The browser for founders.

Run each company in its own space, with its own logins. Jump anywhere with ⌘K. Ask AI about the page in front of you. Tao Browser is light, private and built on Apple's WebKit, and it brings your Arc setup with it.

macOS 14 or later · 6.9 MB download · No account · Also free on iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later)

Real screenshots of Tao Browser on macOS.

0 accounts, ads or telemetry
100,000+ ad and tracker rules, applied on your Mac
1 click to bring over Arc spaces and pinned tabs
6.9 MB download. The engine is the WebKit already on your Mac

Three companies. One browser.

Built around how founders actually work.

Three companies, two Google accounts, one investor update due at five. Here's where Tao helps.

Every company gets its own space

Your startup, your consulting work and your side project each live in a separate space. Every space keeps its own cookies and logins, so the right Gmail, Stripe and GitHub accounts are already signed in when you switch. No more “which account is this?”.

⌘K for everything

Open a site, search, switch tabs or spaces, pin a tab, start a private tab or import from Arc. One box, no mouse. If you lived in Arc's command bar, you'll feel at home.

Read the page, not the noise

Before a call, open the AI panel and ask for a summary, the key points, a reply draft, or the pricing and contacts on a competitor's site. It uses your own API key, and nothing leaves your Mac until you click.

What works today.

Spaces with separate logins

One space per company or client, each with its own cookies and site data, so two Google or Stripe accounts never collide. On iPhone and iPad this needs iOS 17 or later.

Face ID / Touch ID lock

Lock a tab, a space or the whole app behind Face ID or Touch ID. Locked tabs hide their title and address.

On-device ad and tracker blocking

More than 100,000 EasyList and EasyPrivacy rules compiled into WebKit. Blocking happens on your device. Switch it off per tab when a site breaks.

Import from Arc

Spaces, pinned tabs, folders and favourites, read locally from the Arc files on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.

⌘K command bar

Open a site, search, switch tabs or spaces, toggle split view or import from Arc, all from one box.

Client Mode

One switch for screen sharing: other tab titles, pinned tabs, history in search and dashboards are hidden.

Wrong-account guard

Tao warns you when the Gmail or Outlook account you are in does not belong to the space you are in. It reads only the account label, never your mail.

Split view

Two pages side by side in one window.

AI page panel

Summaries, key points and reply drafts with your own API key. Nothing is sent until you click.

Sign-in pop-ups handled

Google, Apple and Microsoft sign-in pop-ups and card-payment checks open in a small window that shows the site address.

Coming soon

Chrome extensions, with a security check

Add extensions from the Chrome Web Store, with a check before they are installed: permissions in plain words, a warning for risky ones, and a removal list for extensions found to be harmful.

Space network

Bring your own proxy for each space, an optional device-wide secure DNS profile, and fingerprint protection that makes tracking across sites harder. Tao runs no VPN or proxy servers.

What Tao sends to us: nothing.

There's no account, no telemetry and no crash reporting, and the App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected. Your history, tabs, logins and settings stay on your Mac. Websites you visit still see your connection, as with any browser, and the AI panel talks to the provider you choose, only when you click.

Platforms

Tao Browser is free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and a free beta for Mac that you download from this site (a Mac App Store version is in review). Windows and Android are coming soon and Linux is in development, with no dates yet.

Arc is closing. Your setup doesn't have to.

Arc stops working on 22 December 2026. Import your spaces and pinned tabs into Tao while Arc is still on your Mac.