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Nimply Sidekick for Safari
Safari extensions are delivered differently: through the App Store, inside a small app, with no sidebar to dock into. Sidekick’s Safari build is designed around that, and keeps every one of the same rules.
The button becomes a link the day the App Store listing is approved. Nothing on this site links to a listing that does not exist yet.
Where it appears
A toolbar popup, plus a full-page tab for longer work
Safari has no side panel and no sidebar for extensions, on the Mac or on iPhone. So Sidekick uses two surfaces there: a popup from the toolbar icon for the quick actions, and a full-page tab of its own for longer flows such as reviewing a capture or writing a draft. What it does not do is put its interface on the page itself. Injecting a panel into a website would have been the easy fix, and it is the one thing Sidekick never does in any browser.
Also covers
Safari on the Mac first; iPhone and iPad noted
The first App Store release is for Safari on macOS. The same popup works in Safari on iPhone and iPad, but iOS has no right-click menu, so the toolbar button and the keyboard shortcut would be the only ways in, and an iOS release needs its own review and screenshots. The App Store listing states exactly which devices it supports; this page will say so as well when that changes.
Install
How to add it to Safari
Five steps, most of them one click. You sign in with the Nimply account you already have; there is no separate Sidekick account.
You will need
- Safari 16.4 or newer on the Mac (macOS Ventura 13.3 or later, or an updated Monterey or Big Sur).
- A Nimply account. Saving posts, images and articles is included on every plan; AI drafting and reply suggestions use your workspace’s AI credits.
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Get “Nimply Sidekick” from the App Store
Use the button on this page. It becomes a link once Apple’s review is complete; until then it says “Coming soon”. What you download is a small app whose only job is to carry the Safari extension; it has no interface of its own beyond a button that opens Safari’s extension settings.
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Open the app once, then turn the extension on in Safari
Open Nimply Sidekick from your Applications folder and follow its one button to Safari. In Safari, open Settings, choose Extensions, and tick Nimply Sidekick.
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Allow it on the sites where you use it
Safari may ask whether to allow the extension on a website the first time you click its icon there, for one day or always. Either answer is fine: Sidekick reads a page only when you click, whatever Safari’s setting says.
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Sign in through a tab
Safari does not give extensions a dedicated sign-in window, so signing in opens a normal Safari tab on nimply.io. Sign in with your existing Nimply account, choose your workspace, and the tab hands you back to the extension.
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Use it on the post in front of you
Click the toolbar icon for the popup, right-click a post, link or image on the Mac and choose the Nimply entry, or press Alt+Shift+S. Longer steps open in Sidekick’s own tab; switch back to the page whenever you like.
What is different
What is different about Sidekick in Safari
The extension does the same things everywhere. These are the parts that Safari handles in its own way.
It ships inside an app, from the App Store
Safari does not install extensions from a download. Every Safari extension is packaged inside a Mac app, built and signed with Apple’s tools and reviewed through App Store Connect. That is why the Safari button here points to the App Store rather than to an extension gallery.
Popup and tab instead of a panel
The popup closes when you click away from it, so it is for quick actions. Reviewing what was read, choosing a board, and drafting happen in Sidekick’s full-page tab. That tab does not sit beside the post the way a panel does; you switch between the two.
Sign-in opens in a tab
Safari has no built-in extension sign-in window, so Sidekick signs you in through an ordinary tab on nimply.io and returns you afterwards. It is the same sign-in as everywhere else, in a different window.
The shortest permission list of any build
Without a side panel or a sign-in window, the Safari build asks for four permissions: activeTab, scripting, storage and contextMenus, plus access to nimply.io. On iPhone and iPad there is no right-click menu at all, so that part simply does not appear there.
Same rules in every browser
Assistive, not automated
The Safari build keeps every limit the other builds have. They are in the design, not in the settings. Read the full list or the extension privacy policy.
- Reads one page, once, only when you click. Never a feed, a search or a list page, and never in the background.
- Never posts, replies, likes, follows or types into a page. Drafted replies go to your clipboard for you to send.
- Never changes the page you are on, never touches your cookies or sessions, and can only contact nimply.io.
Get ready for it
Sidekick works with the Nimply account you already have. Create one free, connect your channels, and it is ready the day the App Store listing goes live.