Maxthon Browser vs Bluefy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maxthon Browser
A mobile web browser designed for a streamlined and personalized experience. It offers a fresh interface, enhanced features like customizable favorites, and tools for privacy and eye comfort.
- New UI design
- Re-planned homepage layout
- Optimized feature layout
- Enhanced favorites with text and images
- Personalized data treasure chest
- Incognito mode
- Night mode
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The world changes every day but our beliefs remain the same. We firmly believe that good interaction is less while good product is neither more nor less, and good experience always comes from the heart. A fresh new Maxthon Browser for iPhone will become the treasure chest for you on mobile Internet. We made great efforts in this revision in a visual sense to get rid of complicated design. According to a large amount of users' feedback, we perfectly combined design and practical features to build a browser that suits you like no one does. Named “The Best Browser” by famous North American and European agencies many times : Download82 2017 Software 5-Star Award DEAL crunch 2017 Editor’s Choice About.com Most Popular Browser Award Share Networks Full-Stars Recommendation Award ...... All Awards can be checked here: http://www.maxthon.com/awards New Features: 【Video Enhancement】Support video speed adjustment, floating pop-up video and background video playback for a better viewing experience. 【Userscript Support】Tampermonkey userscript engine available to customize web pages and unlock more possibilities. 【Webpage Read Aloud】Text-to-speech for web content, free your eyes and listen to articles on the go. 【New design】Global UI interaction、fresh new design style; 【New Homepage】Re-planned page layout from traditional two-stage to three-stage, easily to view. 【New Layout】Optimized on overall features level, which highlighted the often used main features according to users feedback, greatly improved the convenience of operations. 【New Favorites】Breaking the traditional Favorites structure that can only save URL, re-identifying the favorites feature that can conclude pictures and text content. 【Personal Customized】 The new Maxthon Browser will not only be your information access platform, but rather your personal customized treasure chest for data that comes with a powerful edition of notes, password management, and numerous extensions. Others feature: 【Incognito mode】Browsing on the incognito mode will never record your cache, Cookie, history, and download record. 【Night mode】Make adjustments to brightness to reduce the damage to the eyes when browsing at night. More Info: Report Bug: http://www.maxthon.com/mx/bug/post/ Help Center: http://www.maxthon.com/mx5/help/question/ Contact us:contact@maxthon.com Website: http://www.maxthon.com/ Maxthon Community: http://www.maxthon.com/ Facebook:www.facebook.com/maxthon Twitter:www.twitter.com/Maxthon YouTube:www.youtube.com/MaxthonCloudBrowser LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/company/maxthon-international-limited
Bluefy
This browser allows direct smartphone connection to nearby Bluetooth devices from web pages, eliminating the need for native apps. It supports various BLE devices like smart home appliances and medical sensors, enabling interaction and data retrieval.
- Web Bluetooth API support
- Connect to BLE devices directly from web
- Interact with smart home appliances
- Connect with medical devices
- Develop Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
- Secure connection (HTTPS) required for Web Bluetooth
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Bluefy – smart Web Browser with support of advanced IoT technology — Web Bluetooth APIs! You can communicate with the outside world using Bluefy Bluetooth browser without using native applications for connection with BLE devices. Our Web BLE Browser provides easy and fast smartphone connection directly from web pages with nearby Bluetooth devices. Now just detect and interact from appropriate web pages with numerous BLE devices such as smart home appliances, medical devices such as a heart rate monitor, glucose monitor, temperature sensors, etc. How to use? - Turn on Bluetooth on your smartphone - Turn on Bluetooth on your BLE device - Open Web Bluetooth API page that supports your device - Connect with the supported BLE device and use the functionality that web page provides For web developers* - Bluefy browser provides developers with the possibility to create web solutions that will work on all iOS devices. - Web Bluetooth API specification allows websites, running in the Central role, to connect to remote GATT Servers over a BLE connection. It supports communication among devices that implement Bluetooth 4.0 or later. - To use Web Bluetooth, your site should work through a secure connection (HTTPS) Bluefy – great Web BLE Connect solution! Develop a Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and imitate the capabilities of native applications, such as stand-alone operation, notifications and other features. Make own web R&D, demos, improve your user experience, share with others, and develop something interesting and unusual! Download Bluefy, use Web BLE features and enjoy its wide functionality. If you have any questions or issues while using our application, do not hesitate to write to us: bluefy.support@pnnsoft.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Maxthon Browser at 69% against Bluefy's 41%. Maxthon Browser also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Bluefy's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bluefy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 702 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Maxthon Browser's written reviews are positive against 41% of Bluefy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Maxthon Browser ships an update every 3 weeks, Bluefy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maxthon Browser | Bluefy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (702 ratings) | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews — better | 41.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 702 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Maxthon Technology Limited | PNN SOFT |
Customer experience
Maxthon Browser
Bluefy
Bugs and requests
Maxthon Browser
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezing and unresponsiveness
- Bookmark and history sync issues
- Incompatibility with older devices
- Problems with file downloads and attachments
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved tab management
- Ability to customize homepage and bookmarks
- Better video/audio playback support
Bluefy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Maxthon Browser
No in-app purchases
Bluefy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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