Arc Search — Find it, Faster ١٧+

This browser really nails the quickness of finding information. The browse for me is an amazing way to get information without having to do down a series of sites, this really frees up the amount of time I spend getting what I want. While it’s not perfect, they are constantly listening to feedback and updating every week, there is nothing like it. The downsides for me at the time of writing this. * No Arc sync built in (but this is in the pipeline) * No iPad and VisionOS app (they need to make this widely available if it’s going to be a primary browser) * Hyperlink to apps, it likes to hold onto the page(Should have a nice button on top to give me the option to open in app and even remember what pages I decided to open in app with a way to manage this in settings) The pros for me at the time of writing this. * Great design (love the look and feel of it) * Browse for me is a game changer (decreases the amount of time I’m browsing by giving me information I need all while sourcing the information correctly) * Awesome company (the company has so many talented humans) There is nothing to lose trying this and this is by far the best value that would substantially increase happiness and productivity. 👍🏼

I WANT to love this app (and the MacOS version as well). It has great features, seems like an awesome company full of talented people. UI is great. The big things at this point that are holding me back from 5 stars and switching from safari to Arc is: 1) the integration with the Apple ecosystem. It would be so much more helpful if the browser tapped into the api to allow users to fill in passwords and other info from the Apple stored info (kinda like Edge does). It’s a kind of a hassle having to either save passwords and verification codes in two places or switch back and forth from Passwords settings to copy and paste. This means using two browsers for different things or starting my searches and browsing on Arc and then if I do make a purchase having switch back over to safari - very inconvenient when the whole point of technology is convenience. 2) no (native) iPad version. Need to be able to consistently browse from one device to another. This needs to be somewhat seamless like in safari. Having to use a second browser on iPad is just counter productive.

Overall it’s a pleasure to use Arc on my Mac and iPhone and I have gotten to use a few features that work amazing and I didn’t even know I needed. Can’t wait to see how this product matures and hope that it can eventually fill the gaps and I can switch over to this as my default across devices.

This is hands down the best browsing experience I’ve had on mobile. It’s exactly what I wanted but none of the alternatives had it right.

I search for so many things everyday and in lots of the cases what I’m looking for is a quick summary of what’s out there probably on the first 2 pages of google. This is not something you get from a pure LLM (chatgpt) and not from a simple browser with search. That’s exactly what Arc got right.

Also very often when looking at a page I need a quick summary, and you get that with a simple pinch on Arc.

The design is perfect. Super clean and fast.
I love it. It saves me so much time.

Feature request

A total dark mode. Let me explain:
Unfortunately none of the browsers currently get this quite right. Current best is maybe Firefox or Brave, but those two have other issues.
First you need to realize that reader mode, and smart invert are not solutions.

A huge part of browser experience is looking at the page as is and also following links to other pages. Reader modes fails the former and smart invert fails during page switching and constantly flash bangs the user, it also messes up with top or bottom of screen and is in general inconvenient.

What I want from a dark mode feature is to completely limit the brightness of pixels on screen on all pages, all the time. Basically there should never be a large surface area on screen that is too bright. Never. Not even for a millisecond during page switch.