VanBrowser vs Lock Notify Remote

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/

Walked away and forgot to lock your Mac? Lock Notify sends a notification to your phone whenever your Mac is left unlocked and idle. Tap "Lock" right on the notification and your Mac locks instantly. Every lock is verified, and you are told the real result. HOW IT WORKS Install the free Mac companion app (macOS 13 or later), scan the QR code on your Mac's screen with your phone, and you're done. No account needed. The pairing code is stored only on your own devices. FEATURES • Left-unlocked alert: a notification when your Mac is awake and idle • One-tap remote lock, verified every time • Live status: battery, model, locked or not, Work Mode on or off • Wrong-password alert: instant notice when someone tries a wrong password on the lock screen • Bluetooth proximity radar: see your distance to the Mac and lock automatically when you walk away • Café Mode: full-screen theft alarm if the charger is pulled, the lid is closed, or someone touches the Mac • Work Mode: keep your Mac awake, toggled from your phone • Scheduled end-of-day lock • Quiet hours • Activity log and weekly security report • Apple Watch app and home-screen widget: lock from your wrist or with one tap • Available in English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese PRO (one-time purchase) • Unlimited Macs (free tier: 1) • Intruder photo: a front-camera frame attached to the wrong-password alert* • Remote alarm and remote sleep • Auto-lock when you leave a safe zone (location) • Multi-Mac widget, full history and security report PRIVACY No account, no ads, no analytics. The command channel is end-to-end encrypted; the server only sees an opaque envelope. Location and photo processing stay on your devices. The only data shared is an anonymous push token used to deliver notifications. SECURITY NOTE Locking is one-way: your phone can only lock your Mac. There is no remote unlock. * Wrong-password detection and intruder photo work on the macOS versions supported by the Mac app; they are not available on macOS 26 and later in the Mac App Store version.