Blanc for macOS, Windows and Linux
Built-in ad and tracker blocking, private tabs, named tab groups and keyboard-first commands.
the browser, reduced
Blanc keeps the everyday browser tools close without building a dashboard around them. Start with the quiet things that make a busy session feel lighter.
the blanc island
No permanent tab strip. No toolbar taking a bite out of every page. Blanc keeps search, tabs, navigation, and page controls in one small island—there when you need it, out of the way when you do not.
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Blanc Blocker stops ads and known trackers using built-in lists, so you never start with an extension. Its shield on the island shows what was blocked here, whether the page uses HTTPS, and turns blocking off for that one site.
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Private tabs stay out of Blanc history, session restore, and reopen-closed. Close the private chip when you are finished and move on.
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Press Command or Control L and the island blends open tabs, favorites, history, and named groups—with optional live suggestions from your chosen search engine—or type / to run a browser command. Moving from Chrome, Edge, Brave, Chromium, or Vivaldi? Bring your Favorites with you.
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Yes — Blanc is free, and everything that makes it a browser stays free: ad and tracker blocking, encrypted sync, private tabs, tab groups, quiet tabs, and passkeys. On macOS, Blanc Patron adds three extra Dock colorways; on every platform, it lets you save a window as a named workspace. Creating a named workspace requires an active Patron subscription. Renaming and removing existing workspaces continue to work if it lapses.
Blanc includes ad and tracker blocking with a per-site exception. No blocker can promise to remove every ad or tracker.
They keep pages out of Blanc history, session restore, and reopen-closed. They are not a separate web identity.
Blanc blocks ads and trackers at the browser level and keeps history and favorites on your device. A fresh profile shows search suggestions and bounded pseudonymous usage measurement on, but neither can send until you save the choices and both can be turned off before continuing. Usage measurement excludes browsing content and private-tab feature activity. Optional sync starts off and is end-to-end encrypted, so the server stores only data it cannot read. The security page covers the architecture; the privacy policy is the full accounting.
Running a VPN means becoming a service business with your traffic in the middle — done honestly it takes audits, infrastructure, and a support organization; done halfway it is a proxy wearing a trench coat. Blanc’s privacy work goes where the browser actually is: blocking at the network layer, sandboxing every page, and shipping no third-party extension runtime. It can also stop WebRTC from opening direct UDP paths around an application proxy, and its encrypted-DNS setting can defer DNS to your system or VPN resolver instead of choosing a browser-level provider. If you already use a VPN you trust, Blanc runs under it like any other app on your device.
No. There is no assistant, no sidebar copilot, no summarizer reading the page over your shoulder — and none planned as an upsell. Blanc is a browser: it renders the web, blocks the noise, and stays out of the way. Any AI you want to use is a website away; it just won’t be bundled into the chrome.
Blanc is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Blanc is built by Bananify, an independent software studio — no venture funding, no investors setting the product agenda. Read more about Blanc.
Yes. Every release ships publicly on GitHub, and the changelog shows what landed most recently.
ready when you are
Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
choose your downloadbelieve in it? become a Patron — $30 a year or $4 a month, macOS Dock colorways, cross-platform named workspaces, our thanks.
custom builds — blanc’s shell (network-level content filtering, privileged internal pages, an explicit permission policy) is available for white-label and kiosk work. get in touch.
