Unless you follow developments in the world of Apple apps pretty closely you may not have heard of the Brave browser. We’ve been using it for sometime now and have only good things to report.

Brave Private Web Browser from Brave Software is, of course, in the same app category as Safari, Firefox and Google Chrome, as well as others. From our experience it stands above them all.

Even if you haven’t had much experience with the non-Apple browsers mentioned above, no worries, trust us that Brave is a stellar alternative to all of them, including Safari, Apple’s stock browser that came on your device.

While Safari and Brave are similar in a number of ways, Brave has some robust privacy features that users of the Apple’s own Safari browser will wish they had.

Frankly, with privacy being such a big topic these days, and for good reason, these features alone make it worth your time. But there’s more.

Concept and Functionality

At its core, Brave is a web browser, and as such it actually does this job with remarkable finesse. You’ll notice right away the app takes a very familiar and comfortable form on your screen, whether small screen or iPad.

All the core functionality is there – tabbed browsing on larger screens, the hamburger menu with all your options and selections, but with special privacy features that sets it apart.

Features

Where the Brave browser really shines is the feature set available right from the start.

As soon as you open the browser, you are greeted with a welcome screen asking you to select your default search engine. We highly recommend DuckDuckGo. It is privacy-oriented and does not save your searches or use them to inform 3rd parties about your interests.

You are then shown some intro screens to let you know about the key aspects of Brave. The first of these features is Brave Shields which allows you to block trackers that web sites use to follow you around the web.

The next feature is Brave Rewards. This lets you earn Basic Attention Tokens (BATs) for viewing ads that respect your privacy. We encourage using Brave Rewards because it will, hopefully, lead to more advertisers being more aware of their responsibility to your privacy.

Don’t be too concerned about all of this though. Once you select your preferred search engine and either opt-in or not to Brave Rewards, you’ll see that Brave is really just a very, very good browser.

You can also quite easily import all of your existing bookmarks to complete the setup.

We think one of the features of Brave that you’ll love the most is that it has a very nice simple UI. It gets the job done quickly and easily without any excess fluff. We appreciate that since when you’re browsing the web you just want to finish what you’re doing as quickly as possible with as little effort as possible.

One last note is that this is not an iPhone-only browser. it’s available for Android, MacOS, Windows (both 32 and 64 bit) and Linux. If you do use it on multiple devices you benefit even more by sync’ing across them.

Overall Value

This free browser is an awesome value and word about it is spreading fast. Brave claims that it ended 2019 with over 10 million users. We have no problem believing that and expect that number to jump dramatically in 2020 and the years to come.

The bottom line is that Brave is a slick, feature-rich privacy-focused browsing alternative for all of your devices and if you take it for a spin, we think you’ll agree that, all-in-all, it’s the best one out there.

Brave Private Web Browser requires iOS 12.0 and up.

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from : Mid Atlantic Consulting, Inc.