger (in App on selected URL) • Show URL • Open in Zoom • Show Article • Show and Edit Note • In-App Browser • Open in Reader Mode • Copy Article **New** • In-App Browser and Reader Mode • Triple column mode on iPad and macOS • Date Picker in history lists • URL notes - add a note to a URL • All date search terms have now all conditions (is, is not, before, after) • New filter types: Article, Author, Article Language, Note • Search for tags in history and global search with "#tagname" • Shows assigned tags, favourite, flagged, article and note state and action button in text and small icon cells and detail view • New Shortcut actions: Get Note, Get Article, Set Note, Remove Tag from URL • Alternate coloured App Icons • Show flag or favourite state in global search results • Show date and time in Safari popup history list • Added support for "Import Questions" for Web Trigger and Collections • Updated editor user interface for Web Trigger and Collections • Added URL components to JSON-Array • Deep links to Tags and Collections with name like surfed://tag/Apple, surfed://collection/Apple • Added Web Trigger item to global search • New list cell type "Long Text" • Run Web Trigger manually by appending key/value parameter "run-web-trigger=My Trigger" to the address bar in Safari **Web Trigger Gallery** • Content Warning • Daily Browsing Limit • Automatically Tagging • Highlight Search Terms **Fix** • Safari Extension Popup: Set Tag • Resolving custom parameters in all Web Trigger actions • Refreshing sidebar items in multiple windows • Sorting tags and collections (case insensitive) • Adding collection groups to favourite section • updating title in lists after editing • blocking UI when searching • Testing a Web Trigger now using configured custom parameters
1.3.1 fixes a problem importing and running Web Trigger without valid In-App purchase or subscription Web Trigger is a new web automation feature in Surfed. Run Shortcuts, open app schemes, perform background URL requests, inject JavaScript code, show notifications, copy to clipboard automatically, when browsing websites in Safari. Checkout the gallery for easy to install pre-configured Web Trigger. Every web trigger can contain multiple actions which will be performed, when at least one trigger rule group is true. A trigger rule group can contain multiple search terms, with a lot of options. This features are new in Surfed too: - "On This Day" Search Action Tap on "On This Day" action for a URL entry to show the history on this day. - Shortcuts Action "Export Tag" with tagged URLs Export one or more Tags with all tagged URLs into a file. This can be used to share a tag with others via iCloud file sharing. - Copy URL as Markdown action Get a formatted markdown link with title and link. - New sort methods by flagged and favourite state Now you can sort your lists by flagged and favourite state - Toolbar Buttons On iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura all context menu items are now available in the toolbar. - All new Symbol Picker With the new symbol picker UI it is easy to find the right icon for your tags, collections and web trigger. Now with a tons of new symbols. - Preview Mode: added "Open in Safari" button Now you can switch handover your Link from the Preview Mode to Safari - Command line interface on macOS On macOS you can now search your browsing history, URLs, tags and collections from the command line. ## Fix: - Global search: search for urls, which are not in history - fixed loading error in Safari popup - added a new preferences window - Blacklisting fixed - Search in Safari extension popup group results by URL
Web Trigger is a new web automation feature in Surfed. Run Shortcuts, open app schemes, perform background URL requests, inject JavaScript code, show notifications, copy to clipboard automatically, when browsing websites in Safari. Checkout the gallery for easy to install pre-configured Web Trigger. Every web trigger can contain multiple actions which will be performed, when at least one trigger rule group is true. A trigger rule group can contain multiple search terms, with a lot of options. This features are new in Surfed too: - "On This Day" Search Action Tap on "On This Day" action for a URL entry to show the history on this day. - Shortcuts Action "Export Tag" with tagged URLs Export one or more Tags with all tagged URLs into a file. This can be used to share a tag with others via iCloud file sharing. - Copy URL as Markdown action Get a formatted markdown link with title and link. - New sort methods by flagged and favourite state Now you can sort your lists by flagged and favourite state - Toolbar Buttons On iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura all context menu items are now available in the toolbar. - All new Symbol Picker With the new symbol picker UI it is easy to find the right icon for your tags, collections and web trigger. Now with a tons of new symbols. - Preview Mode: added "Open in Safari" button Now you can switch handover your Link from the Preview Mode to Safari - Command line interface on macOS On macOS you can now search your browsing history, URLs, tags and collections from the command line. ## Fix: - Global search: search for urls, which are not in history - fixed loading error in Safari popup - added a new preferences window - Blacklisting fixed - Search in Safari extension popup group results by URL
New: • Password Protection Protect your browsing history and Surfed with your password. No one can see your browsing history, tags and collections. • iOS 16: Lockscreen Widgets • New Widget "Search in Surfed" • New System Actions: Backup and Restore Surfed Database • New System Action: Delete all history items • New Shortcut Action "Backup Database" • Added context menu to global search items • Updated Widget Layout • Added "Latest Tags" to "Tag" context menu • Added user settings for show/hide tag/collection section in share sheet • UI Improvements • Chinese Localisation Fix: • Menu item "Add Tag…" was not available in Tag context menu • Private Browsing Mode alert was shown after closing release notes
Fix: • „Pro Feature“ unlock was not valid in app extensions
New: • Collections Gallery The Gallery offers preconfigured collections that can be used with one tap. („Add collection“ > „Gallery“) • macOS version is available • Search with regular expressions in smart collections • New setting: save history in private browsing mode (default is not save) • Global search: search term „#“ limits search to tags, „@“ limits search to collections • Collections are now called „Smart Collections“ • Save collections and tags into Files App • German localization Fix: • Some web pages were not added to history • Session time is ended when closing tabs and windows • Date and time conditions in collections • iPad: Open in new window • Shortcut: Get Metadata for URL
• Fixed crash in Statistics view • Session items were not shown