Spaces and profiles

Separate work and personal browsing with Spaces, give each one its own profile and sign-ins, and switch between them from the sidebar or the keyboard.

With Spaces you keep different parts of your browsing apart: a set of tabs for work, another for home, each with its own name, emoji and color. With profiles you decide which of those Spaces share sign-ins.

Spaces and profiles in one paragraph

A Space is a set of tabs in the sidebar: its pinned tabs, favorites, folders and open tabs, its name, emoji, color, and how long its idle tabs stay open. A profile is a set of website data: cookies and sign-ins, site storage and cache, history, bookmarks, downloads, site permissions and extensions. Every Space is signed in as exactly one profile, and several Spaces can share one. Two Spaces on the same profile see the same accounts and extensions with different tabs; two Spaces on different profiles are as separate as two browsers.

A new Lilo has one profile, named Default, and every Space you create uses it until you choose otherwise.

Create a Space

Open the Space editor

Choose Spaces > New Space… in the menu bar, right-click the Space icons at the bottom of the sidebar and choose New Space, or go to Settings > Tabs and Spaces and click Create next to New Space.

Name it

Type a name, and click the emoji to pick another one. Under Appearance, choose a color and a material (Solid, Glass or Grain).

Choose who it is signed in as

Under Signed in as, pick an existing profile, New Profile to start signed out everywhere with no extensions, or Private for a Space that forgets everything when it closes. The line under the list says what the choice shares, for example “Shares sign-ins, cookies and extensions with Home.”

Create it

Click Create Space. Lilo switches to the new Space.

Keep work and personal sign-ins apart

To be signed in to the same site with two accounts, one for work and one for yourself, give each Space its own profile.

Create the Space for the second account

Open the Space editor as above and name the Space, for example “Work”.

Give it a new profile

Under Signed in as, choose New Profile and type a profile name. The hint reads “Starts signed out everywhere, with no extensions.”

Click Create Space, then sign in to your work accounts in that Space. Your other Spaces keep their own sign-ins.

Extensions belong to a profile too: install your work extensions in a Space of the work profile, and they appear in every Space of that profile and in no Space of another. See Extensions.

To move an existing Space to another profile, open it with Spaces > Edit Space… and pick the other profile under Signed in as. Its tabs move with it and load again signed in as that profile.

Switch between Spaces

Click a Space’s icon at the bottom of the sidebar.
Swipe sideways with two fingers on the sidebar.
Press ⌃⌘→ for the next Space and ⌃⌘← for the previous one (Spaces > Next Space and Previous Space).
Press ⌃1 to ⌃9 to go to the first nine Spaces.
In the command bar, type a Space’s name and choose Switch to it.

Each window shows one Space. Switching Spaces in one window leaves the others on theirs, and two windows can show the same Space.

Edit, reorder or delete a Space

Edit: choose Spaces > Edit Space…, or right-click the Space’s icon and choose Edit Space. Changes apply as you make them. The editor also holds Archive tabs after, explained in Tabs and folders.
Reorder: drag a Space’s icon along the bottom bar, or focus it and press ⌥← or ⌥→.
Delete: right-click the Space’s icon and choose Delete Space…, or click Delete Space… in its editor. The Space and all its tabs are deleted permanently. The last Space cannot be deleted. Deleting a Space never deletes its profile.

Settings > Appearance > Hide Space names shows each Space in the bottom bar as its icon alone.

Move a tab to another Space

Right-click the tab and choose Move to Space, or use Tab > Move to Space for the current tab.
Drag the tab onto a Space’s icon at the bottom of the sidebar.
In the command bar, select an open tab, press ⌘M and pick the Space.

Between two Spaces of the same profile, the page moves as it is. Into a Space of another profile, the page loads again there, signed in as that profile. A favorite cannot move into a Private Space.

Private Space

Choose File > New Private Space or press ⇧⌘N. A Private Space has its own website data, held in memory only: nothing is saved, and its tabs, history and cookies go when the Space closes, at the latest when you quit Lilo. Pressing ⇧⌘N again returns to the Private Space you already have instead of making a second one. A Private Space cannot change profile, and an extension sees its tabs only once you allow it there. More in Privacy controls.

Manage profiles

Profiles live in Settings > Tabs and Spaces, under Profiles. Each card shows the Spaces signed in as that profile and its number of extensions.

New Profile… creates one with fresh cookies, sign-ins and extensions. You can also create one from the Space editor.
The … menu of a card offers Rename, Change color, Manage extensions, Clear data… and Remove….
Remove… deletes the profile’s cookies, sign-ins, history and extensions. Its Spaces stay, with their tabs: you choose the profile that takes them. Your last profile stays, because every Space needs one.

Below the cards, Lilo lists the Agents profile: AI agents work in that throwaway profile, wiped after each session, and borrow one of yours only after you allow it. See AI agents.