Every browser looks the same, works the same, and thinks the same. We think it's time for a different way to browse the web.
Drift is available on
macOS Apple Silicon and
macOS Intel. Windows is coming soon.
Free, open source, and everything stays on your machine.
Zoom out and your whole session becomes a constellation of live page thumbnails. Dive in and every card is a full Chromium page: logins, video, and web apps all work.
Links that would open “a new tab” spawn a child card with a visible trail back to where you came from. Draw trails yourself by dragging between cards, double-click a trail to remove it, and export any trail as a Markdown reading list.
Pan, pinch, and fly. ⌘0 fits your whole world on screen.
Your path through the web, drawn as a map instead of a hidden history list.
Name a region like “Trip planning” or “Biology”, recolor it, move it as one.
Focus a card, pin two side-by-side, or go truly full screen. Esc floats you back.
Star pages, browse the shelf, and ⌘F lights up matches right on the canvas.
No accounts, no sync servers, no browsing log. Your canvas lives on your machine.
Drift opens on a new full-bleed photograph every time, under a warm glass interface, and a one-minute guided walkthrough greets first-time users.
Each install is completely yours: your own canvas, your own bookmarks, your own zones. Close something by accident? Right-click → reopen closed card.
Every card is a real, sandboxed Chromium page, the same engine you already trust, arranged the way your head actually works.
Drift is a free early preview, so Apple and Microsoft haven't verified it yet.
On macOS, the first open shows a warning: choose Done, then go to
System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
(Terminal users can instead run xattr -cr /Applications/Drift.app.)
Every install starts fresh with its own private canvas, bookmarks, and a one-time walkthrough.