Brave
Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.
- Free • Open Source
- Web Browser
- Ad Blocker
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
- Flathub
- Snapcraft
What is Brave?
Brave Web Browser is a fast, free, secure web browser with a built-in ad blocker*, tracking and security protection, and optimized data and battery experience.
*What is Brave Ad Replacement?
Brave’s goal is to speed up the web, stop bad ads and pay publishers. One of the ways we plan to accomplish this is with ad replacements. We will also invite users to fund their wallets and to use those funds to pay the publishers of their favorite websites.
Brave Screenshots
Brave Features
- Privacy focused
- Block Trackers
- No Tracking
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Built-in VPN
- Dark Mode
- Cloud Sync
- Portable
- Picture in Picture
- Built-in Ad-blocker
- Support for TOR
- Chromium-based Browsers
- Built-in Script Blocker
- Cryptocurrency rewards
- Fingerprinting protection
- HTTPS Support
- Earn Money
- Security focused
- AdBlock Friendly
- Passive Income
- FTP Server
- Multi Device Support
- BAT Token integration
- No Subscription
- Swift
- Brave shield
- Configurable Brave shields
- Autoplay block
- Low-Ram Usage
- Add-ons
- Customizable
- Legacy Firefox Addon
- Broken Links Check
- Built in tracking protection
- Excel Add-in
- Reduce mobile data usage
- Cryptocurrency support
- Built-in Torrent client
- IPFS Integration
- Micropayments System
- Support for Multiple Users
- Digital currency
Brave information
- Developed byBrave Software Inc
- LicensingOpen Source (MPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 3.9
- Alternatives222 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Apple AppStore
- Updated
- 4.8 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 14,251 Stars
- 1,666 Forks
- 5376 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Privacy Protection
- Ad Blocker
- Google Chrome Extension
- Web Browser
- Security & Privacy
- User interface
- Secure DNS
- Efficiency
- acceptable-ads
- Bitcoin Payment
Recent user activities on Brave
adri66 reviewed Brave- adri66 liked Brave
bonkintime thinks Mozilla Firefox is an alternative to Brave
The king of all Chromium-based browsers! Blocks ads and really nice to use.
The sheer joy of using this browser
People who know about privacy know this is b.s. - there is no more anonymity in Brave than in Chrome if you know what to do and (on the other side) when you know what to track. As for the claim on their homepage no less than it is 20x faster than Chrome or Firefox, b.s., as well I tested it and it doesn't load even 2x times faster. The biggest con is that the wooper-dooper integrated ad filter is so bad that it breaks pages while at the same time allowing dozens of pop ups and pop unders that even the most basic extension for Firefox or Chrome can block perfectly. Also, full of small crappy details, such as not being able to change the new tab page which shows a new random image over the interwebs (with no possibility to select the thematic/category at least) and a bean-counter's wet dream of numbers showing how many ads it (absolutely imperfectly) blocked (this tracks all the ads, pretty ironic for a browser bragging about privacy). Just to be clear: this disastrous bloatware new tab is NON NEGOTIABLE, you cannot disable it, not even through under the hood flags. Nothing. Better love to see every time a crappy stock photo and how many ads Brave failed to completely block, Bucko. In summary, much ado about nothing. At this time it's neither more safe nor faster than any big name browser.
As of Oct 2021 Version 1.31.87 you can definitely change the new tab page to blank if you wish to. I've been following the progress of Brave for some time and it has been improving steadily. In many reviews it's ranked just behind the top guns, but the beauty of Brave it is ready to run with the best security settings already set, whereas with most other browsers you need to do a lot of tweaking.
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Tried it twice. Too gimmicky with the Bitcoin stuff.
My biggest issues were not having a working sync and add-ons. For the sync, at the time I used Brave you had to sync PC and mobile via a QR code on your PC. It would say it succeeded, but it would never sync.
The best browser at the moment, from the privacy point of view
Great alternative to Chrome