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v1.1.1417 October 2026Latest
- 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.
- File → Manage Web Apps… lists what you installed, opens it, shows it in the Finder, or removes it — moved to the Trash, so it can be put back.
- Touch ID enrolment failing with -25299. The 1.1.13 build and a second copy of Drift — a debug build, say — could not see each other's Keychain item, so enrolling a fingerprint failed with "The key could not be read from the Keychain (error -25299)". Each build now keeps its key under its own account name and replaces its own item instead of colliding with a sibling's.
- Two servers on one Mac. Caught before it shipped, while web apps were being tested: the scope of an app compared hosts but not ports, so 127.0.0.1:8898 counted as 127.0.0.1:8899. The port is part of the site now, with a test pinning it.
Drift-1.1.14.dmg · 3.6 MB On GitHub
v1.1.1317 October 2026
- An encrypted vault. Logins are sealed with AES-GCM under a key derived from your master password by PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 at 600,000 rounds. The master password itself is never stored, so the file on disk holds only a version, the iteration count, the salt and the ciphertext — and a wrong master password is refused by the authentication tag rather than being allowed to produce nonsense.
- Save when you sign in. Submit a login form and Drift offers to save it, naming the user name it caught. It offers only over https (or loopback), never in a private space, never on a site the lookalike guard has flagged, and only while the vault is unlocked.
- Fill with ⇧⌘F, or from the command bar. Several accounts for one site get a picker. Logins match on the registrable domain, so a saved example.com never answers for notexample.com.
- Unlock with Touch ID. The vault asks for your fingerprint when its window opens and falls back to the master password on a failed or cancelled read. The fingerprint check is Drift's own: a system-gated keychain item needs a provisioning profile this build doesn't carry, and the setting says exactly that.
- Drift → Passwords… (⌘⌥P). Search, add, edit, delete, reveal, copy (cleared from the clipboard after 45 seconds), generate a password, and lock. Closing the window locks it; it also locks itself after a configurable idle period, and locking throws the key away and empties the entries from memory.
- IP addresses in the vault. The registrable-domain helper turned 127.0.0.1 into 0.1, so the save prompt offered to file a login for "0.1", and two unrelated addresses ending .0.1 would have shared one entry. IP literals are recognised and kept whole now.
- Unlabelled fields. The add-login sheet drew its fields with no labels and no placeholders at all. Every vault field now has a visible name and an example, the way the rest of the app's settings do.
Drift-1.1.13.dmg · 3.4 MB On GitHub
v1.1.1217 October 2026
- Make the browser harder to single out, and stop asking for the keychain at launch.
- Clear every Swift 6 concurrency warning, and stop the pipeline hiding failures.
- Give permissions a prompt that remembers, and a screen that lists them.
Drift-1.1.12.dmg · 3.3 MB On GitHub
v1.1.1117 October 2026
- Make the AI answer readable instead of a wall of Markdown.
- Bump the version to 1.1.11.
Drift-1.1.11.dmg · 3.8 MB On GitHub
v1.1.1017 October 2026
- Let any AI service be used, not just Anthropic.
- Bump the version to 1.1.10.
Drift-1.1.10.dmg · 3.7 MB On GitHub
v1.1.916 October 2026
- Add a unit test suite, wire it into CI, and remove three landmines.
- Name the source files after what they hold, not the order they were built.
- Move the store's feature methods out of the class file.
- Move four more store sections out of the class file.
- Let the user add their own search engine.
- Show a site's TLS certificate, and fix two bugs that hid behind it.
- Translate pages on this Mac instead of handing every address to Google.
- Run CI for stacked pull requests, and correct two README claims.
- Bump the version to 1.1.9.
Drift-1.1.9.dmg · 3.5 MB On GitHub
v1.1.89 October 2026
- Make pull to refresh deliberate and reliable: a steady pull always refreshes, a flick or slight scroll never does.
- Bump the version to 1.1.8.
Drift-1.1.8.dmg · 3.0 MB On GitHub
v1.1.79 October 2026
- Don't let the default-browser question block links sent from other apps.
- Bump the version to 1.1.7.
Drift-1.1.7.dmg · 3.0 MB On GitHub
v1.1.69 October 2026
- Add a first-run tour with a spotlight on the real window, and a protection shield in the focus bar.
- Bump the version to 1.1.6.
Drift-1.1.6.dmg · 3.0 MB On GitHub
v1.1.59 October 2026
- Show a pull indicator while swiping down to refresh, and refresh when you let go.
- Bump the version to 1.1.5.
Drift-1.1.5.dmg · 3.8 MB On GitHub
v1.1.49 October 2026
- Publish releases to a public downloads repo that the app and installer read.
- Bump the version to 1.1.4.
Drift-1.1.4.dmg · 3.7 MB On GitHub
v1.1.39 October 2026
- Use far less CPU, GPU and battery: calmer start page, less polling, and sleep tabs under memory pressure.
- Bump the version to 1.1.3.
Drift-1.1.3.dmg · 3.7 MB On GitHub
v1.1.29 October 2026
- Make the focus-mode top bar slimmer to give the page more room.
- Bump the version to 1.1.2.
Drift-1.1.2.dmg · 3.7 MB On GitHub
v1.1.19 October 2026
- Move the show-sidebar button closer to the window edge.
- Bump the version to 1.1.1.
Drift-1.1.1.dmg · 3.6 MB On GitHub
v1.1.09 October 2026
- Add an install script and a one-line install command to the README.
- Swipe down at the top of a page to refresh it.
- Bump the version to 1.0.1.
- Auto-hide the sidebar and ask whether Drift should be the default browser.
- Hide the developer sign-in option from everyday users.
- Bump the version to 1.1.0.
Drift-1.1.0.dmg · 3.6 MB On GitHub
v1.0.09 October 2026
- Add the release pipeline (branch rules, tags, signed DMG).
- Check for updates from inside Drift, with a signed update window.
- Show the version history as a timeline in the update window.
- Document the safety guards, developer tools, updates and release flow in the README.
Drift-1.0.0.dmg · 3.6 MB On GitHub