Whale
Whale is web browser developed by Naver Corporation. Whale possess a lot of similar features as Vivaldi as being a customized pushed browser, multi-tasking browsing called 'Omnitasking', as much as other features as cloud saves & quick translation.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Customizable
Features
- Chromium-based Browsers
- Website Translation
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Dark Mode
- Cloud Sync
- Built-in VPN
- No registration required
- Chromecast Support
Tags
- Google Chrome Extension
- multi-tasking
- multi-browser-viewer
Whale News & Activities
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Recent activities
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What is Whale?
Naver Whale is a freeware web browser developed by Naver Corporation. The browser is also available in English. The browser became available on Android on April 13, 2018. Whale’s forte is its focus on design, which allows users to select their own skins and offers a slew of choices for clocks and tiles to view when opening a new tab. Taking the opposite approach of minimalist Chrome, Whale iterates all of the leading browser’s functionality and more. But like Google’s Chrome, whose omnibox allows users to search directly from the address bar, Naver’s Whale directs search terms directly into the Naver search engine. It’s even built on Chromium, Google’s own open-source web browser project on which Chrome is also based. On Whale, an array of tools neatly tucked in a sidebar allows for in-browser translation with Naver’s neural machine translator Papago, while the Belly feature (whose icon is, for some reason, instead shaped like a whale’s tail) is a space to store snippets like social media posts, YouTube videos, images and news. Especially useful are a screenshot feature that lets users clip from websites and instantly store them in-browser, and a memo feature for jotting quick text notes. Arguably the coolest feature on Whale is “omnitasking” -- a split-screen feature that lets you browse two sites in the same tab, with an adjustable divider. Imagine not having to finagle between tabs or set up separate windows that clutter and slow down your computer. Also in Whale, by dragging a certain word within the browser, users can conduct a “quick search” of the word and immediately view the results in a pop-up window. Whale also connects to Naver’s artificially intelligent translation app Papago to translate foreign languages including English and Chinese into Korean. Whale also offers a voice recognition function that will process spoken commands, as well as a function that automatically reads the text on a webpage out loud for users.
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Developed by
NAVER Corp. Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4Alternatives
90 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Korean
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Comments and Reviews
The dark mode option in the settings changes every page you view. It looks pretty good. Recommended!
Whale is a gorgeous browser with several unique features (e.g. custom download folders), and a relatively strong privacy filter pre-uBlock Origin. Unlike those of its American competitors, Naver's TOS and privacy policy aren't shrouded in legalese, which is likely thanks to ROK regulations. The only things it's missing in my book are open source and installer customization (e.g. install directory). It has some bloatware but it's easy to ignore and the translator Naver Papago is solid.
Naver is a fantastic browser with a very user-friendly interface. However, I find the account creation process quite difficult. Despite entering an ID that is more than five characters long, I keep receiving a message saying it needs to be longer. This issue persists on both the mobile app and desktop versions.
I love this browser, is nice, it has everything I need, but for some weird reason, it randomly crashes on certain moments... maybe it was an issue with X build, and I used this browser for years, maybe I should try it again, totally recommended for a normal user.
Whale is a cute very functional Dual-Panel capable Browser. It is S Korean-oriented, though the interface is intuitive/user-friendly.. even more so than Vivaldi in my opinion. It allows Chrome extensions and has some very nice built-ins for screen capture, etc. Note though, if you are not S Korean, you likely won't be able to make an account to be able to sign in for all their services. Signup is picayune.. Many people fill info and then they reject. Customer Service is in Korean. It stopped rendering one of my favored webpages correctly and this test https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0/#details showed me that there's faster browsers to be had.
It's rather similar to Opera: likes to have gadgets on its sidebar, has some special stuff in its own store, but not much going on in there.
Has some built in advert blocking feature, but in the end of the day you gonna install some proper alternative from the google store (yes its compatible).
The main features are the design and page customisations: