Unweb Joins the Studio as a Browser Where Every Visit Is a First Visit

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unweb is the studio’s thirty-first project and its second desktop app. It’s a small browser that opens strangers: each starts with no history, no logins and no cookies, keeps whatever a site leaves in a store of its own, and is deleted when you close it. What your browser remembers about you explains why that changes what a site shows you.

It runs on the engine each system already has, WebView2, WKWebView or WebKitGTK, through Tauri 2 and Rust. Three releases built it up. 0.1.0 brought strangers in their own windows, with the harder carry-over cases covered: HSTS, a cached file used as an ID, a service worker left running, the normal browser’s own folders. 0.2.0 put up to four strangers side by side under one address bar, added a strip counting the cookies each was given, and a language per stranger on Windows. 0.3.0 adds a location per stranger, a proxy you give it, plus saved setups and Compare, which saves every stranger’s screenshot as one image. On macOS a stranger whose proxy is down still goes direct; the site says so plainly. Three case studies, among them a hotel quoting a returning visitor more for the same room, and two use examples run on made-up sites served from the repository.

Unweb on SoftDevStudio.com

Unweb Joins the Studio as a Browser Where Every Visit Is a First Visit