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Drift

A calm, fast, privacy-minded browser for your Mac.

A calm, fast browser for macOS, built on WebKit. Vertical tabs, separate Spaces for your logins, and tracker blocking, with one ⌘K bar for tabs, history, commands and quick answers.

Download for Macv1.1.14 · 3.6 MB · .dmg

Or install it from Terminal. It checks the download for you.

curl -fsSL https://apps-site-phi.vercel.app/install/drift | bash

What it does

Vertical tabs and Spaces, each with its own cookies and logins
Blocks trackers and ads, strips tracking links and forces HTTPS
⌘K does tabs, history, commands, maths, unit conversion and timers
Warns about lookalike logins and risky commands copied from a web page

Version: 1.1.14 17 Oct
Size: 3.6 MB
macOS: 15 or later
Mac: Apple silicon
Price: Free

New in 1.1.14

File → Install This Site as an App… reads the page's web app manifest and shows what it found: the name, where it opens, the window it asks for and where it will live. You can rename it before installing.
A real app in your Applications folder. Drift writes it with the site's own icon (converted to a .icns), its name and its theme colour, so it appears in the Applications folder, Launchpad and Spotlight like any other app. A site without a manifest still installs, using the page's title and favicon.
A window of its own. No tabs, no sidebar, no address bar: the app's icon and name, back, forward, reload, and a title bar tinted with the site's colour. Menu commands act on it, and its size and position are remembered.
Links that leave the site open in Drift. An address outside the app's scope — another host, another port, a different folder — is handed to the browser as a tab instead of quietly replacing the app's page, so an app never gets lost down a link. Sign-in redirects and form posts stay in the app, because otherwise you could not sign in at all.

Every release

First time opening it?

Open the .dmg and drag Drift into Applications.
macOS blocks it the first time, because it isn’t notarized by Apple yet. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
From then on, Drift keeps itself up to date.

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