Hello Riders,
Across 2024, four people put Horse to work on the internet they actually used. Beth and Réka followed curiosity. Philipp researched and wrote. Desk Investor kept screeners, watchlists, and company documents connected. They opened the same browser, followed entirely different questions, and returned with language we had been trying to find for years.
Beth McClelland called Horse a quiet, safe place for exploration. Réka Writes reached for a glorious word: cozyweb.
We immediately became unbearable about all four. Somebody else could see the thing!
Beth’s quiet place for curiosity
Beth noticed that opening Horse felt different from entering the busier browser she used for everyday activity. A new question could begin as its own Trail. Each click branched beneath the page that produced it. She could hide the sidebar, read at full size, and reveal the whole journey when she wanted the map back.
That is not calm manufactured by blocking the internet or asking a grown adult to serve time in Website Prison. It comes from continuity. The route survives, so the person browsing does not have to grip every step in working memory while trying to enjoy the material.
The important part was not an empty browser or a forbidden internet. Beth could wander, then reveal the route when she wanted the map back. The computer kept the lineage. Beth got the history.
Réka’s cozyweb
Réka’s review begins with rabbit holes and follows them somewhere warmer. “Cozyweb” is a beautiful description because it names an internet made more habitable by the tools around it. The web itself remains enormous, strange, loud, and packed with people confidently explaining Roman concrete. The browser can still give that place walls, paths, and a way home.
Trails® do not tell you which branch is worthy. They keep the branches visible. You remain free to follow an unexpected source without sacrificing the question that brought you there.
Philipp keeps the thread of real work
In September 2024, Philipp Temmel wrote about using Horse for real research and writing while keeping Vivaldi as his main browser. That distinction matters. Horse did not need an oath of allegiance. It needed to take one sprawling piece of work and make the lineage obvious.
Philipp noticed that every page kept the page that led to it. The browser carried that relationship automatically, so research could grow without becoming a new pile for him to remember and sort. The work remained visible. His mind got to return to the writing. Magnificent division of labour.
His review also records the Horse of September 2024, when extension support and a password manager were still missing. Those were real limits then, not current documentation. Horse now supports seven tested extensions. The extensions page keeps the live list.
A month of investment research
Desk Investor used Horse for a month before publishing a review in January 2024. Stock screeners, watchlists, company documents, and library pages could remain connected inside a Trail. Instead of pressing Back until the original question reappeared from the mist, the whole research route stayed on screen.
That review also wished for translations, extension support, and multiple windows. Those wishes describe Horse as it worked in January 2024. Product pages move; dated reviews keep their date. For what Horse does now, use the manual and extensions page.
Somebody else could see it
Young software is full of things its makers can feel but cannot yet name. We knew Horse made browsing feel less disposable. We knew the sidebar changed the emotional shape of a long session. We also knew that “the emotional shape of a long session” was not going to rescue us during a normal product demonstration.
Then Beth wrote about a quiet internet. Réka wrote “cozyweb.” Philipp described the mental load leaving his shoulders. Desk Investor showed Trails® holding a month of serious research together.
This is why independent reviews matter beyond the stars attached to them. Another person enters the thing you built and reports back from inside it. Sometimes they find the exact room you were constructing, open a window, and give the whole place a name. Sometimes they bring a watchlist, seventeen company pages, and the splendid news that the floor can take the weight.
Read the original reviews by Beth McClelland, Réka Writes, Philipp Temmel at Creativerly, and Desk Investor. Each reviewed Horse as it existed in 2024; for current features, use the extensions page, privacy policy, and manual.
Catch you on the Trail,
Pascal & Eleanor