Questions about Search, the browser for the Mac, answered as briefly as we can. Anything missing: hello@officecommun.com.

A web browser for the Mac by Office Commun, a design studio in Paris. Tabs, one field for addresses and searches, history, passwords, downloads, and as little around the page as we could manage. About 8 MB.

No. Search runs on WebKit, the engine that ships with macOS and powers Safari. That is why it's small: there's no second engine inside. Pages look as they do in Safari.

Yes. No account, no subscription.

macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. Intel Macs have a download of their own, at searchbrowser.app/download/intel, which updates itself from its own feed. Chrome extensions need macOS 15.4 or later.

Yes: Settings › This Mac › Make it the default.

Yes: brew install --cask driceroland/tap/search. Search updates itself either way, and brew upgrade works too.

Either. ⇧⌘S switches between the two, and ⌘S folds the column away; the left edge brings it back. Pinned sites shrink to a letter or their icon.

Yes, both, turned on in Settings › Tabs. Spaces are separate sets of tabs, each with its icon, signed in where you already are or starting afresh. Split View puts two tabs side by side.

Yes. File › Bring Things Over… brings bookmarks, history, passwords and extensions from Chrome, Arc (its spaces too), Dia, Brave, Edge, Firefox, Zen and others, or from an exported file. macOS asks once before Search can read the other browser's passwords, and they land in your keychain under Search's name. Nothing in the other browser changes.

Spaces, favourites as pins, pinned tabs, folders as tab groups, bookmarks, history, passwords and extensions. Arc stops working on 22 December 2026, so bring it over before then. The whole move from Arc.

Yes, installed straight from the Chrome Web Store, on macOS 15.4 or later: 1Password, Bitwarden, uBlock Origin Lite, Dark Reader, Vimium C, Claude and many more. Which work, and how to add them.

No. Everything stays on the Mac it runs on: there's no account and no server of ours to sync to.

Nothing. No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports sent anywhere. What leaves your Mac is the pages you ask for, their icons, and the hourly check for a newer version. Privacy, in full.

In the macOS keychain, as ordinary keychain items, shown back to you with Touch ID. Search offers your saved accounts and your Mac's passkeys under the sign-in field, and never fills anything on its own.

Yes. A site's "Sign in with a passkey" brings up your Mac's own passkey sheet: Touch ID with your passkeys from iCloud Keychain or a password app, your iPhone, or a security key.

Yes, out of the box. Ads and trackers are stopped inside WebKit's networking, before a request is made, from a list that ships in the app. On by default, off per site if something breaks. ⇧⌘H hides anything else on a page, for good.

Yes: ⇧⌘N opens a private tab with its own cookies, no history, and no place in tomorrow's session.

Every hour Search reads a small file on officecommun.com, signed by Office Commun; Search › Check for Updates… looks right away. If there's a newer build, it downloads it in the background, checks it was signed by Office Commun, swaps it in, and it's there next time you open Search. Settings, pins, history and passwords are never touched. What changed in each version.

Yes, under the MIT licence, at github.com/driceroland/Search: about 42,000 lines of Swift with no dependencies beyond what Apple ships. Read it, build it yourself, or send a fix.

Drag Search from Applications to the Trash. Its history, bookmarks and tabs are in ~/Library/Application Support/Search, and its passwords are keychain items named Search, if you want those gone too.

Write to hello@officecommun.com, find us on X, or open an issue. Help › Send Feedback… in Search does the first.