Ora is a fast, secure, and beautiful browser built for macOS. Inspired by Safari and Arc, Ora delivers a clean, native experience that feels at home on macOS—without unnecessary bloat.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Ora is currently in early stages of development and not yet ready for day-to-day use. A beta version with core functionalities will be released soon.
If you would like to support the project, please consider donating:
- Native macOS UI built with SwiftUI/AppKit
- Fast, responsive browsing powered by WebKit
- Privacy-first browsing with built-in content blocker for tracking prevention and ad blocking
- Multiple search engine support
- URL auto-completion and search suggestions
- Quick Launcher for instant navigation and search
- Developer mode
- Tab management with
- containers (spaces),
- pinning and reordering
- floating tab switcher
- auto-closing
- Vertical Sidebar
- Session restore after app restart or crash
- Keyboard shortcuts for navigation and tabs
- Picture in Picture
- Developer Tools
- Download manager with pause/resume support
- iCloud Keychain password autofill
- Private browsing mode
- Bookmark management with folders and search
- Extensions — (App Store & Chrome extensions)
- Split tabs — multiple tabs open side by side
- Reader mode with adjustable font and themes
- Web notifications
See the Wiki for comprehensive documentation, guides, and project information.
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Clone the repository and run setup:
git clone https://github.com/the-ora/browser.git cd browser ./setup.sh -
Open and build:
open Ora.xcodeproj
For detailed setup instructions, see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, code style guidelines, and pull request process.
Also see our Code of Conduct for community guidelines.
- Update
project.ymlas needed, then:xcodegen
- In Xcode: Product → Test (⌘U)
- Via CLI:
xcodebuild test -scheme ora -destination "platform=macOS"
- 🌐 Website: orabrowser.com
- 💬 Discord: Join Community
- ☕ Support: Buy Me A Coffee
- 🐦 Twitter/X: @orabrowser
Questions or support? Join the community on Discord.
Ora is open source and licensed under the GPL-2.0 license.
Feel free to use, modify, and distribute it under the terms of the GPL-2.0 license.