Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Refrax – my Arc Browser replacement I made from scratch
Open the same tab in two browser windows. In Chrome or Safari, you get two unconnected pages. In Arc, one window shows a placeholder. In Zen, it silently creates a duplicate. In Refrax, the browser I built, both windows show the same page updating live. The same web page, in as many windows as you want. This shouldn't be possible. WebKit's WKWebView can exist in exactly one view hierarchy at a time. With macOS 26, Apple added a SwiftUI API separating WebView from WebPage, so you can end up with multiple views referencing the same page. But if you try it, your app crashes. WebKit source code…
Refrax is a macOS browser that allows the same web page to be opened in multiple windows simultaneously, with all instances updating in real time. Unlike Chrome, Safari, Arc, and Zen, which either show duplicate pages… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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ClonewebX▲348Clone favourite websites to your prefer page builders
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Arc for Windows▲473The Chrome replacement you've been waiting for
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2018 · web2desk.io · its alternatives →
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Refbox▲171Collect, organize and float your references. Refbox is a fast reference board app for Mac, Windows and iPad.
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Hey HN! I was a long-time Arc browser user and loved how its sidebar organized tabs and bookmarks into workspaces. I wanted to switch to other browsers without losing that workflow. So I built Arcmark, it's a macOS bookmark manager (Swift/AppKit) that floats as a sidebar attached to any browser window. It uses macOS accessibility API to follow the browser window around. You get workspace-based links/bookmarks organization with nested folders, drag-and-drop reordering, and custom workspace colors. For the most part I tried replicating Arc's sidebar UX as close as possible. 1.…
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refine▲480100% open source React framework to build web apps 3x faster
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Good to be back on HN with all-new CoScreen, a little more than 3 years after it launched over here! With CoScreen 5.0, you can now share your windows from multiple displays at the same time, a long standing request by our most avid users and impossible in other apps. It also has a lightning-fast, Rust-based window compositing, scaling, and streaming engine now. CoScreen was always meant to be different so that you and your team can share your screens simultaneously and multi-directionally, and to be able to control what is being shared. We saw it as a natural extension and closely coupled…
2023 · blog.coscreen.co · its alternatives →
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Uiverse.io▲3453500+ UI elements, copy the code or use in Figma
2023 · uiverse.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Nick and this is my fun side project. Please lay it on me. HN can think of Tips.io as a cracked out Tailwind Playground that has page management and amazing AI integration. There are a few core ideas: 1) The HTML is the CMS There are no fields or restrictions. Just hover, click, and start tweaking any HTML. Also, certain elements you click will have special easy edit abilities: - auto creates an uploader, stock photo picker (or HTML) - auto creates an uploader, stock video picker (or HTML) - auto creates a big icon picker (or HTML) - auto creates a WYSIWYG Editor (or HTML)…
2024 · tips.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Switch Browser▲113macOS extension to view current page in a different browser
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InfiniDesk▲90InfiniDesk brings multiple virtual desktops to your Mac. Instead of having a single cluttered desktop, make many desktops each with their own layout of file/folder icons, wallpaper and widget visibility. Have a desktop for Work, one for interesting Hacker News links, a fully empty desktop etc. Version 3 of the app (just released) now supports hotkeys to switch desktops in a blink, and also onscreen HUD notifications. Inspired by the Unix Common Desktop Environment of the 1990s, InfiniDesk is the only app that brings multiple desktops (workspaces/identities) to your Mac.
2025 · infinidesk.app · its alternatives →
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