The polished, native Mac browser for life after Arc
A native Mac browser for people leaving Arc, with the sidebar and spaces you're used to. Built on WebKit, not Chromium, and that's the point: the whole app is 18 MB (Arc is 871). Switching takes a minute. One import brings over everything, so you're already logged in. Colored spaces you swipe between, split view, peek, Chrome extensions like 1Password and Tampermonkey, and ad blocking built-in Open source, no account, no AI. Nobody can shut it down.
I'm Zigao, a high school student in Shanghai. I used Arc every day, and when it went into maintenance mode, nothing else felt right: the alternatives were Chromium wrappers or missing what made Arc great. So I built my own.
Zigzag is a native Mac browser, written in Swift on the WebKit that ships with macOS. That's why it's only 18 MB (Arc is 871 MB on my Mac). No account, no telemetry, no server of mine it depends on, and it's fully open source (Apache 2.0), so nobody can ever switch your browser off.
What you get:
- Your tabs in a sidebar, grouped into colored spaces you swipe between
- Split view (drag a tab onto the page), Peek (shift-click a link), a command bar
- Import from Arc in one go: spaces, pinned tabs, folders, passwords, and even your sign-ins, so Google and GitHub are already logged in
- Chrome extensions from the Web Store: 1Password, Dark Reader, uBlock Origin Lite, Tampermonkey…
- Built-in ad blocking, YouTube included
- Just shipped: a full Simplified Chinese version
It's in beta and it's my daily browser. I'd love your feedback, especially the honest kind. What would make you switch?
About Zigzag Browser on Product Hunt
“The polished, native Mac browser for life after Arc”
Zigzag Browser launched on Product Hunt on November 8th, 2026 and earned 111 upvotes and 33 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. A native Mac browser for people leaving Arc, with the sidebar and spaces you're used to. Built on WebKit, not Chromium, and that's the point: the whole app is 18 MB (Arc is 871). Switching takes a minute. One import brings over everything, so you're already logged in. Colored spaces you swipe between, split view, peek, Chrome extensions like 1Password and Tampermonkey, and ad blocking built-in Open source, no account, no AI. Nobody can shut it down.
On the analytics side, Zigzag Browser competes within Mac, Open Source, GitHub and Apple — topics that collectively have 230k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Zigzag Browser performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Zigzag Browser?
Zigzag Browser was hunted by Zigao Wang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Zigao Wang
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Zigao, a high school student in Shanghai. I used Arc every day, and when it went into maintenance mode, nothing else felt right: the alternatives were Chromium wrappers or missing what made Arc great. So I built my own.
Zigzag is a native Mac browser, written in Swift on the WebKit that ships with macOS. That's why it's only 18 MB (Arc is 871 MB on my Mac). No account, no telemetry, no server of mine it depends on, and it's fully open source (Apache 2.0), so nobody can ever switch your browser off.
What you get:
- Your tabs in a sidebar, grouped into colored spaces you swipe between
- Split view (drag a tab onto the page), Peek (shift-click a link), a command bar
- Import from Arc in one go: spaces, pinned tabs, folders, passwords, and even your sign-ins, so Google and GitHub are already logged in
- Chrome extensions from the Web Store: 1Password, Dark Reader, uBlock Origin Lite, Tampermonkey…
- Built-in ad blocking, YouTube included
- Just shipped: a full Simplified Chinese version
It's in beta and it's my daily browser. I'd love your feedback, especially the honest kind. What would make you switch?