New versions of Horse, and the stories of how we built them.
Extensions should do their work and then get out of yours. This beta gives every Manifest V3 feature Horse exposes a dependable working floor, while putting more real-world extension behavior under permanent…
Your research tools have moved in. DeepL, Obsidian Web Clipper, and Zotero now work in Horse, with their translators, clippers, and save actions where they belong. Trails keep the order you gave them after a…
Fold a giant Folder and Horse now changes the Folder, not the entire universe behind it. 3.3.3 also gives security keys a proper front door, teaches updates to finish what they started, and makes extensions…
A Horse update is a small decision again: install it now or leave it for later. The prompt is compact, keeps browsing details off screen, and leaves the full story in the changelog.
Busy pages can keep busy without throwing a warning over your work. This beta fixes the repeated JavaScript alert reported while scrolling search results on leboncoin.fr, and keeps unexpected background…
Security keys work again, and updates stop getting stuck. If you sign in with a YubiKey or similar, 3.3.2 turned those requests away and this beta brings them back, now with a small Horse prompt while your key…
Passwords have more ways into Horse, and a broken page now stays broken inside its own Trail. Bitwarden joins Horse's supported extension catalogue.
A browser should not freeze because an ad blocker is doing its job. This beta keeps Horse moving while uBlock Origin Lite handles a page that refuses to stop loading new things.
Passwords have more ways into Horse, and a broken page now stays broken inside its own Trail. Bitwarden joins Horse's supported extension catalogue.
Horse has its permanent name badge on Mac. Now one Yes can put it to work: Horse takes over as your default browser, and links stop looking for the retired version of the app.
Horse runs extensions now. 1Password, uBlock Origin Lite, and Dark Reader are first through the gate: passwords unlock, ads disappear, the lights go down, and your Trails remain gloriously unlike tabs. This is…
Groundwork: keeping Horse updating. This is a small compatibility release for Mac riders. Nothing should look or behave differently, but installing it keeps Horse ready for the releases that follow.
Groundwork: keeping Horse updating. This is a small compatibility release for Mac beta riders. Nothing should look or behave differently, but installing it keeps Horse ready for the releases that follow.
Groundwork: extensions. Settings now behave like a proper desktop cascade from the cog all the way down to an extension’s actions. Extension windows look like they belong to Horse, Trails stop carrying one…
Groundwork: extensions. More riders are using the beta now, which is excellent: they found two places extensions could still fall through the floor. 1Password’s account sign-in now opens as a proper Trail, and…
Groundwork: extensions. Settings now put Extensions, Trails, and Saddlepack where you expect them. Extensions are held to their declared permissions, dark mode carries over from 3.2.1, password filling…
Groundwork: extensions. This pass is about keeping them steady through the long haul: restarts, updates, and being switched off and back on. You should notice less going missing, plus the welcome horse and ad…
Extensions, second pass. This is the round that comes from living with them for a day: the shortcut that did nothing, the window that hopped about while it loaded, the pointer that stayed a hand.
Horse runs extensions now. Three of them: 1Password, uBlock Origin Lite, and Dark Reader.That is a small number on purpose. Extensions were built for browsers made of tabs, and Horse is made of Trails, so each…
Trails 3 keeps settling in. This one makes Horse a proper citizen on Windows and Linux, fixes every broken copy button, and dresses up the Mac download.
Horse can now be your default browser on Windows, and Mac downloads grew up.
Horse on Linux gets its turn. A rider wrote in with screenshots, a test rig got built, and the pile of oddities that fell out is now fixed and checked on a real Linux desktop: crashing menus, wandering menus,…
Some sites draw their own back button at the top of the page. Inside a Subtrail, it now takes you back to the Trail you came from.
Trails® 3 leaves beta. For years, making links behave meant teaching Horse each website’s private habits, one bug report at a time. That approach is retired. Horse now lets a site do its peculiar little thing,…
Beta 3 held up. Beta 4 steadies the last few things before Trails® 3 becomes simply how Horse works.
Beta 3 makes Trails® 3 considerably harder to confuse, especially on websites that redraw themselves, quietly rename their own addresses, or perform several small acts of theatre before admitting where a link…
Back has always been a slightly suspicious concept in Horse. Every link made a new Trail, so what exactly were you meant to go back to? Trails® 3 answers that: Horse now remembers the path through pages and…
Trails® have evolved through years of making them work with every odd website under the sun, and that has consumed most of Horse’s development time. If you have wondered why Horse does not sprout new features…
There’s nothing new to click. Horse’s browser engine is up to date with the latest security patches.
Right-click menus got sturdier, and Horse’s browser engine caught up with the latest security patches.
History now survives restarts and follows you from window to window. The first time you open this build, Horse brings your existing profile across automatically.
Right-click menus got sturdier. If one crashes, your next click gets a fresh menu, and closing a window cleans up after itself properly.
Take two. The last beta’s groundwork accidentally shipped switched off, so nobody actually ran it. This one we watched boot. As an apology, it brings History along early.
Groundwork: History. For Horse to remember where you’ve been, it first needs a place that can keep years of browsing safe. Your profile carries itself over the first time you launch.
Horse’s menus used to live inside the window, which meant they got clipped at the edge and we kept every label short so nothing would wrap. They’ve moved out. Right-click menus are now their own translucent…
This beta moves the right-click menus out of the window. They used to get clipped at the edge, so every label stayed short to keep from wrapping. Now they’re their own translucent panels that spill past the…
For four years, Horse ran in exactly one window. Not because one window was better for your brain. It was a limitation we couldn’t crack cleanly. Now we have.Press Cmd+N (Ctrl+N on Windows and Linux) and…
Horse 3.0 removed the one-window limit while keeping every window inside one shared Trail tree.
The first preview of multiple windows: several windows, one shared sidebar, the same Trails everywhere. Links opened from other apps also start loading immediately, even while Horse is still starting up.
The final 2.x release keeps your place more reliably: the sidebar follows the current Trail, last-second changes survive quitting, reopening Horse from the Dock restores your place on macOS, and rapid repeated…
Brief connection hiccups no longer throw a full error page; Horse rides them out and carries on.
2,500 users! Thank you to everyone who’s stuck around, told a friend, or sent in feedback. The herd keeps growing. Click-and-drag selection works properly again, Settings reads more clearly, and Horse’s…
Zoomed pages stopped swallowing clicks: links land where you aim regardless of zoom level.
Updates now arrive faster and more reliably, and every release after this one benefits.
Happy New Year! 2026 is the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. Excellent timing. We’ve grown to over 2,000 users, and we’re grateful you’re all still here! This release fixes how Horse handles links on…
Some Trails deserve a padlock.
Settings get a refresh! Better grouping, and every Trail-related setting now explains itself.
The hidden toolbar comes to Windows 11! The toolbar can now go translucent and pick up the color of your desktop, the way native Windows apps do. It’s a beta option; switch it on in Settings.
A week of Shelf refinements: the floating sidebar opens when you make a new Trail, stays put while you edit, and Horse now checks the trail tree on startup so a damaged profile can never wedge the app again.
The Shelf arrives! Keep the sidebar hidden, hover at the edge of the screen, and it slides out just long enough to grab what you need.
New Subtrails learned to open where you prefer, top or bottom, foreground and background separately. Typing notes became snappy even with thousands of Trails in the tree, and Google Docs joined the default…
Horse’s browser engine moved up with the latest security fixes.
An internationalization and input pass: Japanese romaji-to-kanji conversion confirms with Enter without submitting, emoji look right and line up with text on Windows, and Horse asks for a valid license key…
One shortcut, corrected where it hurt: Ctrl+W now closes the Trail on Windows and Linux instead of taking the whole window with it.
The January follow-up to the Foundations release: restoring a deleted Trail brings its children back instantly, the new-trail shortcuts settled into their final scheme, and a dozen drag-and-drop, Markdown, and…
Product Hunt named Pascal Pixel its 2024 Maker of the Year, while Horse Browser took silver in Bootstrapped & Small Teams.
The first release after Horse passed 1,000 riders, built almost entirely from Community Discord bug reports with reproducible steps. Seven fixes across the sidebar, updater, error pages, and drag-and-drop,…
Groundwork: everything after this. Horse was built deliberately light in its early years: one person, shipping fast, sometimes fixing a bug within five minutes of the report. That lightness was the plan, and…
How Riders and an open-source maintainer helped unlock password-manager extensions for Horse.
How Horse survived a difficult year, found its first real audience, and acquired enough momentum to gallop into 2025.
Saddlepack unlocking had a bug that could block autofill; this release restored the flow from lock screen to filled form.
Boot time got a dedicated round of attention: Horse starts noticeably faster from this release on.
More white-screen fixes for the ad blocker and Dark Reader, more web apps excluded from link tracking by default (X, Discord, Notion), and the three built-in helpers, Saddlepack, Ad Blocker, and Dark Reader,…
How links learned to travel both ways: into Horse as Trails and back out again as ordinary Markdown.
A compatibility rescue: the ad blocker had been white-screening YouTube, X, and Instagram, the updater could wedge itself after a bad update, and macOS multiplied windows when opening external links. All fixed…
The tree became something you can hold with both hands: select many Trails at once, drag them out of Horse as Markdown files, and import Markdown back in as Trails. With Alt+L to collapse everything, a…
Folders arrive: group related Trails into a shelf you can fold away, and export any Trail to Markdown to take your research with you. Projects took their final name, Notes, and Areas learned to keep respectful…
Trails playing audio now wear a sound icon, macOS riders can choose between hidden and regular title bars, and clicks inside iframes (YouTube embeds, cookie pop-ups) land properly. Fresh downloads also moved…
Windows automatic updates became reliable end to end: downloading, installing, and restarting without manual rescue.
Beth McClelland, Réka Writes, Philipp Temmel, and Desk Investor put Horse to work on curiosity, writing, and research.
Windows Defender stopped raising false alarms about Horse, a trust-repair release for the Windows herd.
Fullscreen video lost its black bars, restoring the cinema experience the button always promised.
Two new kinds of Trail arrived: Areas, which are title-only Trails for grouping things under a heading, and Projects, which hold your own notes instead of a website. The sidebar stopped being only a record of…
A quick correction after the big rename: the Dark Reader menu labels now say what the settings actually do.
Horse 2.0 is the identity release: Pages became Trails, and the whole tree got a vocabulary that matches how it feels to use. The root is the Trailhead, the page a link branched from is the Uptrail, its…
Two first-impression fixes: clicking a link while Horse was hidden on macOS now opens a window, and onboarding reliably appears on first start.
The automatic updater got a reliability pass, closing out the era when an update could quietly fail to arrive.
One download for every Mac: Intel or Apple Silicon, the same file simply works. Windows builds became properly signed in the same release, retiring the scary-warning ritual. Two installs, one lesson: the front…
The Saddlepack Password Manager arrives: securely store and autofill your credentials inside Horse itself, no separate extension required. The vault laid down two releases earlier finally opens for business.
How a tiny orange PC gave Horse a proper Windows test machine and Pascal a completely proportionate emotional attachment to a computer.
Linux application icons now display correctly across desktop environments, a small dignity restored to the penguin side of the herd.
Groundwork for Saddlepack: the encrypted vault that would hold your passwords shipped ahead of the password manager itself, and Linux riders gained AppImage builds.
The engine catches up again: latest browser engine with its security and performance improvements, keeping Horse current under the hood.
A Windows-focused repair release: sidebar collapsing, page heights, downloads, history, and scrollbars all restored to working order on Microsoft’s side of the fence.
The Boxing Week special of 2023: Kagi joined the search engines, videos gained Picture in Picture from the right-click menu, Manage Subscription appeared in Help, and Horse tried on a new tagline, from “The…
A quiet engine release: the browser engine underneath Horse moved to the latest version with its security patches, the invisible work a daily browser owes its riders.
A stability roundup closing out autumn 2023, collecting small fixes reported by riders into one quiet release.
A fast fix for a startup crash introduced by the previous update, out within hours for anyone affected.
The ad blocker now stops YouTube ads before they start playing rather than after, which is the only time that counts.
The sidebar got a slim custom scrollbar and cleaner dark-mode menus, and Windows learned to render the emoji that macOS riders had been enjoying.
Custom emoji arrived for Pages: swap a favicon for any emoji and your sidebar becomes a map you can read at a glance. Right-click menus were rebuilt around renaming and personalizing, retiring toolbar…
A security-and-speed release: cached data is now encrypted, Horse protects its own files from tampering, interface resizing got quicker, and Trails started working on Figma.
The SSL certificate dialog stopped re-asking about the same site, remembering your answer the way you would expect.
Horse renamed “Tabs” to “Pages” across the interface, the first step in a naming journey that would eventually lead to Trails. The sidebar had never really held tabs; the words were catching up with the truth.
A grab-bag of real fixes: copy a link from any tab menu, bypass SSL warnings per session, right-click search uses your chosen engine, and popup windows accept focus properly.
The back and forward arrows now appear only when a Trail actually has somewhere to go, removing dead controls from the interface.
Developers and people on corporate networks got a proper dialog for sites with invalid SSL certificates, making internal tools and local development reachable on purpose instead of blocked outright.
General stability improvements from the late-summer 2023 stretch, smoothing edges reported by riders.
A quiet security release that made license checking sturdier against tampering, part of keeping a paid indie product viable.
A build-pipeline fix: release builds became more reliable, which matters when your browser updates itself weekly.
Dark Reader integration arrives: websites convert to dark mode automatically, turning nighttime browsing from a squint into a comfort. One of the most-loved additions of Horse’s first year.
Groundwork for Dark Reader: the menu items for controlling dark mode and ad blocking per site landed ahead of the feature itself, and the ad blocker got faster in the same visit.
License verification got smoother and failed page loads stopped confusing tab handling, two background fixes from the steady summer-2023 hardening.
The ad blocker came back online after a regression, and Horse stopped showing error pages for hiccups that pages recover from on their own.
Drag-and-drop got a manners lesson: dragging pages works even mid-rename, pages land where you aimed them, and tab naming plus URL handling firmed up underneath.
Copy Tab Link arrived, Smart Titles learned to update when tabs close and to filter language codes and stray numbers out of names, and the URL parser got stricter about what counts as a real address.
A speed-and-polish release: the ad blocker got fixed, license messages became friendlier, and the 3D horse on the welcome screen now loads lazily, cutting startup time noticeably.
Menu labels for tab actions were rewritten for clarity, part of the steady work of making Horse legible to someone who just arrived from an ordinary browser.
Cmd+T now starts a fresh tab on a fresh Trail, matching what a new tab means in a trail-shaped browser, and some overly cautious default exclusions were removed so Trails work in more places out of the box.
The Trails detection system was rewritten from the ground up. Link tracking, the mechanism that turns your clicks into a browsable tree, became dramatically more reliable across the messy variety of the real…
The first year of building Horse, from the Riders who accepted its rough edges to the moment it entered the Scribbled Line Toolchest.
Selected text became more useful: Look Up a definition on macOS or search the selection directly, straight from the page.
Links opened from other apps now work even when Horse has to start up first, and exiting fullscreen no longer throws errors on the way out.
The downloads panel moved to Cmd+Shift+J, aligning Horse with the shortcut most browsers already taught your fingers.
The manual joined the Help menu and now opens on first boot, so new riders start with a map instead of guessing at the reins.
The search engine roster grew with Baidu, Yandex, and Qwant, and a dead zone at the top of the Settings page became clickable again.
Popup windows and new tabs got a correctness pass, smoothing over the sites that open things in unusual ways.
Closing a tab now closes its whole branch of children with it, matching what the tree visually promises.
Closing tabs now truly lets go of their memory, keeping long Horse sessions lean instead of slowly swelling.
Two very different fixes in one release: scrollbars and window dragging behave on Windows and Linux, and a critical bug that could close all your tabs at once was eliminated.
Click a link in any other app and Horse opens it: external URL handling arrived, the small feature that makes a browser feel like your default.
Horse now introduces itself to Google properly, which unblocked sign-ins and services that had been treating it as an unknown visitor, and Smart Titles gained better validation.
ChatGPT logins had broken for Horse riders; this release fixed them. Keeping up with the tools people actually use is a browser’s job.
Automatic update checks were strengthened so no installation gets left behind on an old build, quietly tightening the update loop that keeps every rider current.
A fast follow to Focus Mode: the cases where it did not engage correctly were found and fixed within days of launch.
Focus Mode debuts: hide every tab except the one you are working in. For the brains Horse is built for, removing the periphery is sometimes the whole feature.
History gained a proper toggle in the menu on Cmd+Shift+H, making the browsing record a first-class panel rather than a buried list.
Smart Titles arrive: Horse automatically shortens long page names into labels you can actually scan in the sidebar. Undo Closed Tab also found its permanent home in the menu.
Closed a tab you needed? Restore Closed Tab brings it back. Moving tabs around the tree also got smoother in the same pass.
Domain exclusions learned wildcards: one entry like *.google.com now keeps Trails out of an entire family of sites instead of listing them one by one.
The File menu was redesigned around how riders actually work, with clearer tab and trail actions, and Duplicate Tab arrived on Cmd+Shift+D.
Downloads support rounded out, plus two trail-tree fixes: opening a child of the root page while the root is selected works properly, and Horse tracks single-page sites (the kind that change content without…
Trails became fully yours to control: turn Trails mode on or off entirely, and keep a list of domains where automatic link tracking should stay out of the way. The first release to acknowledge that some sites,…
A targeted fix for OpenAI’s websites, which had been misbehaving in Horse: they work now.
Downloads matured into a real manager with progress tracking, turning the sidebar’s download list into something you can rely on for big files.
Another round of the compatibility grind: better browser headers so fewer sites treat Horse like a stranger, plus fresh ad blocker filter lists.
Horse got new typography: the letters you look at all day, chosen on purpose. The ad blocker’s filter lists came up to date as well.
The File menu was reorganized around clearer options for opening pages, making the menu bar read like it belongs to a browser.
A web-app compatibility pass for the sites people live in: Facebook, GitHub, Reddit, Twitter, and more now behave like they do in the big browsers.
Popup windows arrived: sites that open small login or checkout windows now work as intended, with the ad blocker’s filter lists refreshed alongside.
In-page anchor links and search parameters stopped confusing trail navigation, and Twitter photo lightboxes learned to open properly. The compatibility grind of spring 2023, one paper cut at a time.
Some sites turn away browsers they do not recognize; this release taught Horse to introduce itself in a way more of the web accepts, and refreshed the ad blocker’s filter lists.
Link clicks got smarter about the messy ways real pages fire them, making trail creation steadier across the web.
When a page crashes, Horse now recovers gracefully instead of taking the mood down with it, and the ad blocker’s filter lists were refreshed.
More speed for the most-touched control in the app: sidebar resizing got another performance pass.
Loading trails picked up a spinner icon in the sidebar, and the ad blocker’s filter lists came up to date.
Settings moved into a dedicated page of their own, giving Horse’s growing list of preferences a proper home instead of a cramped menu.
Two edit-in-place annoyances gone: YouTube notification counts stopped leaking into trail titles, and renaming a trail no longer resets under your fingers while you type.
The second half of a weekend bug-squashing double: more small fixes from the spring 2023 patch train.
A quiet maintenance release from the spring 2023 patch train: small bugs found and fixed, nothing you had to think about.
Error pages grew up: instead of a dead end, a failed load now explains what went wrong and what you might do about it.
Trails now show a loading progress indicator, so a glance at the sidebar tells you which pages are still on their way.
Startup got faster by caching license verification, trimming the wait between clicking the icon and browsing. The unglamorous work that makes a daily browser feel instant.
Keyboard shortcuts stopped going quiet while a page had focus: Cmd-keys now reach Horse reliably no matter where your cursor lives.
The downloads panel learned to show up on its own the moment a download starts, so you can watch progress without hunting for it.
Editing a trail’s name or URL gained proper submit buttons, so finishing an edit no longer depends on knowing the right key to press.
Find in Page finally arrives, complete with a match counter and next/previous navigation on Cmd+F (Ctrl+F on Windows and Linux). Searching within a long page had been the most-requested feature of Horse’s…
A one-line fix for the most important click in Horse: links inside trails opening the way they should, every time.
Fullscreen mode behaves again, and Escape now does what your fingers expect while renaming a trail: it stops editing.
Downloads moved into the sidebar with live progress indicators, right next to the trails that produced them, and the ad blocker’s filter lists were refreshed. The sidebar keeps collecting the tools you…
A follow-up to the sidebar polish: the remaining slowness while resizing was found and removed.
A polish pass on the sidebar itself: the resize handle became easier to grab, highlighting cleaned up, and resizing the window or sidebar got noticeably snappier. The sidebar is Horse’s cockpit, so speed here…
Resizing the sidebar stopped squeezing the page next to it, new trails highlight the search box the way you expect, and the ad blocker’s filter lists came up to date. Three small frictions gone.
Stability week continued: crash reporting was strengthened, and the scrollbar and background fixes reached every corner of Linux and Windows.
A maintenance release from the fastest-shipping week in Horse’s history: several small bugs fixed while the platform lineup settled.
Plugin functionality came back to life, and Horse put on a new app icon.
Page navigation shortcuts gained a Shift modifier, rounding out the keyboard story started earlier in the 1.0 line.
Another quick round of bug-squashing from the daily-release stretch of March 2023, keeping the young browser steady while bigger features took shape.
Crash reporting arrived, so when something went wrong Horse could tell us about it instead of relying on riders to write in. Much of the stability work in the months that followed traces back to this release.
The update prompt learned manners. Clicking “Later” now actually means later: instead of asking again every four hours, Horse quietly installs the update on your next restart.
Windows and Linux got a coat of polish: native-feeling scrollbars and corrected backgrounds, so Horse stops looking like a visitor on those platforms.
The full platform lineup arrives: Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, both flavors of Windows, and Linux from small ARM boards to ordinary Intel and AMD machines. Wherever you browse, there is now a Horse build for…
Windows riders officially join the herd with 32-bit and 64-bit builds. Trail navigation also moved to Cmd+Shift+Arrow so keyboard shortcuts stop fighting with ordinary text editing.
Tiny Horse mode debuts: collapse the sidebar and instead of losing everything you get a mini toolbar that keeps your current page, Settings, and Help within reach, and lets you edit the page title directly.…
One fix, but a load-bearing one: paste. Cmd+V and Ctrl+V now behave everywhere they should.
Choice arrived in two places at once: pick your own search engine (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Ecosia, Yahoo, or Brave) instead of being handed one, and move between trails from the keyboard. The first signs of…
Three quality-of-life fixes for the young sidebar: right-click menus stopped escaping it, trail names became editable with a click, and edits save themselves when you click away. Small things, but naming your…
A small housekeeping release from Horse’s first week on sale: a handful of minor bugs squashed while the update pipeline found its rhythm.
Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and M2) had a bug that could keep the updater from completing; this release fixed it, keeping the newest Macs on the same fast update path as everyone else.
A tiny patch with an outsized effect on how fast fixes reached people: update checks now happen the moment Horse launches instead of up to an hour later. In a week when releases were shipping daily, that hour…
The very first follow-up, one day into Horse’s paid life: Horse learned to keep itself current. From this release on, the app checks for updates on its own and offers a restart when a new version is ready,…
Horse 1.0 is the moment Horse became a real product: the first public, signed build that installs, updates itself, and asks to be your daily browser. Horse is built for people who think in relational maps, and…
Fixed; Popup menuFixed; White flashingUpgraded; Ad blocker filter lists
Fixed; Context menu linksFixed; Blank pagesFixed; Last page handling
Fixed; Background tabs now load correctlyFixed; Sidebar adapts better to smaller widthsChanged; Better favicon handling
Fixed; Full screen on macOSFixed; Navigation on Horse’s own pages
Performance improvements! Pages now only load when you select them, making Horse much faster to start.
Squashed some bugs.
New; Localhost supportNew; Remember sidebar widthNew; Remember window sizeFixed; Uncollapse parents when selecting a pageUpgraded; Ad blocker filter lists
Big update! The sidebar is now resizable and you can rename pages with custom names.
Full screen mode is here! Press the green button to go full screen and the sidebar hides automatically.
Major stability improvements, and you can now close the window without quitting on Mac.
New; Buttons in main toolbarFixed; Better error handling
Fixed; Link opening loop
New; Open as child optionFixed; Error handling
Fixed; Tree dragging when scrolled
Smarter navigation! Links now open more intelligently based on context, and Google is now the default search engine.
Squashed some bugs.
Fixed; Native click handling
Fixed; Select next page before closing last one
Changed; Websites now recognize Horse by name
Upgraded; Full ad blocker filter lists
Squashed some bugs.
New; Close group confirmation for collapsed groupsNew; Menu separatorsFixed; Cookie blocking
Fixed; Light arrows on empty groups
Fixed; Collapsed groups
New; Image context menuNew; More menu itemsChanged; Cmd+Shift+click for normal navigation
The 3D Horse is back and better than ever! Plus an engine upgrade for speed.
Keyboard shortcuts are here!
Horse now follows you around modern web apps! YouTube, Twitter, and other sites that change pages without reloading are now tracked properly.
Fixed; Menu bar display issuesFixed; The 3D Horse no longer loads twiceChanged; Rolled the engine back a step for stability
Ad blocking tune-up: manual filter lists, and some stubborn sites behave better.
New; Open URL handling from external appsNew; Delete menu option
Squashed some bugs.
Squashed some bugs.
Horse can now be set as your default browser! When you click links in other apps, they will open directly in Horse.
New; Buttons in branch nodesNew; Dev mode indicatorNew; Lighter build modeFixed; Crash when removing last pageFixed; Reload button positionFixed; Selected page state on loadChanged; Better iconsChanged; Nicer…
Squashed some bugs.
Squashed some bugs.
New; Ad blockingChanged; Moved Chrome to App directoryChanged; macOS code signing improvements
New; Full ad blockingChanged; UI border improvements
New; Reload buttonFixed; Background color issues
New; EasyList ad blockingChanged; Larger click areas for easier interaction
Ad blocking is here! Horse now blocks ads by default, giving you a cleaner, faster browsing experience.
New; Page reload support
Tab groups are here! You can now organize your pages into groups. Closing a group will ask for confirmation to prevent accidental data loss.
Changed; New app icon
Fixed; Top page drag behavior
Fixed; Last page highlighting
Drag and drop gets smarter! You can now drag pages above or below the root list, giving you more control over page organization.
Changed; Improved drag and drop highlighting
Horse now shows its version number! This helps you know which version you are running and makes it easier to report issues.
Empty pages are now allowed! Create placeholder pages and fill them in later. The URL bar now auto-focuses when creating new empty pages.
Engine upgrade! Faster and safer, plus a shiny new white icon.
Improved drag precision! A 5px minimum drag distance now prevents accidental drags when clicking.
Introducing Pony mode! A fun new visual mode for the adventurous.
Popups are now allowed! Sites that open popup windows will work properly. You can also open new tabs from within tabs.
A tidying release: sturdier insides, and a safety net of tests around page moving so dragging stays trustworthy.
Stay updated! Added mailing list integration to keep you informed about new features and updates.
Visual refresh! The Horse logo gets smooth rotation animations, a refined color palette, and the sidebar width is now adjustable.
Page reorganization is here! You can now drag and drop pages to reorganize them.
Drag preview is here! Now you can see exactly where your pages will land while dragging, with visual lines showing branch connections.
Faster and smoother! Page loading is now faster with no more white flash when switching between pages. Parent pages auto-expand when you create child pages.
Cleaner interface! The Horse logo now only shows when no page is selected, keeping you focused on your content.
The Horse goes 3D! A beautiful 3D Horse model now greets you when you open the browser.
Meet the Horse! The iconic Horse mascot makes its first appearance, welcoming you to the browser.
Edit your URLs directly! Click on any page to edit its URL. Pages without titles now show their URL instead.
Go back! The back button makes navigation easier. Page loads are now faster too.
Power user shortcuts! Hold Cmd and click any link to open it in a new tab. New pages also open faster now.
The true story of how Pascal and Eleanor built Horse, invented Trails, and only later discovered why the idea worked especially well for ADHD.
Custom titlebar is here! The browser now has a sleek custom titlebar that fits the Horse aesthetic. Also added crash reporting for better stability.
Right-click your tabs! A context menu now appears when you right-click on tabs, giving you quick access to common actions.
Collapse your groups! You can now collapse and expand page groups to keep your sidebar organized.
Dark mode backgrounds are here! The browser now has proper dark mode support with matching background colors. Loading is also faster.
Saving gets sturdier! Your pages are now stored more reliably, and the interface responds faster to changes.
Favicons are here! Each page shows its website’s icon, and your pages now survive a restart.
Keyboard shortcuts arrive! Basic keyboard shortcuts make navigation faster. The UI gets cleaner with improved icons and white backgrounds.
The sidebar gets hierarchical! Pages can now be nested under other pages, creating a tree structure for better organization.
Favicons make their debut! Each page now displays its favicon. DuckDuckGo is now the default search engine.
The Horse gets its first icon! The app now has a proper icon that appears in your dock and taskbar.
The interface takes shape! First styling, and Horse can now be built and shipped properly.
Horse becomes a real desktop app! The foundations are in for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
The journey begins! This is the very first version of Horse Browser - a blank canvas ready to become something special.
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