May 21st, 2019 | Updated on April 2nd, 2024
Our smartphones are an important part of our lives. So much so that we practically spend a very long time of our day accomplishing a variety of tasks on the same.
However, for a better experience, we need web browsers that accommodate as per the content we are watching.
Since smartphones have a comparatively smaller screen if the same does not happen you would most likely miss half of the information.
Though there are multiple web browsers available for mobile usage not all of them are equipped to handle the task at hand.
Here we bring to you 10 best mobile browsers that enhance the entire web browsing experience and help you move ahead with your basic jobs.
These 15 best web browsers have been scrutinized on the basis of their features and what kind of benefits they offer to the users.
You can read about them and get to know which ones of them are suitable for your particular task requirement.
1. Firefox Focus
Browse like no one’s watching. The new Firefox Focus automatically blocks a wide range of online trackers — from the moment you launch it to the second you leave it.
Easily erase your history, passwords and cookies, so you won’t get followed by things like unwanted ads.
“Private browsing” on most browsers isn’t comprehensive or easy to use.
Focus is next-level privacy that’s free, always on and always on your side — because it’s backed by Mozilla, the non-profit that fights for your rights on the Web.
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Review: PCMag
Your Web browsing these days is subject to more tracking and profiling than ever.
Though most browsers offer a privacy mode that erases any cookies or browsing history after you’re done with your session, they don’t hide your browsing from third-party sites like advertisers that track your activities on the Web.
Enter Focus, a new browser for iOS from the Mozilla Foundation that does just that.
Focus is a useful iPhone app for those concerned about their iPhone browsing being tracked, but that means that it’s short on the kinds of features we’ve come to expect from browsers, like bookmarks autofilled passwords.
2. Puffin Web Browser
The web browser is the most important application for users to carry out tasks in everyday lives, but it is highly vulnerable to attacks.
CloudMosa leverages the browser isolation technology to safeguard your web browsing in the cloud and keep threats like malware, ransomware, adware, and malicious links at bay.
With an ever-increasing number of zero-day attacks out there, Puffin Secure Browser provides the most effective way to guard against them.
Puffin speeds up mobile browsing by shifting the workload from the resource-limited devices to the cloud servers, and resource-demanding webpages can run super-fast on your phones or tablets.
Review: PlayStore
Puffin Web Browser is a wicked fast mobile browser. Once users experience the thrilling speed of Puffin, regular Mobile Internet feels like torture.
Puffin Web Browser includes Adobe-Flash-Over-Cloud 24/7 now without additional in-app-purchase.
3. Google Chrome
Get more done with the new Google Chrome on iPhone and iPad. Now more simple, secure and faster-than-ever, with Google Smarts built-in.
Chrome’s address bar uses Google Search to make any fact-finding mission fast and simple. It also searches your Google Drive, so diving into next week’s vacation plan is just that much easier.
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Review: TopTenReviews
Google Chrome is a simple web browser that’s easy to navigate, and it is one of the best options for Android users who want to access the internet on their cell phones and tablets.
It is also compatible with Apple computers and mobile devices, which makes Chrome versatile and is the reason many prefer this internet browser.
While it wasn’t as fast as Mozilla Firefox in navigation tests, Chrome still performs well and is equally good at protecting against phishing schemes and malware downloads.
During our time tests, Chrome took under a second to open, which is very fast compared to most web browsers.
However, it took nearly five seconds to navigate from one page to another, which makes it one of the slowest browsers we tested.
4. Flynx
Flynx helps you open articles and links from all your favorite apps like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Google+, etc. in a revolutionary new way.
Review: PlayStore
It loads articles and links in background for you while you do something productive.
Flynx loads the web page in the background thereby allowing you to do something more productive than to stare at your screen in anticipation.
An entire floating browser opens over the current app allowing you to browse through the page.
5. Opera
We know you like to browse the web when you’re on the go.
That’s why Opera Touch features a fast web search and is designed to make it easy to browse with only one hand.
It’s a browser so good, it won a Red Dot Award for its user interface design.
When you start Opera Touch, the browser is instantly ready to find things on the web. Just start typing or use voice search.
When you have found a QR code, simply use the app to scan it and go to the website it links to.
You can also use Opera Touch to scan a barcode on a product and to look it up online.
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Review: PCMag
Opera has a long history of creating innovative in the Web browsers.
In fact, several things we take for granted in our Web experience originated in the Norwegian-built browser, including a tabbed interface, popup blockers, and integrated search.
After loading up on and subsequently stripping itself of unique features, Opera has returned to innovating and differentiating itself, with built-in ad-blocking, pop-out video, a battery saver, a turbo compression scheme, and now even a free built-in virtual private network (or VPN) that’s as fast as many premium services.
The company behind Opera recently agreed to be acquired by a Chinese consortium that we hope continues the company’s tradition of innovation, strong privacy features, and independence continues.
6. Brave Browser
Brave Web Browser is a faster, free, secure web browser for iOS with a built-in AdBlocker that prevents tracking and provides security protection, and optimized data and battery experience.
Brave adblocker browser is designed with a built-in Ad Block to provide an ad-free and seamless browsing experience.
No external plugins or settings to manage or configure! Brave simply provides the fastest and most secure browsing experience available for iOS.
Brave is designed for both speed and security, so you can enjoy lightning fast browsing without popups, malware and other annoyances.
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Review: iTunes
I don’t know if you have fixed this yet or have been aware of this bug: When having at least 1 bookmark saved and then I want to add another bookmark, sometimes the new bookmark will show the same name as another bookmark when I add a new bookmark, this is not bad until I want to delete the said bookmark but cant until I tap on both bookmarks showing the same name and go to the webpage and verify the one I want to delete is correct.
Ways I have been able to work around this bug is by: tapping on the bookmark and allowing it to load the page to verify it truly is the right bookmark that I want to delete.
I watch animation a lot so certain links after awhile get updated so when I got to the webpage the bookmark blue icon showing that it is a bookmark on brave may vanish overtime so I hope you can look into this and fix it if it has not been done yet?
7. DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
With its roots as the search engine that doesn’t track you, it has expanded what we do to protect you no matter where the Internet takes you.
Browse as usual, and it will take care of the rest. It has bundled its search engine, tracker blocker, and encryption enforcer into one Chrome Extension.
Search privately with our app or extension, add private web search to your favorite browser, or search directly at duckduckgo.com.
Its private browser for mobile comes equipped with our search engine, tracker blocker, encryption enforcer, and more.
Review: Tom’s Guide
DuckDuckGo doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of the rest of the best Android browsers.
But DuckDuckGo makes up for what it lacks with its singular focus on keeping your activity private.
A button to the right of the address/search bar will wipe all your activity at any moment with a tap.
DuckDuckGo also eliminates any ad-trackers that may be trying to follow you around the web and automatically will default to the highest encryption available on the site you are visiting.
While the browser itself isn’t reporting any of your activity back to DuckDuckGo, this still falls short of a full VPN.
If you are looking to keep your activity secure from even your carrier or the Wi-Fi network you are connected to, then you will need a separate VPN app for that purpose.
8. Dolphin Browser
Simplify your mobile life. Let Dolphin do all the work so you don’t have to.
Use Dolphin’s tabbed browsing and share any web content instantly to your favorite social networks and send between desktop and mobile devices.
Download Dolphin for the best iPad web browser experience. Dolphin’s free iPad browser has tons of exclusive features.
Review: TECHSPOT
Dolphin Android Gesture simplifies the way you navigate the mobile web. Open any of your favorite websites with just the touch of your fingertip.
Say goodbye to typing and let Dolphin Android Gesture transform the way you interact with your Smartphone or Tablet.
Bring up Match.com by drawing a heart. Scroll up and down the page by drawing arrows. Or create your own Gesture by drawing any symbol. Click here to watch how it works.
9. Ecosia Browser
Ecosia is the tech company that puts the ability to do good into the hands of internet users.
When you use Ecosia to browse the web, your searches are helping to plant trees and reverse the effects of climate change.
Like other search engines, Ecosia makes money from search ads. The big difference is, Ecosia uses its profits to plant trees, where nature and people need them most.
The Ecosia community is planting millions of trees every month across the world’s most threatened biodiversity hotspots, simply by searching the web.
The more people that use Ecosia, the more trees we can plant, it’s that easy! So what are you waiting for?
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Review: iTunes
The idea of Ecosia is awesome and is gonna be the search engine of choice for a long time, personally.
However, it would be amazing if the UI was worked on to look more modern and appealing.
It does already look nice, but by getting that minimalist look, trees would have no more worries, in my opinion.
10. Phoenix Browser
Use private tabs to browse incognito and keep your secrets from others without leaving a trace on your device.
Tiny size and large content
Review: Softonic
Phoenix Browser is a web browser that is designed to make mobile browsing easier and faster.
Compared to most of the popular browsers, it is equipped with tools that allow for fast streaming, instant downloads, easy game access, and quick social media access.
Phoenix Browser does not demand or consume large mobile data so you can enjoy surfing the internet for hours without any worries.
As for privacy and security, users can enter incognito mode to prevent any of their internet sessions from being recorded or tracked.
Any information entered in websites while in incognito mode will also not be saved by Phoenix Browser.
11. Kiwi Browser
Kiwi for Gmail 2.0 integrates all of G Suite (formerly Google Apps) with Gmail as the centerpiece.
We turn Gmail and the rest of G Suite into a full-powered desktop client that takes everything you know and love about Gmail and apps such as Docs, Sheets and Slides, and add great new features – including the ability to simplify your life by seamlessly managing multiple Gmail accounts.
Finally a solution for office productivity that competes with Microsoft Office 365.
Kiwi for Gmail 2.0 with G Suite revolutionizes Gmail by transforming not only the functionality and interface of Gmail itself, but also how it works with Google Apps.
By providing multiple windows, desktop integration, and a simple, intuitive interface that allows you to quickly access each application, open new documents, and get back to recent documents with a single click, Kiwi for Gmail 2.0 now gives you all the great functionality of G Suite apps in a better way.
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Review: techradar
Google offers a huge range of online services, but the problem with most of them is that you are tied to your web browser when you want to use them.
If you use multiple Google tools – such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and so on – you may find that you struggle to work with them alongside all of the websites you have open.
Kiwi for Gmail is a simple solution that pulls these services out of your browser and transforms them into a desktop app. It’s a wonderfully simple idea and the software manages to feel almost like a native Google app.
12. Lightning Browser
lightning is a minimalist web browser designed with one thing in mind – speed of search.
An order of magnitude smaller than other browsers, Lightning loads in less than a second and is ready to use straight away.
Enable the “Lightning Lookup” service and search on selected text from any application in an instant by typing command.
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Review: PlayStore
Though this browser is very good having features like auto-cleaning private data on exit, orbot support etc but what’s missing is on demand loading of tabs like Firefox (loading a tab only when it is activated after opening the browser).
Its current behavior of loading all open tabs simultaneously ruins loading of the page I want to see first.
Also crashes when opening search results links in the same tab (on Google and startpage). Doesn’t play well with keyboards (tried 2) on an Android 8.
13. Firefox
Experience a fast, smart and personal Web. Firefox is the independent, people-first browser made by Mozilla, voted the Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy.
Upgrade today and join hundreds of millions who depend on Firefox for a more personal browsing experience.
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Review: TopTenReviews
Mozilla Firefox is fast, taking under a minute to start up during our in-house tests. Further, it averaged 4.2 seconds to navigate to and fully load pages, including content-heavy ones like news sites.
This internet browser houses icons, links and settings menus in places where they are easy to find, and it includes all the tools we looked for as we evaluated the best web browsers.
You can browse in private windows and customize your toolbars – for example, you can use a dual URL and search field.
Plus, Mozilla works on many platforms, including both Android cell phones and iPhones, and you can sync your settings so the same tools, options and bookmarks work on all your devices.
As part of our testing, we exposed Firefox to several malicious websites with known phishing schemes and attempted to download malicious files that contained ransomware, Trojans and viruses. In both cases, this browser recognized and blocked more threats than any other we tested.
It is interesting to note, however, that Mozilla Firefox uses Google’s safe search feature to identify malicious websites.
14. Apus
The mission of American Public University System is to provide high quality higher education with emphasis on educating the nation’s military and public service communities by offering respected, relevant, accessible, affordable, and student-focused online programs that prepare students for service and leadership in a diverse, global society.
Review: Safety Detectives
APUS Security includes a two-mode scanner as well as real-time protection. The real-time feature automatically inspects newly installed apps and removes them if they are known to contain viruses.
While the scanner—which is powered by the TOP antivirus engine—will effectively root out any apps that are known to be malware, spyware, or trojans, its protection falls short of what I expected from a dedicated antivirus tool.
15. Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge, now available on Android, creates one continuous browsing experience for Windows 10 users across their devices.
Content and data sync seamlessly in the background, so users can browse across devices, without skipping a beat.
Familiar Microsoft Edge features like the Hub allow users to organize the web in a way that cuts through the clutter, making it easier to find, view and manage their content on-the-go.
Microsoft Edge is designed for Windows 10 users to browse the web how they need to, wherever they are, without disrupting their flow.
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Review: PCMag
Microsoft Edge, the default Windows 10 web browser, is not only fast and compliant with modern web standards, but it also offers some capabilities you won’t find in the competition.
Edge launched with interesting tools like webpage markup, integrated Cortana features, and a distraction-free Reading mode.
Subsequent updates brought additional features, such as Tab Preview, Set Aside, extensions, and ebook reading.
Even without these tricks, Edge is worth consideration, and it’s mostly a pleasure to use. But Edge doesn’t play well with some sites, and its extensions ecosystem is still small by comparison to more mature browsers.
