Orion Browser by Kagi

Name: Orion Browser by Kagi
Rating: 4 (974 reviews)
Author: Kagi Inc.

Fastest mobile browser

Free · In‑App Purchases

974 Ratings
Ages

16+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

Kagi Inc.
Language

EN
+ 20 More
Size

72.4
MB

Orion is a fast, free, web browser for iPhone and iPad with no ads, no telemetry. Check also Orion for your Mac desktop. Orion has been engineered from ground up as a truly privacy-respecting browser. We did it by embracing a simple principle - Orion is a zero telemetry browser. Your private information will never leave Orion by default. And to protect your privacy on the web, Orion comes with industry-leading anti-tracking technology as well as a powerful built-in ad-blocker.

Ratings & Reviews

4.0

out of 5

974 Ratings

Great app, hopefully more features to come
09/25/2022

Jay Honde
I’ll give this app 4 stars, it’s great at this early stage, but with a few more quality of life features it’ll be a 5. First off, when clicking on a link I’m always prompted to open it in the app of choice, but I don’t get the option to just open it in the browser (also a open in whatever browser of choice could be nice). The options it gives you are “Never, Once, Always, and Cancel”, but “Cancel” doesn’t just automatically open the link in the browser. Another feature I’d suggest is to let us click on the auto fill suggestions in the search to put the words on our keyboard like in Safari. One more good feature is to add tab groups and also let us change the layout of the bottom icons. If you’re reading this, thank you for putting this amazing app on iOS and your work is appreciated.
Great app, hopefully more features to come
09/25/2022

Jay Honde

I’ll give this app 4 stars, it’s great at this early stage, but with a few more quality of life features it’ll be a 5. First off, when clicking on a link I’m always prompted to open it in the app of choice, but I don’t get the option to just open it in the browser (also a open in whatever browser of choice could be nice). The options it gives you are “Never, Once, Always, and Cancel”, but “Cancel” doesn’t just automatically open the link in the browser. Another feature I’d suggest is to let us click on the auto fill suggestions in the search to put the words on our keyboard like in Safari. One more good feature is to add tab groups and also let us change the layout of the bottom icons. If you’re reading this, thank you for putting this amazing app on iOS and your work is appreciated.
Sick Nasty! Great Potential!
Jun 29

Atreyu20
I love the Orion/Kagi team’s mission and I support both products financially with my own hard earned money. A no-telemetry browser is a great start (and rare), but I can’t consider it a high-level privacy browser until it supports profiles—like the desktop Orion browsers does. Telemetry and tracking from your browser is only one piece of the privacy puzzle, and practically small potatoes compared to the companies tracking you online So having isolated cookies, history, etc. is pretty huge. To be fair though, this is rare (and difficult to implement) in mobile browsers. Aside from Safari and one or two other (not as good) browsers, it doesn’t exist. So Orion is not behind in this regard. But having on both platforms makes for a consistent experience and enhances privacy, especially considering how much we use our phones now. So I really hope they can integrate this feature in the future so I can make it my daily driver. Other than that, there are definitely some bugs, laggy behavior, and sometimes crashing depending on what you’re doing, but it’s definitely gotten a lot better overtime. This is all to be expected. This is not some huge tech company, it’s a small team of dedicated developers. So I wouldn’t recommend this for the average user that wants a browser “that just works”— although it would be awesome if they got there one day. But power-users, tinkers, nerds, or people that want to support a great mission will find plenty to delight in.
Sick Nasty! Great Potential!
Jun 29

Atreyu20

I love the Orion/Kagi team’s mission and I support both products financially with my own hard earned money. A no-telemetry browser is a great start (and rare), but I can’t consider it a high-level privacy browser until it supports profiles—like the desktop Orion browsers does. Telemetry and tracking from your browser is only one piece of the privacy puzzle, and practically small potatoes compared to the companies tracking you online So having isolated cookies, history, etc. is pretty huge. To be fair though, this is rare (and difficult to implement) in mobile browsers. Aside from Safari and one or two other (not as good) browsers, it doesn’t exist. So Orion is not behind in this regard. But having on both platforms makes for a consistent experience and enhances privacy, especially considering how much we use our phones now. So I really hope they can integrate this feature in the future so I can make it my daily driver. Other than that, there are definitely some bugs, laggy behavior, and sometimes crashing depending on what you’re doing, but it’s definitely gotten a lot better overtime. This is all to be expected. This is not some huge tech company, it’s a small team of dedicated developers. So I wouldn’t recommend this for the average user that wants a browser “that just works”— although it would be awesome if they got there one day. But power-users, tinkers, nerds, or people that want to support a great mission will find plenty to delight in.
Safari on Steroids!
12/20/2024

Lance-Poore
I’ve been a software developer for 20+ years, so I really know the kind of things to look for in a good project. Orion is hands down a gift from the IOS Gods! Even if Apple didn’t force developers to use main parts of the Apple ecosystem These guys couldn’t have done it better. Let’s face it in most cases Safari is a great browser that most all other platforms wish they had natively. With Orion it’s like having all your favorite aspects of other browsers added to Safari, and all those limited UI issues that Safari possesses has been overcome with Orion. This is just really nice and really needs more support from users like us. With the community being rather small I fear that such a great thing may disappear, or even worse Apple get mad at all the truths of its greatness and just simply cease to allow it to be downloaded from the appstore anymore, yes this happens! Please Apple Listen to your users, if anything work with these guys not against them, this is a great browser based on the best mainstream browser of the masses. Could not ask for anything better!!
Safari on Steroids!
12/20/2024

Lance-Poore

I’ve been a software developer for 20+ years, so I really know the kind of things to look for in a good project. Orion is hands down a gift from the IOS Gods! Even if Apple didn’t force developers to use main parts of the Apple ecosystem These guys couldn’t have done it better. Let’s face it in most cases Safari is a great browser that most all other platforms wish they had natively. With Orion it’s like having all your favorite aspects of other browsers added to Safari, and all those limited UI issues that Safari possesses has been overcome with Orion. This is just really nice and really needs more support from users like us. With the community being rather small I fear that such a great thing may disappear, or even worse Apple get mad at all the truths of its greatness and just simply cease to allow it to be downloaded from the appstore anymore, yes this happens! Please Apple Listen to your users, if anything work with these guys not against them, this is a great browser based on the best mainstream browser of the masses. Could not ask for anything better!!
Who is running this app?
Nov 22

Hawk_124
I’ve switched to Orion from Safari, because there’s certain features I personally don’t like the Apple has implemented recently. While the Mac app is great, the iOS is pretty bad to use. There is latency when scrolling which should not ever happen in a modern iOS app, and just makes the user experience awful and almost unusable! For some reason when you wanna see you all the tabs you have open, the first once you open or set at the bottom where in Safari it’s usually at the top which is already common in most browsers. There’s no way to customize the library section to just have the reading list section. And on all devices, it makes zero sense to save your favorite pages either in favorites or bookmarks? on macOS, while you can organize your favorites websites in the homepage, you can’t organize folders unless you go into a different view and do it yourself, but that alone is a pain because the app has a mind of its own. I wanna love this browser, but it’s still not perfect. Please fix these issues.

Developer Response
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. We're aware of the scrolling issue on iOS and are working on it. You can track the fix here: https://orionfeedback.org/d/12426We'd appreciate it if you could post your other great suggestions about tabs and bookmarks on orionfeedback.org. It's the best way for our team to see and track them.
Who is running this app?
Nov 22

Hawk_124

I’ve switched to Orion from Safari, because there’s certain features I personally don’t like the Apple has implemented recently. While the Mac app is great, the iOS is pretty bad to use. There is latency when scrolling which should not ever happen in a modern iOS app, and just makes the user experience awful and almost unusable! For some reason when you wanna see you all the tabs you have open, the first once you open or set at the bottom where in Safari it’s usually at the top which is already common in most browsers. There’s no way to customize the library section to just have the reading list section. And on all devices, it makes zero sense to save your favorite pages either in favorites or bookmarks? on macOS, while you can organize your favorites websites in the homepage, you can’t organize folders unless you go into a different view and do it yourself, but that alone is a pain because the app has a mind of its own. I wanna love this browser, but it’s still not perfect. Please fix these issues.
Developer Response Dec 3
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. We're aware of the scrolling issue on iOS and are working on it. You can track the fix here: https://orionfeedback.org/d/12426We'd appreciate it if you could post your other great suggestions about tabs and bookmarks on orionfeedback.org. It's the best way for our team to see and track them.

Improvements and bug fixes - URL bar is obscured by keyboard [#12496 by @PhilStollery] - Undo closed tab crashes the app [#10966 by @nova] - Crash after undoing a tab closure [#11665 by @Sirlaughalot]