Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond

Summary

After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here. What started as a vision initiated by our founder, Vladimir Prelovac, has now come to fruition on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Today, Orion for macOS officially leaves its beta phase behind and joins our iOS and iPadOS apps as a fully‑fledged, production‑ready browser. While doing so, it expands Kagi ecosystem of privacy-respecting, user-centric products (that we have begun fondly naming “Kagiverse”) to now include: Search, Assistant, Browser, Translate, News with more to come. We built Orion for people who feel that modern browsing has drifted too far from serving the user. This is our invitation to browse beyond ✴︎ the status quo. Why a new browser? The obvious question is: why the heck do we need a new browser? The world already has Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and a growing list of “AI browsers.” Why add yet another? Because something fundamental has been lost. Zero telemetry, privacy‑first access to the internet: a basic human right. Your browser is the most intimate tool you have on your computer. It sees everything you read, everything you search, everything you type. Do you want that relationship funded by advertisers, or by you? With ad‑funded browsers and AI overlays, your activity is a gold mine. Every click becomes a way to track, every page another opportunity to profile you a little more deeply. We believe there needs to be a different path: a browser that answers only to its user. Orion is our attempt at that browser. No trade-offs between features and privacy. It’s fast, customizable, and uncompromising on both fronts. A bold technical choice: WebKit, not another Chromium clone In a world dominated by Chromium, choosing a rendering engine is an act of resistance. From day one, we made the deliberate choice to build Orion on WebKit, the open‑source engine at the heart of Safari and the broader Apple ecosystem. It gives us: A high‑performance engine that is deeply optimized for macOS a...