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A browser you build yourself. Every colour, shape, size and font is a setting you can reach. No AI anywhere in it. No telemetry, no account, no server.
This page is running the real thing. Whatever you pick here, the browser can do.
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Every visual value in Chalkboard is one named token. The Chalk Tray does nothing clever, it just rewrites them. So yes, there is a list of Boards below to start from, but none of them is locked. A Board is not a theme you are stuck inside, it is a starting position for every knob, and the knobs stay yours.
--strokeOutline colour, exact hex or H S L--glowHow much it glows, or none at all--radiusCorners, square to fully round--tab-radiusPill, rounded or square tabs--toolbar-hToolbar height, the page moves to fit--fontFive faces, and a size--wallYour own photo on the new tab page--speedAnimation speed, zero turns it off--ui-zoomThe whole UI, smaller or bigger--tab-maxHow wide tabs are allowed to get--textureThe grain over the browser's own surfaces--stripThe tab row, when it differs from the toolbarA Board is every setting as one line of text. Copy it, send it to a friend, and they get your exact browser. Fifteen presets to start from, including a proper light one and nine borrowed browser looks. The tray has Easy, Medium and Expert modes, from three settings to every knob there is.
Sixteen grains over the browser's own surfaces: chalk, paper, concrete, static, film, linen, carbon, graph, halftone and more. All drawn by the browser, none downloaded, and websites are never touched.
One button in the toolbar opens a window with its own session: nothing goes into history, nothing is remembered, and everything it stored is wiped the moment you close it. The button glows while you are inside one, so you always know which kind of window you are in.
Easy is the first minute: Boards, the accent colour, a wallpaper. Medium adds the fun knobs. Expert shows every knob there is. Nothing is ever removed, deeper controls wait for the tier that asks.
A new version is a fifty kilobyte file you hand to the browser from the tray. It swaps itself and restarts, and going back is one button. Nothing is downloaded on its own and nothing is checked online.
Every keyboard shortcut is remappable. Tap one in the tray, press the combo you want, done. It works the same whether the browser or the page has focus.
Two stylesheets, yours. One over the browser itself, one injected into websites, per site or everywhere: your own dark mode for any page, your fonts on any site. Applied as you type.
Your own search engine, any URL with %s in it. Any font on the machine. Toolbar at the top or the bottom. Your pictures on the new tab page and the toolbars. Extensions by dropping a folder in.
.board files
A Board is a whole look as one small file. Tap a card to try it on this page, download it, and open it from the Boards section of the Chalk Tray. On a Mac, double clicking the file is enough.
Twelve of these only exist here. Fifteen ship inside the browser, including the nine that borrow the colours of browsers you already know, so switching does not have to look like switching.
made by everyone
Boards other people made. Vote for the ones you like, and add your own. Nothing here is checked by a company, only by a word filter and by Peter.
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privacy.js
Every privacy decision lives in one readable file, so you can check the whole story yourself instead of trusting a promise.
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It is written, not finished. Built on the Firefox engine so add-ons genuinely work, with the engine's own ad and popup blocking, twelve remappable gestures and the same Chalk Tray. What is left is getting it through a clean build.
Watch it on GitHubThere is no APK yet, and there will not be one here until it builds and runs properly. When it does, this becomes a real download button and nothing else on the page has to change.
New in 1.0: sixteen textures, an icon and a new tab mark that wear your board, and updating from inside the browser. From 0.6: a loading bar, Website CSS for restyling pages, Easy and Medium and Expert modes, fifteen boards with fonts, split view, pinned tabs, board files.
A real Mac app, nothing to install first. One file for every Mac, Apple Silicon and Intel both inside.
Download for MacLives on the releases page. If it looks empty, the file has not been uploaded there yet, it also travels by hand in the meantime. First open: right click the app and choose Open, macOS warns once about unsigned apps.
The whole browser, about 40 KB of code. The same source also runs on macOS.
Eight pages showing the window, the six Boards, the Chalk Tray, the shortcut editor and the privacy stance. Drawn from the same design tokens the browser uses, so it shows the real thing.
Needs Node.js. The npm install step downloads Electron and takes a few minutes. After that it starts in about a second. Prebuilt Mac apps, no Node needed, live on the releases page when published. macOS will warn about an unsigned app: right click it and choose Open, or allow it under Privacy and Security in System Settings.
honest limits
A page where one side wins everything is not worth reading.