Native
Built for the Mac, not ported to it.
WebKit, Liquid Glass, the Keychain, Touch ID. It behaves like the rest of your Mac.
Why Pharos
A calmer browser for Mac.
Calm
Calm by default.
No account, no AI until you turn it on, no clutter. Ads, trackers and cookie banners are blocked from the start.
Free
Free. Every feature.
Nothing locked away, nothing to sign up for. If you'd like to help it keep going, you can give what you like when you download it.
Features
A real sidebar.
Spaces for work, school and side projects, each with its own colours, sign-ins and favourites. Pinned tabs and folders stay. Today's tabs move to the archive when you're done with them.
Open a link without losing your place.
Peek opens it over the page. Glance opens it in a small window. Split View puts up to four side by side.
One floating bar.
Search the web, your history and your tabs, jump anywhere, or type an action: split with, mute, capture.
Move in a few clicks.
Bring your spaces, pinned tabs, favourites, bookmarks, history and passwords from the browser you use now. Change your mind and undo it.
The details
And the small things.
Capture
Grab part of a page, an element or the whole page, and mark it up.
Zap
Hide the parts of a site you never want to see again.
⌃Tab
Flick between your recent tabs.
Profiles
Separate sign-ins for work and home, one per space.
Passwords
Saved in your Keychain, filled with Touch ID, with strong ones made for you.
Media controls
What's playing, from the sidebar, without switching tabs.
Archive
Everything you closed, by day, ready to bring back.
Your choice
AI, only if you want it.
Off until you turn it on. On your Mac when it can be. Until then, it's just a browser.
Switching
Coming from Arc?
You'll feel at home. The things you built your day around are all here, made fresh for the Mac and still moving forward.
- The sidebar
- Spaces
- Peek
- Split View
- The command bar
Inspired by Arc. Not affiliated with The Browser Company.
Comes with you, in a few clicks
- Spaces and their colours
- Pinned tabs
- Folders
- Favourites
- Profiles
- History
- Passwords
Changed your mind? Undo it.
Honest answers
No. It's inspired by Arc and built from scratch for the Mac.
It's the Mac's own engine, so Pharos feels like part of macOS.
They're coming: web extensions, like the ones Safari runs. Pharos can't install from the Chrome Web Store.
Your choice: Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Ecosia, Startpage, Kagi, Brave, or your own.
Not unless you turn it on.
No. Your history, tabs and settings stay on your Mac, and passwords are kept in your Keychain. There's no account and no Pharos server that sees your browsing. Besides the pages you open, Pharos only asks your search engine for suggestions, fetches currency rates for conversions, and checks for updates.
Yes: Arc, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Dia, Brave, Edge and more.
Nothing. You can donate if you'd like.
A small beta comes first. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when it opens up.
Find your way back to the web.
Leave your email and we will tell you when Pharos is ready.