Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Safari MCP – Native macOS browser automation (80 tools)
Native Safari browser automation for AI agents. 97 tools via AppleScript — zero overhead, keeps logins, runs silently in background. Drop-in alternative to Chrome DevTools MCP with 40-60% less CPU/heat on Apple Silicon. - achiya-automation/safari-mcp
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Browser MCP connects AI applications to your browser so you can automate tasks using AI. Supported by Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and more.
2025 · browsermcp.io · its alternatives →
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OpenOwl▲261Automate what APIs can't in one prompt done locally
Apr 2026 · openowl.dev · its alternatives →
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BrowserAgent▲544Browser-based AI agents - unlimited runs, fixed cost
2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →
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Open Browser Use▲112Open-source browser automation for local AI agents
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mac + browser automation for AI agents — 85% fewer tokens
Apr 2026 · haku.sh · its alternatives →
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Owl Browser▲145I've been working on browser automation infrastructure for a while and kept hitting the same ceiling: Playwright and Puppeteer are great for scripting but fall apart when you need stealth at scale. Cloud-based solutions like Browserbase work but you're sending all your data to a third party and can't control the environment. So we built Owl Browser, a self-hosted Chromium-based engine that runs in a single Docker container. The core technical problem we tried to solve was fingerprint consistency. Most browser automation tools either ignore fingerprinting entirely or apply surface-level…
Jan 2026 · owlbrowser.net · its alternatives →
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AI Browser▲143Hey HN! I built Browser AI after getting frustrated with the official Playwright MCP server in Claude Code. If you've used it, you know the pain: - 20+ separate tools that Claude has to juggle (click, fill, navigate, wait_for_selector, etc.) - Context window explosions from verbose screenshot data and DOM snapshots - Constant tool selection errors where Claude picks the wrong tool or forgets parameters Browser AI wraps Playwright MCP with a single natural language interface. Instead of Claude managing dozens of tools, you get one: browser_ai.execute. Just tell it what you want in plain…
Nov 2025 · aibrowser.surf · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I forked chromium and built agent-browser-protocol (ABP) after noticing that most browser-agent failures aren’t really about the model misunderstanding the page. Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state. ABP is designed to keep the acting agent synchronized with the browser at every step. After each action (click, type, etc), it freezes JavaScript execution and rendering, then captures the resulting state. It also compiles the notable events that occurred during that action loop, such as navigation, file pickers, permission prompts, alerts, and downloads,…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we just shipped a browser with an inbuilt MCP server! We're a YC startup (S24) building BrowserOS — an open‑source Chromium fork. We're a privacy‑first alternative to the new wave of AI browsers like Dia, Perplexity Comet. Since launching ~3 months ago, the #1 request has been to expose our browser as an MCP server. -- Google beat us to launch with chrome-devtools-mcp (solid product btw), which lets you build/debug web apps by connecting Chrome to coding assistants. But we wanted to take this a step further: we packaged the MCP server directly into our browser binary. That gives…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WebMCP▲108Give AI agents access to web apps via JavaScript
Feb 2026 · webmcp.dev · its alternatives →
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MCP360▲61Hey HN Community, I built MCP360 after spending weeks integrating APIs for an AI agent project. Each tool needed its own setup, auth, billing, and maintenance. When any APIs changed, my integrations broke. I got tired of it. MCP360 is a single gateway giving AI agents access to 100+ tools through one config block. Search engines, web scraping, SEO, e-commerce data, maps, domain tools, and more. Real example: Instead of managing Google Search, web scraping, SERP tracking, and keyword research as 4 separate subscriptions (4 bills, 4 auth systems, 4 points of failure), you connect once. Works…
2025 · mcp360.ai · its alternatives →
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iBrowsy▲92AI-powered macOS open source browser with Ai built in.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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browserless.io▲143The full-code, no-ops tool for browser automation
2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built webctl because I was frustrated by the gap between curl and full browser automation frameworks like Playwright. I initially built this to solve a personal headache: I wanted an AI agent to handle project management tasks on my company’s intranet. I needed it to persist cookies across sessions (to handle SSO) and then scrape a Kanban board. Existing AI browser tools (like current MCP implementations) often force unsolicited data into the context window—dumping the full accessibility tree, console logs, and network errors whether you asked for them or not. webctl is an attempt…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been building computer-use tools for a while, and I quietly launched this about a month ago (122 Stars on GH). I figured it was worth sharing here. Over the last few months, a lot of computer-use agents have come out: Codex, Claude Code, CUA, and others. Most of them seem to work roughly like this: 1. Take a screenshot 2. Have the model predict pixel coordinates 3. Click x,y 4. Take another screenshot 5. Repeat That works, but it's slow, expensive in tokens, and fragile. If the UI shifts a few pixels, things break. And the model still doesn't know what any element actually is. But the…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Been working on a desktop app for Mac that lets you create web flows and rerun them (https://www.donobu.com/). You can optionally use AI (BYOK: bring your own keys) to create flows for you and to do other interesting things, like making vision-based semantic assertions. Also, your data lives on your own filesystem, and we do not see any of it (further still, there is no phoning home at all). A nice benefit of this being a desktop app rather than a SAAS product, is that if you happen to be developing/iterating on a webpage locally, this has no problem hooking into it. What…
2024 · donobu.com · its alternatives →
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I'm Mike, Head of Eng/Product at Alloy Automation. We built MCP by Alloy Automation to give your AI agents structured access to business-critical systems without the integration headache. We've built MCP servers covering thousands of tools across platforms like Quickbooks, Xero, Notion, HubSpot, and Salesforce. Pick the tools you need, provision a server, and ship faster. Need more control? Our Connectivity API gives you programmatic access to all the same tools for custom integrations beyond MCP. Everything runs with scoped auth utilizing our battle-tested credential management system…
2025 · ai.runalloy.com · its alternatives →
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MCP server that gives AI the ability to use an iPhone
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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