Leave a Review Geek Browser
Amazing
My go-to browser for ipad. Coupled with a keyboard, it is the perfect browser to check sites and news each day.cejeeb
Developer Response
Very happy to hear that! We also have Safari extension. Try Vimlike; https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vimlike/id1584519802Love Geek Browser!
So many useful features along the bottom of each webpage (search, zoom, forward, back, etc., etc.) Excellent browser utility!BAR112
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for the review comment. Very happy to hear that. We also have Safari extension for vim key bindings. Please try Vimlike as well; https://apps.apple.com/app/vimlike/id1584519802Best vimium replacement in ipadOS
As a vimium user for years, I’ve been searching for a alternative in ipadOS for years, until I finally find this!
It’s really a fantastic browser for anyone who like to use keyboard to control browser instead of pointing here and there again and again.
Given that, there’re still two feature requests
1) Can you provide an option to hide the keystroke hint bar at the very bottom of this app? iPad’s screen size is very limited and every pixel counts!
2) Can you support to import bookmarks from chrome?Show lessphye.pro
Developer Response
Thank you for the review! Glad that you enjoyed using Geek Browser. 1) It is easy. Cmd+/ will hide the keyboard help bar. Or touch the ? button in the toolbar. 2) Let me take this to the back log. Meanwhile, I have a better news for you. I developed vim keyboard function as a Safari Extension, and yesterday it was approved and published to AppStore. So you can use vim shortcuts directly in Safari like Vimium in Chrome. Try this out; https://apps.apple.com/app/vimlike/id1584519802A Joy to Use
As a fan of minimal UIs and keyboard-centric navigation, I am overjoyed to discover this ever-so-geeky browser is available for the iPad. Admittedly, I just installed this app a few minutes ago, I was too excited to have found vim-like key bindings for this platform. I have held back on the fifth star only because I noticed a site where the tab key did not produce numbered link hints.Show lessAlwaysBeChocolatey
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback and happy to hear that you're enjoying to use Geek Browser. At the moment, the Geek Browser does not show the link hints for the web page within the iframe in some of the websites. We're working on this issue. Thank you!Decent start
It’s a decent start
Here are some suggestions:
- You should compile vim into the app so you can edit the config in app
- The help (which takes you to you website) shows EDIT in the address bar... I found myself confused if I could edit my key bindings on this screen or not
- /search zooms you around. It’s very disorienting
* Whats worse is that there’s no way out of it on the keyboard (that I can find) which takes me to the next thing
- Let me bind escape to something like capslock
- The tab bar to show you navigation shortcuts - man... it zooms in... it’s hyper irritating to me (but I havn’t slept so I’m more irritable today)
- You should check out qutebrowser for a vim browser... they’re doing a lot of things right. I’m going to try to compile that for my ipad
- The navigation shortcuts are 2 digit numbers, you should weight the digits it selects to near the home row for speed
- The navigation shortcuts are odd... I can’t put my finger on why but some links have a bunch of them, some don’t have any... kind of strange to me
- You should check out blinkshell and see how you’re able to mosh or ssh into a server and use vim on the ipad for reference for how it should feel
- There are no movement modifiers
* f3Lan would find the 3rd set of “Lan” strings
* vim lets you navigate buffers by %. so 25% takes you 25% through the buffer
* It seems like the ONLY way to navigate is hjkl
- Anyone who just uses hjkl to navigate in vim hasn’t used vim that long...
I hope this helps, it’s awesome that this is the 1st vim browser in the store, keep it up! I’m excited and would pay for a good one, ESPECIALLY with a shell in. If that were a thing it must include fonts because people who live their life in the termnal have their shell environments setup with patched fonts to add glyphs to their terminal.
Forgive the novel
Jason - @jasonxoc on githubShow lessJasonxoc
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. I do appreciate. I am working on the key binding configuration and will include this feature soon. Let me check out the apps that you mentioned. Very helpful feedback!
