Browser history. Real attention.
BrowserDaddy: Your browsing history.
Your attention, explained.
Bring browser history together on your Mac. Compare visits with measured foreground attention, find patterns across browsers, and revisit what mattered.
Meet Tab Scout, BrowserDaddy's guide to your browsing day. Product artwork, not a screenshot. Browsing-history captures stay out of this preview.
Look inside
History and attention.
Two different signals.
BrowserDaddy is in development. This is a product preview, not a public download. Browser access and active-tab evidence depend on macOS permissions and browser support.
A visit is not a minute of attention.
Separate what opened from what held your focus.
History records where you went. Foreground and idle measurements add a different signal: when an app was active. BrowserDaddy keeps the two distinct instead of turning visit counts into guessed screen time.
Know what the app can see
Start with access. Keep the limits visible.
Search a separate local archive of browser visits, filter by browser or date, and compare trends with foreground attention. History reads do not change the browser's records. Active-tab evidence needs supported browser scripting and Automation access. Missing access is reported, not turned into a zero.
Made for your own Mac
Understand your browsing, not someone else's.
A fit People who use several browsers, want a searchable local archive and want to distinguish browsing activity from measured foreground attention.
Not a fit Employee surveillance, browser cleanup, recovering private browsing, or reconstructing attention before the watcher started.
Know what leaves the Mac
Local archive. Optional external tagging.
History and focus records are stored on your Mac. Optional topic tagging sends domain names, selected URL paths and page titles to classifier.dev. Leave tagging off to avoid that enrichment request. Private-window filtering is not yet release-qualified; do not treat the preview as a privacy guarantee.
Read the plain-language privacy policyA few honest answers.
Can I download BrowserDaddy?
Not yet. The native Mac app is in development, without a public download or App Store listing. This site documents the current product and its limits.
Which browsers can it read?
History discovery covers Chromium-family browsers and profiles, Firefox and Safari where their local stores are readable. Active-tab support is narrower and depends on browser scripting and per-browser Automation permission.
Are visits the same as time spent?
No. Browser history records visits. The attention watcher measures foreground activity and input-idle state from when it starts. It cannot reconstruct past attention or measure a tab merely because it is visible on another monitor.
Does it modify my browser history?
No. Collection reads browser stores into a separate local archive. BrowserDaddy is not a history cleaner and does not delete visits from your browser.
Does it send data to a service?
Optional tagging uses classifier.dev. When enabled and run, domain classification includes domain names and selected page titles; page classification includes hostnames, URL paths and titles. These can contain sensitive information. The rest of the browsing archive is local; the website's own hosting and footer behavior is described in Privacy.
What about private browsing?
BrowserDaddy is not intended to recover private browsing. Private-window exclusion in the live attention watcher has not completed release qualification. Avoid using the preview for sensitive private browsing until that protection is verified.
“Keep visits and attention separate.”
The BrowserDaddy evidence rule
Show what was measured, what was unavailable and when collection began.