Ratings and reviews

For years I preached about my Lord and Savior Slidepad to anyone who'd listen. Then I installed tonight's update. I am forsaken. Promising features, notably extension support. But no native way to: - Fix the hideous new border radius. - Stop tabs flowing middle-out instead of top-to-bottom. I use the hidden NSConvolutionOverride1 flag to keep app corners at 10, like Sequoia was. Slidepad ignores it, so now it doesn't match every other app on my Mac. 🤣 The middle-out tab layout feels like trolling. I need to disable it—I can't keep relearning a tab's spot every time a new one shifts the set. I loved this app enough to buy the dev coffee and recommend it nonstop. I could live with the radius (most people don't know they can go below the default 20, still better than Tahoe's 26 🤮). But center tabs will suck. I open Slidepad more than almost app besides Raycast. Seeing this all throughout the day doesn't bring me joy, so I'll probably stop using it—and stop recommending it.

Very cool app, I’d like to open links directly into my main browser instead of the extra step that it has. App consumption is really huge, wow!

Used to work great. Now won’t display local files. Tried all the remedies I could find and still no go. Probably has to do with recent “full sandboxing” update with no supported path to allow local file access.

Slidepad is a super handy app and one I use heavily almost every day. Of all the mini-browsers I've tried, it's the smoothest and best for working alongside other apps. I often lament the lack of documentation and minimalist settings. I've used it for years and still can't figure out how to manually save and rename a bookmark. Exactly once, Past Me somehow saved a random named Google sheet, but I can't seem to replicate whatever I did there. If you have multiple tabs open for one site (e.g., a few Google Drive docs, pages from a notes app), it can become hard to tell which tab is which. The favicons and titles are all identical. My only other complaint is that Memory usage gets very high, even with most tabs sleeping. I get alerts as often as I do with Arc and the Notion desktop app. Still, Slidepad is the only mini-browser I actually like using to work. MenubarX is great for quick checks, like my calendar, but Slidepad is a workhorse I'm happy to keep using.

I LOVED this app for a week or so. Then, I realized that it was using 8.94 gigs of RAM, which was… insane… I tried clearing the cache, did absolutely everything to help it run better. Nothing worked, and now I’m straight up Slidesad. Please fix the memory issue!

fails to allow my chatgpt open login, keeps bringing an error but if i dont login chatgpt and use just a free account it works well why cant i log into my chatgpt account while using slidepad app

I realli like the concept, but I wish it could use apps instead of websites

The current version is not available on Setapp. Why not?

EDIT - loses all existing tabs if set as default browser (via Velja) & not running when url clicked. EDIT - just lost all my tabs :/ - presumably after update Suggestions: allow selecting opposite edge for docking (and/or top/bottom of screen) consider a menu icon (like menubarX) enable detatching tabs at-will (similar to right clicking page links>open in new winow)

amazing!!!

C’est super comme application mais ca serait cool une deuxieme fenetre de l’autre coté

This app is the eptiome of a stupidly simple idea, being the most brilliant one of them all. I went from chrome group tabs, to creating multiple apps from individual websites and making them take up their own fullscreen space, to this masterpiece. I used BTT so whenever I tap my left finger while the other three are resting on the trackpad, this bad boy pops up or hides. I have AI sites, jira, slack, google drive, and anything I need to use reglularly, at my fingertips. I deleted all those web apps I made, and even the official slack app, and replaced it with this. This is literally my number 1 productivity app right now. The amount of times I need to quickly ask AI something, or use Jira for work tasks, is insane. But just for AI this is invaluable, pop up, ask, now go away. I’m new to setapp, I trawlled every single app installing the ones I thought might be useful, and this is literally my most used by far. If your needs require multitasking & quick access to sites, get this!

Cannot signin with google

Great app, been using it every day for more than a year. The only annoying thing is it does not seem compatible with websites that use Apple Fingerprint to authenticate a keychain item, and every day or two, google pages like Calendar or Docs will sign out of your google account, the “Log in” and “Retry” buttons don’t do anyting, and I have to refresh the page and sign in again, and the Fingerprint login does not work so I have to type in my password and autheticate manually every time.

After updating to macos 27 slidepad is laggy and buggy as hell. It also produces a crackling audio issue on my macbook with the buildin speakers

Lost all my tabs and settings all reset recently after update. Thanks for that. Really wish there was a way to use extensions or at least userscripts with this app. I rely heavily on several for all the websites I really want to use this for.

Numerous problems: 1. as you switch between having an external monitor plugged in and not, there's no predicting which monitor this will slide out of, so you might be unable to open it because it's in the space between your monitors. 🤦🏼‍♂️ 2. no password management or way to add a password management plugin—this makes it very inconvenient to use with any site that you must log into 3. when you move it to a different monitor, it often just moves back 4. when you resize the sub-windows, they virtually ALWAYS resize themselves to being small again even if you specifically enlarged them THESE PROBLEMS ARE USER-HOSTILE AND ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING! HORRIBLE UX FOR THIS APP!!!

This app is DEAD in Tahoe. Every single page I made now doesn’t load :( I am slideSAD

I love this app! Saves me so much time looking for my calendar since all I have to do is hit command. + M

Update: the app has become such an important piece of my slow, until recently, it’s almost unusable, lags, slows down, breaks, it’s such a disappointed, never thought i’d look for alternative. Amazing concept, amazing design, really neat, sadly it eats up more memory than a full fledged chromium based browser, I hope you can work on that performance, the app is really cool. update: I came back to it despite the concerns, i think it’s worth a second chance but something also to fix, the notifications aren’t really showing even tho they are on. I hope the people behind it will give it more care.