A native browser for macOS

A calm browser
for Mac.

Plinth has no toolbar and no tab strip. Pages run to the top of the window, and a single floating bar lists them by name, grouped by website. Sites you stop using fade onto a shelf, so the bar stays short without you tidying it.

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macOS 26 or laterFree and open sourceSigned, notarized, updates itself

01 · The bar

Every page, by name.

No tabs to squint at. Each open page is a word you can read, on one bar floating over the page.

02 · Grouped by site

Pages find their people.

Pages from the same website share a capsule led by its icon, so a trip, a doc or a thread stays together.

03 · Adaptive fading

The bar tidies itself.

A site you use every day stays. A one-off fades within a day and drops onto a searchable shelf. Pinned and kept sites never fade.

04 · Split view

Rest one page on another.

Drag a page onto its neighbour and the two join on the bar, side by side in the window.

05 · Peek

Look before you leap.

⇧-click any link to preview it in a card. Press ↩ to keep it as a page, or carry on where you were.

06 · Ask

Ask the page. Privately.

⌘J asks Apple's on-device model about this page, the whole site, or both halves of a split. Nothing leaves your Mac.

And the rest of it

Small things, done carefully.

Resume cards

When a site comes back from the shelf, a short "where you left off" card reminds you what you were reading.

Semantic history

Search finds pages by what they were about, listed under "By meaning".

Group suggestions

Sites you keep open together can become a group. One click shows only that group.

Pinned sites

A pin is a small resident app with one page. Links that leave its site open as ordinary pages, and sign-in keeps working.

Mini window

Links from other apps open in a small window with no bar. ⇧⌘↩ moves the page into your main window.

Content blocking

A built-in ad and tracker blocker. Plus downloads, find in page, zoom and reopen closed page.

Light over light, dark over dark

The bar takes its cue from the page under it, going light over light pages and dark over dark ones, so it never shouts.

⌘L · ⌘T

One box for everything you've opened.

Type an address or a search. The command bar also finds open pages, pins, shelved pages and history, with results found by meaning under their own heading.

Privacy

Your browsing stays on your Mac.

  • No accounts, analytics or telemetry. There is nothing to sign in to and nothing phoning home.
  • All AI runs on your Mac. Apple's Foundation Models and NaturalLanguage frameworks. Page text is never sent anywhere, and the index is a local file.
  • Only long reads are indexed. Semantic history covers pages you spent 30 seconds or more on, and one switch turns all AI off.
  • iCloud sync is off by default. When enabled, it uses your own private iCloud database.

Keyboard first

Your hands never leave the keys.

New page / search or address⌘T / ⌘L
Ask about this page⌘J
Show shelf⇧⌘L
Peek a link⇧-click
Open peek as a page↩
Split with next page / end split⌥⌘\ / ⇧⌘\
Go to page 1–9⌘1 … ⌘9
Next / previous page⇧⌘] / ⇧⌘[
Close page, reopen closed page⌘W, ⇧⌘T
Keep site, pin site, put site away⇧⌘K, P, E
Find in page⌘F
Mini window page to main window⇧⌘↩

Make room for the page.

Free, open source and built natively for macOS with Swift and WebKit.

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