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Best Web Browsers for the iPhone

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Overview

Although Safari is a great web browser, it can sometimes leave an iOS user feeling underwhelmed with its feature set. Luckily, these apps can help you get the features you want from the browser on your iPhone, iPod touch, or even your iPad.

Essential Apps

  • $0.99

    Atomic Web Browser - Full Screen Tabbed Browser w/ Download Manager & Dropbox

    by RichTech

    Many people feel that Atomic Web Browser is the best browser on iOS, even when compared to Safari. This app is a feature-packed and customizable web browser that includes a great interface and amazing speed. Some of the major features included in Atomic Web Browser are full screen mode, desktop style tabs, ad blocking, video out, a screen dimmer, private mode and multitouch gestures. One particularly cool trick that the app has up its sleeve is the ability to be identified as a desktop web browser which allows you to avoid mobile sites all together if you wish. Overall, Atomic Web Browser is a great option for those who feel underwhelmed using the included Safari. It is a universal app that only costs a buck and is worth at least a look from everyone using iOS.
  • $2.99

    Skyfire Web Browser

    by Skyfire Labs, Inc.

    Skyfire is a decent browser with a major feature going for it: the ability to play the Apple-hated Flash video format. Although some websites aren’t supported, the browser does a good job of playing video on those sites that it does have support for. Skyfire also has other neat features, but when it comes down to it, this would probably be a better secondary browser for playing Flash videos. This is the iPhone version, but there is also an iPad version, linked below.

Notable Apps

  • $0.99

    Mercury Web Browser Pro - The most advanced browser for iPad and iPhone

    by iLegendSoft

    Mercury Web Browser, like Atomic Web Browser, is very feature-rich. It's also very light, quick, and customizable. Some features included in the browser are tabs, Dropbox integration for downloaded files, file sharing, ad blocking, multitouch gestures and the ability to be identified as a desktop browser. Ultimately if deciding between this and Atomic Web Browser, the question you must ask yourself is; do I want more speed or features? If you answer the former then Mercury Web Browser would be a good fit for you. The app is also universal and comes with a price tag of one dollar.
  • Free

    Opera Mini Web browser

    by Opera Software ASA

    Opera Mini is a sort of spinoff of its desktop cousin and adds many benefits to those who use Opera on the desktop as their primary browser. Speed Dial is the first feature to be inherited from the desktop version of Opera. What this does is add a set of visual bookmarks that appear when you open a tab. Opera Mini also includes Opera Link, this functionality allows a user to sync their bookmarks and Speed Dial page with a Mac or PC as well as another phone; this is especially useful if you do not have MobileMe to sync your bookmarks to your iOS device. Finally, the feature that sets this browser apart from the rest is the way it renders pages. What it does is send a URL request to Opera’s servers which act as a middle man for rendering the page. This often allows for fast page loading. Overall, this browser is a good fit for those who use Opera on the desktop. With an iPad version on the way and a price of free, this app is worth a try for all on iOS.
  • $0.99

    PERFECT Browser - EXTRAORDINARY FAST FullScreen Browser w/REAL-TABS, TV Out & More

    by Vivek Javvaji

    Perfect Browser has quite a few neat features that allow it to stand out from the crowd. To start, this browser has some handy scroll functionality to allow you to browse the web with ease. The first feature that allows this to be done is called hyper scroll, this essentially gives you a scroll bar (much like a desktop) that allows you to scroll through long pages very easily. The next useful scroll feature is called touch scroll; this lets you scroll through a page by holding down a up or down arrow which is definitely useful for precision. These scroll features work well and they themselves make this browser worth a look. Perfect Browser loads tabs in a way that they don’t reload or crash. Even with some heavy usage, tabs remain the same (unlike Safari which reloads its tabs at times). This browser’s unique features allow it to stand out from the crowd. Because of this, Perfect Browser remains a good choice for those looking for an alternative to Safari. This is the iPhone version; see the link below for the iPad version.
  • $1.99

    iCab Mobile (Web Browser)

    by Alexander Clauss

    iCab is much like the other browsers listed here. It initially looks like an app that Apple itself would have made. Aside from the usual features of iOS browsers, this app has a cool scrolling feature that allows you to see a webpage in its entirety and touch the position where you want to go. Although this is pretty impressive, it may not be good for those who have trouble seeing, due to the fact that this makes the page very tiny and hard to figure out where you want to scroll to. It is universal, so this function might be more useful on the iPad. Overall, the features of iCab are more or less the same as the others listed here, but its ability to show an entire webpage makes it a decent alternative browser.

Decent Apps

  • $0.99

    Multi-Full Web Browser

    by Green Onion Software Co., Ltd.

    Multi-Full Web Browser has one and only one advantage: it can display multiple pages on one screen. You can view one to four pages in the viewable area which is good for comparing information. When you look at this and the other options it is very clear that Multi-Full Web Browser should really only be used as a secondary browser for situations where you need multiple web sites displayed at once.

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