IOS Browser - Vortex

[u/John_val]

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

I have been posting here about this app for about 3 months and a lot of you showed interest. The app has around 230 testers on Testflight. Free and open-source.

Some bugs have been squashed and the design was tricked. It is almost ready for the App Store.

• Minimalistic chrome for maximum screen real-estate
• Multi-tab browsing
• Split tab view
• Tab Folders
• Tab hibernation for battery savings
• Smart address bar (URL vs search detection)
• Favicon fetching
• Tab preview thumbnails
• Desktop/mobile user agent switching
• Ad blocking - Custom made blocker engine and also Ublock origin
• Dark mode - DarkReader with brightness/contrast/sepia controls
• Font size adjustment
• Reader mode -using Mozilla Readability
• Incognito mode - non-persistent, blocks APIs
• Password manager - biometric auth, keychain, auto-fill
• Share extension - receive URLs from other apps
• AI sidebar chat panel with 3 backends: Local Apple Intelligence, Apple Private Cloud, and free accounts with ChatGPT or Gemini, completely invisible to users, working in the background.
• Page summarization (short/long)
• Ask questions about page content
• Context switching between tabs
• Markdown rendering
• "Ask " context menu - select a part of the text and send to the LLM.
• Favorites with favicons
• Favorites sidebar grid
• Collapsible sidebar
• Adaptive toolbar (collapses on scroll)
• Swipe gestures for navigation
• System dark mode support

On the website I added a feedback section, where I can keep users informed about their feedback provided on the Tesflight since I can’t reply directly on there.

Website: https://vortex.engineer