The Auralis orb

Auralis

Remember the future.

A web browser for Windows that looks the way the 2000s said computers would look: glossy, bright and full of sky.

Free and open source. Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit.

Auralis in the Aqua look: tabs down the side, a live wallpaper of green hills, a clock and weather gadgets

The trailer

Seventy-seven seconds. Turn the sound on.

Two looks

Pick one in Settings. Switch whenever you like.

The Aqua look
Aqua is the default. Tabs live down the side like the Wii menu, pinned tabs turn into channels, the buttons are candy-blue gel and there's a clock along the bottom.
The Modern look
Modern is Vista glass with the tabs along the top, a toolbar, a favorites bar and a status bar. The desktop shows through the frame.

What it does

Live wallpapers

New tabs open on real looping footage: dolphins, rain on glass, wind farms, northern lights. Or add your own photos and videos.

Gadgets

A railway clock, weather, a slide show, news headlines, currency rates with a green LCD, a fishbowl and sticky notes. Keep them on new tabs or in a panel beside any page.

Flip 3D and Tab Flip

See every open tab as a tilted stack you can scroll through, or as a searchable grid.

Ad and tracker blocking

Built in, with HTTPS-First and Global Privacy Control. Turn it off per site in one click.

Dangerous site warnings

Known phishing and malware sites get a red stop page. The check runs on your computer, so the sites you visit never leave it.

Chrome extensions

Add them straight from the Chrome Web Store. Their buttons and popups work like they do in Chrome.

Spaces and split view

Keep work and fun in separate sets of tabs, and put two pages side by side.

Sleeping tabs

Tabs you haven't looked at in a while go to sleep and free their memory. They wake up right where you left them.

Little things

Reader view, screenshots, QR codes, picture-in-picture, a feed reader, a media player in the status bar, a pop-up blocker and a Welcome Center.

Get Auralis

1

Download the installer from the latest release.

2

Run it. Windows may say it doesn't recognize the app, because the installer isn't code-signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.

3

The Welcome Center opens on first start. Bring your favorites over from Chrome, Edge or Brave in one click.

Download for Windows