What's New

1.20 April 24, 2024

New Highlighted queries in search suggestions.
Fixed Tab loading could get stuck in certain conditions.
Fixed Cryptic error codes displayed in browsing errors.

1.19 April 17, 2024

New Revamped browsing errors: cleaner look, easier to dismiss, no more toolbar blocking, and nice haptics.
New Visual notification when copying a link from toolbar or menu.
New “Move to Private” button now available in toolbar.
Fixed “Move to Private” didn’t switch the tab overview to private tabs.

1.18 April 3, 2024

New Add websites to Home Screen from the share sheet.
Changed Scripts and Desktop Website modes remembered per website.
Changed Clearer on/off indicators on Scripts, Desktop Website, and Blocker toolbar and menu buttons.
Changed Search suggestions update faster.
Fixed Crashes in menu and layout settings screens.
Fixed Links could be accidentally opened when dragged & dropped on iPhone.

1.17 March 27, 2024

New Browsing history can be disabled in Settings → Privacy. (Thanks romskii!)
New Low Power Mode battery savings can be disabled in Settings → Battery. (Thanks Longely!)
New Startpage can be set as the default search engine, but search suggestions are not available. (Thanks FS!)
New Wikipedia Current Events and Noema Magazine have been added to the default favorites. (Thanks Abdullah for the great recos!)
Fixed Some missing or inaccurate Japanese translations.

1.16 March 19, 2024

New Adjust text size on individual websites with the new Text Zoom toolbar and menu buttons.
Fixed Missing translation in search bar placeholder. (Thanks Francesco!)
Fixed Copy link toolbar button was enabled on start page. (Thanks Bartleby!)

1.15 February 27, 2024

New Quiche Browser now automatically blocks ads, trackers, cookie banners, and various other types of insufferable nuisances by default. You can turn it off globally in Settings → Blocker, or selectively for individual websites using the Blocker toolbar and menu buttons.
Changed Gestures and haptics settings have been merged into a single screen.
Changed Privacy settings have been moved to a separate settings screen.

1.14.1 January 29, 2024

Fixed Audio and video recording were not supported. (Thanks Roman!)

1.14 January 21, 2024

New Printing is now also available from the share sheet. (Thanks flowinho from Audiodump!)
Fixed Searching for x.com redirected to search results instead of the website formerly known as Twitter. (Thanks Souma!)

1.13 January 5, 2024

New Printing functionality is now available through the Print toolbar and menu buttons. (Thanks flowinho from Audiodump!)

1.12 November 27, 2023

New The Home button, available for the toolbar and menu, navigates back to the page configured in Settings → New Tab. (Thanks Gary!)
Changed Background tabs will be suspended after 10 minutes, except when there is a media playing.
Changed “Custom page” has been renamed to “Homepage.”
Fixed A rare crash related to the start page.

1.11.4 November 12, 2023

Changed More Japanese localization improvements. (Thanks Souma!)

1.11.3 November 10, 2023

Changed Japanese localization improvements. (Thanks Souma!)

1.11.2 November 9, 2023

Changed Minor text and localization improvements.

1.11.1 November 8, 2023

Fixed JavaScript panels were not displayed.

1.11 November 7, 2023

New New tabs can be opened with a custom page instead of the start page, in Settings → New Tab. (Thanks Fletcher and applewolf!)
New First-time users will see a new onboarding experience.
Changed Opening menus from the toolbar plays haptic feedback. (Thanks Eric!)
Changed Undo close tab now restores the scroll position and the back/forward history.
Changed The “show keyboard automatically” setting has moved to Settings → New Tab.
Fixed Closing a tab from a long-press menu in the tab overview was not undoable.

1.10 November 2, 2023

New Closed tabs can be reopened using the new undo command, available as toolbar and menu buttons, and in the tab overview menu.
New Copy link, site home, and start page commands are now available as toolbar buttons.
Fixed Under certain conditions, the tab state was not properly restored after force-quitting the app, or a crash. (Thanks Longely!)
Fixed The address bar was overlapping with the phone’s notch in landscape orientation on some devices (Thanks Dmytro!)
Fixed The visual separators between start page favorites were missing in list mode.

1.9 October 26, 2023

New Private mode is now visually more prominent on start pages.
New A new toolbar and menu button for accessing the desktop version of a website.
Changed The grid layout in the tab overview has been slightly improved.
Fixed Searching with Kagi didn’t work when the “q=%s” parameter was missing. (Thanks Aerolith!)

1.8 October 12, 2023

Long-press menus were added to certain toolbar buttons.

New The back-forward long-press menu lets you navigate back or forward through multiple pages.
New The tabs long-press menu allows to switch to the currently active private or non-private tab.
New The close tab long-press menu allows to clear all tabs and all data.
New The new tab long-press menu allows to open a new private tab from a non-private tab.
Changed The icon for private mode has been changed to the hand symbol used in Safari.
Fixed Swipe gestures and Find on Page were not working after moving a tab to private mode.
Fixed The “reduce transparency” accessibility setting was not properly applied to the search bar. (Thanks Kylan!)

1.7 October 4, 2023

New You can now subscribe to Quiche+ to support my work and unlock new, exclusive app icons. It is totally optional, and rest assured all essential features will remain available for free. But the app icons are quite cool if you ask me.
Fixed Blob URLs were not working. (Thanks Christoph!)

1.6 September 28, 2023

New The tab overview has a new, more convenient look when in grid mode and “group by domain” is enabled.
New When opening the tab overview, the list scrolls automatically so that the last active tab is visible.
New You can now share the app from Settings → Share Quiche Browser.
Fixed Search queries with operators like “site:quiche.org” were not working.
Fixed Changing the tab opening animation in Settings only applied after closing the current tab. (Thanks Longely!)

1.5 September 21, 2023

New The tab overview scrolls automatically to the last active tab on app launch, when switching between private and non-private modes, and when changing the display and grouping settings.
New When opening the tab overview in list mode, the current tab’s row stays highlighted for a short moment.
New You can open a new tab or start a new search with a long press on Quiche Browser app icon.
New You can open a new tab or start a new search from the new URL schemes. Open Settings → Help for more details. (Thanks Benjamin!)
Changed The tab overview layout has been slightly improved.
Fixed Favicon display was sometimes delayed when scrolling the tab overview.
Fixed The tinting color was missing or inaccurate on some sites. (Thanks Longely!)

1.4.2 September 13, 2023

Changed The automatically generated menus now include Find on Page, and position the Reload button in a nicer way.
Fixed The address bar was sometimes not visible when opening the keyboard.
Fixed Picture in Picture was not working.

1.4.1 September 1, 2023

Fixed The British English localization was incomplete.

1.4 August 31, 2023

New Tapping on the start page background now closes the keyboard. (Thanks Longely for the suggestion.)
New Tapping on the tabs list background now goes back to the last active tab. (Thanks Longely for that one too!)
New Quiche Browser is now available in British English.
New Quiche Browser est enfin disponible en Français !
New Quicheブラウザがついに日本語に対応しました！
Changed The “Find” button has been renamed to “Find on Page.”

1.3.2 August 26, 2023

Fixed In some rare cases, the app could crash after closing a tab.

1.3.1 August 25, 2023

Changed The default user agent has been reverted to Safari in order to prevent Google sign in issues.
Fixed The toolbar didn’t revert to its normal height when dismissing the keyboard during an opening animation. (Thanks Dmytro and Loïc!)
Fixed The keyboard was closing automatically whenever the current web page was refreshed.

1.3 August 7, 2023

New You can now search for content inside a page, with the new “Find” menu and toolbar items.
New Qwant Search and its search suggestions are now natively supported. (Thanks Christoph!)
Changed The “JavaScript” menu item has a new name and icon, is now available in all sizes as a menu item, and also as a toolbar item.
Changed The “Private” menu item is now “Move to Private,” and allows to switch private tabs back to non-private tabs. (Thanks kccqzy!)
Fixed Tabs opened from external apps were opening as non-private tabs. They now open in the current tab group. (Thanks pasmic!)

1.2 July 31, 2023

New
Kagi Search can be set as the default search engine.
New
Any search engine can be set as the default search engine, but search suggestions are not supported.

1.1 July 14, 2023

New
Quiche Browser can now be set as the default browser! In Settings → Set as Default Browser → Default Browser App, select “Quiche Browser.”
New
Release notes are available in Settings → What’s New.

1.0 July 10, 2023

Initial public release.