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Ads and trackers are gone before the page arrives.
Ghostery filter lists run inside the app from the first page load. There is nothing to install and nothing to set up.
Free for macOS · Apple silicon and Intel
The browser that shows the page and then gets out of the way.
Nook blocks ads and trackers before a page loads, opens articles in a reader view, and can hide its own toolbar. There is no account, no sync, and nothing sent anywhere.
I built Nook because browsing had stopped feeling quiet.
I would open a page to read one article and get a cookie banner, a video that starts on its own, a sidebar I never opened, a prompt to sign in, a prompt to sync, a new AI button. The article was in there somewhere.
Nook is my answer. It is small and it stays out of the way. It has a tab strip, an address bar, and four buttons. That is the whole interface, on purpose.
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Reader mode keeps the words and the pictures.
One shortcut and the page is reduced to its article. Everything else is dropped.
⌘ ⇧ R
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Focus mode leaves nothing on screen but the page.
The tab strip and toolbar slide away. Move the mouse to the top edge and they come back for a moment.
⌘ ⇧ F
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Bookmarks, history, and downloads in one panel.
Behind the menu button. Bookmarks are saved as a plain file on your Mac; history is kept only while the app runs.
⌘ D⌘ /
Tabs that behave
Drag to reorder, mute the one playing sound, reopen the one you just closed, jump by number with ⌘1 to ⌘9.
Find in page
⌘F finds a word and counts the matches as you type.
Cleared when you quit
Cookies and cache go when the app closes. No account, no sync, no telemetry, no crash reporting.
See it in two minutes
1:48 · narrated by ArunDownload Nook
Free. A universal build for Apple silicon and Intel Macs, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Download for macOS
Nook.dmg · 222 MB · SHA-256 ships with every release