I Built a Browser and Called It Internet
The world did not need another browser, so I built one that does less. It's 3.2 MB, it's free, and it's out today.
2026-07-15
Loading content...
The world did not need another browser, so I built one that does less. It's 3.2 MB, it's free, and it's out today.
The world did not need another browser. I built one anyway, and today it's out. It's called Internet, it runs on macOS, and the download is 3.2 MB.
Every browser I've used lately wants to be a platform. Sync this, sign in to that, here's a sidebar of AI features, here's your shopping assistant. I don't want a relationship with my browser. I want a window: type an address, see the page, get out of the way.
So in January I started building one for myself. The working name was Straight Up Browser, which tells you the design philosophy. Before release I renamed it Internet, because that's all it is.
I did not write a browser engine. Nobody sane writes a browser engine. Internet uses WebKit, the same engine as Safari, so pages render exactly the way your Mac expects. What I wrote is everything around it, and I kept cutting until only the parts I use survived.
The center of the app is the omnibar. Hit ⌃Space or ⌘K, type a URL or a search or the name of a tab you already have open, hit return. There's also a system-wide hotkey (⌥Space) that summons it over whatever app you're in, so "look something up" no longer means "find the browser first."
A few other things made the cut:
My favorite week of the project was deleting settings. At one point the settings window had controls that looked useful but weren't wired to anything real — the kind of toggle every app accumulates. I went through and either connected each one to actual behavior or deleted it. If a switch exists in Internet, flipping it does something. That felt better to ship than any feature.
I built a lot of this with Claude Code, which will surprise nobody who reads this blog. The commit history is me and an agent arguing about what deserves to exist. Most of the time the answer was "less."
It's free. It's signed and notarized. There's no account, no analytics, and nothing phones home. The license agreement is six short sections you can read in a minute, which might be its most unusual feature.
The download is here, for macOS 15.6 and up. If something breaks, tell me. It's version 1.0 from a team of one, so something will.