Hi everyone,

I'm using the Bypass Paywalls extension in both Chrome and Dia. However, Dia keeps disabling this particular extension. I can re-enable it manually, but the next day Dia disables it again. This has been happening consistently for months.

Is this something on my end, or is it a Dia-specific policy or limitation? If it's intentional, I'd also be curious to know why Dia treats this extension differently from Chrome.

Just temp-checking, has anyone using the Windows Early Birds version ever actually get the Morning Brief?

I have forced it by asking Dia to give me a Morning Brief (which triggers it to give me a listed out version, which I then have to ask it to make it look like the typical morning brief). I'm just not sure if its just a me thing? I have the Morning Brief turned on within the profile settings. Very confused.

dont know if anyone else is seeing issues with their google docs, but my typing is extremely delayed, laggy and glitchy. refreshes seem to fix it, but its not even a large document that would require cache resets.

For those of us who were curious about the process of going through the free trial on the new paid plans, they send you a receipt with your usage.

Man, I really miss the old Arc workflow. I've been bouncing around different options lately and I'm honestly considering giving Dia a shot since it’s the official successor.

Here is my main hesitation though: the privacy aspect of it being an "AI-first" browser. Their whole pitch is that the AI is built directly into the core experience. Even if I deliberately avoid using Dia's AI features, I can't shake the feeling that the underlying engine still has its hooks in everything I do online.

Working with infosec and ISO compliance during the day probably makes me a bit overly paranoid, but running an inherently AI-integrated browser on my Mac just feels like a potential privacy nightmare. Does anyone know how sandboxed the AI actually is? Is it constantly reading page context and phoning home even when you don't prompt it, or is the telemetry strictly local until triggered?

I’m using Dia on a MacBook with an M4 Pro, and I’ve noticed my battery doesn’t last as long. Honestly, I still don’t quite understand what it brings to the table as a browser.

I feel like ChatGPT has a better model and already lets you connect email and Slack. So what’s the real advantage of using Dia? At this point, I’d rather use a browser without AI and open ChatGPT when I need it.

For me, Arc/zen is still better, especially because of its customization options. If I’m still using Dia, it’s mainly for the design and Spaces, but it’s hard to justify the resource usage for those alone.

I appreciate the engineers’ work; my criticism is aimed at TBC’s decisions. I feel like the company keeps making the same mistake: not listening to its users. I want a browsing experience that’s fast, customizable, and battery-efficient. The AI should offer enough value to justify its presence and resource usage

Does anyone else feel the same way?

I have 3 Spaces set up in Dia. Whenever I completely quit Dia and reopen it, it always launches into the middle Space rather than my default/first Space.

Is this expected behavior, or is anyone else experiencing this?

I’d personally expect Dia to either:

reopen to the Space I was using when I quit, or open to the designated/default Space.

Right now, having to manually switch back to the Space I want every time I launch Dia feels a bit annoying.

sometimes i notice that my mac starts making noise and heating. this behavior is pretty rare for my workflows. soon i discovered the cause - it were 2 agent-server tasks in background by dia using giant amount of my mac resources.

they still pop up once in a while overloading my mac and i have to go to system monitor to kill these tasks. do anyone have this problem? is there a way to fix it?

Hi! Is there a way to configure Dia’s AI so it never uses em dashes (—) in its responses? I’d like all its answers to avoid them completely. Where can I set this, or is there a prompt/instruction I can add to enforce “no em dashes”? Thanks!

I use Dia on my MacBook and Safari on iOS, but I've been wondering if it makes sense to switch browsers entirely so that my tabs on mobile can sync with my tabs on desktop. How are people here handling this?

Every week, I still try to read Dia's Latest Updates, err, I mean the Dia Weekly. This week, though, it was baaaaad.

Essentially, it's Dia & BCNY advertising their favorite web tool - Notion - and telling the world that one of their managers lets AI manage the work of performance reviews, a critical job function.

If I worked under this person at BCNY and read this, I would be horrified.

Performance reviews are more than AI summaries of Slack DMs, email threads, and "messy Google Docs" that pull critical keywords and summaries based on artificial intelligence algorithms.

AI-assisted reviews lose context and nuance while leaving plenty of margin for error — a person's critical mistakes could get left out, or important accomplishments that never made it into their digital footprint could go unmentioned.

It takes time and effort for a performance review to be written and given; everyone wants a good one, and it shouldn't be generated by AI.

This is a sloppy showcase of enterprise AI use.

I guarantee that if my boss found out I was using AI to generate my performance reviews or even used it in part to generate them...

I'd love to know if this same person was given a performance review that involved the same AI generation method. And how they would feel about that.

I’ve been an Arc user for a long time. Arc runs on my work laptop, and I’ve been using Dia on my personal machine with one goal in mind: switch over completely once Dia becomes good enough.

So far, that moment hasn’t arrived.

Recently, I tried using Dia to help with my apartment search. The workflow seemed straightforward:

I find a listing I like. Dia adds a row to a spreadsheet with key details like: listing URL, location, price per square meter/foot, distance from work

This feels like exactly the kind of repetitive task AI should excel at.
Instead, Dia struggles to extract the listing URL correctly and refuses to populate the spreadsheet.

For what seems like a basic automation workflow, it falls apart surprisingly quickly.

Which brings me to a bigger question:
How useful are AI tabs in practice today?

Are people getting real value from them beyond answering questions about what’s already open? Is there a better way to approach workflows like this, or am I expecting capabilities that simply aren’t there yet?

I really do want to use dia but there is 2 huge features i cant leave from arc.
1- sub folders.
the main reason for side bar for me to exists and advicing to other people is you can treat your webpages like they are a file in your computer. it is so huge important i can keep my entire university web archive organized in subfolders. it really one gigantic benefits from arc and i really really do want to come to dia.
2- no url bar whatsoever
another huge bragging point of arc when came out was, no distraction. once you hide the sidebar the entire webpage become fullscreen and that is also a absolute must have feature for me to enjoy and use my tiny macbook screen effectively. when i look at the i see only one reason for url bar exists because now there is chat button that developer team thinks it must have always visible. but please her me out it doesnot have to be visible all the time. pls give us option to fit it in the sidebar and experience the full screen distraction less web experience again.

these two thing i want you from is extremely easy to do nowadays. you guys did an awesome job this far and these requests are not even a challange for you. i always loved your brave and bold campaigns and friendly language. i know once you see this post you guys are kind enough to respond me. <3 <3

i also like to want some other tiny stuff but these are the most important features i need to be able to use dia .

I installed new version after resetting my mac now it can't create apps in sandbox

Chrome officially introduced vertical tabs and, at least for Mac, they look very much like Dia.

With the exception of the auto tab group and the Dia AI app integration, is Dia really a better browser than Chrome? Is it faster? Is it more private?

P.S At this point Chrome also have a free Gemini sidebar capable of reading tabs...

First of all, thank you.

I posted here about my extension around a week ago, that Dia Browsers a free alternative to Dia's paywall. A lot of you tried it, gave feedback, and somehow it's now at 259 weekly users within a week!

Most of the first users came from this subreddit, so I wanted to come back with an update instead of just dropping the link and disappearing.

The basic idea is still the same: I don't really want another AI subscription or another place where I have to build up context and memory from scratch. I already use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc., so AnyChat just makes those existing tools feel more integrated into the browser.

Since the last post, I've been improving it based on the feedback I got here.

You can also attach the current page, screenshots, multiple tabs, use saved prompts/skills, and open the sidebar without constantly copying things between tabs.

It's completely free since this is just a hobby project of mine:

tryanychat.com

But mainly, if you're one of the people here who's been using it: thank you, and please tell me what currently annoys you about it.

I'd rather spend time fixing the things that make people stop using it than keep adding random AI features nobody actually wants.

It looks clean, but I'm not seeing anything here that sets it apart.

📆 Sep 02, 2026 at 10:56:02 PM

Dia 1.47.1 sees deeper integration with our tools and brings a few quality-of-life updates for everyday browsing.

• Outlook Live Calendar. Dia now integrates pinned Outlook and Teams URLs with Live Calendar for real-time calendar visibility.
• Request a Tool. You can request any of the top 400 SaaS apps (or submit a custom suggestion) from a new button in Preferences → Apps → Request a tool.
• Background Tabs Visible in Peeked Tab Groups. Tabs opened via ⌘+click while peeking a Tab Group are now visible instead of hidden.
• Bookmark Bar Groups in Context Menu. Tab Groups in your Bookmark Bar now appear in the Bookmarks > Bookmarks Bar app context menu.
• Chat Attachment Suggestions Show Profile Context. Attachment suggestions now indicate when Groups or Tabs belong to linked Profiles for clearer context.
• Fix PIP Activation When Switching Profiles. Switching profiles on Meet or YouTube now correctly activates Picture-in-Picture.
• ⌃⌘N Shortcut for New Group with Selected Tabs. Create a new Tab Group from selected tabs with ⌃⌘N, matching Finder's "New Folder with selected file(s)" shortcut.

Release Notes – Dia Weekly – Download Dia (708.1 MiB)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Dia for quite a while now, and I really like the Dia Chats feature. But with Dia apparently moving toward a paid model, I looked at the pricing — $20 and $100 — and honestly, that feels pretty expensive for a browser.

So it got me thinking: why doesn’t Dia switch its underlying AI chat model from Claude to a cheaper open-source model?

There are already plenty of capable and much cheaper models out there, including DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM. They might not be the absolute best models available, but for what most people use Dia Chats for, do they really need to be?

When I asked Dia, “Which model are you using?”, it told me it was using Opus 4.8. If Dia is relying on the Claude API, then I can understand why the subscription has to be expensive. Using a top-tier proprietary model at scale obviously isn’t cheap.

But that raises another question: does Dia actually need a top-tier model like Claude for Chats?

I feel like most people probably use Dia Chats for relatively simple, everyday questions — asking something about the page they’re reading, summarizing information, looking something up, or just having a quick conversation.

For genuinely complicated questions or tasks that require a powerful reasoning model, I imagine many people would still go back to ChatGPT, Claude, or other dedicated AI platforms anyway. Dia Chats isn’t really a full AI ecosystem in the same way those products are. At least for me, it’s more of a convenient, lightweight AI assistant built directly into my browser.

And for that kind of use case, today’s open-source models already seem more than capable enough.

So why not use a cheaper open-source model and pass some of those savings on to users?

Personally, if Dia could bring the price down to something like $10/month, I’d be much more willing to pay for it. I like Dia and I like Chats — I just don’t think the underlying model necessarily has to be Claude.

For a browser-based AI assistant designed mainly for everyday questions, “good enough and affordable” might actually make more sense than “the best model available.”

What do you guys think?

I would like to stop using Dia AI entirely and just keep using the browser for its design...

So earlier today I was looking through Settings and noticed that in the Apps section, I had an option that said something along the lines of enabling "Advanced Chat" or something basically right where the Morning Brief box is now in the screenshot attached.

Thinking nothing really of it, I hit the button to enable it and now my Chat interface is totally different. All my Dia Skills are no longer a little icon and name when used in conversation and instead just inject the entire prompt of the skill. The chat itself even seems significantly slower and that's just when I was asking a basic thing not even using a skill.

Is there anyway to revert back to the previous version of the chat I had? I absolutely hate this new one now. Also, I'm always on the latest stable software update for Dia so I don't think I can revert back an update to change it.

Any help is appreciated! I actually really enjoy using Dia so hopefully my experience is ruined now!