WebKit AlternativesBrowser Engines and other similar apps like WebKit

WebKit is described as 'The web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux' and is a Browser Engine in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to WebKit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Web-based apps. The best WebKit alternative is Servo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WebKit are Gosub, Gecko, WebKitGTK+ and Blink Rendering Engine.

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  1. Servo icon

    Servo

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    Memory-safe web rendering engine with modular architecture, parallel processing, advanced WebGL and WebGPU graphics, open-source license, cross-platform support for desktop, mobile, and embedded use cases, and independent embedding in diverse applications.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Rust
    • KaiOS
    • Firefox OS
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  2. Gosub icon

    Gosub

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    Gosub is a web browser with its own web engine. This engine is a modular system that allows developers to easily plug in their own components to customize the functionality of the engine. This will result in a more diverse landscape of browsers in the future.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  4. Gecko icon

    Gecko

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    Gecko is the name of the layout engine developed by the Mozilla Project. Gecko's function is to render web content, such as HTML, CSS, XUL, JavaScript, and render it on the user's screen or print it.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Firefox OS
    • Fire TV
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  5. W

    WebKitGTK+

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    WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+ platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Blink Rendering Engine icon

    Blink Rendering Engine

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    Blink is the rendering engine used by Chromium. Blink's mission is to improve the open web through

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Android Wear
     
  7. Goanna icon

    Goanna

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    Goanna is the name for the Open Source layout and rendering engine as used in Unified XUL Platform (UXP) applications like the Pale Moon web browser and the Interlink mail/news client.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. M

    MSHTML(Trident)

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    MSHTML (also known as Trident) is a proprietary browser engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Vaev icon

    Vaev

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    A lightning-fast, lightweight, and secure HTML/CSS engine.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. K

    KHTML

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    It originated as the engine of the Konqueror browser in the late 1990s, Built on the KParts framework and written in C++, KHTML had relatively good support for Web standards during its prime. Engines forked from KHTML are used by most of the browsers that are widely used today...

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. Presto (browser engine) icon

    Presto (browser engine)

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    Presto was the proprietary browser engine of the Opera web browser from the release of Opera 7 on 28 January 2003, until the release of Opera 15 on 2 July 2013, at which time Opera switched to using the Blink engine that was originally created for Chromium.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  13. EdgeHTML icon

    EdgeHTML

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    EdgeHTML is a fork of the MSHTML (Trident) engine of Internet Explorer. It is designed as a software component that enables developers easily to add web browsing functionality to other apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Xbox
     
  14. T

    Tkhtml

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    Tkhtml is a open-source browser engine written in C using the Tk widget toolkit. It was used primarily by the Html Viewer 3 (Hv3) minimalist web browser.

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    • Online
     
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