Rogue Browser
- 500 MB with four tabs open
- Six processes
- 339 MB installed
- 0.4% of the CPU sitting still
- Reads only the tabs you pick, and cites them
Rogue Browser
The browser that reads along with you
A native Mac app with Chromium inside. Ask about the page you have open, compare only the tabs you picked, and keep the answer next to the sources it came from.
Summarise
Ask the page the question you actually have
Press the Rogue button and ask. The sidebar reads the rendered text of that tab, answers in the panel beside it, and keeps the page one click away under the answer. It answers from what is there: when the page does not say, it says so instead of filling the gap.
- Up to eight tabs as sources, chosen by you, never swept in the background.
- Every answer carries the pages it came from.
- Missing information is named, not invented.
What it does
Everything below ships in the preview you can download today
Ask about this page
The sidebar reads the page in front of you, so the question can be about what you are looking at instead of a link you paste somewhere else.
Compare what you chose
Pick up to eight tabs as sources. One answer, built from those pages and nothing else.
Answers carry their sources
Each answer keeps the pages it came from one click away, and separates what was on the page from what was missing.
Reader
Any article stripped down to the text, in the same window, without a second app.
Two pages at once
Split the window and keep the reference open while you work on the other half.
Spaces
A set of tabs per project. Close them, come back later, and the set is still there.
Group tabs with AI
Groups proposed from titles and addresses. You apply them, or you undo them.
Explain, translate, ask
Select text anywhere and get a short answer in a card on the page, without losing your place.
English or Portuguese
The interface speaks both. Pick one in Settings, reopen, and the whole window follows.
It updates itself
It checks on every launch and downloads in the background. When the new version is on disk, one line at the top: restart and update, or later.
Notes that keep the thread
Save the excerpt, the question and the answer together, with the link back to where it came from.
Native
A Mac app, not a web page in a window
The interface is written in Swift and drawn by the Mac itself: real menus, real windows, real materials, the shortcuts you already know. Only the page inside it is Chromium, so the web works exactly as it does anywhere else. Nothing here is a website pretending to be an app.
- Chromium 152 under the hood, with its sandbox on.
- Signed, hardened runtime, and an updater that verifies every package.
- No account to sign into, and no analytics in the app.
- The interface speaks English or Portuguese, your pick, in Settings.
- Command L reaches every tab, bookmark and search from the keyboard.
Measured, not claimed
Rogue Browser VS Google Chrome
Same engine, Chromium 152.0.7977.83 in both. What changes is everything around it
500 MB1.04 GBMemory, four tabs open
612Processes for those tabs
0.4%4.2%CPU while you sit still
339 MB1.4 GBInstalled on disk
Google Chrome
- 1.04 GB with the same four
- Twelve for the same work
- 1.4 GB installed
- 4.2% sitting still
- Its AI arrives with a Google account
Both opened cold with the same four tabs: google.com, figma.com, github.com and the Navier–Stokes article on Wikipedia. MacBook Pro, Apple M5 Max, macOS 26.4. Memory is the phys_footprint of the whole process tree, the number Activity Monitor shows. Median of four runs, read one minute after launch, and again after three.
Where Chrome is ahead: extensions, every platform with sync, and sixteen years of hardening. It also puts its window on screen about a third of a second sooner.
It can act on the page, and you see the scope
Beyond reading, Rogue has a set of browser tools: it can open a page, inspect it, scroll, click and fill fields. Every step outside what you asked for stops and shows you the exact address before it goes anywhere.
Two pages and the answer, in one window
Split view puts two pages side by side when the comparison is the work, and the panel stays open next to both. Reader strips an article down to one column when it is not.
Tabs that stay in order
Spaces hold a set of tabs per project. When the set gets away from you, Rogue proposes groups from titles and addresses, and every proposal can be undone.
Dictation that stays on the Mac
Speak instead of typing. The recogniser runs on device and refuses to start without local support, the microphone only opens when you press the button, and the draft is still yours to send.
What leaves your Mac, and what does not
The limits below are in the code, not in a promise
- Only the tabs you selected are sent, as rendered text. Forms, editable fields, hidden content and scripts are stripped before anything leaves.
- Cookies, storage, raw HTML, subframes and the values you typed are never read.
- Cited addresses drop credentials, query and fragment before the model sees them.
- A private window never joins the saved index, and notes taken there stay in memory.
- Dictation is on device: the request refuses to run if the Mac has no local recogniser.
- When Rogue suggests a name for a download, the bytes of the file stay on your machine.
From download to first answer
Three steps, about two minutes
- 1
Download and install
Open the disk image and drag Rogue Browser onto the Applications folder next to it.
- 2
Open a page and the sidebar
Any page you already read. Press the Rogue button in the toolbar, or Command J.
- 3
Ask, and keep the answer
Ask about the page, select the tabs that matter, and save what you want as a note with its source.
Put Rogue in your browser
Free developer preview. It updates itself from here on.
Download for MacRequirements
- macOS 14 or later.
- Apple silicon. Intel Macs are not supported in this preview.
- About 400 MB on disk once installed.
This preview is signed with a development certificate and is not notarized yet, so macOS asks the first time. Right click the app in Applications and choose Open, or allow it in System Settings under Privacy & Security.