Mac app
A Mac browser on a third engine.
smbCloud Browser is a native Mac app built on Servo, an independent web engine written in Rust. Not a wrapper around someone else's engine — a genuinely separate rendering path on a web that has been narrowing to two. Sandboxed, signed, no account, no ads.
Free. Apple Silicon, macOS 15 or later.
Version 1.1
A chat panel that runs on your Mac.
Open it from the toolbar, pick a model in Settings (⌘,), and download it once. From then on it answers locally: your prompts and its replies are not sent to a server. Downloading the weights uses the network; running them does not.
Models live in a container shared with the other Onde apps on your Mac, so a model you already downloaded is available here immediately. Downloads run off the interface thread, so a multi-gigabyte fetch never stalls the window.
What's here today
Familiar on the surface, unfamiliar underneath.
The browsing part behaves the way you'd expect a Mac browser to behave. The interesting part is what's doing the rendering, and where the chat panel's answers come from.
A third engine
Servo is an independent web engine written in Rust — not a skin over WebKit or Chromium. Every release pins one reviewed engine commit, so what shipped is knowable.
A real Mac app
Tabs, windows, an address bar that searches DuckDuckGo when what you typed isn't a URL, bookmarks on ⌘D, reopen closed tab on ⌘⇧T. Sandboxed and signed, from the Mac App Store.
Chat that runs here
Pick a model in Settings, download it once, and it answers from your own Mac. Prompts and replies are not sent to a server. Fetching the weights uses the network; running them does not.
Honest about where it is
Servo is young, and the listing says so on purpose.
Some sites render beautifully, others break, and a few won't load at all. Overstating that would buy installs and lose them again as one-star reviews. This is a browser built on an engine still under active development.
Pick it up if
- You want a second browser and you'd like to watch an independent engine grow.
- You'd rather run a language model on your own Mac than send prompts somewhere.
- You like knowing exactly which engine commit your browser was built from.
- You want a Mac app that asks you for nothing — no account, no ads.
Keep the browser you have if
- You need one browser that renders everything, every time.
- Your work depends on extensions.
- You're on an Intel Mac or macOS 14 and earlier.
The details
Everything worth knowing before you install it.
Engine changes land as commits on a public Servo branch, and each release pins one reviewed commit from it.
FAQ
Common questions
What does smbCloud Browser cost?
Nothing. It's free on the Mac App Store, with no ads and no account to create.
Which engine does it use?
Servo, an independent web engine written in Rust. It isn't WebKit, Chromium, or Gecko — the rendering path is genuinely separate, which is most of the point.
Will every website work?
No. Servo is young: some sites render beautifully, others break, and a few won't load at all. This is worth your curiosity, not yet worth your banking.
Does the chat panel send my prompts anywhere?
The model runs on your Mac, and your prompts and its replies are not sent to a server. Downloading the weights the first time does use the network; running them afterwards does not.
Where are the models stored?
In an App Group container shared with the other Onde apps on your Mac, so a model one of them already downloaded is ready here too. That's also why deleting one asks for confirmation first.
Which Macs can run it?
Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later. There is no Intel build.
Get it
Free on the Mac App Store.
If you want a second browser and you'd like to watch an independent engine grow, this is that. If you need one browser that renders everything, keep the one you have.