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Zigzag Browser
The polished, native Mac browser for life after Arc
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The polished, native Mac browser for life after Arc
88 followers
A native Mac browser for people leaving Arc, with the sidebar and spaces you're used to. Built on WebKit, not Chromium, and that's the point: the whole app is 18 MB (Arc is 871). Switching takes a minute. One import brings over everything, so you're already logged in. Colored spaces you swipe between, split view, peek, Chrome extensions like 1Password and Tampermonkey, and ad blocking built-in Open source, no account, no AI. Nobody can shut it down.
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@madalina_barbu Thank you so much, Madalina! 🙏 If you give Zigzag a try, I'd love to hear what you think, the honest kind especially.
As a Mac user, a native Swift/WebKit browser at 18 MB is exactly the trade-off I want over another Chromium wrapper — the sidebar and spaces are the Arc workflow I keep coming back to. The one-step Arc import makes it a low-risk try. Curious how it holds up with a lot of tabs open over a full workday, since that's where heavier browsers usually start to drag.
one-step Arc import plus an 18 MB install is a pretty easy first try. does split view stay inside the same colored space, or can the two pages belong to different ones?
@neerajnathany Thanks Neeraj! A split view lives inside one space. Both pages belong to the space you're in, and it keeps that space's color. You can still pair pages from two spaces: if you split with a tab from another space, Zigzag moves that tab into your current space so the pair stays together. Each space can keep its own splits, and you can also pin a split so it's there every time you come back.
Eighteen megabytes on WebKit instead of another Chromium wrapper is the detail that sold me, because the thing that finally pushed me off Arc was how much memory it ate just sitting there.
@karimbenkeroum Thanks Kareem! That was the whole point for me too. Zigzag uses the WebKit that's already part of macOS instead of shipping its own copy of Chromium, so the download stays small, and idle memory sits much closer to Safari than to Arc. Tabs you haven't touched in a while also go to sleep on their own. If you do try it, I'd love to hear how it compares on your Mac.