Questions
Questions and answers
What SplitWeb does, what it refuses to do, and what it costs. The awkward answers are here too — a cropped pane can't be clicked, memory climbs with each pane, and there is no trial.
Can I show only part of a website on my Mac?
Yes. In SplitWeb you draw a box over the region you want and the pane keeps only that region, scaled up to fill the pane. Everything outside the box is clipped away. The selection is made on an enlarged snapshot of the page, so it is easy to be precise even when the pane itself is small. How cropping works.
Does the cropped page keep updating, or is it just a screenshot?
It keeps updating. Cropping changes only what is displayed, not what is loaded. The pane is still a real web view rendering the live page, so a price or a chart inside your crop changes as the page changes. Nothing is captured or frozen.
Can I click on a cropped pane?
No. While a crop is applied the pane is read-only and clicks pass through it. This is deliberate: the web view is scaled up beyond the edges of the pane, so it stops accepting clicks and the pane's own controls stay usable. Turn the crop off when you need to click, type or scroll, then turn it back on.
How many web pages can I open at once?
There is no fixed limit — you can keep splitting panes. The practical ceiling is memory, because every pane holds its own live web view. That is what stops pages from reloading when you rearrange the board, and it is also why memory use climbs as you add panes.
Does SplitWeb keep me logged in to my dashboards?
Yes. Panes use a persistent website data store, so cookies and sessions survive quitting and reopening the app, the same way they do in a browser. This is one of the main differences from an iframe-based dashboard, where a third-party frame usually will not carry your session at all.
Is SplitWeb a web browser?
No, and it is not meant to replace one. There are no extensions, no bookmark sync and no tab management. It is a board you leave running: several live pages tiled on one screen, each croppable to the region you watch.
Can I use my Chrome extensions in SplitWeb?
No. SplitWeb does not support browser extensions of any kind. If your workflow depends on an extension, keep doing that work in your browser and use SplitWeb for the pages you only need to watch.
Why not just use iframes or a browser's split view?
Iframes fail because most sites worth watching send X-Frame-Options or a CSP
frame-ancestors header that forbids being embedded, and a third-party frame
usually will not carry your login. A browser's split view is limited to two panes showing
whole pages. SplitWeb tiles more than two and crops each to a region.
The long version.
Does it work with sites that block embedding?
Those headers do not apply here, because nothing is being embedded. Each pane loads the page
as a normal top-level document in its own WebKit web view, exactly as a browser would, so
X-Frame-Options and frame-ancestors are not involved. Individual
sites can still behave in their own ways, so no specific site is guaranteed.
Can I route one pane through a proxy?
Yes. Proxy use is set per pane, so you can send one pane through a proxy while every other pane stays direct. Changing a pane's proxy setting reloads that pane and leaves the rest of the board alone.
Does my layout come back after I quit?
Yes. SplitWeb saves the arrangement of panes, the URL in each one and the crop region for each one, and restores all of it the next time you launch. You do not have to rebuild the board every morning.
How much does SplitWeb cost? Is there a free trial?
SplitWeb is $9.99 as a one-time purchase, with no subscription. There is no free trial — the Mac App Store does not offer a trial mechanism for paid apps. If it turns out not to be what you expected, App Store refund rules apply.
What macOS version do I need?
macOS 14 or later. SplitWeb is sold only through the Mac App Store, so the App Store will tell you before purchase whether your Mac is supported.
Can I get a refund if it's not what I expected?
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us, because SplitWeb is sold only on the Mac App Store. Request one through Apple's report-a-problem process and normal App Store refund rules apply. Reading the three limitations on this site before buying is the faster route to not needing one.