CLUSTER BROWSER-MACOS-TAB · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-10
macOS web browsers
This cluster consists of native macOS web browsers that emphasize tab organization, profiles, and session management, with some offering split panes or keyboard-driven automation. The dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from—it has only 0 dated entries, meaning the cluster either predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, tiller leads with 28 stars, followed by bmux (7 stars) and linen-browser (6 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 12 hobby · 1 commercial · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01tiller28★12 days—hobbyWeb browser with a native macOS interface and an AI agent panel that can control the browser and support extensions.
- 02bmux7★12 dayslivehobbymacOS browser that provides split panes, persistent sessions, isolated profiles, and background automation for keyboard-driven users.
- 03linen-browser6★25 days—Agentic browser for macOS that opens websites, reads pages, and clicks, types, and scrolls in existing tabs to automate web tasks.
- 04rookmark5★22 days—hobbyNative macOS app that automatically sorts browser bookmarks into topic folders using an on-device language model, keeping data private.
- 05aperture-plus18★1 molivecommercialAn experimental web browser for iOS/macOS leveraging Tailscale for secure access, with built-in chat and VM features.
- 06aster2★23 days—hobbyNative macOS terminal workspace that combines tabs, recursive splits, a file browser, editor, and previews in one window.
- 07oasis1★1 day—hobbyNative macOS web browser with translucent controls, sidebar tabs, local history, bookmarks, and private browsing.
- 08Lucent-Browser0★18 dayslivehobbyDesktop browser that combines a floating search capsule with a translucent interface for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- 09cobble-browser0★17 days—hobbyNative macOS web browser that organizes tabs into spaces, supports pinned sites and profiles, and recovers browsing sessions.
- 10heliarc0★23 days—hobbyNative macOS browser add-on that adds Arc-style recent tab switching with visual tab previews to improve tab navigation.
- 11ichigo-unlocker-mac0★1 molivehobbymacOS utility that launches a browser with disabled web security in an isolated profile so a manga translation extension can work.
- 12kestrel-browser2★1 mo—hobbyMinimal macOS web browser built on WebKit with sleeping tabs, ad blocking, and a very small footprint.
- 13webgraphy1★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS app that imports open tabs from Safari, Chrome, and Opera into a graph grouped by domain for browsing and export.
- 14aro1★27 days—hobbyTiny macOS browser that hides all browser chrome and shows only the webpage, targeting dashboards, fullscreen video, focused web apps, and clean screenshots.
- 15OmniBrowser0★23 days—Local-first spatial browser workspace for macOS that runs multiple isolated browsing profiles as movable cards on an infinite canvas.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.