After a long period of exclusivity on iOS and a short month in beta, the Arc browser has finally officially arrived on Android. Little tour from the owner.
Are you desperately looking for an alternative to Chrome on Android? Why not try Arc? The trendy browser has officially come out of its beta phase and is now available to all Android mobile users in a stable version.
As noted The Vergethe application developed by a former Google engineer officially entered the Play Store on November 14, 2024. As of this writing, the software has already been downloaded more than 100,000 times. It therefore competes with Chrome, Firefox and all the other “classic” browsers already available on Android.
The browser that navigates for you
Because yes, in addition to competing with already well-established players, Arc is trying to do things a little differently. As its description specifies, Arc puts (oh, surprise) artificial intelligence at the heart of its user experience. With its “Browse for me», Arc allows you to browse several web pages on your own to answer your most pressing questions.
So, if you ask him questions like “How to make fig jam?», the browser will present you with a step-by-step recipe that it will have gleaned from the sites they deem relevant. A bit like a ChatGPT which would cross-reference sources and offer you a simple and effective summary.
Otherwise quite basic functions
Beyond its star functionality, the Arc browser is, of course, also a browser. It still allows you to surf the web yourself, juggle between several tabs and block the most intrusive advertisements. On this front, nothing really new.
On the other hand, when it comes to classic web browsing, the software remains quite basic. The application does not support extensions, like Firefox, only offers fairly rudimentary accessibility options and hides functionalities as basic as incognito browsing behind icons that are not always very explicit (this one very precisely: ???? ).
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In short, in wanting to reinvent the way we surf the web, Arc is sometimes a little confusing. However, if you have had enough of Chrome, you don’t have too demanding technical requirements and you want to try a slightly different browser, Arc is open to you.
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