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About Puffin Browser
Puffin moves the work of loading and rendering web pages onto remote servers and streams the result to the device. This can help on slow connections and low-powered hardware.
The Puffin family includes mobile browsers for Android, an incognito browser, a TV browser, and Puffin Secure Browser for Windows and macOS. Puffin 365 bundles these products in plans for personal, family, business and education use.
Strengths
- Offloads page rendering to remote servers
- Available on desktop, mobile and smart TV
- Separate incognito browser for private sessions
Limitations
- All browsing passes through the vendor's servers
- Closed source
- Full feature set sits in paid plans
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree apps are available; the Puffin 365 bundle is sold as a subscription package.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- CloudMosa
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Android
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Browsing on slow connections or low-powered devices
- Categories
- Web browsers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Puffin Browser
Compare allSoftware that can replace Puffin Browser for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Google Chrome
Google's browser, the Chromium-based one most web development is tested against.
Google Chrome renders pages on your own device instead of remote servers and is free with the largest extension library, but it ties closely into Google account and advertising systems.
Firefox
The main browser not built on Chromium, with tracking protection turned on by default.
Firefox renders pages locally rather than through vendor servers, is free and open source with no paid tiers, and runs on desktop, Android and iOS.
Opera
Chromium browser with an ad blocker, a free proxy VPN and a messenger sidebar.
Opera renders pages locally on Windows, macOS and Linux and includes a free proxy VPN and ad blocker, but its VPN is a browser proxy, not system-wide.
Brave
A Chromium browser that blocks ads and trackers out of the box, with no extension to install first.
Brave renders pages locally with ad and tracker blocking on by default, is open source under MPL-2.0, and removes the need to route browsing through vendor servers.
Firefox Focus
A private mobile browser from Mozilla that blocks trackers and erases history with one tap.
Firefox Focus is a free open-source mobile browser that removes trackers to use less data per page, but it erases history and logins and has no desktop version.
Aloha Browser
A privacy-focused web browser for mobile and desktop with a built-in free VPN and ad blocker.
Aloha Browser is a freemium phone browser for Android and iOS with a free built-in VPN, ad blocking and a biometric app lock, but it has no Windows or macOS build.
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