# Vivaldi Powerful Web Browser — user reviews > 1,084 indexed App Store user reviews of Vivaldi Powerful Web Browser by Vivaldi Technologies, rated 4.70/5 from 4,166 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vivaldi-powerful-web-browser/id1633234600/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vivaldi-powerful-web-browser/id1633234600.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,588 · 4★ 308 · 3★ 99 · 2★ 58 · 1★ 113 ## What do users think of Vivaldi Powerful Web Browser? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Highly customizable - 🔒 Strong privacy and security features - 🚀 Fast and responsive - 💡 Innovative features like tab stacking - 👍 Seamless cross-device sync - 👍 Excellent tab management - 👍 Built-in ad and tracker blocking **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and performance issues - 🔋 Battery drain concerns - 🔒 Lack of support for third-party password managers - 👎 Missing some basic mobile browser features (e.g., reader mode, bottom address bar) **Commonly reported bugs** - Issues with ad blocker not working consistently - Problems with tab syncing between devices - Text input lag and delays - Forced review prompts **Most requested features** - Option to move address bar and navigation buttons to the bottom of the screen - Ability to set custom search engines - Implement a reader mode - Add support for browser extensions - Improve tab closing/management gestures - Provide more customization options ## Newest reviews (19 of 1,084) ### 4/5 — Needs some important fixes *2026-08-28, version 8.1.4098.27* • I would like to able to add a bookmark for some pages to multiple bookmark folders the way that I can in the Brave & Safari browsers. There are some things that absolutely need to be filed under multiple categories for many reasons, most importantly so that I don’t have to go searching through all my folders to try to find where I saved something about a topic that may fall under multiple topics as my brain interprets it. • I can’t seem to find a way to delete browsing data (instead of just cached files & cookies) without it closing all of my tabs. Usually there’s a way to also remove the data, cookies, and cache without having to lose all of the open tabs. I stopped using the DuckDuckGo browser awhile back because I couldn’t figure out how to clear ANY data or cache at all without having to lose the tabs along with it. - I’m sure there are other things but these are the big ones I’ve been noticing so far. ### 2/5 — Lots of Candy, Missing Important Features, Meh *2026-08-25, version 8.1.4098.27* Vivaldi keeps coming out with major updates, but so far, on mobile for iPad and iPhone they need to implement some basic, basic utilities, like import/export Bookmarks to a local file (csv and html are good choices.) Vivaldi users need to be able to open their bookmarks file as an editable webpage that fills a full tab while the page can implement editing functions like select, cut, copy, paste, delete <— such amazing features that have been around for decades are just missing in Vivaldi while they concentrate on adding night mode and colored bars and icons (candy, who cares?). What about the Option to display a full-featured FILE MENU bar in the mobile app? Why not — too useful? There are plenty of requests for useful things like these, but? Result? Vivaldi == ★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆. That’s ‘Meh’ territory, sadly! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-08-23, version 8.1.4098.27* A web browser with a better design and set of principles than the big tech ones. What’s not to like. It just works. ### 5/5 — Great. *2026-08-22, version 8.1.4098.27* Stops reloading pages like Safari! Well done 😀. ### 5/5 — Private and Customizable *2026-08-19, version 8.1.4098.27* I love that there are other options than Google. I like being able to customize, as well as browse privately than freely give away all my data to big corps that don’t care about what happens to my information. ### 5/5 — The best browser hands down *2026-08-17, version 8.1.4098.27* I was a long time user of Opera before they started doing things I didn’t like. Heard about Vivaldi from Reddit, and after taking the time to learn how to use Vivaldi, I haven’t thought about Opera since. Vivaldi is feature-rich while still being super secure. I’m content knowing I don’t have to worry about being shelled sponsored pages while I browse. ### 5/5 — Based and private *2026-08-16, version 8.1.4098.27* Boy I love privacy ### 5/5 — 😲 très surprenant! *2026-08-15, version 8.1.4098.27* Je donne rarement mon opinion sur internet; même que je crois que c’est la 1ere fois que je m’arrête pour noter une application. Je souhaite vous dire un merci sincère pour votre travail et avoir conçu un navigateur tel que celui-ci. Il est simple à visualiser tout en étant ultra précis pour nous proposer des fonctionnalités que je considère une coche au-dessus des autres navigateurs qui nous sont malheureusement proposés avant Vivaldi sur Apple Store. Je vous recommande fortement à tous ceux qui souhaitent une nouvelle expérience qui apportera assurément des solutions à ce qui nous chicote sur les autres navigateurs. 🙏 merci! ### 5/5 — Great alternative *2026-08-15, version 8.1.4098.27* Love it ### 5/5 — Internet as it should be *2026-08-14, version 8.1.4098.27* Love Vivaldi, going to put it on everything. Finally free of the headache of being pushed products continuously after one search. Thanks team! ### 3/5 — Still not a Main Browser *2026-08-14, version 8.1.4098.27* It’s a good browser with a sync function and doesn’t have the crypto jargon. However, I still need the following: 1. default open to private browsing 2. A Delete all tabs and browsing data button, much like DuckDuckGo. I don’t like going through the menu all the time 3. If the app is closed delete all browsing data on device. 4. In the Trash can tab, add a select and delete button / delete all button 5. Custom AdBlock entries, much like Brave. If these exist and I missed them. Feel free to let me know. ### 3/5 — needs updating and polishing *2026-08-12, version 8.1.4098.27* lots of quirky ui bugs. i'm not on your team vivaldi but please polish up tje quirkiness. ### 5/5 — Very good browser *2026-08-11, version 8.1.4098.27* I really love the features of the desktop app, the iOS version isn’t quite so capable but still very good and avoids the lock in to Google ### 2/5 — My College Demo in UX was a million times better *2026-08-11, version 8.1.4098.27* Hire me and I'll earn your company 5 million dollars in one week. Otherwise, live with the worst mobile browser GUI I've ever encountered, suckas ### 5/5 — The way browsing should be *2026-08-10, version 8.1.4098.27* I got so sick of other browsers always giving me AI overviews. Vivaldi allows you to search within countries, dates, file types which makes it really easy to find real information and sources. It feels like I’m browsing in 2016. It’s such a good browser. I’m sure the developers will read this review so I want to say The only thing I don’t like is it’s not easy to share the website you’re on while you’re at it. I have to copy the URL. ### 5/5 — Excellent ethics *2026-08-10, version 7.4.3691.86* Highly rated by the UK’s Ethical Consumer magazine for ethics making it a great alternative. I like all the personalisation and the ease of usage for a non-techie person. Very easy set-up instructions. ### 5/5 — AI free browser at last! *2026-08-09, version 8.1.4098.27* I was so pleased to find Vivaldi, I’d been searching for an AI free browser that would suit my needs for some time. Not only does Vivaldi fit this request - it also moved everything over with ease and speed. It took a minute to get used to using, but really it’s just like web browsing was not long ago, so not that hard at all really. ### 5/5 — Great browser *2026-08-07, version 8.1.4098.27* I like it a lot! ### 5/5 — It works! *2026-08-06, version 8.1.4098.27* One of my best decisions. Very good tracking blocker, pop-up blocker. Favorite feature is how much less memory it consumes!!! I love Vivaldi. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — garbage performance *2026-08-11, version 8.1.4098.27* scrolling an image board drops to 10 fps. unusable on most websites you should contact your developers and tell them to get a clue, not try to reach out to paste a script to me for reinstalling which achieves nothing. ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2026-08-03, version 8.1.4098.27* Difficult to use and they feature their Steam game in their front page - Steam is very unethical allowing bigotry on their platform and price gauging. Hope they stop supporting such terrible companies. They also plaster their affiliated links on the front page of the app and PC browser. Should go non profit if they actually care ### 1/5 — Can't open Poshmark *2026-07-26, version 8.1.4098.27* Poshmark listings get "can't open this page" error. Please fix. I always had to use Safari to open this and it's annoying. ### 1/5 — Not working after update *2026-07-17, version 8.1.4098.25* Like other reviews have said, the browser is unusable after the 8.1 update ### 1/5 — New 8.1 update has a major bug with tab. *2026-07-16, version 8.1.4098.25* Scrolling through my open tabs causes the screen to darken until I can't see anything. As a person who almost always has 70-80 open tabs this is a critical bug / issue for me that makes the browser now unusable. ### 1/5 — FIX WINDOW BUG *2026-07-07, version 8.0.4046.16* if you close the browser in stage view as a window, it will delete all tabs, all folders, your entire session- with no way at all to restore it. regardless of any other feature this browser has, this bug makes it unusable. ### 1/5 — Slow and Bugging *2026-06-26, version 8.0.4046.15* Nothing works at all on this. Images don’t load properly anymore. VPN makes it worse. And etc. ### 1/5 — garbage *2026-06-20, version 8.0.4046.15* private tab selector breaks constantly. slideshows trying to scroll any media heavy sites ### 1/5 — No ad blocking *2026-06-11, version 8.0.4046.11* No longer blocking YouTube ads so what’s the point. Please fix the Adblock on YouTube instead of giving these bot responses. ### 1/5 — Waste of TIME *2026-06-10, version 8.0.4046.11* I HOPE BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-08-31, version 8.1.4098.27* This is a great web browser! Easy setup to what I want, and I love the fact that it’s from Norway and does not use AI. ### 5/5 — So customisable! My favorite search engine! *2026-08-31, version 8.1.4098.27* The company is committed to no AI, which I appreciate ### 5/5 — Need updates regularly *2026-08-30, version 8.1.4098.27* If a month passes by no updates make it hard for users to trust this. Please make sure 2 updates in a month is better. ### 5/5 — Early days *2026-08-28, version 8.1.4098.27* Only just started using but I am really impressed so far. One little niggle, when saving to bookmarks, a bigger more noticeable dialog box would be handy, if you get distracted it’s gone, then we have to find it. Overall a great app though. ### 5/5 — Great!! *2026-08-28, version 8.1.4098.27* Overall amazing, no glitches, and everything is what it’s advertised as. ### 5/5 — No AI and Good Search *2026-08-26, version 8.1.4098.27* Had to find a browser without AI but ones like DuckDuckGo have a terrible search engine so I’m glad this one is much better ### 5/5 — fantastic *2026-08-26, version 8.0.4046.16* lovely, customizable, simple, no ai browser, it's so good! 🩷🐬 ### 5/5 — Best browser I’ve tried *2026-08-25, version 8.1.4098.27* I’ve tried all the browsers, Vivaldi is meaningfully better. Also, it’s worker-owned, so it’s one of the few things on the web you can feel good about these days. ### 5/5 — I love this app. *2026-08-24, version 8.1.4098.27* I love this app. It’s so easy to use. Thanks for making it!!! 🥰 ### 5/5 — Anti AI *2026-08-24, version 8.1.4098.27* I am very happy with Vivaldi and feel comfortable using a tool that shares my opposition to the ai industry. --- *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 2026-09-02.*