Hey everyone!

We're excited to announce that Bare Browser's first stable release is officially live on Google Play!

If you're already using an older version of Bare, head over to Google Play to update to the latest stable release!

We're already working on the next update, with more improvements and features on the way.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.barebrowser

Thank you all for your support and feedback. This is just the beginning!

Descargo desde GitHub en código fuente de Bare, arreglo el fallo o lo que sea que no tenga que estar en Bare, lo compilo, y pruebo en un segundo celular android que es más viejo a Bare modificado por mi y de paso nos aseguramos de la compatibilidad, y ahí si está bien todo subo el código fuente a GitHub para formar parte de Bare para Android. Solo necesito saber en qué cosas están trabajando ahora con el código y que es lo que quieren mejorar o eliminar posteriormente.

Así podemos hacer a Bare un navegador mejor!!!!

Lamento que no pueda ayudar con el Bare para iOS 😒pero se que quedará bien, cambiarán el estilo para iOS o será igual que en el Android?

Cómo puedo ayudar al desarrollo de Bare? Mejorar cosas, hacer Bare un mejor navegador.

La verdad es que me interesa mucho y quisiera ayudar muchísimo dentro de lo posible.

Yo les ayudo a encontrar fallos porque me gustan esos proyectos que buscan salirse de gigantes tecnológicos. Deberían quizá mostrar una página propia igual se que es por Chromium

Yo puse estrellas en Bare desde Google Play, pero hay cosas que pueden tener problemas legales como en el apartado de pestañas muestra el logo de Google Chrome. Debería quizá mostrar el logo de Bare. Pero creo que no ví nada más que requiriera arreglarlo. Voy a seguir buscando igual para ayudarlos. Ahh y no se inicia sesión con cuenta de Google ?

The next Bare Android update is officially out on GitHub! We've been working hard on this release, and there's a lot to share.

Already using the GitHub version?

Simply open Bare, go to Settings → Check for Updates, and install the latest release.

New to Bare? Download it directly from GitHub:
https://github.com/BareBrowser/bare-browser/releases/tag/v1.0.0

The Google Play Store update has also been submitted for review and should hopefully be available in the next few days.

Here's what's new:

• Chromium 156 + uBlock Origin 1.75.0: Updated to Chromium 156.0.8078.25, with all our custom browser features rebuilt on top of it.
• Mobile Developer Tools: Inspect Elements, Styles, and Console directly on your phone, with a layout designed for smaller screens.
• Better Extension Management: A cleaner, more readable interface optimized for mobile.
• Install CRX Files Locally: Install extensions directly from CRX files stored on your device, with a review step before installation.
• Brand-New Welcome Experience: Customize your search engine, ad blocker, address bar position, download behavior, background playback, update checks, and default browser during setup.
• Cleaner Google New Tab: Keep Google Search without the broken Discover card, unnecessary doodle requests, or theme promotions.
• Dark Mode Improvements: Better contrast on dark websites, plus dark-site settings now apply instantly without restarting Bare.
• Bug Fixes & Improvements: Fixed the missing Exit icon, improved extension reliability, and reduced unwanted background requests.

What about Community Extensions?

We're still working on this one!

Our goal is to make it easier to discover and install extensions recommended by the community, including extensions that aren't easy to find through the Chrome Web Store.

It's a bigger feature that deserves some extra attention, so we're saving it for a future release. For now, you'll see a Coming Soon button.

What's next?

Now that Bare is officially available on Google Play, we're getting back to regular updates!

We're also finally catching up on our GitHub issue tracker! We know there are quite a few issues and feature requests waiting for our attention, and we'll be going through them.

If you encounter any bugs, please report them on GitHub rather than letting them get buried in Reddit comments. It makes it much easier for us to track, investigate, and fix them.

We know things have been a little quiet lately, and we really appreciate your patience while we worked through the Play Store approval process.

Bare is still free, open-source, and built with privacy in mind. No telemetry, no subscriptions, and no in-app purchases.

Thank you to everyone who's downloaded Bare, reported bugs, shared ideas, or simply supported the project.

Keep the feedback coming. We're building Bare with you, and there's a lot more on the way!

Bare Browser está hecho con Chromium o Firefox? Tienen una versión para iOS porque Apple pide usar WebKit, como les fue con eso?

Se que están trabajando o lanzaron Bare Browser para Android, que lenguajes usaron? Es código abierto? Perdón muchas preguntas jeje

We’re in the final stretch of work on the next Bare Android release. Here’s the changelog we’re testing, though this isn’t a release announcement yet.

• Chromium 156 with uBO 1.75.0: We’ve moved Bare to Chromium 156.0.8078.25 and rebuilt our browser changes on top of it.
• Developer Tools on phones: Open Elements, Styles, and Console in a layout that uses the phone’s screen width, rather than a desktop view squeezed down.
• Extensions built for phone screens: A more readable management page.
• Local CRX installation: Pick a CRX from your phone and review it before adding it.
• New welcome flow: Choose your search engine, ad blocker, address bar position, download behavior, background media playback, update checks, and default browser.
• Cleaner Google new tab: Keep Google search while removing the broken Discover card, doodle request, and theme promotion.
• System and UI fixes: Improve dark-site contrast, make the dark-site setting take effect without restarting Bare, add the missing Exit icon, and address extension reliability and unwanted background requests.

Community Extensions is a bigger project for a later release. Some extensions are hard to find through the Chrome Web Store. We want to make it easier to discover the ones you use, including those harder-to-find options. For now, the button will say “Coming soon.”

We don’t have a firm release date, but we’re aiming for this week if device testing and the independent audit pass.

Thanks for sticking with Bare, and for your patience with our slower replies while we’ve been focused on development.

Using the latest version of Bare I like to use Google for default search as it offers best results. Selecting it from the search menu when on the homepage, you get the added Google AI & Incognito tabs. I tried to edit the search string but don't get the option as greyed out. So I had to add an extra Google search but with the simplified /search?q=%s then its just the search bar. So the question would be can the search string in the default Google option be made editable.

Bit long winded but just wanted to clarify the question. Also someone else mentioned before about not displaying search history when using Google, I hope you've found a way to disable it.

I feel like Alpha 3 hasn’t been updated for almost a month, probably because of the Play Store release process. During this time, I’ve been using it as my default browser for almost everything, and I’ve noticed several issues.

Link handling is quite slow and sometimes unreliable. When opening a link from a Google search, a weird loading circle appears in the middle, and the startup experience can be problematic.

Another major issue is background tab handling. If I leave the browser in the background for around 25 seconds and then return to it—for example, when switching back after entering an OTP—the page reloads. On uBlock Origin pages, this can even cause a noticeable “earthquake-like” visual effect during the reload.

There are also several features I’d really like to see in future updates:

• Chrome Web Store support in a normal browser window, similar to how Vivaldi handles it.
• Automatic uBlock Origin updates in the background, without requiring manual updating.
• A more unique UI design instead of looking too similar to Chrome.
• Better AMOLED theming. The current Play Store version’s AMOLED theme still feels like it could be improved.
• Better startup and background memory management to prevent unnecessary reloads.

Most importantly, please consider sharing development updates and upcoming features through posts here whenever possible. Even small updates would be appreciated. I’m genuinely waiting for the next update and would love to know roughly when we can expect it.

I’d also strongly suggest creating a more active Discord community or GitHub Discussions where users can directly interact, report issues, suggest features, and follow development. Reddit seems to be relatively inactive, and because of that, people are gradually losing interest in posting there.

I know app development takes a lot of time and effort, and I really appreciate the work that goes into Alpha 3. That’s also why I don’t think leaving random 1-star reviews is helpful—those reviews often make it seem like developers can build and perfect everything overnight.

I’m looking forward to seeing how Alpha 3 develops. Please keep us updated when you can! 🙏

Well, that didn’t take long lol.

Bare finally made it to the Play Store after nearly a month of waiting for approval, and our very first review was… one star!

I’m not going to lie, that one stung a little.

I wanted to share this because I think people sometimes underestimate how much work goes into building and maintaining a Chromium-based browser, especially when you’re a tiny project competing in a world of tech giants.

We’re putting countless hours into Bare, constantly fixing bugs, updating Chromium, testing features, and trying to build something genuinely useful.

And we’re doing all of this with a pretty simple philosophy:
No tracking
No telemetry
No in-app purchases
Free and open source

We’re not building Bare to collect your data or squeeze money out of you. We’re building the browser we’d want to use ourselves.

Of course, security updates matter A LOT. And we’re taking them seriously. We updated our Chromium base with upstream security fixes on September 11, although the Play Store approval process meant that version only became available recently.

We’re still in alpha. There are bugs, missing features, and plenty of things we want to improve. We’re not pretending otherwise.

But here’s the fun part: most of the other reviews have been incredibly encouraging. People are sharing ideas, reporting bugs, and genuinely rooting for us. And that’s what keeps this project going.

So, to everyone who downloaded Bare, left a review, opened an issue, or simply gave us a chance: THANK YOU!

And to our first reviewer, thanks for keeping our feet on the ground I guess haha.

Also, please know that none of your Reddit posts or GitHub issues go unnoticed! We’re reading everything, even if we don’t always respond. We’re a little overwhelmed with development right now, and that’s where most of our time and energy is going. Once things settle down, we’ll catch up on replies and the issue tracker. We really appreciate your patience and support!

We’re just getting started.

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Now it might feel dumb but i feel like githuh repo is not getting enough attention from the devs compared to reddit. Now both have their usase but for for bug/feature reports github is superior. There are about 60 issues reported last i checked. But most of them (if not all) are not handled or any hint of acknowledgement are shown.

Now the team behind the actual app and thus reddit page maybe different and the actual device behind this app want to keep it low key and i respect that. I hope some attention is given in this aspect. If community supports something the man behind the project gets motivated. But same can be said for other side. Showing constant progress/intersecting with the community makes people keep supporting the project and help to make it better.

Thx

Hey Bare users!

Bare is officially live on the Google Play Store! 🎉

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.barebrowser

This is our first Play Store release, and bug fixes, improvements, and new features will start flowing from here!

Please download the app and be nice to our review section 😄 We know we still have a long way to go, but we really appreciate all your support, feature requests, and bug reports.

Bare was built around your suggestions and recommendations, and it’ll keep getting better because of you.

Thank you for being part of Bare from the beginning! ❤️

Hi everyone!

Quick update: we officially submitted Bare for production on the Google Play Store on Thursday! If everything goes smoothly with the review, the app should be publicly available within the next few days. We’ll keep you posted!

We’ve been holding off on pushing updates while we lock in the Play Store release, but development hasn’t stopped. Bug fixes, improvements, and new features are already in the works.

Once the Play Store version is live, our next step will be F-Droid. From there, you can expect updates to start flowing much more frequently.

Thanks for sticking with us, and a HUGE thank you to all of our testers! We couldn’t have made it to production without you!

Please BARE with us!

Has anyone observed the uBlock Origin (uBO) version on Bare? Currently it's running on v-1.75.0 (stable) but in Bare it's running on v-1.73.0.

I tried updating it to the latest version from the extensions page using Developer Mode but that didn't succeed either. It displays that extensions were updated but the actual version isn't actually updating.

I know the process of installing from external sources but I don't prefer downloading .CRX or ZIP files from GitHub or any other repositories and adding them.

1) Please consider Adding a video/media detection and capture feature to Bare Browser similar to 1DM Browser, allowing users to easily detect and download videos or media directly from webpages.

2) Add a built-in video player similar to Quetta Browser, allowing users to play detected web videos directly in the browser with basic playback controls.

There are community patches to chromium based browsers like titanium,quetta,firefox to force maximum refresh rate i think its good natively chrome and other browsers render in 60 hz and the only way to force 120hz you need adb i think adding this paych to bare is very helpful

pls give your thoughts !!

Above image is for reference

Currently i am on the playstore beta release any updates regarding future release

This is getting really annoying 😭

I like this new browser, have some personal request for big phone user is really help and make use more nicely.

- Homepage search bottom option and web/bookmark shortcut in hompage

- Tab page is nice have list option, but need bottom option too

That would really help in big phone user, have to reach on top every time is annoying.

And for uBO origin crx file import, can make direct pull from file?

There’s a LOT happening behind the scenes at Bare right now.

We’re trying to keep up with comments, DMs, feature requests, bug reports, development, releases, Play Store, F-Droid and somehow even marketing on the internet.

That’s a lot for a one-man project, so Bare is expanding! Two more developers are already jumping in to help, and we’re incredibly excited about what we’re building together.

We’re working hard to build something awesome that you genuinely love using.

And please don’t hate us if we don’t reply to every comment or DM. I promise we read every comment, tag, message, and piece of feedback. There’s just a lot to build, a lot to fix, and we also have lives and families who occasionally demand our attention 🤷‍♂️

Keep the feedback coming. Keep reporting bugs. Keep asking for features.

We’re listening. We’re building.

Please BARE with us!

Hello, thank you for this great project, i've tried your browser and noticed only 2 features are missing, there is no "more tools" menu which has devtools and task manager, also i can't open extension popups from the extensions menu without having to pin the extension to the toolbar first.

Thank you again.