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Getting started

Safa is a browser first. You can download it, open it and browse without an account, a key or a model. This page takes you from the installer to your first tab, and shows where the rest begins.

Install Safa

Download the installer for your system from the download page, or from the releases page on GitHub.

Supported systems
SystemBuildRequires
macOSApple siliconmacOS Sonoma 14 or later
x64Windows 10 or 11

Intel Macs and Linux are not supported yet. They are next on the list, and the mobile apps follow.

  1. On macOS, open the downloaded disk image and move Safa to your Applications folder.
  2. On Windows, run and follow the installer.
  3. Open Safa. The welcome flow starts on its own the first time.

The welcome flow

The first launch walks you through a few short steps. Every one can be skipped with Skip, or all of them with Skip setup, and everything it sets up can be changed later in Settings.

  1. Your name. Safa uses it as your profile's display name.
  2. Import. Bring bookmarks and history from the browser you are leaving, and pick the search engine you know.
  3. Essentials. Choose the sites you use every day. They wait in your sidebar and load only when you open them.
  4. The launcher. A search that opens over any app, so you can find a tab, a page from your history or a note without switching windows.
  5. Work. A short look at the canvas where agents do the busywork.
  6. How Work thinks. Safa AI, your own key, or a model on your computer. Skip it if you only want the browser.

Choose Start browsing on the last screen.

Bring your browsing with you

Safa imports from Chrome, Safari, Arc, Zen, Firefox, Brave and Edge. It brings your bookmarks, your history from the last 180 days and the sites you keep as Essentials. Passwords are not imported. To carry them over, install your password manager's extension, such as 1Password or Bitwarden. See Extensions.

To import after the welcome flow:

  1. Quit the browser you are importing from. It keeps its data locked while it is open.
  2. Open Settings with ⌘, on macOS or Ctrl, on Windows, and go to General.
  3. Under Import browser data, pick the browser. If it has several profiles, pick one, choose what to bring, and start the import.

On macOS, a browser may need your permission first. If Safa says so, allow it in System Settings and try again. Stopping an import keeps whatever was already brought over.

Make Safa your default browser

Open SettingsGeneral and choose Set as default in the card at the top. Links you open in other apps then open in Safa. In the same place, Open Safa at login starts it when you sign in to your computer, and On startup chooses between starting with a new tab, which is the default, continuing where you left off, and opening pages you pick.

Do I need an account?

No. The browser, Tasks, Notes, Time and the blocker need no account, and neither does Work with your own keys or a local model. Until you sign in, Safa does not contact its own servers.

Accounts require an explicitly configured Safa server. Hosted AI is not configured in this private release. See Models and keys for plans and credits.

Updates

Safa downloads updates in the background and installs them when you choose Relaunch to update. To check right now, open SettingsAbout and choose Check now. What changed in each release is in the changelog.

Where to go next

  • Browse covers the sidebar, spaces, the launcher and the tools beside your tabs.
  • Ask Safa is the assistant that reads the page in front of you.
  • Work and agents explains the canvas and what agents may do.
  • Keyboard shortcuts lists every default key.