SHX Browser vs MultiBrow

SHX Browser is a privacy-focused web browser for iPhone and iPad with built-in support for Bluetooth and local network connectivity. Standard mobile browsers don't expose Bluetooth or local network APIs to web pages. SHX Browser does. Built for users who interact with connected hardware through web-based interfaces. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Browse any website with a fast, clean, ad-free experience - Connect to Bluetooth Low Energy devices directly from web pages - Discover and communicate with devices on your local WiFi network - Use modern web standards including Web Bluetooth and mDNS KEY FEATURES Web Bluetooth Support Pair, connect, and communicate with BLE hardware directly from any compatible web page. Full Web Bluetooth API support. Local Network Access Discover devices on your local network. mDNS, local socket connections, and standard web protocols all supported. Privacy First No tracking pixels. No advertising identifiers. No browsing history sold or shared. Anonymous diagnostic data only, with full opt-out in settings. Standard Web Browsing A full-featured browser for any website. Tabs, bookmarks, search, and a clean reading experience on iPhone and iPad. WHO SHX BROWSER IS FOR - Users connecting to hardware devices through web-based control panels - Developers testing Web Bluetooth and local network features on iOS - Anyone who wants a privacy-respecting browser with extended hardware support

MultiBrow is a browser in which every container has its own cookies and its own sign-ins. Stay signed in to the same service with several accounts at once and switch with a single tap, instead of signing out and back in over and over. Safari cannot do this: all Safari tabs share a single cookie store, so a second sign-in to the same service ends the first. Private Browsing separates sessions but discards them on close. MultiBrow keeps every sign-in persistent and isolated — using a separate WebKit data store per container, a system feature introduced with iOS 17. WHAT IT IS FOR • A personal and a work account on the same service, side by side • Several clients or tenants, each in its own container • Keeping a test and a production login apart • A second account without disturbing the first one in Safari FEATURES • An overview of all containers as the home screen — create, rename and delete them, each with its own symbol and colour; deleting removes the entire data store • A freely chosen start page per container; the app is not tied to any particular website • Bookmarks per container: save, rename, reorder • History per container, with search and grouped by day • Downloads with progress, preview and export to the Files app • Lock individual containers with Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode • Find on page • Siri Shortcuts and Spotlight: open a container by voice or straight from search • A real iPad app on iPad: Split View, Stage Manager, all orientations, keyboard shortcuts • Switch from a bar at the top • An address field per container: type an address or search directly • Optionally stay on the start page: links to other sites then open in Safari • Automatic reload after the app has been in the background for more than 30 seconds, keeping pages current whose connection dropped meanwhile • Pull to refresh; long-press reload clears the cache without losing the sign-in • Up to twelve containers loaded at once; under memory pressure background containers unload automatically • Open the current page in Safari • Usage limits at a glance: when a website reports how much of an allowance is used up and when it resets, the overview shows this per container as bars — usage against elapsed time, so you can see at once whether it is going to be tight. Useful above all with AI services that work in hourly and weekly windows, such as claude.ai. The figures come from the website itself; MultiBrow only reads along and requests nothing • Keep the screen awake if you want to • Interface in German and English PRIVACY MultiBrow collects no data. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no developer servers. Cookies and sign-ins stay on your device, separated per container, managed by Apple's WebKit. Bookmarks, history and downloaded files stay on your device as well. Unlocking a container is handled by the system; the app only learns whether it succeeded and never sees your biometric data. NOTE MultiBrow uses the system web engine. Websites behave as they do in Safari; their operators are responsible for their content and data processing.