Alexays/Lilo

# Lilo
Your internet, in bloom.
Light on your Mac, quick on the web, private by default. Free and open source.
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Lilo is a Mac browser for people who live in a sidebar, and it is not another Chromium fork. It is
native Swift and AppKit on the WebKit engine already in macOS, and it still runs the Chrome
extensions you rely on. It puts terminal tabs beside your pages, and lets the AI agents you already
use drive it over a built-in MCP server, in a Space of their own. Free, MIT licensed, no account. If
you are leaving Arc, it imports your Spaces, pinned tabs and folders in a few clicks.
> Status: public beta. Lilo is usable every day, but it is still a beta: expect rough edges and
> an interface that still moves, and please report what breaks.
> ROADMAP.md lists priorities and non-goals.
Join the Discord community to share feedback and get help with Lilo.
## Why Lilo
Most Arc alternatives are Chromium with a new sidebar. Lilo keeps the sidebar and changes the rest.
Not Chromium. No bundled browser engine, no Electron: Swift, AppKit and the system WebKit,
with the sidebar and settings in Svelte. Lower memory use, a battery that lasts the day, and
Apple's security updates with every macOS release.
Private by default. No account, no telemetry, no analytics, no server: nothing you do is
sent to the project. Ads and trackers are blocked out of the box, cross-site tracking is blocked
as in Safari, and Global Privacy Control is on (macOS 27). Every request Lilo makes on its own is
listed, with how to turn it off.
Chrome extensions anyway. Leaving Chromium usually means leaving its extensions. In Lilo,
Chrome Web Store extensions install with one click on "Add to Lilo", on WebKit's native runtime
(COMPATIBILITY.md).
Your agents drive it, it has no AI of its own. No chatbot bolted on: the agents you already
run (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client) use a real browser through the built-in MCP
server, in their own Space and throwaway profile, and ask you before they send, pay or delete.
A terminal beside your pages. Ghostty-based terminal tabs live in the sidebar with your sites,
showing the branch and pending changes of their repository.
Yours. MIT licensed. The whole interface is a Svelte layer over WebKit that you can change
and rebuild in seconds.
## Features
Browsing
Spaces and profiles: Spaces with an emoji and a color, each signed in as its own profile;
swipe between them. Private Spaces forget everything when they close.
Sidebar: pinned tabs, favorites, folders nested up to five levels (lockable), drag to
reorder, audio and now-playing controls.
Command bar (Cmd+T): tabs, history, bookmarks, Spaces and every action in one field,
ranked by what you use.
Recent tabs (Ctrl+Tab): switch through your last tabs, from every Space, in the order you
used them.
Peek: a link from a pinned tab to another site, or any Shift-clicked link, opens over the
page.
Little window (Cmd+Option+N, from any app): a small window for one link or search, sent to
a Space when it turns into something.
Tabs that tidy themselves: unpinned tabs you stop using are archived after a delay you choose