Nook
Nook is a small, quiet web browser for macOS. It blocks ads and trackers, opens articles in reading mode, and clears everything but the page in focus mode. Free for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Nook launched on September 28, 2026 with 18 votes, #831 of 8,094 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
You open a page to read one article and get a cookie banner, a video that starts on its own, and a prompt to sign in. Nook shows the article. Ads and trackers are blocked from the first page you open, reader mode keeps the text and pictures, and focus mode hides the tabs and toolbar. Cookies and cache are cleared when you quit. No account, no sync, no telemetry. macOS 13+, Apple silicon and Intel. Free.
Ads and trackers are blocked from the first page you open. Reading mode shows an article on its own, without the sidebars and sign-up boxes. Focus mode hides everything but the page. There are no extensions to add and no settings to change. So I built Nook. A row of tabs, an address bar, four buttons, and that is the whole window. Everything else stays out of sight until you ask for it. Nook checks every request a page makes against Ghostery's filter lists and stops the ones that belong to ads and trackers before they leave your Mac. A blocked ad never downloads, so pages are lighter and load sooner. A long article becomes one readable column of text and pictures. No sidebars, no sign-up…from browser.arunbrahma.com
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