New in 0.8: a redesigned Crest Studio, cleaner Settings, and one default search for every Space. Work and life in their own Spaces, native on iPhone and iPad.
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.
I’ve been using Crest for a while now and it’s by far my favorite browser. First browser with spaces I’ve enjoyed on mobile.
Promising but too buggy atm
DannyGGGT
I love what their going for here and there’s a version for both mac and iphone/iPad which is great. Thee UI and feature set look good, but it's just too buggy on bot iPad and Mac right now. Haven't tried the iphije iPhone version yet and don't see the point if the others don't work right. Current issues in iPad are that the Setings tab won't stay open, and back when it initially did on my first day of usng this app, the Season engine management pane wouldn't open at all so I could add a xusrom search engine. Just too many bugs for now, but I'll keep an eye on this app's developement, hope it gets better.
Developer Response
Hi, thank you for trying the browser. I had a bit of a complicated time getting a good mobile release process setup, and working with delays for approval means bug fixes end up getting grouped together. That said, I agree there were some bugs that needed fixed, please let me know if the current 0.7 version is working better for you, and you can always join the TestFlight for the bleeding edge updates, but I’m going to be better about heavily testing before doing a stable release here.
Extremely broken
RW
Barely works and does not at all resemble Arc on iOS. What made their browsers interesting and in many ways great was a commitment to high quality interface work. This is just AI slop with no care for the user experience. Seems like it wasn’t even tested by a person.
Developer Response
I’m sorry it was not working for you, and would be interested to hear what issues you were facing, we have a community on Reddit and you can always reach out so I can see what is going on. The app is tested on multiple real devices, but there could always be gaps I have not run into I’d be happy to look into for you.
Crest 0.8 brings a redesigned Crest Studio, cleaner Settings, and one default search for every Space.
• Set one default search for every Space and one for Private Browsing in the new Search settings, and choose which search engines, assistants, and sites appear. Any Space can still use its own.
• Searching from a new tab ranks the pages and tabs you use most, completes sites you visit, and lists recent tabs before you type.
• Design a Space's crest with a color for each part, previewed on the Space's own background. Shuffle now changes every part.
• Settings has a cleaner native look, with a separate Tabs page.
• Choose how much the sidebar shows the background through, from Ultra Thin to Ultra Thick, and give tabs, pinned tabs, and the address field Capsule corners.
• Start on a new tab in your default Space.
• Mute a tab that is playing sound from its icon.
• The Back and Forward menus list nearby pages and end with Show Full History.
• On iPhone, the sidebar stays full screen unless you turn on Allow floating sidebar in General settings.
Fixes
• iCloud sync no longer stops on your other devices after you move a tab to another Space. Sync resumes once all your devices are on this version.
• Tabs with very long or unusual addresses reopen where they were instead of turning into a search.
• Buttons and menus in iPad Settings respond to a single tap.
• The warning for a risky download appears on iPhone.
Version 0.8.0
The developer, Paul Davis, 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.
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Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More