I'm in love with this app. Seriously, thank you for just creating a simple, straightforward tool that can be downloaded and used in under a minute. No tedious account setup, no intrusive ads, no subscription pop-ups, and best of all, the app is simple enough to not even need a tutorial — you just type in whatever you'd like to search, and a beautiful, minimalistic article self-generates that provides more than enough knowledge than what a half-hour of searching on Google would have taught. I especially appreciate that the app just sticks to what it was designed best for and isn't attempting to execute additional features that aren't as useful. I definitely look forward to seeing what else this company has to offer! Their products feel very well intentioned.
Very slick interface but the adblocker doesn’t compare to what I have enabled for Safari on iOS (via Wipr + AdGuard).
As an example clear all cookies/cache and then Google search any phrase. On the bottom of Google results page you will see a banner that says “Fast access to Google - Get the new Google widget - Get the app”. You can “X” out of this banner but it will reappear every so often, and it will reappear when you clear cookies/cache. On Safari for iOS I have this completely blocked.
If you want to get us nerds and techies to switch over, the ad blocker needs to be more robust. What you have is a great start though.
I always loved Arc especially on macOS, and when it dropped on iOS I knew that I would use it for certain, and I did! But I thought the “Browse for Me” feature was useless, boy was I wrong! I never expected myself to use it but now I always use it when I want a quick answer to quite literally anything. And I can’t forget to mention the amazing gestures, probably the first iOS browser to beat Safari at the gesture usability and how native they feel. And the look of the entire browser is just beyond beautiful. Amazing all-around
Arc Search is magic. The “Browse For Me” feature generates high quality answers, and even adds additional info. It’s criminal that we haven’t had a search browser capable of sifting between multiple websites until now. Not even Bard or ChatGPT can provide an experience like this. This is a genuine tool from a company that cares about us and the web. The UI is really clean (like the desktop version). Overall, Arc Search makes searching fun.
+ Browse for me does the best job I have seen for GPT powered search!
As someone who has used ChatGPT since release, and Bing / Copilot for 6+ months I can say this is revolutionary! The Browse feature does an outstanding job with comparisons and summarization! Whatever Arc does behind the scenes to generate the search queries does an excellent job of getting more varied sources than a vanilla google search would, and including some point / counterpoint “expert” sources.
- I wish the default option when entering a query was browse for me,
This app started pretty barebones and was definitely not ready to be my default phone browser. However, multiple updates within the week the app launched have drastically improved it. The addition of Kagi as a search engine is wonderful, and I look forward to tab syncing with Arc desktop. The only thing is that I do miss certain extensions for safari, especially a dark mode for web pages (like noir).
Love Arc, never had used until the phone. Literally nothing negative to say, would only like to request some features. The tab menu, they are full on full sized cards. Would love it if they were smaller like the safari browser when you bring up all your open tabs. As well as some navigation button to go back and forth. Awesome app and excited for the company
Good app but there needs to be improvements with the reader view. Websites that I can use reader view on Safari don’t work here. Also, there should be an option to default reader view on for certain websites like in Safari. Also it’s annoying that the search bar pops up by default every time the app is opened so there definitely needs to be an option to turn that off. Last thing is there needs to be a setting to change the navigation bar at the bottom to black so some sort of dark mode.
Although the app needs polishing, and the search results need refinement/reworking in some ways, I have faith that this company will deliver a 5 star product in the end.
Their Arc desktop browser is the most beautiful browser I have ever seen, but it’s also packed with nuance that makes it a wonderful experience to use.
Check that product out to get a glimpse in the future of this one.
Like most people, I generally use Google Chrome as the first step in a search for answers. Secondary is to enter an exact URL. Arc feels like it’s geared towards putting search and answer retrieval right at the front, with built in AI generated pages to cut through the noise. It feels like I’m browsing the web as a celebrity, with all of the ads and sponsored content being held at bay by my security team. Instantly added to my tab bar. Only thing that might improve it for me is an Arc version of incognito mode or integrated VPN, and the ability to access my profiles and bookmarks from the desktop version of Arc.
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