I’ve been an Arc user for a long time, and grew very used to its horizontal tabs and other features. Once it became abandoned, I, like many others, decided to search for an alternative. There were no real alternative. So I spent months making myself a browser that would look and feel like I want it to feel.

The entire project is made from zero, the only dependency it uses is WebKit itself. Looking through obscure undocumented functions and sometimes using Apple’s private frameworks to achieve effects others don’t even try.

And then I presented it to the world, and the world largely ignored it. I tried various channels, but it seems like asking people to switch browsers is just too much. It basically traumatized me and I lost interest in the project.

I hope this post will get more popular and more people can try the browser. I’d be grateful of someone reposted it on platforms like Reddit as I don’t have the karma to post in most subreddits and got insta banned once I tried.

You can download it for free, it’s simple, elegant, and tries to be what Safari should’ve been.

No source code? Was it "you alone" or "you alone (with Claude)"?

You and me both, BTW... Trust is at an all-time low these days, it seems.

Browsers are hard because the switching cost is high even when people like the idea. “Looks interesting” is far from “I will replace my daily browser with it.”