Ardia

Ardia, at ardia.dev, is a free, open-source web browser for the Mac with Arc's sidebar and Dia-style polish. It is built on Chromium and Chrome's own framework by Mantra Patel, and its first public build shipped on September 25, 2026.

Tabs live in a sidebar, and you can move the address bar into it so the page runs to the top of the window. Dragging a tab onto the page splits the window into up to three panes. A video keeps playing in a floating window when you switch tabs. Dropping one tab on another makes a group, a small Little Ardia window opens a single page with no sidebar, and a ⌘L command bar finds tabs, history and bookmarks.

Chrome Web Store extensions install as they do in Chrome. The full uBlock Origin is built in, so ads, trackers and cookie banners stay out, and Google's background services are compiled out. Crash reports are opt-in.

Each profile keeps its own logins, history, extensions and colour. Sync runs end-to-end encrypted through a folder in your own iCloud Drive. The importer brings bookmarks, history, passwords and logins from Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Arc, Dia and others, along with Arc's spaces, pinned tabs and themes. A shortcut sweeps untouched tabs into Recently Cleaned, and background tabs freeze and then sleep.

The ardia command lets your own Claude Code or Codex drive the browser with ardia browse and other Mac apps with ardia computer. Nothing in Ardia calls a model itself.

Ardia runs only on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Passkeys work with Touch ID but not iCloud Keychain, and DRM streaming sites open in WebKit. It isn't affiliated with Google or The Browser Company. The source is at github.com.

Pricing: Free, with no paid tier. Ardia is open source under GPL-3.0, with its own code under Apache-2.0. Checked November 12, 2026 at https://ardia.dev/.