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24 alternatives to I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Hello HN! So early this year I decided to build an iOS browser offering a large range of customization options, to accommodate anyone’s usage and visual preferences. Been using it as my default browser for 6 months and not looking back. On first launch it looks and behaves a bit like Safari, but to give you an idea, here are the various ways I customized it on my phone. - More screen real estate for the webpage, less for the toolbar. - A compact toolbar containing only the buttons for actions I use the most: new tab, close tab, open tab list. Since I use them hundred times a day, I need them…
This is a customizable iOS browser designed for users who want control over their browsing interface. The browser starts with a Safari-like appearance but allows extensive personalization of the toolbar, button… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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UI Garage ▲425Specific mobile and web design patterns for your inspiration
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A massive free fully customizable UI Kit
2017 · iosdesignkit.io · its alternatives →
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2013 · app.io · its alternatives →
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Proxee▲106Build on your Mac. See it live on your iPhone. View and test your page as you build and never miss mobile UI bugs again.
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Desktop-like draggable, resizable browser windows for iOS
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Material Design, OS X Handoff, iOS 8 optimizations and more
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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i stan apple notes, so i built a new personal website to look, feel, & work just like it. it's fast, fully interactive, & can be navigated entirely via keyboard shortcuts. it was a lot of fun to build. i wrote more about the implementation in the linked page. check it out!
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PhoneDeck▲259Turn your iPhone into a free Mac controller
Jul 2026 · phonedeck.io · its alternatives →
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Demystify auto layout on iOS and OS X
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Havenly for iOS▲184Get interior design advice for free, all from your phone
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The browser for all your devices
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Frameless▲159A full-screen browser for iOS. Built for prototyping.
2014 · stakes.github.io · its alternatives →
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ExtraBar▲152Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackle the macOS big boss: the menu bar. I spend ~40% of my day context-switching between apps — Zoom meetings, Slack channels, Code projects, and Figma designs. My macOS menu bar has too many useless icons I almost never use. So I thought to myself, how can I use this area to improve my workflows? Most solutions (Bartender, Ice) require screen recording permissions, and did not really solve my…
Dec 2025 · extrabar.app · its alternatives →
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I read HN on my phone every day and never really settled on a reader, so I wrote my own and finally tidied it up enough to put out there. It's plain SwiftUI with no third-party dependencies. A few things I spent the most time on: Comments are parsed and drawn as native text instead of being dumped into a web view. Links, italics, quotes and code blocks behave like the rest of the OS, text selection works, and threads collapse instantly. The whole comment tree comes back from the Algolia API in a single request, which felt a lot nicer than walking the Firebase API node by node. Accessibility.…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create interactive user interfaces easily. For free.
2018 · craftwork.design · its alternatives →
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Unstyle▲99Fastest way to browse the web on your iPhone (w/o CSS)
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Uikit▲134Front-end framework for developing powerful web interfaces
2014 · getuikit.com · its alternatives →
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AlliHat▲96I think we all have a similar flow and pain with browsers and AI. Copy article, paste in Claude tab, come back to article, back to Claude, in circles we go. Anthropic has a Chrome extension, but my daily driver is Safari. So I made my own extension. It's not a clone as I've never used the Chrome version. One obvious change: the Chrome version I believe uses Chrome "request sidebar" thing. And Safari doesn't have that, so had to inject the sidebar right in the site html itself. There's been some fun things in here like figuring out the sidebar html/css sandboxing. Also there's an agent…
May 2026 · allihat.com · its alternatives →
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