If you’re aSafariuser like me, it’s time to supercharge your browsing experience with some extensions. Browser extensions are nothing new. They’re apps specifically designed to enhance a person’s web browsing experience.
Safari is Apple’s native browser, and its known for its privacy features. Stacking up as one of the main competitors against Google Chrome, enabling extensions on Safari will make you wonder why you ever opened upMicrosoft Edge or its Google counterpart. From clearing up annoying web junk to improving my privacy, here are nine Safari extensions I actually use myself across myiPhone,iPad, andMac.
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11Password for Safari
Autofill your passwords
1Password for Safari
Password is the world’s most loved password manager, trusted by millions of individuals and over 80,000 businesses to keep their secrets safe.
It’s free to download with subscriptions starting at $4 per month.
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2AdBlock Pro
Block annoying and invasive ads
AdBlock Pro: Browser Ad Block
Save data and speed up your Safari - block ads, trackers, unnecessary resources and bypass anti-adblock detectors.
AdBlock Pro blocks intrusiveads, pop-ups, and video commercials, providing a cleaner and faster browsing experience. It offers customizable filters to block specific content, improves privacy, and reduces page load times by preventing unnecessary scripts from running.
AdBlock Pro is free to download with its Premium plan, costing $2 per month or $10 per year.
Block irritating sign-in pop-ups and banners
BANISH. The #1 Safari Extension to block annoying login popups & other dark patterns on the web.
Banish is your one-stop shop for blocking annoying login pop-ups and banners to create a less annoying browsing experience in Safari.
It’s $5 on the App Store.
4DuckDuckGo Privacy for Safari
Catch who’s trying to track you and stop them in their tracks
DuckDuckGo Privacy for Safari
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials comes packed with best-in-class privacy essentials and makes browsing Safari even faster.
DuckDuckGo Privacy for Safari is a free browser extension created by the privacy-focused search engine to help Apple users better understand who’s tracking them across the internet.
Once this Safari extension is installed, you can find out if your connection is encrypted, whether there are any tracking or third-party requests found or loaded, and whether the site’s privacy practices are known by DuckDuckGo.
This extension also makes your browsing experience faster by blocking most 3rd-party tracking cookies.
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5Grammarly for Safari
Double-check your work before an important post
Grammarly: Al Writing Support
Grammarly for Safari offers real-time suggestions to help you write your best online, no matter what you’re working on in your browser.
Grammarlyis already a popular tool for improving one’s writing, but Grammarly for Safari takes this assistance directly to the browser by helping users improve their writing by checking for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style errors in real time.
It can also offer clarity, engagement, and tone suggestions to improve emails, social media posts, and other writing without copying and pasting between apps.
Grammarly is free to use with its Pro plan, which starts at $30 per month.
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6Mapper for Safari
Open Google Maps links in Apple Maps
Mapper for Safari
Automatically redirect Google Maps links from the Google search page to Apple Maps. No more copy/pasting addresses. Works in Safari on iOS and macOS.
Mapper for Safari automatically redirectsGoogle Maps links to Apple Mapswithout the need to copy or paste addresses. If you’re primarily an Apple Maps user like me, you’ll appreciate how Mapper helps you bypass unnecessary steps to open directions in your preferred navigation app.
Mapper for Safari is a one-time $3 purchase.
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Add dark mode to every website you visit
Noir is a Safari extension that automatically adds a dark mode to every website you visit.
Noir is a Safari extension that automatically enables dark mode for websites – even those that don’t natively support it – every time you visit. If you prefer the eye-friendly visual experience that dark modes provide, you’ll appreciate how Noir seamlessly turns blinding white websites dark by generating a unique, custom dark mode experience for every site.
Noir is a one-time purchase of $4 from the App Store.
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8Superagent
Automatically fill out cookie consent forms
Super Agent for Safari
Super Agent automatically fills out website’s cookie consent forms for you based on your preferences.
Super Agent is your personalcookieconsent assistant that automatically hands those pop-ups by remembering and applying your preferences so you don’t have to repeatedly accept or reject them. It totally improves your browsing experience by minimizing the constant interruptions caused by frequent cookie consent prompts.
There are four Super Agent cookie categories: advertising, functional, performance, and other. Super Agent will apply your preferences on every site visited. It’s free to use on macOS, but on iOS and iPadOS, you’ll only receive three free dismisses per day.
Unlimited dismisses cost $1 per month, $12 per year, or $30 for life.
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Gain video speed and playback controls on all video
Vidimote for Safari
Control playback, speed, PiP (& more) of web videos in Safari - with this clever web extension.
Vidimote gives users even better control over video playback within Safari, allowing features like speed adjustment, actual time remaining, and greater skipping control on just about any video. One of my favorite features of Vidimote ispicture-in-picture (PiP)support for any video.
Vidimote is incredibly affordable, costing only $3 in the App Store.
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