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Tao Browser
Private browser with a separate login for every company
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Private browser with a separate login for every company
131 followers
Tao Browser keeps each company, client or project in its own space with its own cookies and logins. Lock tabs with Face ID or Touch ID, block ads and trackers on your device, import from Arc. No account, no telemetry. Free on iPhone, iPad and Mac (beta).
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Reji, founder of Hostao.
I run several companies and dozens of websites, and for years my browser was where that work lived: one space per company, the right Gmail and Stripe already signed in. When Arc's makers said Arc stops working on 22 December, I didn't want an AI-first browser with an account. I wanted the spaces back, and less noise.
So we built Tao Browser:
• A space for every company, client or project. Each space has its own cookies and logins, so two Google Workspace accounts sit side by side without colliding.
• Face ID / Touch ID lock for a single tab, a whole space or the app (handy when you share your screen with payroll open).
• Ads and trackers blocked on the device (EasyList + EasyPrivacy).
• No account, no analytics, no crash reporting. The App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected".
• On Mac: ⌘K for everything, Import from Arc, Client Mode for screen sharing, and a Wrong-Account Guard that warns you before you send from the wrong company's Gmail.
It's built on Apple's WebKit, so Apple patches the engine and the Mac app is a 7 MB download. iPhone and iPad are on the App Store today; the Mac app is a free beta (the Mac App Store version is in review). Honest limits: extensions on Mac are a small reviewed set (uBlock Origin Lite, Dark Reader, Bitwarden), there's no Windows or Android build yet, and Tao isn't open source.
It's free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. What would make you switch browsers for good? I'll be here all day reading every comment.
Congrats on the launch!!!
before i'd move over, i'd want to know what happens to oAuth popups. our google sign in opens a popup that talks back to the opener, and the token only lands if both ends sit in the same cookie jar. that kind of thing fails quietly too, you just end up back on the login page with no error.
does a popup inherit the space of the tab that opened it, and can it still reach its opener?
@seenew Thanks Shinyoo, great question, and exactly the right thing to test. Yes on both. A popup opened by a tab uses that tab's space (same cookie jar), and it keeps its link back to the page that opened it, so the token hand-off works. Sized sign-in popups (Google, Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, 3-D Secure) open as a small real window like in Safari, and they close themselves when they're done. A popup from a Private tab stays private. If Tao ever blocks a popup it shows a bar with 'Allow', so it never fails silently. If you find a sign-in flow that still loops back to the login page, send me the site and I'll fix it.
If I may ask where do u see this going, because its free so are you gonna maybe opensource it
@francisez90071 Fair question. Open-sourcing isn't planned for now (I said so up front in the post), but it stays free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no data collection; it's built by our company Hostao as a tool we use ourselves. Near term the roadmap is simple: get the Mac App Store version through review and keep polishing the Arc import and the wrong-account guard based on feedback like yours.
Quick update from the maker 👋 Thank you all for the support today. Since launch we've tested Tao on a real Windows PC (spaces, private window, ad blocking, auto-HTTPS and the lock all pass) and finished the Android beta tests on our side. Windows and Android are coming soon. Next up: Chrome extensions with a security check before anything installs. What would make you switch your daily browser? I read every reply.
Wow , this was I always wanted, it’s was a headache missing up different client doc and credentials, now it’s sorted
@abhinav_krishna_c_s Thanks Abhinav, that exact doc-and-credentials mix-up is what we built it for. If you hit a login or space setup that feels clumsy once you're using it, tell me and I'll look at it.
The wrong-account warning before sending from Gmail is a thoughtful detail. Separate spaces help organize client work, but the send button is where a mix-up really matters.
@oleksii_sekundant Thanks Oleksii. That was exactly the case that pushed us to build it: the send button is where a wrong-account mix-up costs money. The guard compares the Gmail/Outlook account label with the space you're in and warns before you send. If you try it, tell us which mail setups it misses.
Love the idea of giving every client or project its own space with separate logins and cookies, a fresh take on browser privacy that fits how people actually work.
Thanks Ilko. Two Google Workspace accounts side by side was the exact pain that started this. Do you juggle several clients or companies yourself, and which logins collide most for you?