Vivaldi
Flexible browser featuring deep customization, integrated ad and tracker blocking, Chromium compatibility, powerful tab management tools, note sync, screenshot utility, custom web panels, theme and toolbar editing, plus support for Android, iOS, desktop, and privacy protections.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Android Auto
- Flathub
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- Samsung Galaxy Store
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- User friendly
- Support for Themes
- Configurable
- Privacy focused
- Distraction-free
Features
- Tab Stacking
- Support for Chrome extensions
- Cloud Sync
- Side panel
- Speed dial
- Built-in Ad-blocker
- Sidebar
- Group tabs
- Integrated Email Client
- Quick Command Panel
- Block Trackers
- Synchronization
- Custom themes
- Opera-like
- Feed Reader
- Calendar Integration
- QR Code Generator
- Note Manager
- Built in tracking protection
- Visual system design
Android Sync
- Tab preview
- Split tabs
- Chromium-based Browsers
- Nickname for bookmarks
- Website screenshots
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- Picture in Picture
- Website Translation
Sync with Google Calendar
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for Gestures
- Integrated Password Manager
- No registration required
- Subtasks
- Ad-free
- Full-Text Search
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- Pomodoro Timer
- Text to Speech
- Spell Checking
- Calendar View
- Multiple Account support
- Support for MarkDown
- No Coding Required
- Hierarchical Structure
- End-to-End Encryption
- Two-factor Authentication
- Kanban Board
- Web Clipper
- Encrypted Backup
- Capture web pages
- Web panels
- Split-screen view
- Multiple search engines
- Built-in themes
- Reading mode
- Custom search
- Spatial navigation
- Built-in RSS reader
- Built-in Note Taker
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Recent activities
- Tab Control
- Based on Blink engine
- Page actions
- Tabbed browsing
- Tabbed interface
- Resume interrupted downloads
- Set Tabs aside
- Timer
- Calendar Sync
Tags
- Note Synchronization
- Google Chrome Extension
- No AI
- RSS
- web-notes
- no-ai-training
- pomodoro-clock
- hibernate
- News
- website-screenshot
- User interface
- timer-utility
- rss-feeds
- floating-player
- notes-manager
- full-webpage-screenshots
- Tabs
- History viewer
- Alarm
Vivaldi News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 7.8 brings pinned tabs, privacy dashboard, and gesture upgrades to iOS & AndroidVivaldi 7.8 has arrived on mobile devices, reaching both iOS and Android just a week after its desk...
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 7.8 adds flexible tab tiling, improved pinned tabs, and daily start page imagesVivaldi 7.8 delivers major enhancements to tab tiling, making it easier to organize, compare, and w...
- POX published news article about Vivaldi
Vivaldi 7.7 for mobile brings custom search engines, bookmark import, and better dark modeVivaldi for iOS and Android users now receive the 7.7 update, following last week's desktop release...
Recent activities
- elsenhe liked Vivaldi
OrdinaryPerson added Vivaldi as alternative to Elixir Browser- meowmiau reviewed Vivaldi
ive been using for years since i dropped opera and its all i can ask for. a clear stance for privacy and anti-slop and endless customization options
- meowmiau liked Vivaldi
- Farrukh reviewed Vivaldi
I started loving Vivaldi because of its highly cusomization feaures as compared to all other browser. The most loveable feature is that it can give you the shortcuts to the extensions in the sidebar. For example I love Tree Style Tabs and two such extensions are available in the sidebar after you install these from Chrome Extensions Store:
- Tab Nodes Tree (Not fully free)
- Treedent Tab Manager (I like it most).
In addition, you can set your Bookmarks Bar at the bottom above the status...
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What is Vivaldi?
Vivaldi is extremely customizable, presenting a wide range of settings and built-in features designed to put the user in control. Vivaldi removes the data harvesting code from Chromium before introducing it into the browser, so the users will enjoy a private experience. The use of the Chromium-based engine makes Vivaldi fast and compatible with most Chrome extensions.
It is available for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS and Android Automotive OS.
It includes fully customizable web browser behaviours, mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts, Quick Commands, the usual unlimited Speed Dial page, notes that can also be synchronized with other devices, a webpage screenshot tool, a panel for displaying and managing bookmarks, history and many others, where users can also add their own web panels; the ability to edit the browser theme and toolbars by moving or removing buttons from the interface, moving the tab bar to the side or and/or the address bar to bottom of the window; powerful tab management with tab stacking, tiling and the windows panel, and many others…
Vivaldi offers a built-in ad-blocker and partners with DuckDuckGo for the tracker blocker.
There is also a support for blocking cookie banners https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-crumbles-cookie-dialogs-raises-privacy/ with the help of a popular extension named I don't care about cookies and Easylist Cookie List.
A Vivaldi account gives access to the browser data sync, the
Vivaldi Community, support forums and
Vivaldi Mail.
It's considered the spiritual successor of the original Opera browser before the complete rewrite that scrapped many of its features and options and the move of the ownership of Opera Software to a consortium of Chinese investors. Vivaldi Technologies was founded by the co-founder and former CEO of Opera, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, and Tatsuki Tomita.








Comments and Reviews
I have all of the "popular" browsers on my laptop. Nothing compares to Vivaldi. Nothing. It's the browser that Opera always wanted to be, and other browsers just can't touch it. Highly recommended.
You just haven't used browsers that don't suck.
So Choomaque wrote this in March '24 and says the browser sucks but in comments below dated July 24 he's apparently still using Vivaldi, or was until he uninstalled it.
I seriously think this guy's just trolling.
Funny you would tell this, Vivaldi is created by the original creators of Opera before being sold. Vivaldi tries to bring back old Opera features missing from the current one.
I love Vivaldi browser features, but because they are laggy and have a lot of bugs, I forced to write the review. Run Vivaldi browser with next flags:
And then right click on any element in the browser, and open it in Developer Tools (inspect element). And you will see the full picture of why Vivaldi is laggy.
What is Vivaldi?
In other words:
So, Vivaldi will NEVER be good and fast browser ever, because it does recursive work on itself, and then on the website what needs to load.
How work Google Chrome / Cent Browser / Opera / Firefox?
What Vivaldi do?
This is absolutely GARBAGE and a big problem.
Why Vivaldi team did that trick?
Because they are website devs, not a professional software dev. It's super easy to write a site interface, and join (include) another site inside already created UI and render it by browser engine. That why whole browser performance NEVER and NEVER will be as fast as any static UI browsers (chromium forks with a native static interface, firefox, Edge, etc).
Well, I only understood half of your review, and by reading it you seem much more development-savvy than my, but one thing I can reply for sure is that on my many PCs where Vivaldi is installed, it is neither laggy nor buggy (and faster than Firefox that I had been using for years before).
@mll, tl;dr: vivaldi it's a browser inside browser who run a site inside website. Absurd, is not it? But this is true. Vivaldi do (x * y)^2 amount of work if compare to chromimum or edge. Always. (or around that).
Why? Because whole user interface (tabs, address bar, any visual part that you see) it's just SITE interface. Like good interface, like facebook interface, and bla bla bla. Got idea?
That's why Vivaldi can be so customized.
But whats problem with such method of making a browser?
The problem in next:
After that vivaldi just INJECT inside this rendered by chromium engine another site that a visitor trying to open. And browser again do:
Instead of:
Flags above it's a proof that whole interface of vivaldi browser = it's just an WEB elements, web forms, javascripts, css.
Example: It's like a building a build, for building a building inside this builded building. Like russian eggs. You do useless job in several times more than any other browser do.
But pros: you always can customize interface. Cons: you always slower than any other browser (Chromium based with the same version).
ive been using for years since i dropped opera and its all i can ask for. a clear stance for privacy and anti-slop and endless customization options
I started loving Vivaldi because of its highly cusomization feaures as compared to all other browser. The most loveable feature is that it can give you the shortcuts to the extensions in the sidebar. For example I love Tree Style Tabs and two such extensions are available in the sidebar after you install these from Chrome Extensions Store:
In addition, you can set your Bookmarks Bar at the bottom above the status bar.
The RSS Reader and Email client are also very good features. I like the RSS Reader and how you can arrange your feeds into different folders is awesome. However, the interface is too much simple and you can't display your Feed's as thumbnails as it is now in most of the modern Podcast and Feed Managers.
Its Settings dialog and page are very well organized and easy to handle...
I used to like Vivaldi very much because of the configurability. Unfortunately the recent versions suffer from serious performance issues and often broken display of websites. For now I need to move away from it.
As a web browser enthusiast who tested EVERY single web browser for an extended time, Vivaldi is the best. Very low ram usage and countless customization options.
I love this browser because its Norwegian (my country which i am in now!) and its E2EE if you opt in to creating a vivaldi account. Seriously good features and ultimate customization.