Comparison

Balance Browser vs Fullsite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Balance Browser

A modern web browser designed for productivity and privacy. It offers built-in tools like notes, AI assistance, split view, and an RSS reader to enhance focus and organization while browsing.

Highlights
  • Productive sidebar with notes, history, and RSS
  • Split View for side-by-side browsing
  • Local AI chat assistant
  • Command Palette for quick actions
  • Reader Mode for distraction-free reading
  • Password Manager
  • Profile separation for work and personal use
Features
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Balance Browser is a modern web browser that combines fast and native browsing with powerful productivity tools and private AI. Stay focused, organize your work, and browse more efficiently with built-in notes, AI assistance, Reader Mode, Split View, maps, and more. Productivity Command Palette Quickly search browser commands, switch tabs, and perform actions with a single keyboard shortcut. Productive Sidebar Access Notes, History, Downloads, RSS feeds, and your favorite pinned websites from one customizable sidebar. Split View Browse and interact with two websites side by side in a single window. Built-in Notepad Capture ideas, snippets, and to-do lists without leaving your browser. AI Local AI Chat Chat with a private, on-device AI assistant for writing, coding, brainstorming, and everyday questions. Your conversations stay on your Mac. Interactive Map Workspace Extract locations from your open tabs and visualize them on an interactive map. Smart Address Bar Automatically recognizes URLs, domains, and search queries, so you can get where you're going faster. Reader Mode Enjoy a clean, distraction-free reading experiences. RSS Reader Subscribe to RSS feeds and access them directly from the sidebar. Password Manager Securely save and autofill passwords while browsing. Profiles Separate work and personal browsing with independent profiles. Optionally connect an IMAP account to view unread email counts for each profile. Chrome Extension Support Install compatible extensions from the Chrome Web Store to personalize your browsing experience. Flexible Tabs Choose horizontal tabs, vertical tabs, or hide the tab bar entirely to create the browsing experience that works best for you. More Features • Native macOS interface • Privacy controls and content blocking • Native PDF viewer • Customizable homepage • User Agent switching Balance Browser is designed for people who spend their day on the web and want a browser that helps them stay productive, organized, and focused.

About

Fullsite

Features
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Mobile sites hide things. Buttons that exist on a computer are missing, tables lose columns, and sometimes the content you came for simply is not there. Fullsite fixes that by making websites believe they are talking to a desktop computer. Most "request desktop site" features change one line — the user-agent string — and stop. That fools a server and nothing else: the page still renders through a narrow phone viewport, so every responsive stylesheet takes its mobile branch anyway, and the site still hides what it hides. Fullsite goes after the part that actually decides the layout. It forces a real desktop-width viewport, so the rules that hide content stop matching. It removes the touch interfaces that tell a page it is on a phone. It supplies the request headers a desktop browser sends. And it keeps all of that consistent, so nothing contradicts anything else. WHAT YOU GET • The desktop version of sites that would otherwise force you to mobile • A built-in ad and tracker blocker — over 130,000 rules, on by default • Any tab can be switched to mobile on its own, without changing the others • Tabs that survive being closed, with your place on the page kept • Swipe the address bar to change tabs; pinch out to see them all • Private tabs kept in their own strip, so you never swipe out of private browsing by accident • Bookmarks and history, and a page width you can set yourself • Pages that load faster, because the ads never download SITES ON YOUR OWN NETWORK An intranet page, a router, a NAS, something behind a VPN. Most browsers on a phone fail these silently and leave you with a blank screen. Fullsite tells you what actually went wrong — the name did not resolve, nothing answered on that port, the certificate is not one this device trusts — and does something about it. It will try plain HTTP for a machine on a private network, ask before accepting a certificate from a company's own authority, and remember only that exact certificate, listed in Settings where you can take it back. BUILT FOR SPEED Fullsite is a few megabytes. Blocking runs inside the system networking layer with no JavaScript per request, so pages get faster, not slower. HONEST ABOUT LIMITS No browser on iOS can be undetectable — Apple requires every browser to use the same web engine, and a determined site can still find signals. Fullsite closes the ones that decide your layout, which is what changes what you see. You can check any page yourself: "What do sites see?" shows exactly which signals are still reachable. FULLSITE PRO — REMOVE THE ADS Fullsite is free and supported by ads of its own. Fullsite Pro removes every one of them. • Fullsite Pro Monthly — 1 month, $1.99 • Fullsite Pro Yearly — 1 year, $9.99, with a 3-day free trial • Fullsite Pro Lifetime — one payment, $19.99, no subscription Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://fullsite-5hy.pages.dev/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://fullsite-5hy.pages.dev/privacy/

Screenshots

Balance Browser3 screens
Fullsite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Balance Browser at none against Fullsite's 3. Balance Browser also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Fullsite's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fullsite sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Balance Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Balance Browser ships an update every 2 days, Fullsite every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Balance Browser versus Fullsite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBalance BrowserFullsite
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB6 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperBryce AgostiniMinh Nguyen

In-app purchases

None

Balance Browser

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Fullsite

Subscriptions2
  • Fullsite Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Fullsite Pro Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Fullsite Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Balance Browser free?
Balance Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fullsite free?
Fullsite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Balance Browser or Fullsite have ads?
Fullsite shows ads; Balance Browser does not.
Which is updated more often, Balance Browser or Fullsite?
Balance Browser ships an update every 2 days, and Fullsite every 3 weeks. Most recently, Balance Browser was updated on October 16, 2026 and Fullsite on October 13, 2026.

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