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Touch grass.


  Arc’s sidebar and Dia’s polish on real Chromium.
  Free and open source. Ads and trackers stay out.



  Download Ardia 0.2.44 for Mac



  121 MB DMG · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon · Notarized by Apple
  Like your paint wet? The nightly has every fix the day it’s made, smudges and all.
  Homebrew: brew install mantrakp04/tap/ardia
  ardia.dev · What’s new · All releases · Discord



  


 Lose the toolbar.

Move the address bar into the sidebar and the page runs all the way to the top of the window.



 Two pages, one window.

Drag a tab onto the page. Up to three panes, side by side or stacked.



 Refuses to leave the picture.

Switch tabs mid-video and it floats along in the corner. Go back to its tab and it slips back into the page.



 Your extensions come along.

The Chrome Web Store just works, its button says Add to Ardia, and Sync takes them to your other Macs.



 Ads and trackers stay out.

The full uBlock Origin is built in, cookie banners included. Google’s pings are compiled out. Crash reports are
opt-in and never carry your sites or searches.

 Also in there

- Work stays at work. Each profile keeps its own logins, history, extensions and colour. Swipe the sidebar to switch.
- Little Ardia. ⌥⌘N opens a small window with one page and no sidebar.
- Groups on contact. Drop a tab on a tab and they’re a group, named for you.
- Moves in for you. Bookmarks, history, passwords and logins from Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Arc, Dia and five more. Arc’s spaces, pinned tabs and themes too.
- Paints like Arc. Gradient themes per profile: up to three colours, some grain, some blur.
- Syncs through your iCloud. End-to-end encrypted, in a folder in your own iCloud Drive. No server of ours in the middle.
- Command bar. ⌘L finds tabs, history and bookmarks, does your sums, and knows doc.new and 16 friends.
- Tidies up. ⌥⌘K sweeps the tabs you haven’t touched into Recently Cleaned.
- Clean links. Copy a link and the tracking junk stays behind.
- Naps when you do. Background tabs past your latest five freeze, and sleep after half an hour.
- Sits still. Idles under half a percent of CPU with a tab open.
- Updates itself. Quietly, then shows you what changed.

 It’s actually Chromium.

Not WebKit. Not Electron. Every window is Chrome’s own, so sites, extensions and DevTools behave like they do in Chrome.

| Part | Details | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Engine | Chromium 156, on Chrome’s own framework. | ✓ Yes |
| De-Googled | Google’s background services stripped out. | ✓ Yes |
| H.264 and AAC | The codecs Chromium leaves out. | ✓ Yes |
| DevTools | Docked, with device mode. Like Chrome. | ✓ Yes |
| Sync | End-to-end encrypted, through your own iCloud Drive. | ✓ Yes |
| Translate | On your Mac. Nothing leaves it. | ✓ macOS 26 |
| Passkeys | Touch ID yes. iCloud Keychain waits on Apple. | ~ Partly |
| Netflix and DRM | Streaming sites open in WebKit, where they play. Widevine in Chromium waits on Google. | ~ Partly |
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Top issues

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- Sidebar on the right: pick Right under the layout cards in Make it yours, in Settings › Tabs › Sidebar position, or with View › Sidebar on Right. The window buttons move with it, and the hidden sidebar peeks in from the right and stays open while you look at it.
- Share a pinned folder through iCloud Drive: right-click it and choose Share Folder… to keep it in iCloud Drive › Ardia Shared and share it with macOS's own share sheet. No account needed. Links sync both ways, per profile, and open from Finder too.
- Profiles that share browsing data can share their Top Apps, as Arc's spaces s