The only desktop browser app I could find that works
From strictly an iOS app rating, I would give this app 3 stars. But, it’s the only app I could find that does what I want. It tricks almost any website into serving up the desktop version.
The most important thing that needs to be fixed is that when you pay for the upgrade, the free version should disappear. Additionally, when you open the app you should open straight into a browser, not a menu system. It also just needs some general design & UX work. As someone with the weird core competency that crosses between manager/programmer/designer/visionary/leader, I can see that this app was built fully from a coder’s mind and really needs the perspectives of some designers and visionaries.
But it does get the job done where no one else has!
The most important thing that needs to be fixed is that when you pay for the upgrade, the free version should disappear. Additionally, when you open the app you should open straight into a browser, not a menu system. It also just needs some general design & UX work. As someone with the weird core competency that crosses between manager/programmer/designer/visionary/leader, I can see that this app was built fully from a coder’s mind and really needs the perspectives of some designers and visionaries.
But it does get the job done where no one else has!
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Review
The only problem I have with the browser, is whenever I open it up and watch an ad, it never let’s me out of the ad and I have to keep reinstalling it, and it’s really irritating.
Very useful given the failure of desktop request on other browsers
It is really astonishing that the forcing of
Desktop mode is so badly supported on standard iOS browsers. Request mode is usually useless. I have a handful of sites I visit that fail to display some information I need in mobile view and has been using Puffin until its demise. So a huge hurrah to the developers of this browser. There is some clumsiness in the interface and the ads in the free version are annoying but I really don’t care. I really do not appreciate that having bought a high resolution iPhone capable of displaying huge amounts of detail I am forced to use crippled mobile web sites.
Desktop mode is so badly supported on standard iOS browsers. Request mode is usually useless. I have a handful of sites I visit that fail to display some information I need in mobile view and has been using Puffin until its demise. So a huge hurrah to the developers of this browser. There is some clumsiness in the interface and the ads in the free version are annoying but I really don’t care. I really do not appreciate that having bought a high resolution iPhone capable of displaying huge amounts of detail I am forced to use crippled mobile web sites.
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Browser plus
App has given the iPhone a new lease of life. Delighted to have the Desktop available for usage
Been a great find and most helpful for my needs
Been a great find and most helpful for my needs
Good
Best browsing app much better than safari if u have a iPhone 😁
Fake misleading trash
This app is complete trash. You might get a desktop here or there but it’s inconsistent and often goes back to mobile pages. Furthermore in desktop it’s unable to play most videos correctly if at all. Waste of time money misleading and trash.
Does what it claims
Just to be clear, this is not a great web browser. The user interface is extremely bare-bones and it is missing most of the features you would expect from a fully featured web browser. However, it excels at the one essential feature, which is to force webpages to display exactly as if they were on a desktop system. I have not found any other browser that can do this reliably. This allows me to access functionality on many webpages that is otherwise unavailable on the mobile site. It is unfortunate that in 2020 something like this is still necessary, but here we are…
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very helpful app
I was looking for a app to view one of my new project desktop website in my mobile and was searching in apps and found this one which is excellent - Thanks 😊
I want to love this
Full screen browsing is hard find on iOS. This ap is close but needs refining.
Couple points: 1). It goes in and out of full screen mode way too easy. Needs to have a stickier way to remain in full screen mode. 2)any website that would launch a new tab doesn’t work then you can’t back out of it either. 3) History requires fully exiting the browser not sure why. 4). Developer doesn’t respond.
Happy to update this review if developer responds with updates.
Couple points: 1). It goes in and out of full screen mode way too easy. Needs to have a stickier way to remain in full screen mode. 2)any website that would launch a new tab doesn’t work then you can’t back out of it either. 3) History requires fully exiting the browser not sure why. 4). Developer doesn’t respond.
Happy to update this review if developer responds with updates.
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Desktop browsing
This is the only mobile browser I have that allows me to visit websites in the desktop rather than mobile version.
