Home Safe
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Free and open source · Private by design

Home is where the heart is

Keep every home you fall for while you search. Home Safe saves a listing, with every photo, in one click, to a cozy little inventory on your own computer.

Get Home SafeSee how it works
  • $485,000$296/sq ft
    3 bd · 2 ba · 1,640 sq ftFor sale
    14 Maple Lane, Portland, OR
  • $372,500$345/sq ft
    2 bd · 1 ba · 1,080 sq ftFor sale
    52 Willow Court, Asheville, NC
  • $629,900$285/sq ft
    4 bd · 3 ba · 2,210 sq ftPending
    208 Harbor Street, Tacoma, WA
  • $545,000$288/sq ft
    3 bd · 2.5 ba · 1,890 sq ftComing soon
    9 Orchard Road, Madison, WI
  • $410,000$289/sq ft
    3 bd · 2 ba · 1,420 sq ftFor sale
    301 Linden Avenue, Durham, NC
  • $699,000$273/sq ft
    4 bd · 3.5 ba · 2,560 sq ftFor sale
    77 Cedar Hollow, Boulder, CO

How it works

From “ooh” to saved in one click

No copying links into a spreadsheet, no screenshots, no losing the one you loved when the listing comes down.

  1. Add the extension

    It puts a Save in Home Safe button on Zillow listings, in Chrome or Firefox.

  2. Save the homes you love

    One click sends the listing to the app: price, beds and baths, size, HOA, Zestimate and the description. Its photos download in the background, and the button shows how far along they are.

  3. Come back to them any time

    Browse your homes as cards or a sortable table, open one for its photos and facts, and compare at your own pace. Save a home again to bring its details up to date.
One click saves the listing, then its photos follow.

Features

Everything about the homes you love, in one place

A calm, quick desktop app for the most exciting search of your life.

Every photo, kept

Photos are downloaded to your computer when you save, so they stay with you after the listing changes or disappears. Open any of them full size and step through with the arrow keys.

Cards or a table

Flip through photo cards, or switch to a table and sort by price, price per square foot, beds, baths or size. Search narrows either view as you type.

A page for every home

Each home gets its own page: a photo mosaic, the price and price per square foot, year built, lot size, HOA, Zestimate and rent estimate, and the full description.

Always ready to save

On a Mac, Home Safe lives in the menu bar. Close the window and it keeps listening for the extension, and it can start when you log in.

Nothing lost

Every save also keeps a snapshot of the listing as it was, with its price and status, so a home's history builds up quietly while you decide.

Easy to let go

Changed your mind? Remove a home from the listing page or the app, and its photos and history go with it.

Privacy

Your home search stays at home

Where you might live is personal. Home Safe keeps it that way: no account, no cloud, no tracking.

  1. Your browserThe extension reads the listing you're looking at
  2. Your computerIt hands it to the app at 127.0.0.1, which only answers the extension
  3. Your diskHomes in a local database, photos in a folder you can open

Nothing is sent anywhere else. The only requests Home Safe makes are to download the photos of homes you save.

Get started

Make yourself at home

Home Safe is free for Macs with macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Setting it up takes a couple of minutes.

  1. Download and install

    Open Home-Safe-macos.dmg and drag Home Safe into your Applications folder.

  2. Open it the first time

    Home Safe isn't notarized by Apple yet, so the first time you open it macOS says it can't check it for malware. Click Done, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway beside Home Safe. You only need to do this once; after that it opens like any other app, and its house appears in your menu bar.

  3. Add the extension

    Unzip Home-Safe-extension.zip. In Chrome, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and choose the folder. In Firefox, open about:debugging, choose This Firefox and load its manifest.json. Store versions are on the way.

Home Safe for Mac

The app, ready to drag into Applications, and the extension for Chrome and Firefox.

Download for MacGet the extension
Release notes and older versions

Rather build it yourself? With Rust installed:

Terminal
git clone https://github.com/Mellow-Technology/home-safecd home-safecargo run --release -p home-safe

Find the one, and keep the ones you loved along the way

Free and open source under the LGPL-3.0. Your homes stay on your computer.
Download for MacView on GitHub