Open Arc
Your Arc workspace, continued in an open-source Mac browser
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Import your Arc workspace into a free, open-source Mac browser. Bring Spaces, folders, pinned tabs, Favorites and split views. Keep Split View, Peek, Little Arc and automatic tab archiving. Optional sync uses your private iCloud database. No Open Arc account required. Built on Chromium for Apple silicon and macOS 14+. Independent of The Browser Company.
PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized and developer web browsers · 83 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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More like this: all 83 launches in specialized and developer web browsers →
Could you build this?
No A real version is a web browser built on Chromium for Apple silicon, which means forking and building a very large C++ codebase. Matching Arc's Split View, Peek, and sync also needs deep browser-internals and native macOS expertise that vibe coding cannot substitute for.
What it would actually take: Start from a Chromium fork with a native macOS shell (Swift/Objective-C) and a custom tab, space, and sidebar model. The hard parts are the Chromium build and patch maintenance, reimplementing Arc's workspace behaviors inside the browser's internals, and building a sync layer on the private CloudKit database. This needs engineers experienced with browser internals and Apple platform development, plus substantial build infrastructure.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 327 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #92 of 328 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.
- Stedding Browser · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Arcmark · hn · 2026-02-14 · 94 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- macOS · github · 2026-10-27 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Airc · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Zigzag Browser · ph · 2026-11-08 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Arci · ph · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Orb Browser · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- OpenPaste · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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