Featured Brave Browser
Three times faster than Chrome. Better privacy by default than Firefox. Uses 35% less battery on mobile. By blocking harmful ads and trackers you get a faster Internet. Brave loads major news sites up to six times faster than Chrome, Safari and Firefox on mobile and desktop.
Other browsers claim to have a “private mode,” but this only hides your history from others using your browser. Brave lets you use Tor right in a tab. Tor not only hides your history, it masks your location from the sites you visit by routing your browsing through several servers before it reaches your destination. These connections are encrypted to increase anonymity.
Turn on Brave Rewards to earn frequent flier-like tokens for viewing privacy-respecting ads. You can set the number of ads you see per hour. Currently you can support your favorite web creators with your tokens, but soon you’ll be able to spend tokens on premium content, gift cards, and more.
Control the Ads You See
Brave Ads is an opt-in advertising platform that rewards you to view non-invasive ads without compromising your privacy. In exchange for paying attention, you earn 70% of the ad revenue that Brave receives. That revenue comes in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT),7 which are tokens that can be spent online.8 At the end of each month, you can either withdraw your BAT in the form of cash or pay it forward by tipping your favorite websites and content creators.9 Just open the Brave Rewards panel and hit “Send a tip” to instantly share your BAT earnings with the content creators you love.10
Getting paid isn’t the only perk of opting into Brave Ads — it allows you to engage with advertisements and brands in a more thoughtful way. Brave gives you control over the ads you see and how often you see them. No more having to sit through ads on YouTube,11 and definitely no more searching through all of your open tabs to find out where that annoyingly loud video ad is playing. With Brave, ads play on your terms.
Import and continue where you left off
It’s easy to import your settings from your old browser. You can do it during the welcome tour or later through the menus.
All of your old browser profiles will appear in a list. You can import other browser data through the main menu item called “Import Bookmarks and Settings.”
Support your favorite sites with Brave Rewards
Turn on Brave Rewards and give a little back to the sites you frequent most. Earn frequent flyer-like tokens (BAT) for viewing privacy-respecting ads through Brave and help fund the content you love
Browsing the web with Brave is free: with Brave Rewards activated, you can support the content creators you love at the amount that works for you.
Brave can automatically distribute your contributions based on how much time you spend on sites. Or, you can choose to tip sites directly, and even offer a fixed monthly tip amount.
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All of this works while keeping your browsing history private. Your funds are made available to site owners through an anonymous ledger system, so you can’t be identified based on the sites you visit and support. Over 10,000 publishers and content creators have registered to receive Brave Rewards.
Remember: these contributions are optional – browsing the web with Brave is free.
Experience unparalleled privacy and security.
Brave fights malware and prevents tracking, keeping your information safe and secure. It’s our top priority.
We’re not in the personal data business.
Our servers neither see nor store your browsing data – it stays private, on your devices, until you delete it. Which means we won’t ever sell your data to third parties.
Customize your shield settings
Choose your settings on a per-site or browser-wide basis. See how many ads and trackers are being blocked by Brave every day on the New Tab Page.
Security meets simplicity
If you’re willing to research, download, and install multiple extensions, and carefully configure and correctly maintain settings in both the browser and extensions, you can match some of Brave’s privacy and security.
Brave does all that work for you. Simple, right?
Whenever possible using the HTTPS Everywhere list, Brave automatically upgrades to HTTPS for secure, encrypted communications when an ordinary browser would use an insecure connection.
Defaults that matter
Browse confidently with default settings that block phishing, malware, and malvertising. Also, plugins, which have proven to be a security risk, are disabled by default.
Sync your devices bravely
Brave Sync, currently in beta, can be enabled to encrypt and synchronize your preferred settings and bookmarks. However, Brave does not have the keys to decrypt your data.
More Features:
- Shields
- Ad blocking
- Fingerprinting prevention*
- Cookie control*
- HTTPS upgrading*
- Block scripts*
- Per-site shield settings
- Configurable global shield defaults
- Security
- Clear browsing data
- Built-in password manager
- Form autofill
- Control content access to full-screen presentation
- Control site access to autoplay media
- Send “Do not track” with browsing requests
- Search
Choose default search engine
- Use keyboard shortcuts for alternate search engines
- Option to use DuckDuckGo for private window search
- Brave Rewards
- Earn by viewing private ads
- Tip your favorite creators
- Contribute monthly to sites
- Auto-contribute to sites
- Verify with Uphold and move funds in and out of your wallet
- Become a verified creator and start earning BAT from tips, contributions and referrals
- Tabs & Windows
- Private Windows
- Pinned Tabs
- Auto-unload
- Drag and drop
- Duplicate
- Close Options
- Find on page
- Print page
- Address Bar
- Add Bookmark
- Autosuggest URLs
- Search from address bar
- Autosuggest search terms
- Show/hide bookmarks toolbar
- Show secure or insecure site
- Extensions/Plugins
Brave Desktop now supports most of the Chrome extensions in the chrome web store
Brave Firewall + VPN (paid feature, iOS only)
Unlike many browsers that offer VPNs which mask a user's IP address, Brave’s Firewall + VPN, powered by Guardian, offers enhanced security and privacy by encrypting and protecting anything users do while connected to the Internet.
Block trackers across all apps
Protects all connections
We never share or sell you info
VPN server does not know who you are
What's New:
macOS updated to 1.35.104
Removed requests to https://ftx.com at startup without user opt-in. (#20501)
Fixed trailing zeros being incorrectly removed in certain cases. (#20402)
Fixed brave://settings/ipfs/keys loading blank page in certain cases. (#20341)
Upgraded Chromium to 97.0.4692.99. (#20553) (Changelog for 97.0.4692.99)
Previous release notes:
Added the ability to make the tab audio icon non-clickable using brave://flags/#tab-audio-icon-interactive. (#19979)
Added indications for selected network. (#19651)
[Security] Disabled CNAME uncloaking when DoH is enabled with an HTTPS proxy. (#15038)
Updated error message text when Trezor is not connected. (#19351)
Updated legacy gas controls to allow 0 gas price. (#20103)
Updated price fetching to use contract address when possible. (#19574)
Updated Omaha installer version for Windows to v1.3.36.111. (#11904)
Removed "View on block explorer" button for rejected transactions. (#19454)
Removed text label for the private icon on Private Windows. (#13704)
Fixed crash when disabling Brave Shields in certain cases. (#19958)
Fixed inability to download torrents with WebTorrent. (#19818)
Fixed retry loop for token refill when server responds with 404 to adaptive CAPTCHA request. (#18859)
Fixed issue in hardware wallet connect screen while switching derivation scheme. (#20155)
Fixed error when importing Ledger accounts. (#19451)
Fixed Trezor popup incorrectly reopening in certain cases. (#19858)
Fixed plus icon for RPC URLs not being shown when editing a network. (#19717)
Fixed inability to remove previously entered RPC URLs. (#19782)
Fixed Dapp web compatibility issue with https://studio.manifold.xyz. (#20283)
Fixed issues with voting and creating spaces or proposals on https://snapshot.org Dapp. (#20282)
Fixed tooltip for unsupported networks on brave://wallet being retained on screen. (#19400)
Fixed path names not appearing in the address bar for IPNS addresses. (#18888)
Upgraded Chromium to 97.0.4692.71. (#20269) (Changelog for 97.0.4692.71)
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