VanBrowser vs RC Slate

Fast, private, and built natively for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, VanBrowser puts you in control of your browsing experience instead of collecting data about it. Many browsers racing to add AI assistants, cloud services, and increasingly complicated and hidden interfaces. VanBrowser takes a different approach. It is a browser first, designed to help you browse the web with more transparency. NO AI. NONE. VanBrowser includes no AI features. No chatbot. No page summaries. No assistant watching what you browse. No prompts asking you to generate content. What you do in VanBrowser never becomes training data for us because we don't collect it in the first place. We don't collect data: You're not the product. Instead of monetizing your browsing activity, we rely on Pro subscriptions and optional tips to support continued development. SEE WHAT THE WEB IS DOING Most browsers hide what happens behind the scenes. VanBrowser puts that information in front of you. A live status bar shows page load times, transferred data, and resource counts as pages load. Open the Cookies, Network, and Page Info panels to inspect what a site sets, requests, and loads. Advanced users can also send and inspect raw web requests directly. PERSONAS: SEPARATE YOUR ONLINE IDENTITIES Keep work and personal accounts separate without juggling multiple browsers. Personas provide isolated browsing environments with their own cookies and device identities, making it easy to: • Stay logged into multiple accounts at the same time • Keep work and personal browsing separate • Open websites as a clean device • Automatically send specific websites to the correct Persona PRIVACY BY DEFAULT VanBrowser blocks many trackers and ads using maintained blocklists and is designed to give you greater control over your browsing data. History, bookmarks, passwords, and settings are stored locally on your Mac by default. If you use multiple devices, you can optionally enable iCloud sync to share supported data through your own iCloud account. VanBrowser is designed to minimize the collection of user data. We do not operate a cloud service for storing your browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, or synced data. BUILT NATIVELY FOR MAC, IPHONE, AND IPAD VanBrowser is designed specifically for macOS, iPhone, and iPad and feels at home here. Features include: • Tabbed browsing • Bookmarks and bookmarks bar • History and downloads • Reader View • Find in Page • Zoom controls • Built-in password vault • Built-in payment card vault • Per-site controls • Accessibility-focused design ACCESSIBILITY FIRST VanBrowser includes support for VoiceOver, Voice Control, and accessibility-focused customization throughout the app. FREE AND PRO VanBrowser is free to use. Upgrade to Pro to unlock iCloud sync, additional Personas, and other advanced features. A browser should work for you, not advertisers, data brokers, or AI companies. VanBrowser is a browser. That's the point. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

**RC Slate — the browser that opens your documents, built for people who work with AI.** Tap a document link while browsing — Markdown, DOCX (Word), PDF, JSON, YAML, images — and it opens right there, rendered as a clean page. No downloading, no switching to another app, no wondering what a file looks like before you can see it. **Convert anything to Markdown for AI** Turn documents and web pages into clean, token-efficient Markdown — the same content in a fraction of the prompt size. DOCX converts through the app's own parser; web pages by pulling out the article text. Need the images too? Embed them into a single self-contained Markdown file, with quality presets and a live token estimate. Export any view as PDF, PNG, or HTML. (Markdown conversion is not lossless; full page layout is not preserved.) **Read your Obsidian vault** Add a vault folder and read it as it was written — wikilinks between notes and embedded images. Links resolve inside the folder you added, so a note opens the note it points to. And a vault note leaves as one piece: export it as a single self-contained Markdown file with its images embedded, or as HTML, PNG, or PDF — ready to hand to an AI. Reading only; RC Slate never edits or syncs your vault. **A real browser underneath** Documents are grouped by the site they came from. Switch any article to Reader Mode for a clean, distraction-free reading layout with dark mode. iPhone and iPad layouts, with a sidebar and tab strip on iPad. **Clean pages for every format** - Markdown with tables, syntax highlighting, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX math - JSON and YAML: colour-coded, with their keys in the table of contents so you can jump straight to one - DOCX (Word) page by page, view-only (the document's own fonts are not included) - PDF and images **Open files from anywhere** Files on your device open from the Files app — or send a file from any app through the share menu, straight to RC Slate. SelfDrop syncs a file across your devices (up to 20 MB per file). **Works offline** Viewing local files works offline on your device.