Orion Browser by Kagi 17+

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.

I’ve been using this browser as a daily driver since late 2022, along with its default search engine, Kagi. When I started using it, I was willing to overlook bugs as a tradeoff for the extensive telemetry prevention and adblocking services built in. I really believe in their mission to wrest personal user data out of the control of companies, and into the control of the user. While in the past this browser had several bugs and crashed fairly frequently, today it’s so much smoother and the team works hard to communicate the improvements, and listens to their users on their forum. This browser allows Crome and Firefox extension support to a fairly large number of common extensions, including recently some password managers. I also appreciate many of the features which have been added that ease use, it has a much more comprehensive feature list than most other browsers I’ve seen, including the default Safari, while still being excellent out of the box.

It’s exciting to ride along for the journey. Kudos to the team of developers for what they stand for and the hard work they do.

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!!