Search is a browser for the Mac with nothing in the way. Six megabytes, the engine already in macOS, and a window that opens in a third of a second. Free, for Apple silicon on macOS 14 or later.
Version 1.0.4 · 6.1 MB · Free
It works: pick a tab, open a new one, swipe the tabs sideways for another space.
Two ways to hold it. Titles across the top, or down the side. The grey slides to the tab you pick either way, and a pinned site is one letter.
Spaces. Separate sets of tabs — work, home, a side project — each with its own icon. Two fingers sideways over the tabs and the next one slides in beside this one; past the last, a new one, signed in where you already are or starting afresh. Try it in the window above.
Read, watch, and nothing else. Reading mode keeps the article and its pictures, set to be read. Leave a video's tab and it follows you in a small window, above every app.
Light enough to forget it's there. Measured against Chrome and Safari on the same Mac, the same afternoon, the same pages. Medians of three runs.
6.1 MB on disk. No engine of its own to carry.
320 ms to the first window. Launched cold, no page open.
51 MB before the first page. Every process the app owns.
11 processes with five tabs open. Where Chrome runs 29.
Pinned tabs. A letter at the head of the row. ⌘W puts it to sleep; it never leaves.
Ads blocked before they load. In the network layer — no scripts, no counter.
Hide anything. ⌘⇧H, click a thing, it's gone from that site for good.
Reading mode. The article, its pictures, nothing else. ⌘⇧R.
Floating video. Leave YouTube or Netflix and the video follows, above every app.
Passwords in your keychain. Shown with Touch ID. Passwords, bookmarks and history come over from Chrome or Dia in a click.
Spaces. Separate sets of tabs, each with its icon. Two fingers sideways to switch; stay signed in, or start afresh.
Chrome extensions. Straight from the Chrome Web Store, in a click. On macOS 15.4 or later.
A sidebar that steps aside. Tabs down the side or across the top. ⌘S folds the column away; the left edge brings it back.
Private tabs. ⌘⇧N. Its own cookies, no history, no place in tomorrow's session.
Web Inspector. Inspect Element on any page, the console at ⌥⌘J — WebKit's own tools.
Open source. The code is on GitHub — read it, build it yourself, or send a fix.
Questions? Answers.
A browser for the Mac by Office Commun, a design studio in Paris. Tabs, an address field, history, passwords, downloads — and as little around the page as we could manage. About 6 MB.
No. Search runs on WebKit, the engine that ships with macOS and powers Safari. That's why it's tiny: there's no second engine inside. Pages look exactly as they do in Safari.
Yes, for now. No account, no subscription.
Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.
Yes. File › Bring Things Over… brings bookmarks, history, passwords and extensions from Chrome, Arc (its spaces too), Brave, Edge, Firefox, Zen and others, or from an exported file. macOS asks once for the other browser's key, and passwords land in your keychain under Search's name. Nothing in the other browser changes.
No. Everything stays on the Mac it runs on.
Every hour Search reads a small file on this site, signed by Office Commun; Search › Check for Updates… looks right away. If there's a newer build, it downloads it in the background, checks it was signed by Office Commun, swaps it in, and it's there next time you open Search. Settings, pins, history and passwords are never touched.
Settings › This Mac › Make it the default.
Yes: brew install --cask driceroland/tap/search. Search updates itself either way, and brew upgrade works too.
Yes: Chrome extensions, installed straight from the Chrome Web Store, on macOS 15.4 or later. Ad blocking and hiding things are built in.
Search is free, for Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later. Six megabytes, a third of a second, and nothing in the way.
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