The Browser

Less browser.
More page.

A light, native Mac browser. Tabs live in a quiet sidebar, ads never load, and your agents work only in the tabs you share.

Download for MacBuy for $9.99

Free for 14 days, then $9.99 once. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon.

A browser,
not a dashboard.

Vertical tabs, one command bar, and the page as a clean card that gets nearly the whole window. Everything else waits behind a shortcut.

tuck it away

The page gets the window.

Tabs sit in a quiet sidebar where long titles fit. Press ⌘ S and it folds away while the page grows with it, in one motion that never snaps. Point at the edge and it peeks back over the page.

no empty tabs

One field for everything.

⌘ T opens the command bar. Type a few letters to jump to an open tab, a page from your history, or a search. Every shortcut is yours to change in a plain config file.

on by default

Ads stop before they load.

EasyList and EasyPrivacy are compiled into WebKit’s own content blocker, so blocking happens in the network process, not in a script racing the page. YouTube gets special handling: in our cold-load tests, videos start in 1–3 seconds instead of 10–14.

One switch turns blocking off for a site that needs it.

Built for agents

Share a tab.
Your agent does the rest.

Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client can read and drive the tabs you choose to share, signed in as you. Everything else stays out of reach.

You choose every tab.

Right-click a tab and pick Allow Agent Access. Its ✦ pulses while an agent works, and revoking applies to the very next call.

A profile of its own.

Tabs an agent opens get their own cookies and storage, signed out of your accounts. Nothing it signs in to leaks into yours.

Never your passwords.

Saved logins never fill for an agent, password fields read back masked, and there is no tool for running scripts or reading cookies.

Turn on Settings ▸ Agents, then connect Claude Code:

claude mcp add thebrowser -- "/Applications/The Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/tba" mcp

It talks over a local socket only your user can open. Nothing listens on the network.

The small things,
done properly.

A config file you can read.

One key = value per line, like Ghostty. Settings edits the same file and keeps your comments, so you can keep it in your dotfiles.

Passwords in your keychain.

Logins are saved to your macOS keychain. Nothing fills until you pick an account, and revealing one asks for Touch ID.

Back where you left off.

Windows and tabs come back after a restart, even after a crash. Tabs idle for 15 minutes go to sleep and give their memory back.

Private windows look private.

A different tint, so you can tell at a glance. Never saved to your session and never shared with an agent.

Also: bookmarks, history, a downloads panel, per-site permissions, light and dark themes, and updates that arrive in the app.

One price. Every Mac.

Try everything for 14 days. If it sticks, buy it once.

$9.99 once

  • Every feature, free for 14 days
  • No account and no subscription
  • One license for every Mac you own
  • Updates arrive in the app
Buy a licenseor start the free trial →

Checkout by Polar, our reseller, who handles payment, receipts and sales tax. Not for you? Refunds within 14 days.

Give it 14 days.

Every feature, no account, no card.

Download for Mac

macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon