
Shimmer Browser
Quickly check your daily sites
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Introducing Shimmer Browser - The focus browser!
Easily browse your frequently used news or learning websites, or limit your browsing of social media sites! Shimmer lets you save a set of frequently accessed tabs, to be synced between your devices using iCloud, and organise them into nested folders!
If you browse social media too much, use Shimmer to limit your browsing sessions with the "Session limit" feature! Limit your browsing to X sessions of Y length every Z time period.
The home-screen widget can show all your synced sites, only your selected sites. Choose just one site to add it to your homescreen as a really big icon!
Shimmer also solves tabs piling up! You can clear all tabs with just a button press, set them to auto-close after a certain time period, or disable browser tabs completely to only show your saved sites.
If you're reading this far, you may be interesting in tab triage! When a link on a saved site takes you to a new page, the site opens in a card, with options to quickly close, save for later, or continue in a new tab.
Give it a try! It’s free up to 4 tabs at once, so you can get a sense of the browsing experience. If you like it, you can unlock the full experience and help me add more features!
v3.1.0
Features:
• Adblock and tracking protection now built-in. Enable on the settings page!
- Respects per-list auto-update rules. Updates will happen transparently on launch.
• Sidebar no longer obscures the webpage in iPhone landscape.
• Favicons now match the iOS 26 squircle.
Fixes:
• Fixed a potential issue with tab migration to SwiftData when focus limits were configured.
• Favicons loading was rewritten to only fetch when a tab is foregrounded in v3.0.0, to protect privacy.
- Fixed favicons for unused tabs disappearing after a week, outdated favicons are now kept until they can be reloaded.
- Favicons transparency is now preserved again on reload.
• Single-tab widget will now show the favicon without borders, when suitable.
• Fix tab triage not reappearing when switching away & back.
• Folder icon changes on open as expected, and dropping a tab onto a folder now works correctly.
• Inline frames for third-party sites now reliably render in the page, rather than in tab triage.
• Wording tweaks.
v3.0.1
• In Liquid Glass layout, the background behind the sidebar will now match the webpage.
• The Balanced sidebar will adapt to match very dark webpages in light mode. The Liquid Glass sidebar will adapt to match very dark or light webpages in both modes.
• Faster launch times.
• Handle “shimmer://“ url scheme.
• Fix a crash when switching tabs via keyboard.
Introducing v3.0.0!
• Folders let you navigate large collections of saved tabs more quickly. Nesting folders is supported!
• File downloads are now supported.
• Auto-close session tabs after a customisable time interval.
• Session limits are more clear and no longer require staying on the tab - manually start a session of a fixed length.
• Multiple layouts are now supported.
- The new default, Liquid Glass.
- Balanced, for a more traditional look.
- Arc-like, a clean modern look resembling a popular browser.
• Desktop-class Menu Bar support.
• Data is now stored with SwiftData. Your tabs will be migrated. Versions prior to 3.0.0 will continue to operate using the old store.
The developer, James Froggatt, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- James Froggatt
- Size
- 45.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- More Tabs $2.99
- Generous Tip $9.99
- Medium Tip $3.99
- Small Tip $0.99
- Copyright
- © Jamie Froggatt