# Orion Browser by Kagi — user reviews > 913 indexed App Store user reviews of Orion Browser by Kagi by Kagi Inc., rated 4.00/5 from 1,173 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id1484498200/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id1484498200.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 705 · 4★ 148 · 3★ 118 · 2★ 62 · 1★ 140 ## What do users think of Orion Browser by Kagi? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and snappy - 🔒 Great privacy features - 👍 Familiar Safari-like interface - 💡 Supports Chrome and Firefox extensions - 🚀 Smooth browsing experience - 👍 Customizable options - 👍 Effective ad-blocking **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unstable - 🐛 Extensions not always working as expected - 🐛 Tab management issues - 🐛 Crashes and freezes - 🐛 Rendering problems on some websites - 🐛 Sync issues between devices **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes and freezes - Extensions not working properly - Tab management issues (tabs disappearing, not loading correctly) - Rendering problems on certain websites - Sync issues between devices **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Improved tab management and organization - Better extension compatibility and customization - Seamless cross-device sync - Ability to disable specific features (e.g., ad-blocker) ## Newest reviews (16 of 913) ### 3/5 — Lacks Functionality *2026-08-24, version 1.5.2* Good browser but using the features breaks the websites when searching. The inability to use the “vertical tabs” option is also a hindrance. I do appreciate the soft update to the UI, but customization options are still subpar compared to competitors. The performance has improved but could be contributed to the iOS 26.6.1 update. ### 4/5 — Swiping left to right to close tab in the grid view not working *2026-08-23, version 1.5.2* Overall good desige, just unable to close tab by swiping from left to right on the tab in the grid view, which most browsers can do. ### 3/5 — Good but not consistent *2026-08-17, version 1.5.1* I’ve used this browser for over 6 months but I’m switching back to Brave. It had weird slowness navigating to new pages on existing tabs. I like it but not stable enough for every day use. ### 3/5 — Great But Buggy *2026-08-11, version 1.5.1* It's nice to be able to use real extensions. Annoying bugs like tabs freezing make certain web based activities unusable. ### 4/5 — A promising WebKit alternative *2026-08-10* I’ve been using Orion across macOS, iPadOS, and iOS, and it’s very welcoming to see you guys choose WebKit instead of creating yet another Chromium-based browser. With Firefox declining every day, Orion feels like one of the few meaningful alternatives keeping the browser-engine landscape diverse. A few suggestions: Orion already supports Chrome and Firefox extensions well, but I think you should consider creating a WebKit-native or Orion Extension Store. This could give developers a dedicated ecosystem for building and distributing extensions specifically for Orion. I’d also love to see a search box on the start page. Without one, the start page can feel a little too much like Safari. Finally, the iOS and iPadOS start pages lack the background customization available on macOS. Adding this would make the experience more polished and consistent across platforms. Overall, I really like the direction Orion is taking and look forward to future updates. **Developer response:** Thanks for the 4-star review, and for the kind words about the engine choice. Bringing start page background customization on iOS and iPadOS in line with macOS is something we'd like to do, and a search field on the start page is a fair ask too. A dedicated extension store is a much bigger conversation, but one worth having. If you could post those three ideas at orionfeedback.org and describe how you'd want each to work, that's the kind of detail that shapes what gets built. ### 3/5 — I don’t like the changes *2026-08-06, version 1.5.1* I liked the browser before. I don’t like the changes with the latest update. I hate the bar at the bottom and I miss being able to see at a glance what tabs I have open. I don’t like clicking the tab button. My eyes do not look at the bottom for my stuff, they look at the top, so the bar at the bottom is frustrating. ### 4/5 — Great app *2026-08-05, version 1.5.1* First Nice Work. actually only blocked in desktop mode can fixit thanks ### 4/5 — Tool bar location *2026-08-04, version 1.5.1* I really enjoy this browser but the latest update puts the tool bar at the bottom of the screen which is confusing and inefficient. Is there a setting to move it back to the top? ### 2/5 — Something changed *2026-08-04, version 1.5.1* Used to be fantastic but ever since the latest OS update it’s getting laggier and laggier and constantly freezing. Tried clearing caches, changing settings, always keeps happening. Love all the other Kagi offerings though but unfortunately I had to switch back to a different browser on my phone. ### 4/5 — Peak but please bring back old gui *2026-08-03, version 1.5.1* Please add an option in the settings to bring back the old gui, since the Liquid Glass design can be somewhat inconvenient on the iPad, and an option to use the old ui, with its tabs on top and no Liquid Glass and all would be a huge help. ### 4/5 — Amazing Tool with Quirks *2026-07-31, version 1.5.1* Indispensable in an ad laden world. Struggles a bit with dynamic type on IOS ### 3/5 — Pop ups broken in bad way *2026-07-30, version 1.5.1* Great browser except certain sites are unusable. Sites that require popups to function (like websites with manuals to view, or internal work websites) are totally broken because there is no way to let popups be on and function normally. In safari you get a popup to allow the popup to happen. That works great! Because of that I cannot use this browser. ### 4/5 — Keine Lesezeichenleiste *2026-07-28* Leider kann man keine Lesezeichenleiste beim iPad Pro 11 Zoll einblenden, wenn es aufrecht steht. In der Querausrichtung erscheint die Leiste aber. **Developer response:** Vielen Dank für Ihre Bewertung und den Hinweis. Sie haben absolut Recht, das ist ein Fehler. Die gute Nachricht ist, dass unser Team sich dieses Problems bewusst ist und eine Lösung bereits im nächsten Update enthalten sein wird. Wenn Sie weitere Vorschläge haben, ist orionfeedback.org der beste Ort, um sie zu teilen. --- Thank you for your review and for pointing this out. You are absolutely right, that is a bug. The good news is that our team is aware of this issue, and a fix will be included in the very next update. If you have any other suggestions, the best place to share them is orionfeedback.org. --- Update 30 July Hallo nochmals! Ein kurzes Update zu Ihrem Feedback: Wir haben das Problem mit der Lesezeichenleiste auf dem iPad im Hochformat gefunden und behoben. Die Korrektur wird in Kürze in einem zukünftigen Update veröffentlicht. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld! Für weitere Ideen besuchen Sie uns bitte auf orionfeedback.org. --- Hi again! A quick update on your feedback: we have found and fixed the issue with the bookmarks bar on the iPad in portrait mode. The fix will be released in a future update shortly. Thank you for your patience! For any other ideas, please visit us at orionfeedback.org. ### 2/5 — really hope it success, but… *2026-07-28, version 1.5.1* like the concepts and vision, but small annoying bugs are like marmots, keeps popping here and there. appreciate the honest update changes logs indicating the fixed bugs and improvements, unlike some other apps always saying “ fixed some bugs “, but as for orion, it has gone too far. the change logs gives unconfident feeling. ### 3/5 — 拓展方便但是打不开网页链接很卡顿点十遍不定能出来一个 *2026-07-27* 不好使 **Developer response:** 感谢您的反馈，很抱歉您遇到了链接卡顿的问题。我们最新发布的版本应该已经修复了此问题，请您尝试更新。如果问题依旧存在，或有任何其他建议，欢迎到我们的反馈论坛 orionfeedback.org 告诉我们。 --- Thank you for your feedback, and we're sorry you've had trouble with unresponsive links. Our latest release should fix this, so please try updating the app. If the issue persists, or if you have any other suggestions, we'd love to hear from you on our feedback forum at orionfeedback.org. ### 4/5 — Easier Kagi Search Integration *2026-07-26, version 1.5.0* Found this easier to use than the Kagi Safari extension. You gotta change the icon, though. Icon makes this seem like an AI forward browser, and it’s not! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Totalverlust ohne Vorwarnung – zweimal hintereinander *2026-08-15* Handy kurz aus der Hand gelegt, wieder aufgenommen: Browser komplett zurückgesetzt. Alle offenen Tabs weg, kompletter Verlauf weg, sämtliche Lesezeichen weg, alle gespeicherten Daten weg. Wie frisch installiert. App neu gestartet, iPhone neu gestartet – nichts kommt zurück. Keine Fehlermeldung, keine Warnung, keine Nutzeraktion. Dann der zweite Schlag. Synchronisation war und blieb aktiv. Über „Download aus iCloud erzwingen“ meldete die App **380 geladene Datensätze** – angezeigt wurde davon nichts, der Browser blieb blank. Nach dem offiziellen Vorgehen des Herstellers (iCloud-Schalter für Orion aus/an, Sync aus/an, Force Fetch, dann Sync deaktivieren, App neu installieren) war anschließend auch die iCloud leer. Die 380 Datensätze, die kurz zuvor noch da waren: weg. Damit sind zwei Dinge gleichzeitig ausgefallen: der lokale Datenbestand und das Backup, das genau dafür da ist. Eine Synchronisation, die den einzigen verbliebenen Bestand vernichtet, ist schlimmer als gar keine. Man wiegt sich in Sicherheit und steht am Ende mit nichts da. Aktuelles iOS, keine Bastelei, kein Speicherplatzproblem, kein Beta-System. Einfach weg, beides. Ein Browser ist ein Datenspeicher, kein bloßes Anzeigeprogramm. Lesezeichen und Verlauf sind über Jahre gewachsene Arbeit. Wer die nicht verlieren darf, kann diese App nicht einsetzen – unabhängig davon, wie gut Tempo, Erweiterungen und Datenschutz ansonsten sind. Ein Stern, weil null nicht möglich ist. **Developer response:** Vielen Dank für den ausführlichen Bericht, und es tut uns leid, dass Sie Tabs, Lesezeichen und Verlauf verloren haben. Das ist kein erwartetes Verhalten, und eine Synchronisation, die den letzten verbliebenen Bestand löscht, ist ein Fehler, dem wir nachgehen müssen. Es wäre uns eine große Hilfe, und wir wären Ihnen sehr dankbar, wenn Sie uns alle Ihnen vorliegenden Details in unserem Forum unter orionfeedback.org mitteilen könnten. --- Thank you for the detailed report, and we're sorry you lost your tabs, bookmarks and history. That is not expected behavior, and a sync that erases the only remaining data is a bug we need to look into. It would be extremely helpful, and we would be very grateful, if you could give us all the details you have at your disposal on our forum at orionfeedback.org. ### 1/5 — Super Buggy | Blank Tabs *2026-08-12, version 1.5.1* Orion is horrible, particularly with the extensions. Dark Reader and other extensions will stop working once app is in background, this can happen within 60 seconds. The only fix is to completely close out the app and reopen, rinse and repeat. There is also no one to Mass-Add Tabs (Bookmark All Tabs is missing). Storage is not full, so that has nothing to do with it and this is on an iOS 18+/26 Device. ### 1/5 — Bugs don’t get fixed *2026-08-12, version 1.5.1* Orion has had a bug for over a year that causes search results to not be shown unless you open and close the tab switcher. There are discussions about this on Reddit from months ago but the developer is either unaware or doesn’t care. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app but the issue persists. I am switching to the Quiche browser ### 1/5 — Tabs *2026-08-08, version 1.5.1* I don’t need 3 different ways to close a tab displayed at all times. Swiping right on a tab was perfectly fine. Now there are multiple ways to accidentally close tabs just by scrolling. Annoying change that also looks bad ### 1/5 — ブラウザとして欠陥品 *2026-07-28* 動作不安定。ブラウザとして欠陥品。他ブラウザより勝手にログアウトされる確率が多く非常に煩わしい。 また、なぜか数秒立つと表示が崩れたり不具合が起こり閲覧不可となるページがある。拡張機能をオフにしても変わらず。 ひどいui。ブックマークが余計なフォルダの中に入れられているため、一々開く手間をかけさせられる。 拡張機能が使えるので仕方無く使っているだけ。それも殆どのものは正常に動作しない **Developer response:** フィードバックをお寄せいただきありがとうございます。不安定な動作や拡張機能の問題など、ご不便をおかけし申し訳ございません。もし可能でしたら、具体的な問題の詳細を orionfeedback.org のフォーラムにご報告いただけますと、原因の特定に大変役立ちます。 --- Thank you for your feedback. We apologize for the inconvenience, including the instability and extension issues. If you are able, providing specific details about the problems on our forum at orionfeedback.org would be very helpful for us to identify the cause. ### 1/5 — 垃圾 *2026-07-26, version 1.5.0* 打開yt都做不到有夠糞 ### 1/5 — 1.5 Update broke *2026-07-24, version 1.5.0* Since the 1.5 update yesterday browser has not worked. Pages don’t load. ### 1/5 — Agonizingly slow *2026-07-18, version 1.4.4* Fast?!?!?!? Ha! Agonizingly slow loading by times. Screen goes black at random at which time you have to reload for the next 5 minutes. This browser is trash ### 1/5 — Why does it ask where to open deeplinks after it’s already opened them *2026-07-13, version 1.4.21* Have some common sense and ask me before it opens them ### 1/5 — Value your Sanity *2026-07-09, version 1.4.21* If you value your sanity, your work and your time or Orion is definitely not the browser for you. Total garbage ram management. The browser constantly crashes and forces and Auto refresh, immediately vaporizes all the work that you’ve just done. Absolutely unusable ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great browser, yet it needs more customization options *2026-08-20, version 1.5.1* Fast, lightweight, reliable and private. Yet it would be nice to have an option to change the Home Page background and some alternative app icons too. ### 5/5 — Exactly what I needed! *2026-08-11, version 1.5.1* Been using this app for a year now. It supports Chrome, Firefox and local extensions. I tweak/create local extensions to block doom scrolling features and annoyances on social media ### 5/5 — Is possible to bring ublock origin ? *2026-08-05, version 1.5.1* That will be greates browser to make the unlock origin work perfectly. Will it come? Thanks ! ### 5/5 — Good direction *2026-08-04, version 1.5.1* I recently switched to iPad for coding. This browser is awesome. There still a lot to do, i missing sidebar tabs badly. And I would love to see some sort of Inspect element eventually. Overall amazing experience, it is the closest thing that comes to a real browser. ### 5/5 — Finally I don’t have to deal with YouTube Shorts Brainrot! *2026-07-31, version 1.5.1* After getting rid of shorts on desktop via chrome extensions, and the YouTube app to discourage shorts further, I finally permanently removed the brainrot inducing stain on humanity that is YouTube shorts thanks to this browser’s support for extensions! ### 5/5 — Spectacular - private AND supports Firefox/Chrome extensions? *2026-07-27* While this might not be my daily-driver browser (as yet), it's an incredible tool when you need desktop-class extensions on iPad. I was especially impressed how it could handle an extension I downloaded from GitHub and execute perfectly. Thanks to the dev team for their hard work! ### 5/5 — 关于扩展不兼容问题 *2026-07-24* 今天更新苹果ipad版本26.5.2以后，用这个浏览器玩游戏出现游戏里聊天名字渲染异常，名字截断问题，名字显示不全 **Developer response:** 感谢您的五星好评和详细的反馈！我们很抱歉您在更新后遇到了游戏内聊天名字显示不全的问题。为了帮助我们的团队进行调查，能否请您在我们的反馈论坛 orionfeedback.org 上提交一份详细的报告，如果可能的话，附上游戏名称或截图？这对于我们定位并解决问题至关重要。非常感谢您的帮助！ --- Thank you for the 5-star review and the detailed feedback! We're sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with incomplete chat names in games after the update. To help our team investigate, could you please submit a detailed report on our feedback forum at orionfeedback.org, including the name of the game or a screenshot if possible? This would be crucial for us to track down and fix the problem. Thank you so much for your help. ### 5/5 — Yes excellent! *2026-07-23, version 1.4.21* Smooth working tool, efficient, fast, user friendly, a pleasure to get actions completed effectively! ### 5/5 — Title *2026-07-16, version 1.4.21* It's a breath of fresh air! Love using the app. The only two things - bookmarks do open in a small window which is for me quite not convenient and tabs do automatically close when the app is running on the background ### 5/5 — Never Going Back *2026-07-15, version 1.4.21* The extension were a big draw for me, allowing me to use my favorite apps and websites without distractions, but I love how this browser is designed with such thoughtfulness and care for the consumer. My favorite example of this is by far the ability to play videos without the browser open. Many companies would put these features behind a paywall, which is why I wanted to try this browser out in the first place. P.S., Some of my favorite extensions are Google AI blockers and Shorts/Reels blockers. These genuinely improve my daily life and I'm so pleased I get to use them on mobile! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*