# Total Refresh for Safari — user reviews > 43 indexed App Store user reviews of Total Refresh for Safari by William Walker, rated 3.30/5 from 4 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/total-refresh-for-safari/id1573919086/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/total-refresh-for-safari/id1573919086.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (13 of 43) ### 4/5 — Almost perfect? Need CURRENT window refresh only *2026-01-26* I’m so frustrated by this app and documentation at this point. The App Store page says it comes with a guide, online instructions say there should be a way to toggle it to only the current window, and I think MAYBE I saw that option when first downloading, but I can’t find anywhere in my Mac or the app menu to check/change this option. Even when uninstalling app, when I re-download it from the App Store to trigger a setup wizard or something, it just defaults back to the current settings where there’s no way to change it. I’m a user who tends to keep a few different windows open for various projects, and when I revisit a project I just want all those tabs to refresh. This app defaults to refreshing ALL tabs across ALL windows which is a significant drag on computer resources, for tabs I have no intention of using today. ### 3/5 — Refreshes every tab on every window *2025-06-22* The option to only refresh the tabs on the current active window doesn’t seem to work. Like another reviewer noted, this extension works… sort of. Every time I activate it, it refreshes every tab I have across all 3 of my Safari windows. I really wish he would fix this and it would be perfect if it worked like it was supposed to. ### 3/5 — Total Refresh for Safari *2024-07-06* Good App.Thanks! ### 1/5 — Not working *2023-03-09* Not Working ### 3/5 — It can't save my prefs *2023-03-09* I've bought this extension almost two yers ago and developer updated it recently but it still lacks of simplest feature - every time I quit browser and open it, extension reloads all tabs in all windows though I've selected to reload in current window only before I quit Safari. ### 4/5 — Good start, just a few thoughts... *2023-02-04* Works fine with the latest Safari as of this writing. It works as a task that goes through each open tab one-by-one and refreshes them, but it didn't get all the way through all my open tabs and stopped short of the last 5 or 6 -- so it would be nice if it could get through those. Additionally, it would be nice if there were a rate limiter, becasue all my tab refreshes were on the same site and I think the site wasn't happy about that. So, if there were a way to slow down the refresh rate per tab, or only do X number at a time before taking a break and then moving on again, that would be awesome. Ideally, it could do all this in the background as before, but generally it works for what you need to do and I assume it will only get better over time. ### 2/5 — Funktioniert nicht *2022-11-17* Es wird beworben, dass alle Tabs mit einem Klick neu geladen werden. Das funktioniert nicht. Es wird immer nur der aktuell offene Tab aktualisiert. ### 2/5 — Works... Sort of. *2022-11-04* Works on every active tab of every window, NOT the on background tabs of multiple safari windows. Would love for it to work as advertised though! ### 1/5 — This garbage is not working *2022-10-26, version 1.4.2* It doesnt not work. Only reloads active tab. ### 1/5 — Does not work *2022-10-17, version 1.4.2* Tested - does not work with pinned tabs or tab groups. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2022-09-28* The only thing this app does is take up storage space. Even if you turn on it’s extension in settings, it doesn’t change that page that the app opens up to. And I can’t find any trace of it in safari when all my other extensions are working perfectly fine. Don’t waste your time. ### 1/5 — Does not work *2022-09-26* Update. I figured it out, but from what I can tell the app doesn’t do anything other than refresh the tab I’m on. Was: The app opens to a one-liner about enabling it in Safari. Great, I did. Now what? And what does it do exactly? Where is the “Go” button? Will it refresh all my tabs automatically at some specified constraint? Will it refresh all tabs on demand? ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2022-08-19* Only refreshes first two tabs ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work consistently *2026-04-21* I have a window of tabs that I refresh daily so thought this would save me a few seconds. When I invoke it some windows are refreshed but some are not so I still have to check and it saves me nothing. ### 1/5 — Funktioniert kaum *2025-12-10* Es wird bei mir nur der letzte Tag aktualisiert, somit Nonsens. ### 1/5 — It always reload all tabs *2025-04-21* I chek the option to reload only the current tab, but it always reload all tabs. ### 1/5 — Não funciona *2025-02-17* Péssimo ### 1/5 — Bad. I paid for something that doesn’t work *2024-12-19, version 2.0* I do not recommend at all ### 1/5 — Doesn't bring tabs back to home page *2024-07-24* Perhaps the fault is mine. I have tabs set up on Safari that open automatically every time I start the browser. Those tabs are for specific pages. Throughout the day, while using the tabs, I may venture off to another page. I had hoped that TOTAL REFRESH would load those tabs back to their original home page. This does not seem to be the case at all. This is odd, as Chrome offers a free extension that when activated, resets all tabs back to their designated page. I will be seeking a refund on this app ### 1/5 — Didn't work well at all *2024-07-17* Every time I pressed the button, it started at the top of the list of tabs and not continuing further but instead back at the beginning. It also always stopped at 11 tabs, and it also goes too fast where i get a "I'm not a robot" captcha on each tab it went through, where I have to then manually get it off. This is a great idea for an app but honestly I don't think this is working anymore at all because it just adds more inconvenience. ### 1/5 — runtergeladen und dann? *2024-03-13* Habe die App gekauft und installiert. Kein Einstellen des automatischen Reload möglich. finde aber nichts in der Statusleiste und das Programm läßt sich nirgendwo einstellen.... ### 1/5 — Furhter to my previous comment. *2024-02-29* Hi, the app price was charged correctly at $2.99, apologies. ### 1/5 — you cannot set a specific time to reload a single tab *2023-08-04, version 2.0* you cannot set a specific time to reload a single tab ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Works Great *2026-03-04* Works great, reloads all my tabs that are in a tab group at a click ### 5/5 — Latest update for macOS works great! *2025-12-29* As reported by some of the other users, this app was in a state of disrepair, but has since been updated to work for the latest macOS. Works great! ### 5/5 — New update fixes bugs *2025-12-24* The latest update seems to have fixed all the bugs that some of the other reviews mention **Developer response:** Glad it’s working out well for you 👍 ### 5/5 — Great app ! *2025-10-26* Worth it and works great ! Very useful when using many news tabs for example. You will win a lot of time. ### 5/5 — Excellent App. *2024-07-07* Does exactly what is says, not annoying or intrusive in anyway. Support is also excellent, My favourite Safari extention. ### 5/5 — tadellos! *2023-10-14* Habe noch andere Tab-Reloader ausprobiert. Das ist der einzige, der funktioniert. Super auch die Kontext-Menü-Optionen. Wer nicht auf einen refresh in bestimmten Intervallen angewiesen ist, ist mit TotalRefresh perfekt bedient. ### 5/5 — Does Not Work--Edited *2022-06-03* Fixed in v1.4.2. Works as it should. Running Safari 15.4 on MacOS 12.3.1 and Total Refresh only refreshes the active tab. When "All tabs in current window" is selected, it only refreshes the active tab. When "All tabs in all windows" is selected, it only refreshes the active tab in each Safari window. **Developer response:** Glad we could get it fixed! Thanks for your help in troubleshooting the bug. If you ever need anything else, please send an email to hey@willswire.com ☺️ ### 5/5 — Works great *2022-06-02, version 1.4.2* The app refreshes all my Safari tabs when using it on both my Mac and on my iPhone! **Developer response:** Glad it’s working out well for you 👍 ### 5/5 — Great app! Great support! *2022-02-25* Safari Tab Groups and the keyboard shortcuts for navigating between tab groups and tabs, Total Refresh is wonderful for keeping everything up to date. Thanks for the app! **Developer response:** Sure thing! Glad it’s working well for you 😁 ### 5/5 — Worked perfectly for me *2021-10-01* iOS 15 **Developer response:** Glad to hear it works well for you - thanks for the review! 😁 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*