Local Only
Use the browser without an account. Normal browsing remains available locally, and history is off by default in this mode.
Source Browser
Your browser should answer to you.
The web has grown comfortable treating a browser as a collection point for attention, habits, identity, and personal data. Source Browser exists because useful browsing should not require giving up control of those things.
It is a Windows browser designed to make privacy, security, encryption, and ordinary daily convenience part of the same product decision—not separate upgrades or hidden settings.
Your data, by ruleSource Browser
Browse locally
Use Local Only when you want the browser to remain a local tool. No account is required to browse.
Protect locally
Signed-in profile data is protected at rest where your operating system provides secure storage.
Choose storage
Sync is a choice, not a default. Encrypted private folders let you decide where selected data lives.
Privacy is a practical feature.
Privacy is not about making browsing difficult or mysterious. It is about keeping the consequences of a choice visible: what stays on a device, what is protected, and what is only shared when you decide to share it.
Protected local profile
When you choose to sign in, local account-profile data is protected at rest through operating-system secure storage where it is available.
Consent before sync
Signing in is not consent to upload a browser life. Private-folder sync uses encrypted bundles you place in storage you control; wider cloud sync remains a deliberate future choice.
Search that leaves room for judgement.
A search result should help you find the page, understand what kind of source it is, and decide what deserves attention. It should not hide the web behind a single answer.
Source-led results
Open sources stay visible. Plain-language source notes explain what a result may be good for and what is worth checking.
Clearer search paths
Web search, image search, and early product discovery are separated so the result view matches the task in front of you.
No behavioural profile
Search quality should come from better source handling, not from quietly building a personal advertising profile.
A browser you can live in.
Privacy does not excuse a bare-bones browser. The everyday details are the point: less friction while reading, organising, moving between sites, and handling the work the web gives you.
Browse without clutter
Tabs, private windows, downloads, history controls, extension support, and practical site controls belong in the browser—not behind a new service.
Read and work with pages
Use translation, spellcheck, full-page capture, copy image, printing, reader tools, and Developer Tools when a site needs more than a quick visit.
Decide per site
Permissions, cookies, certificates, pop-ups, tracker blocking, and storage controls should be understandable at the moment they matter.
Keep the useful parts
Search, images, and early product discovery stay separate so a search can be useful without turning every query into the same kind of result.
Save less like a bookmark pile.
Not every saved page has the same job. Source Browser separates immediate access from long-term organisation so both stay useful.
Shortcuts
Shortcuts are for the sites you use every day.
Keep a small, fast-access set of destinations ready without turning your important saved work into a crowded start page.
Collections
Collections are for the sources you want to keep.
Organise saved links, notes, images, and documents with tags, views, filters, duplicate handling, and space to return to research when it matters again.
Help shape the Windows alpha.
Invitations open gradually. Joining the interest list does not create an account, enable sync, or promise immediate download access. It simply lets us invite people who want to use the browser and report what needs to improve.