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Zigzag Browser
The polished, native Mac browser for life after Arc
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The polished, native Mac browser for life after Arc
10 followers
A native Mac browser for people leaving Arc, with the sidebar and spaces you're used to. Built on WebKit, not Chromium, and that's the point: the whole app is 18 MB (Arc is 871). Switching takes a minute. One import brings over everything, so you're already logged in. Colored spaces you swipe between, split view, peek, Chrome extensions like 1Password and Tampermonkey, and ad blocking built-in Open source, no account, no AI. Nobody can shut it down.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Zigao, a high school student in Shanghai. I used Arc every day, and when it went into maintenance mode, nothing else felt right: the alternatives were Chromium wrappers or missing what made Arc great. So I built my own.
Zigzag is a native Mac browser, written in Swift on the WebKit that ships with macOS. That's why it's only 18 MB (Arc is 871 MB on my Mac). No account, no telemetry, no server of mine it depends on, and it's fully open source (Apache 2.0), so nobody can ever switch your browser off.
What you get:
- Your tabs in a sidebar, grouped into colored spaces you swipe between
- Split view (drag a tab onto the page), Peek (shift-click a link), a command bar
- Import from Arc in one go: spaces, pinned tabs, folders, passwords, and even your sign-ins, so Google and GitHub are already logged in
- Chrome extensions from the Web Store: 1Password, Dark Reader, uBlock Origin Lite, Tampermonkey…
- Built-in ad blocking, YouTube included
- Just shipped: a full Simplified Chinese version
It's in beta and it's my daily browser. I'd love your feedback, especially the honest kind. What would make you switch?
Chrome extensions like Tampermonkey and 1Password on WebKit is the part of this Arc replacement that actually has to work.
@igorblink Exactly right, and it's where most of the work went. WebKit has its own extension support, but much of Chrome's API is missing, so Zigzag fills the gaps itself. Tampermonkey needed Chrome's userScripts API, which WebKit doesn't have, so Zigzag builds it on WebKit's content scripts. Your scripts run, even on strict sites like GitHub. 1Password talks to its Mac app through native messaging. If an extension you rely on misbehaves, tell me which one and I'll look at it. Thanks for checking it out!
@madalina_barbu Thank you so much, Madalina! 🙏 If you give Zigzag a try, I'd love to hear what you think, the honest kind especially.