Alternatives to Servo

Experiment with a browser engine written in Rust. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Servo.

  • Ladybird

    Explore an independent browser with its own rendering engine.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSLinux

    Ladybird is another independent engine project developed separately from Chromium and Firefox, available only on macOS and Linux and described as pre-alpha for developers.

  • Firefox

    The main browser not built on Chromium, with tracking protection turned on by default.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOS

    Firefox gives you a finished everyday browser on the Gecko engine across desktop and mobile, instead of a prototype Rust engine shell.

  • Chromium

    The open-source browser project that Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi are all built from.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Chromium moves you to the open-source upstream engine behind Chrome and Edge under BSD-3-Clause, a complete browser rather than a prototype, though official builds do not auto-update.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Servo as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Flow Browser

    An independent HTML browser engine and browser that lays out pages in parallel across CPU cores.

    FreeProprietaryLinux

    Servo is an open-source browser engine written in Rust with a shell for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, but it remains a prototype rather than an everyday browser.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.