This is Whatever – the perfect app for browsing the dead internet ☠️
Powered by WebKit • Written in Nim and Swift

😍 Key Features

Browsing

• WebKit pages with draggable tabs, side-by-side split view, and session restore
• Private tabs, per-tab mute, and per-tab history with Back / Forward
• Sleeping tabs: untouched tabs release their memory, reload on return
• Per-state tab themes: solid, image, or looping video backgrounds
• Personal start page on w://, with backdrop and logo
• Address bar that stretches full width, with adjustable roundness and height
• Link menu that works: Open in New Tab, Open in New Window, no stray downloads
• Popup windows open as real tabs; window.close and JavaScript dialogs handled
• External schemes (mailto:, tel:...) hand off to the system
• Reload and reload-from-origin (⌘R / ⇧⌘R), with stop while loading
• Find in Page (Highlight All / Match Case / Whole Words)
• Spotlight address bar with fuzzy autocomplete, search engines, and file paths
• Lock icon reflects the connection: secured https, broken lock for plain http

Privacy

• Built-in Ad blocker with >13k rules and Zero JavaScript
• Per-site exceptions with a card, and a toolbar shield showing the live state
• Local-first storage: everything lives in on-device databases, no account

Files & Downloads

• Native directory browser popup instead of WebKit's listing
• Real downloads with a history popup: progress, retry, Reveal in Finder
• Unseen-download badge on the toolbar button, deleted files marked as such
• Per-site blocker exceptions, managed from the card or Settings

Feeds

• Built-in RSS / Atom reader: subscriptions, discovery, unread & saved
• Favicons, thumbnails, retention limits, offline reading
• Headline crawl bar: scrolling ticker with speed, direction, font size, separator, and favicons!

Bookmarks

• Toggleable bookmark bar under the toolbar, with favicons, folders, and drag-to-reorder
• Star in the address bar to bookmark the current page; editor popup for title, address, and folder
• Links and folders with rename, move, and delete — from the bar, its context menu, or Settings
• Bookmarks surface in the Spotlight address bar through fuzzy matching
• Local-first: each bookmark is its own on-device document, and failed writes heal back to persisted truth

On-device Password Manager

• Encrypted vault that never leaves the machine: Argon2id key derivation with XChaCha20-Poly1305, opened by a master password with a reminder hint
• Decrypted in memory only while unlocked; one click locks it and clears the plaintext copy
• Per-site entries with favicons and multiple username / password pairs each
• Reveal, copy to clipboard, and delete per credential, with live strength scoring
• Built-in generator: random characters (length and character sets) or EFF diceware words with separator, capitalization, and trailing-number options
• No accounts, no sync servers, ever

Extras

• Share any page as a QR Code
• Beautiful film-grain overlay over the entire Web
• Custom Window Background supporting:
  • Solid colors
  • Linear/Radial gradients
  • Image or Video
• Beautiful Settings modal (General, Appearance, Web, Blocker, Bookmarks, Feeds, History, Search, Downloads)
• Searchable History
• Written in Nim language and Swift
• Open Source | GPLv3 License

About

Whatever is the browser for the dead internet. Popular browsers sell your data: feeds full of ads, trackers on every click, your tabs and history synced to somebody's cloud. Whatever goes the other way. Pages render on WebKit behind a blocker that compiles 13,000+ rules on your own machine. Your tabs come back where you left them. Your bookmarks, feeds, history, and downloads live in on-device databases — no accounts, no sync servers, ever.

It also happens to be beautiful and weird: a start page and window you theme yourself, a headline crawl for your RSS, film grain over the whole web if you want it, and a Spotlight-grade address bar that keeps up with you.

Previews

🗺 Roadmap

Where this goes next — tab groups and workspaces, profiles, a reader mode, user scripts, importing from other browsers, and native Linux and Windows editions that reuse the portable Nim core. See ROADMAP.md for the full list.

🛠 Build

• make macos — build the app (includes the Nim core)
• make core — build only the Nim core
• make test — run the core test suite (macOS UI tests live in the WhateverTests scheme)
• make check-abi — verify the core's C ABI still matches its header

❤ Contributions & Support

• 🐛 Found a bug? Create a new Issue
• 👋 Wanna help? Fork it!

🎩 License

GPLv3 license. Made by Humans from OpenPeeps.
Copyright OpenPeeps & Contributors — All rights reserved.