Chris Messina

Strawberry - AI browser that saves you 18h/week

A browser that brings AI superpowers into your daily workflows. Strawberry helps you research 100s of websites in seconds, write content that matches your voice, take meeting notes and automate tasks on any website. Now in pre-beta.

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Justin Bao

This looks like a game-changer for productivity! A suggestion: consider adding a feature to integrate with popular note-taking apps like Notion or Evernote for seamless workflow transitions.

Benjamin Åstrand

@justin_bao Great suggestions! We actaully have an integration with notion already. Connect your notion account by simply asking your companion to connect to notion (or go to Settings>Integrations>click "Connect" under notion). Would love to hear your thoughts about this once you try it out!! Comment here or join our discord https://discord.gg/hjnBjWnb

Sebastian Thunman

@justin_bao thanks Justin! It's your lucky day, because we already have a Notion integration! Thanks for suggesting Evernote, we'll make sure to add it to the backlog 🫡

Fred Davis

This looks wild.

Benjamin Åstrand

@fred_davis5 Thanks Fred! Have you had the chance to try it out? Would love to hear what you think about it! comment here or join our discord community https://discord.gg/hjnBjWnb

Sebastian Thunman

@fred_davis5 thanks! Let us know what you think if you decide to take it for a spin!

Ryden Sun

This is such a thoughtful and timely idea — finally a browser built around real-life workflows, not just speed or tab management 🙌


Love the vision of bringing “Cursor for the web” to non-tech users — it’s about time AI felt more personal and useful in the browser, where most people live and work. Especially excited about how Strawberry adapts to each person’s context over time. That’s where AI feels magical.


Just signed up and can’t wait to give it a spin. Huge kudos to the team for thinking beyond the typical productivity playbook! 🍓💻

Charles Maddock

@williamrobertscott Thanks William! Let us know how things go, still quite a scrappy pre-beta but theirs a lot of value if you look past the quirks 😊

Sebastian Thunman

@williamrobertscott thanks a lot William! Can't wait to hear your thoughts once you've tried it out :)

Benjamin Åstrand

@williamrobertscott Thanks William! We are also super excited about building out the personalization and memorization abilities in Strawberry. I think you'll love our autocomplete feature - perfect for people who write a lot of similar messages to people with small edit

Michael Vavilov

Oh, as a concept, this looks really cool. It'll be interesting to try it out.

Charles Maddock

@michael_vavilov Thanks! Let me know how it goes, hearing feedback on Strawberry is my favourite thing in the world 🌟

Sebastian Thunman

@michael_vavilov thanks! let us know what you think when you have :) Happy to answer any questions!

Matt McDonagh

Sebastian is there a system prompt or way to give Strawberry my "big missions" so it knows what I building toward?


Great idea btw I look forward to trying this.

Sebastian Thunman

@matt__mcdonagh great question! Yes, you can go into your Companion Settings and give Lora custom instructions. You can also just ask her to memorize things and she will! The same goes for your other companions if you have any.

Here's how to open your companion settings: open sidebar > press the "more" menu (three bullets) > press "Companion settings"

Matt McDonagh

@sebastian_thunman Awesome I just posted a short video of me completing the onboarding to X. I also linked directly to this page.


Good luck to you and your team! I have my first launch coming up on May 1rst I'd love to pick your brain in a couple days once you finish processing this bulk of sign-ups!


Here's the post on X :)

Sebastian Thunman

@matt__mcdonagh checked it out! Can't wait to see how you end up using it 🤩 I'd be happy to discuss your upcoming launch and share some insights 🫡

Arian Hanifi

@sebastian_thunman  @matt__mcdonagh Yooo appreciate that you took the time to make a video. Super useful feedback!

Andy Berman
Congrats guys such a great product! Can’t wait to see where it goes.
Sebastian Thunman

@andrew_berman thanks Andy! Excited for what's to come :)

Jeff Shenk

Super cool! Excited to try this out - it could be just what I've been looking for recently for helping me complete a few tedious projects I've been procrastinating working on. I can see a lot of cool use cases.

However, I'm surprised no one has asked about security yet. Since Strawberry will be the "man in the middle" between me and Google, LinkedIn, etc. when logging in to my various accounts - how do I know my data is kept secure and that personal data is not shared, used for training, etc.?


Edit: I just tried to install the software on my Windows 11 PC and got a Windows Defender SmartScreen warning - it wouldn't let me install this "unrecognized" app. I've never seen this happen before when installing new software. It certainly doesn't help my security fears. Haha.

Sebastian Thunman

@jashenk thanks for bringing it up, this is obviously something really important that we're trying to be thoughtful about. Happy to have the opportunity to address it:

First of all, all your data is stored locally. All your chats, passwords, history, AI memories etc are saved in your browser. As with many other AI products, we use LLM provider APIs for several features. I'll have to refer you to each respective one of their policies, at a high-level, they typically save your chats for 30 days for security reasons and don't train their models on your data. You decide when you want to send page information to the LLM providers, as it only happens when you actually send a chat message to your AI companions.

We do have a smart memory feature that is turned off by default. If turned on, it looks at every page you visit, and saves a summary about that page so that you can find it later using natural language queries like "article about the latest Audi". That feature sends page information to LLM providers. Again, this is an optional feature, and we recommend making sure to turn it off before you visit websites that might contain sensitive data.

The intelligent writing assistant also only saves your writing history if smart memory is turned on. It never reads password fields.

We do save some data about your Strawberry account, but that has nothing to do with your browsing and is mainly used to manage your Strawberry subscription plan.

Regarding the Windows download, that is a known issue that we're working on! It's a standard warning for new software publishers and doesn't reflect the security of the actual application. We don't have a signed certificate yet for Windows, largely because the Windows version is still experimental. But we're aware that it might look scary and we're working on fixing it.

Happy to answer any more questions you have, related to this topic or any other!

Jeff Shenk

@sebastian_thunman Thanks for the detailed response! I figured the Windows warning was not much to worry about - just have to figure out how to get around it.

When you say, "passwords ... are saved in your browser", what exactly does that mean? How are they saved?

Sebastian Thunman

@jashenk our password manager prompts the user if they want to save passwords after authenticating on websites. If the user approves, the passwords will be encrypted locally and saved on your local file system. They never leave your computer. No website has access to them. Does that address your question? Let me know if I misunderstood!

Jeff Shenk

@sebastian_thunman Got it! Makes sense. Thanks.

Benjamin Bekken

Upvoted! Congratz with the launch guys 👏👏

Sebastian Thunman

@benjaminbekken thank you! I really appreciate your support 🍓

Charles Maddock

@benjaminbekken thanks! :)

Isaak Fabien Sundeman

This is so cool, awesome job!

Sebastian Thunman

@isaakbuilds thanks! Appreciate all your support 😊

Ben Shih

Just tested it out, and by far it is the best AI Browser that I've tried! I have tried Opera, Dia (from The Browser Company), and what you have is the one with the best experience! I really like the little delighters (cursors, Lora), and everything works super smoothly. I'm looking forward to seeing what your future looks like! Thanks for building this @Strawberry @sebastian_thunman

Benjamin Åstrand

@ben_shih Love the excitement! and yes the companions are one of my favorite features too! What companions are you going to make and what skills will you teach them?

Sebastian Thunman

@ben_shih wow thanks for that amazing comment! Looking forward to hear more about how you end up using it, what use cases are you most excited about? 🍓