Chawan AlternativesWeb Browsers and other similar apps like Chawan

Chawan is described as 'A text-mode web browser. It displays websites in your terminal and allows you to navigate on them' and is a Web Browser in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Chawan for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best Chawan alternative is Links, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chawan are Dillo, Lagrange, Kristall and W3M.

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  1. Links icon
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    Links is a text mode web browser, released under GPL. Links2 has the ability to display graphics.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
    • Links is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Chawan.

    • Links is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Chawan.

    • Links is Free and Open SourceChawan is also Free and Open Source
  2. Dillo icon
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    Dillo is a multi-platform graphical web browser, known for its speed and small footprint, that is developed with a focus on personal security and privacy.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
     
  3. Lagrange icon
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    Lagrange is a desktop GUI client for browsing Geminispace. It offers modern conveniences familiar from web browsers, such as smooth scrolling, inline image viewing, multiple tabs, visual themes, Unicode fonts, bookmarks, history, and page outlines.

    8 Lagrange alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • iPhone
     
    • Lagrange is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Chawan.

    • Lagrange is Free and Open SourceChawan is also Free and Open Source
    • Lagrange is Privacy focusedChawan is not according to our users
  4. Kristall icon
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    Graphical small-internet client for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and BSDs. Supports gemini, http, https, gopher, finger.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  5.  27 likes
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    w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like ' more ' or ' less '. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that).

    7 W3M alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. Browsh icon
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    A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Ebrowser icon
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    minimal suckless web browser based on chromium.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Lynxlet icon
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    Lynxlet is an application for launching the text web browser Lynx in a Terminal window. Lynxlet is a Termlet - a class of applications designed to make Terminal based programs easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Offpunk icon
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    A command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web by Ploum.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Python
     
  10. Surfraw icon
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    Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    A graphical client for plain-text protocols written in Rust with GTK. It currently supports the Gemini, Gopher and Finger protocols.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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