Surge Browser
The people's web browser.
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
People capitalize tech companies with their online activity. We at User Cooperative believe it’s time for a tech company to return all its value to its users in proportion to their use, and that’s what we do.
User Cooperative is a 100% user-owned and -governed tech company, and by extension, all tech we build belongs to our users. We therefore consider ourselves the people’s tech company. Our mission is as bold as we are unique, and that’s to put all meaningful tech power and profits into the people’s hands.
We start with Surge, a web browser. State-of-the-art in its design. Revolutionary in how it counts your activity so we can share our profits with you.
When you create an account on Surge, you become a User Cooperative owner. While you're signed in, Surge counts the sites you visit, which you can see in-browser, and that count is how we share our profits with you. Indeed, each click builds your equity in User Cooperative, and the value of your browsing activity flows back to you as patronage dividends, the way cooperatives have shared their profits for centuries.
Not interested in equity for your clicks? You can browse without signing in or go incognito, and Surge won’t count your activity.
SURGE HIGHLIGHTS
- Equity page to view your stake in User Cooperative
- Import tool so you can bring your data from Safari and Chrome and get equity for it
- Search engine selector so you can ditch the default
- Tab switcher for easy toggling; tabs and their history survive restart
- Autofill for your passwords, addresses, and IDs that only live on your device and are secured by Face ID
- Bookmarks and Reading List
- On-device page translation and voice search
- No analytics and no third-party trackers in the app
- Delete your browsing data or your whole account at any time right in the app
- Incognito mode
- Dark mode
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- Delete individual clicks from your equity ledger — any click you delete is permanently and instantly removed from our servers. Not hidden, not archived for analytics
- Richer search suggestions as you type — tap the arrow on any suggestion to drop it into the search bar and keep refining
- Smarter shortcuts on the new tab page — based on the sites you visit most often, not just your latest history
- Bookmark folders — organize your bookmarks into folders and reorder them, just like on desktop
- A cleaner new tab page — Import data and Default browser now live in your account menu
- Face ID protection for your equity screen
- Surge can now remind you to set it as your default browser
- Fixed a bug where tapping a Google link could open the Google app instead of staying in Surge
- In Incognito, Surge now asks before a site opens another app
- Stability improvements and stronger safeguards for your saved data
Several of these came directly from user feedback. Please keep the requests coming.
The developer, User Cooperative, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Search History
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- User Cooperative
- Size
- 21.6 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2026 User Cooperative
