Gear User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience55.3% of reviews
Neutral17.0% of reviews
Negative experience27.7% of reviews

~ Based on 141 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Gear Safe?

Gear: AI Web Extension Browser appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Gear is 79/100.

This assessment is based on 241 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

72.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
19.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 241 App Store ratings for Gear.

Is Gear Legit?

Gear: AI Web Extension Browser appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Gear is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

✨隠れた神ブラウザ✨

下に日本語あります。

👍 Pros:
• Unmatched Customization: It outperforms other browsers when it comes to customization. I use it to enjoy YouTube comfortably by running JS extensions to block ads, enable background playback, and modify the page layout.
• Persistent Zoom: Unlike Safari, the page zoom level doesn't easily reset when navigating. I actually find this much more user-friendly.
• Seamless Extension Support: Being able to run extensions so easily is a complete game-changer (though it's understandable that a few extensions might not work perfectly).
• Beautiful UI: On top of everything, the user interface looks fantastic. Among all the browsers that support extensions, this one is clearly at the very top.
👎 Cons:
• Occasional Rendering Issues: A few websites don't render correctly from time to time. When that happens, I just open them in Safari.
• Landscape Aspect Ratio: In landscape mode, the blank padding on the left and right edges of the screen is a bit annoying. When I want to maximize screen real estate, Safari handles it fine, but Gear falls short here.
• Confusing Private Mode Toggle: Switching between Private and Normal mode can be a little counterintuitive. You have to select the mode from the tab overview, and then tap the "+" button instead of the search box. Since there is no visual feedback when you tap the "+" button, it's hard to realize how it works at first.
• Ad-Block Sensor Issues: Even when I turn off the built-in ad blocker, some ads still get blocked, making it impossible to view sites that detect ad blockers. I’ve started using Safari for these sites as well.
• Toolbar Customization: Since high customization is Gear's biggest strength, having the ability to customize the toolbar would make it even better. (For instance, some users might prefer a "Forward" button over the "Extensions" shortcut).

↑Translated by AI

↓Japanese

👍
カスタマイズ性において他のブラウザより優れています。
私はYouTubeをjs拡張で広告オフ、バックグラウンド再生、画面配置の変更などをして快適に使っています。
画面拡大もsafariと違い簡単には戻らないのが、逆に使いやすいです。ともかく拡張機能が簡単に使えるのが革新的です(動作しない拡張機能があるのはしょうがないですが)。
あと、UIも素敵です。
拡張機能が使えるブラウザの中では明らかに最高峰です。

👎
ただ、まれに表示が崩れるサイトがありますね。そういう時はsafariで開いています。

画面を横にした時の、画面の左右の端の空白がしつこいですね。画面を広く取りたい時など、safariではできますが、gearではできないです。

また、シークレットモードと通常モードの切り替えがややわかりにくいかも知れません。
タブ一覧からモードを選択して、検索ボックスではなく+ボタンを押さないといけないです。
+ボタンを押した時に視覚的な変化がないため、仕様に気づきにくいです。

あと、広告除去をオフにしても広告が除去されることがあるため、広告除去を感知するサイトを閲覧できません。これも今はsafariで見るようにしています。

また、カスタマイズ性の高さがgearブラウザの良さだと思っているので、ツールバーのカスタマイズがあるとより良いと思います。(拡張機能を開くボタンよりもブラウザフォワードボタンの方がいい人もいるかも知れません)。


追記:
いつの間にか表示の崩れるサイトは直ってました。サイト側の問題だったかもしれないです。
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Tab navigation is a weak point

I really really wanted to like it enough to main as a browser, but the tab navigation is this app’s Achilles heel. It feels awkward and cluttered even when you have as little as ten tabs open. The standard grid layout or at least a literal tab on top would’ve been a lot better, but other apps go even further with organization
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Needs just a little bit of work.

This has become my main browser. What does it for me is the ability to install extensions and user scripts. I actually searched browsers that use both of those and that’s how I found Gear. There’s a few kinks that need to be worked out, like how it freezes. All in all, so far so good. Please keep the updates coming!
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Basically, Be The Good Guy

“God I can’t wait to get this Safari.”

I walk out without the beacon quicker than Apple can be the furthest entrance away. It’s still their mall, however you’re the only two around.

“I won’t use it,” you say. And the Gear Browser has a token. It’s still an optional Safari extension you can click on for reasons unexplained.

The Discover card has an addon like that, too. You leave the coupon magazine toggle in Safari on, been here, with the Pentagon.

When you get to Gear, ask for Aswin Venkat. They’re at Google. Tell them to take to Lyra. That’s your favorite extension.

I say bye again, thankful.
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Bait and switch.

Free Developer tools if you purchase

needs more customisation

great app. needs more ways to customise it though. more liquid glass would be an amazing update - a toggle to switch it on and off would be even better. especially for the dock, along with customisable dock to be able to toggle on/off some of the buttons. (i never use bookmarks, so it’s just clutter). also perhaps a swiping method for tabs, similar to the one arc uses would also be an amazing feature.

also thought i may aswell mention the extension compatibility is quite off - a decent amount of my extensions just don’t work - especially if they have a login menu. e.g coupon extensions.

thanks!
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Error grave

En su última actualización por alguna razón pone en negro todo cuando la abro no puedes hacer nada solo abro en negro no me aparece nada y esto paso después de una actualización

Amazing browser

I love this browser meets all my expectations and use and the ui is familiar with even more amazing features. I am pretty sure apple or Microsoft will probably buy this company out soon, I hope Firefox dose first tho

サイト拡大がバグる

chrome拡張機能が使えるのでとてもいいブラウザです。ですがWebサイトを拡大しようとするとページが崩れてしまいます。そこ以外は最高のブラウザなんでそこをなおウィて欲しいです🙏。

Очень хорош 🔥

Только сегодня увидел эту жемчужину, буду рассматривать как замену Arc, не думал что слезу с него, но вам удалось😄

Extensions not working

I think you guys would have to work on your extensions, I have downloaded multiple extensions like MetaMask, Rabby, Phantom, and etc. but none of them is working, it can’t even open the extension for to create or import my wallet.

I’m giving you 3 stars and if you work on it I’ll give all 5 stars

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. Because the WebKit browser engine used on iOS differs from desktop browser engines, some extensions may not be optimized for mobile compatibility and therefore may not provide a complete experience. Some extension developer may also provide a version for iOS, but you need to find out and install that. If you encounter any extensions that do not work properly, please feel free to contact us directly at contact@gear4.app. We will test the issue and get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks!

What is going on??

Welp, I can’t add the top sites and nor change the background

Reverse Image Search

Build in image search functions is broken, especially for Yandex while add extensions doesn't add context menu.

And it's should open in new tab instead.

# When you do image search with Yandex, it's put image url into search box instead of using Yandex lens.

Response from developer

Hello, thank you for your feedback. We will improve that. Yandex's image search service seemed to have been down before, but it has now been restored.

Браузер

Хорошо работает всё 👍

Few Issues

This is is one or even the best browser on iOS rn
But i’m encountering some issues like some websites keep reloading continuously after every second it loads and plss make the full screen better on desktop version of webs🙏😖

Reverse Image Search

Build in image search functions is broken, especially for Yandex while add extensions doesn't add context menu.

And it's should open in new tab instead.

Response from developer

Hello, thank you for your feedback. We will improve that. Yandex's image search service seemed to have been down before, but it has now been restored.

Features

I’d like to see a few features before I subscribe like pinned tabs, muted tabs, better download management features like a resume button, parallel downloads, live activity notification 🤷🏿

Response from developer

Thank you for your suggestions. We will consider that.

Aesthetic But Missing Things

This is my new preferred browser. With that being said, I have two requests for the developer. 1) why can’t I set a default homepage? 2) please let us add the search browser of our choice. I see lots of options, but no Kagi, which I use.

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. The browser home screen is not a web page element, so you cannot set a web site as the home screen. But you can customize it by long press the empty area. The search engine options are deeply optimized with the browser. We will have a plan for customization in the further.

Visual mode doesn’t work

Very good browser with extensions but the button visual mode just doesn’t work if I click it, I have tried everything but it still doesn’t work, please fix this.

BROWSER IS A GIMMICK

NOT ALL EXTENSIONS WORK, THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS IS AGUARD.

Need you to add pin tabs. Please look at safari on iPad they way it’s set up.