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The polished, native Mac browser for life after Arc

98
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25
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Nov 8, 2026
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A native Mac browser for people leaving Arc, with the sidebar and spaces you're used to. Built on WebKit, not Chromium, and that's the point: the whole app is 18 MB (Arc is 871). Switching takes a minute. One import brings over everything, so you're already logged in. Colored spaces you swipe between, split view, peek, Chrome extensions like 1Password and Tampermonkey, and ad blocking built-in Open source, no account, no AI. Nobody can shut it down.
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The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "A native Mac browser for people leaving Arc, with the sidebar and spaces you're used to. Built on WebKit, not Chromium, and that's the point: the whole app is 18 MB (Arc is 871). Switching takes a ..."

Community Voice & Feedback

[Redacted] • Nov 9, 2026
Zigzag 0.7.0 is out, built almost entirely from your comments over the last two days. Thank you!- Mini window: ⌃⌘N opens a small window for one quick page, and one click moves it into your main window without reloading. You can also have links from other apps open there, like Arc's Little Arc (thanks Philip).- Space switcher: ⌥⌘S lists your spaces. Pick one with the arrow keys and press Return.- Control+Tab works properly now: it was being swallowed whenever a page had the focus.- Proxy extensions like FoxyProxy, and ChatGPT search as your search engine (thanks Harry).- New tabs open right next to the one you're on.- Clear keeps the tabs you're working with and closes the ones you've drifted away from.- Busy background tabs go to sleep on their own to save battery.Updates install automatically, or grab it at zigzagbrowser.com. Full notes: zigzagbrowser.com/release-notes
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
I can’t wait to try it. I am crushed that Arc is sunsetting. I tried Dia and initially didn’t love it.
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
Thats really bold of you to present here Arc alternative with dozens of clones out already. Especially with Nook, Search and a bunch of other WebKit altson the market.I appreciate the move, very confident.Is there any Roadmap published to keep an eye of the progress to become 100% Arc alternative? Or the goal is to became even better with some more features from Dia or your own?
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
As a Mac user, a native Swift/WebKit browser at 18 MB is exactly the trade-off I want over another Chromium wrapper — the sidebar and spaces are the Arc workflow I keep coming back to. The one-step Arc import makes it a low-risk try. Curious how it holds up with a lot of tabs open over a full workday, since that's where heavier browsers usually start to drag.
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
Hey congrats on the launch l. I just wanted to ask if it’s possible to get it on an Intel Mac on 14.8.9That’s how far my Mac can go and I’ve been looking for a lightweight browser that won’t be too tasking on my MacBook.
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
I recently moved from Arc to Zen. I'll give it a try if Zigzag can convince me to move away from Zen as well, because, being Firefox-based, Zen has some limitations with newer extensions that I'd unfortunately like to use. Let's see...
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
Thank you all for trying Zigzag today, and for every comment and bug report. It's been a wild first day!A fairly big update is already in the works: Bitwarden's inline autofill, Violentmonkey, a smarter Clear that only closes the tabs you've drifted away from, ⌘-number hints, much faster History search, and background tabs that sleep when they burn energy.Heads up: I'm in China, so I'm on a different clock from most of you, and I have school and exams coming up. Replies might take a few hours instead of minutes, but please keep the feedback coming. I read every comment and I'll get to each one 🙏
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
one-step Arc import plus an 18 MB install is a pretty easy first try. does split view stay inside the same colored space, or can the two pages belong to different ones?
[Redacted] • Nov 8, 2026
Eighteen megabytes on WebKit instead of another Chromium wrapper is the detail that sold me, because the thing that finally pushed me off Arc was how much memory it ate just sitting there.
[Redacted] • Nov 7, 2026
Hey Product Hunt 👋I'm Zigao, a high school student in Shanghai. I used Arc every day, and when it went into maintenance mode, nothing else felt right: the alternatives were Chromium wrappers or missing what made Arc great. So I built my own.Zigzag is a native Mac browser, written in Swift on the WebKit that ships with macOS. That's why it's only 18 MB (Arc is 871 MB on my Mac). No account, no telemetry, no server of mine it depends on, and it's fully open source (Apache 2.0), so nobody can ever switch your browser off.What you get:- Your tabs in a sidebar, grouped into colored spaces you swipe between- Split view (drag a tab onto the page), Peek (shift-click a link), a command bar- Import from Arc in one go: spaces, pinned tabs, folders, passwords, and even your sign-ins, so Google and GitHub are already logged in- Chrome extensions from the Web Store: 1Password, Dark Reader, uBlock Origin Lite, Tampermonkey…- Built-in ad blocking, YouTube included- Just shipped: a full Simplified Chinese versionIt's in beta and it's my daily browser. I'd love your feedback, especially the honest kind. What would make you switch?

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