Lar

Tabs.
Threads.

Lar is a browser for iPhone and iPad. Pages group themselves by where you started, so there’s nothing to close or manage.

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Lar on iPhone showing a Wikipedia article about Kiyomizu-dera. The address bar at the bottom shows the thread name, Kyoto in autumn, above the site.

One evening, one thread

Here’s a single thread, Kyoto in autumn, from the first search to getting it back later.

  1. 22:01

    A search starts a thread

    So does a typed address or a link from another app. Every page you open from there joins the same thread, and the thread gets a name.

    The address bar in Lar: the thread name Kyoto in autumn above en.wikipedia.org, with dots for the thread’s pages.

    Kyoto in autumn · from a search

  2. 22:09

    Swipe up for everything in this thread

    Swipe up on the address bar to see this thread’s pages, your Apps, and the thread you were in before.

    Press, slide and release to jump straight to a page.

    4 pages · Apps · previous thread

    The shelf: Hacker News as the previous thread, New Thread, All Threads, and the four pages of Kyoto in autumn.
  3. Next day

    Find it again by day

    Threads lists everything you opened, grouped by day. Each thread shows when it ran, how many pages it has, and where it started.

    Search understands time words, so hotels last week works.

    22:01 – now · 4 pages · from a search

    The Threads list: Kyoto in autumn, Hacker News and Sourdough starter, each with a time range, page count, origin and page thumbnails. A search field sits at the bottom.
  4. Any time

    Time Travel

    Scrub through a thread’s past to see the pages that were open at any moment. Bring them back with one tap.

    10:01 PM → now · Bring back these 4

    Time Travel for Kyoto in autumn: four page thumbnails above a scrubber that runs from 10:01 PM to now, and a Bring back these 4 button.

Also in Lar

Private by design

Lar has no servers of its own. The developer collects no data.

  • No analytics, ads or accountsNo crash reporting SDKs either. Lar only loads the pages and searches you ask for.
  • On your device and your iCloudBrowsing data stays on your device and, if you turn it on, syncs through your own iCloud.
  • Blocking built inTrackers, ads and cookie banners are blocked with lists that ship inside the app.
  • Named on deviceThread names come from Apple Intelligence on your iPhone or iPad, when it’s available and turned on.
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