Vimlike User Reviews

Name: Vimlike
Rating: 4.66667 (30 reviews)

Vimlike

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Fantastic Extension

This is a super nifty extension for anyone browsing the web and not wanting to rely on a mouse. I use this with a Clicks Keyboard on my iphone and it works fantastic :)

_ak98_

9 months ago

Good but seems to not support Colemak layout?

Works fine and as expected - but it seems to ignore the fact that I have non-QWERTY layout installed?

nayward

9 months ago

The "Default Mode" setting does not work

I generally love this plugin but the bug I just found makes it unusable for me. I’ve sett it to default to insert mode globally, but on every page I load, it defaults to `normal` mode.

Going to uninstall it for the time being because I would like to just be able to type into a searchbar on certain pages, withotu first pressing i

sdave90

a year ago

Best Vim key implementation, but maybe have a unit test that checks amazon functionality an update

Had to disable for now to navigate through Amazon

lookbehindyourn

a year ago

Lacking Bookmark/Favorite Support

This is very close to being my favorite vim-support extension for every browser out there…however, it’s lacking support to open your bookmarks/favs. To be fair it may not be for lack of trying from the devs and it could be something Apple has locked down tight. If not, I would love to see the devs get that feature out and I would for sure be on board.

grantyweave

a year ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the comment! And yes you are right. At the moment, Safari does not allow accessing bookmarks thru API in extensions.

Can be improved more

1. I want open search result in the current tab
2. Some websites it cannot work

TheYura01

a year ago

Fantastic Extension for Keyboard Addicts

This is by far the best and most complete Safari extension I’ve come across. It is functionally perfect, polished, and has a ton of features for every level of keyboard junkie. I prefer it to its Chrome counterpart – great to have this in Safari, and thanks to the developer for making this available!

Brooklyn Cyclist

a year ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your kind feedback!

Good, but has a scrolling bug

(iPadOS18.5) When scrolling (j,k, and space) the webpage seems to shake, unlike pressing up and down buttons. Another issue: can’t use “f” to press a button on the webpage, i.e. the “x” of an ad. It does show a letter when pressing “f”, but nothing happens when I type that letter.

shengxuanzhang

a year ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback! Maybe try the scroll setting. It will not be like a native scroll but it could make it better for you.

Some inefficiencies

Good start, some observations:

Links do not fully exhaust available hints before appending more characters. I tried removing the amount of link hints to ‘yuiophjklnm’ and very often I have to type 3 characters instead, even when some of the characters aren’t on screen.

Also wish custom search url can be used instead of the default options, so I can redirect to a search engine of my choice or a gpt.

A visual mode would be very helpful for highlighting text (surfingkeys has a great visual mode implementation).

galacticmice

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the comments and suggestions!

This extension is awesome

I have one suggestion that would make it perfect for my needs. Would it be possible to have the new tab shortcut launch a customized url?

LeFauxMatt

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback and suggestion! Let us take a look and include it in future releases.

Replaced Vimari For Me

Works very well and is actually actively developed and modernized for the latest Safari changes. Vimari was no longer reliable for me and Vimlike has been a successful replacement.

Btrachey

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback!

Awesome!

Really awesome! Absolutely love it! Very well thought out default keymap too

Wylie102

a year ago

Must have!

This brings everything Vimium offers and more in a highly preferable interface and implementation. You won’t want to go back to a browser that doesn’t have this extension.

frankdawson

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the kind comments! Happy to hear that you enjoy Vimlike!

Hitting F again should cancel navigation

Hitting F once invokes link selection on the page. Hitting F again should cancel and exit this mode. However, right now the F key could be selecting some random link on the page

Jeredow

a year ago

Some thoughts

1. You don’t need to make it Swiss knife by including so many feature (include dark mode)
2. Fix issue when you can’t `t` to open new tab while current tab in Reader mode.
3. Open source it and charge 3.99$ for iOS app.
4. When set “Scroll” to fast, it should instantly, remove any animation, ppl hate “Smooth Scrolling” on macos for a reason.

Last Sanctum

a year ago

Exceptional

Working like a charm and no in app purchases. Can’t believe that I’m not dreaming

DVDCJW

a year ago

Great extension, but search is limited to Google

I’m really enjoying this extension, but I use DuckDuckGo as my preferred search engine and the setting to customize the search engine seems to be locked to Google. There’s seems to be a button to change the search engine but it’s in a “deactivated” state permanently. Maybe this is a feature planned for an upcoming release? As far as I can tell, DuckDuckGo takes the exact same URL params as Google, so it’s confusing why I can’t switch to DuckDuckGo instead.

ohgwarsh

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for using Vimlike! And yes you are right. Currently search engine is limited to google and it is planned to extend to others in future release. Stay tuned for the future relese!

Great, but no longer works.

No longer works right on iPadOS 18, it won’t respond to any key presses until you tap on the page, making it sadly useless. Great app until now, vim key controls are essential for internet browsing with a keyboard! Although the developer says in iPadOS 18.1 the app works fine, I have updated to 18.1 and find that unfortunately the same problems persist.

TrustworthyPerson

2 years ago

Great, but no longer works.

TrustworthyPerson

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for using Vimlike! It is an issue of iPadOS 18.0 Safari and it is fixed in iPadOS 18.1 beta. Vimlike works fine with iPadOS 18.1 beta. Please wait for iPadOS 18.1 to be released. iPadOS 18.0 Safari has an issue that the focus does not move to the webpage when the tab is created or activated until the webpage gets the focus manually by the webpage touched / clicked, one of the arrow keys (up, down, left, or right) pressed, or tab key pressed. Hence, shortcuts in websites using keyboard events of the webpage do not work (e.g. gmail shortcuts do not work). As Vimlike uses keyboard events of the webpage, Vimlike only works once the webpage gets the focus manually by the webpage touched / clicked, one of the arrow keys (up, down, left, or right) pressed, or tab key pressed as a workaround. iPadOS 18.1 beta 4 has resolved the problem and Vimlike works fine.

Outstanding

Always a risk writing a review after using an app for less than five minutes, but this is brilliant work and so much care has gone into it (the help screens are lovely, for example, as is the brief red highlighting when clicking links). This seems to run more snappily and reliably on an iPad (mini, 5th gen,, with non-Apple Bluetooth keyboard) than some Safari/Orion etc desktop extensions. Can’t believe it has not received more coverage.

williamturrell