Crest Browser vs Peering
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crest Browser
Organize your online life with distinct browsing contexts for work, personal use, and private browsing. Each context has its own tabs, history, and data, ensuring a clean separation of your digital activities.
- Isolated browsing contexts (Spaces)
- Separate tabs, history, and cookies per Space
- Customizable Space identity
- Focused sidebar for tabs and history
- Peek for temporary link previews
- Optional iCloud sync
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Work, personal life, and everything between deserve their own Space. Crest is a native browser for iPhone and iPad that keeps your accounts separate, your tabs organized, and your browsing distinctly yours. KEEP YOUR ACCOUNTS SEPARATE Each Space has its own tabs, cookies, website data, history, passwords, and site permissions. Stay signed in to different accounts on the same website. Switch from work to personal browsing without carrying the wrong session with you. GIVE EVERY TAB A PLACE Pin the sites you use every day. Save pages in folders. Keep today's tabs close and completed work in the archive. Select and move tabs, folders, and Split View groups together. On iPhone, bring in the sidebar with a gesture; on iPad, keep it beside your page. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Start from Winter, Lion, or another template in Crest Studio, then choose a color for each part of the crest and the sidebar. Choose a crest, emoji, monogram, or symbol. Appearance settings adjust the window border, sidebar material, tab corners, borders, and default page zoom. KEEP RELATED PAGES TOGETHER Group two to four pages in Split View. On iPad, browse them side by side and resize the columns. On iPhone, swipe across the compact toolbar to move between pages in the group. Peek lets you check supported links without losing your place, then keep the page as a tab when you need it. TOOLS FOR EVERYDAY BROWSING Choose one default search for every Space and another for Private Browsing, or pick one for a single Space. Search from a new tab to find the pages and tabs you use most. Translate webpages on device with Apple's Translation framework. Read supported articles in Reader, find text on a page, adjust zoom, share links, and export pages. Content blocking and site permissions give you control over each Space. Language availability varies, and translation may require a language download. PRIVATE WHEN YOU NEED IT Private Browsing uses temporary website storage. Private tabs stay out of saved history, restoration, archive, and sync. Crest does not run an advertising SDK, collect browsing analytics, or require a Crest account. PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE Optional iCloud sync keeps supported Space and tab organization available across your Apple devices through your private iCloud database. Crest is also available for Mac. Crest is free and open source, built with Apple's WebKit. Requires iOS 26.1 or iPadOS 26.1 or later. Some website features and integrations vary by device.
Peering
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Your Mac, in your pocket. Peering connects your iPhone to your Mac, whether the two are on the same network or not. Tap to click, type from the keyboard at your desk or the one on screen, and use your Mac from wherever you are No account. Two devices confirm a six-digit code the first time and keep their own keys. Nothing is held on a server. THE PICTURE See any display the Mac is attached to, or pick a single app or one window. Switch between your Spaces by tapping the one you want. The bitrate follows the connection, so a weak link degrades instead of stalling. When the networks allow it, the session travels straight between the two devices without touching the relay. When it goes around, it is encrypted end-to-end and the relay cannot read it. DRIVING IT Touch controls the Mac like a trackpad, with a relative-pointer mode for precision and pinch-to-zoom for anything too small to tap. A physical keyboard at the desk types directly into the Mac, with the modifier keys it expects. Privacy mode dims the Mac's own displays while you work. TERMINALS AND FILES Open a terminal on your Mac or any SSH server you have saved. The file browser walks folder trees on either machine, edits text files in place, shows images as images, and runs scripts with the output where you can see it. FREE TO START Connecting over your own network is unlimited on every plan. The relay, which finds your Mac when the two devices are on different networks, is metered on the free plan. Relay, Relay Plus and Pro subscriptions remove that limit and add: sound from the Mac, Picture in Picture, file transfer both ways up to 2 GB, clipboard history, several shells open at once, macros and snippets, and the sharpest picture over the relay. Every paid plan pairs with every Mac you own. Free pairs with one. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time in your App Store settings. Questions or suggestions: support@getpeering.app Privacy Policy: https://getpeering.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Peering Terms of Use: https://getpeering.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crest Browser at none against Peering's 6. Peering's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Peering sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Crest Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crest Browser ships an update every 2 weeks, Peering every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crest Browser | Peering |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Davis | Damian Derlecki |
In-app purchases
Crest Browser
No in-app purchases
Peering
- Relay$1.991 Month
- Relay Plus$3.991 Month
- Peering Pro$6.991 Month
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- Relay (Yearly)$14.991 Year
- Relay Plus (Yearly)$29.991 Year
- Peering Pro (Yearly)$49.991 Year









