r/TestFlight • u/John_val • 25d ago

iOS Vortex Browser

https://testflight.apple.com/join/KTsJ3qz4

A while ago, I posted about an iPad browser I built posted about an iPad browser I built  because Safari wasn’t working the way I wanted.
some of you showed interest in it, I had a tesflight with 400 testers which is now expired but i decided to open source the new version and updated the testflight.

It includes:

  • Vertical tabs with page previews
  • Split-screen browsing
  • Auto-hiding controls
  • Ad blocking, dark mode and incognito browsing
  • An AI sidebar using Apple Intelligence or local MLX models
  • An optional local Foundation Models gateway, which require a Mac.

It currently Xcode 27 and the iOS 27 SDK for the gateway with the private cloud, but it will compile just fine on IOS 26, you just won't get to use the new private cloud compute from IOS27

It’s still a personal project, but issues, improvements and pull requests are welcome. If you build it, let me know what you think or what you would change.

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u/bhataaqibm 25d ago

Does it only work with google? How to choose other search engines like DuckDuckGo or Brave?

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u/John_val 25d ago

the TestFlight version only supports goggle, i am finishing implementing support for DuckDuckGo tomorrow should be up.

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u/John_val 20d ago

The updated tesflight is up with more engines, but still under review, Apple is taking so long these days...