WebCatalog Review (2026)Browser Profiles Are Free

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 21 Oct 2026

Basic is free and no card is required: 2 desktop apps, 2 profiles and 1 space, with cloud sync, to-dos, focus mode and curated wallpapers. Pro is $5 per user per month billed annually or $6 billed monthly, plus local taxes, and lifts the caps to unlimited apps, profiles and spaces, with an ad-free experience, pages, theme colours, an ads and tracker blocker, an app lock, location services and priority support.

Business is $8 per user per month billed annually or $10 monthly and adds shared spaces, shared pages, team management, centralised billing, an activity log and SAML single sign-on. Both paid plans carry a 7-day trial. The page advertises a 20% saving on yearly billing and prices in USD, EUR or JPY. A legacy lifetime licence is not mentioned on the pricing page (checked 2026-09-25).

Plans change, so check the live price on their site before you buy.

Category context: IT & Productivity. Across the 43 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $15 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). WebCatalog’s entry price of $5 a month sits below that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →

What the pricing page doesn’t say

The catch

The honest question is whether you need the paid tier at all. The free plan's 2-app limit is tight, but browser profiles and PWAs solve part of the same problem for free. Pro earns its fee when multi-account juggling (several Gmail/Slack/WhatsApp identities) is daily reality. Three practical limits come from WebCatalog's own documentation, read 21 October 2026: DRM-protected video does not play in the desktop app, Linux support is experimental without a promise of distribution-specific help, and because login sessions never leave the device, a new laptop means signing in to every app again even though the app list syncs.

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What WebCatalog does

Turn web apps into tidy desktop apps and manage multiple accounts side by side. Less tab chaos, more focus, your whole stack organized in one place.

What buyers report about WebCatalog

Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: practitioner reviews and tool comparisons, read August 2026

Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run WebCatalog ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

Count how often you switch accounts

Free Basic covers 2 desktop apps, 2 profiles and 1 space. Pro is $5 per user a month billed annually, plus local taxes, with unlimited apps, profiles and spaces, an ad-free experience and tracker blocking; cloud sync is on the free plan as well (re-read 25 September 2026). Business is $8 and adds team management. Both paid plans carry a 7-day trial (read September 2026). The honest question is whether you need to pay at all, because part of this problem is already solved for free.

Browser profiles give you separate identities, and progressive web apps give you app-shaped windows for most of the services people install this for. If you use one Gmail account, one Slack and one WhatsApp, those free mechanisms cover you and the two-app free tier will feel tight for no reason. Here is the test that settles it: count how many times in a normal day you sign out of one account to sign into another of the same service.

If the answer is zero, do not buy this. If the answer is five (three Gmail identities, two Slack workspaces, a personal and a work WhatsApp) then Pro at $60 a year is buying back a irritating few minutes every day, and multi-account juggling is precisely what it is built for. Two things ride along with Pro that people forget to price: an ads and tracker blocker across every app window, and an app lock.

If you were paying for a blocker anyway, that changes the $60-a-year arithmetic. Both are on the plan comparison, not sold separately, and neither is free. Business at $8 to $10 adds team management, which is a different purchase: it is for standardising which apps a team has and blocking the rest, not for the individual convenience Pro sells. Do not buy it for a team unless someone actually intends to manage that configuration.

Read the Business plan's shared spaces closely before buying it for shared logins. A profile placed in a shared space is synced to the whole organisation and cannot be excluded, but only its setup travels: name, icon, home page and settings. Each member's cookies, sessions and passwords stay on that member's device, so everyone still signs in separately. Business standardises the app list; it does not hand a team one logged-in account.

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How to actually use WebCatalog

Try the free approaches first, for a week. Set up browser profiles for your separate identities and install two or three services as progressive web apps. For a lot of people that is the whole problem solved at no cost, and the two-app free tier here will feel artificially tight by comparison. If it is not enough, count your account switches over a normal day: how many times do you sign out of one identity to reach another on the same service?

That number is what Pro is worth to you. Zero means do not buy; five means $60 a year is buying back several minutes daily. Check the currency before you budget: the pricing page prices in USD, EUR or JPY and adds local taxes on top, so the figure you plan around is not always the figure you first saw. And keep Business in reserve: it adds shared spaces, team management and SAML single sign-on rather than personal convenience, so it only makes sense if someone will actually administer which apps the team has.

WebCatalog's own getting-started article puts the order at five steps: install from webcatalog.io, sign in so the setup syncs between devices, add a first app from a catalog it puts at 50,000+ apps or from any website, add further accounts as profiles, then group apps into spaces. Check the system requirements before the trial clock starts, especially on Linux, which the vendor calls experimental. If you only want quick access rather than separate app windows, the browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave and Vivaldi puts apps, bookmarks and widgets on the new-tab page instead.

The natural comparison is Rambox or browser PWAs: Rambox is the direct competitor with similar pricing; PWAs are the free baseline: pay only if profile isolation is your real pain.

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Frequently asked questions

How much more is WebCatalog Pro if I pay monthly?

One dollar a month, or $12 a year. Read 25 September 2026 in USD: Pro is $5 per user a month billed annually ($60 a year) or $6 billed monthly ($72), and Business is $8 or $10 ($96 against $120), with local taxes added to each. The page advertises a 20% saving for yearly billing; that is exact on Business and about 17% on Pro. Both paid plans start with a 7-day trial.

Does the free plan show ads?

Basic is not ad-free: the plan comparison (read 25 September 2026) marks 'Ad-free experience' No on Basic and Yes on Pro and Business. The ads and tracker blocker is a separate line in the same table and is also Pro-only. The free tier still includes cloud sync, to-dos, focus mode and curated wallpapers, so it is usable, just capped at 2 desktop apps, 2 profiles and 1 space.

Can I get my money back if I subscribe by mistake?

Within 14 days of the first purchase, according to WebCatalog's refund-policy article (read 21 October 2026), which offers a full refund in that window. Monthly renewals are generally non-refundable; an annual renewal can be refunded if you ask within 14 days of the renewal date, and a refund ends the subscription at once. Our 25 September 2026 reading of the pricing-page FAQ was more guarded, saying refunds were not guaranteed and could be declined for repeated or abusive requests, so ask from the account's own email address inside the 14 days. Cancelling without a refund keeps the paid plan to the end of the billing period, after which the account drops to Basic.

What happens to my apps and profiles if I stop paying for WebCatalog?

Nothing is deleted. The article on expired subscriptions (read 21 October 2026) says your apps, profiles, spaces, bookmarks and settings are kept and paid features simply become unavailable, so a later resubscription picks up the old setup. Login sessions and cookies stored on the device are not touched either. What the article does not say is which of, say, ten apps stay usable once the account is back under Basic's two-app cap.

Does WebCatalog see my passwords or sync my logins?

No, by design. The security article (read 21 October 2026) says the desktop app works like a browser: credentials go straight to the service you sign in to, and cookies and sessions are stored on your device, not uploaded or synced. The practical side is that signing in to WebCatalog on a second computer brings your app list across but not your logins, so every app asks you to sign in again. Account data is processed mainly in the United States, with some in the EU and UK.

Will Netflix, Spotify or other DRM video play in WebCatalog?

Not in the desktop app. WebCatalog's documentation (read 21 October 2026) says it does not support DRM-protected playback, including Widevine, that such videos may error, show a black screen or keep loading, and that neither a setting nor a reinstall changes this. Its advice is to open those services in a normal browser or their own app.

Does WebCatalog run on Linux and older Macs?

The system-requirements article (read 21 October 2026) lists macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon or Intel, Windows 10 or later on x64 or ARM64, and Linux on x64 or ARM64. Linux support is described as experimental and limited: the app may not work on every distribution, and WebCatalog may not help with distribution-specific problems. A Mac stuck on macOS 12 is out.

Is this a hands-on review of WebCatalog?

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