If there’s a new browser, email app, or note-taking app to try, I’ve probably already installed it. Like all other productivity geeks, I’m always chasing the perfect setup. That’s how I found Quiche Browser. It was already close to replacing Arc Search for me on the iPhone, but its latest update finally pushed it over the edge, earning it a spot as my default browser.
What makes Quiche so good
Quiche Browser is developed by a single indie developer named Greg de J, who runs it under Quiche Industries. Quiche’s main feature is its customization. Almost all buttons in Quiche can be removed, rearranged, or removed entirely, both in the bottom toolbar and in the main menu. If that sounds like a lot of tinkering, the Toolbar Gallery gives you a pre-made preset to start with, so you can go slow or fully load without building anything from scratch.
Tab switcher is another strength of this app. I can view your tabs as a grid or list. I like that Quiche will also estimate how long an article takes to read, displaying that time under the tab title. I can group tabs by domain or organize during reading, which makes the browser feel like it doubles as a read-later app if you let it.
One of my favorite features of Quiche Browser is the JavaScript converter that lives right in the toolbar. With one tap, I can kill JavaScript on any site I visit, and it’s amazing how fast and clean most pages look when you do it.
The feature that sealed the deal
All of that alone would be enough to recommend Quiche, but here’s the part that really pleased me. Quiche now disables AI overviews in your search results by default, out of the box.
If you search using Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, or another automated search engine, Quiche silently sends you to an AI version of those results instead. There is no content blocking trick involved either. You still get the original, unfiltered list of links, except for a giant AI summary that takes over the top of your screen before you see a single website.
Several studies have revealed how AI search overviews are dangerous, sometimes delivering inaccurate information. A recent report from Common Sense Media even declared it failing a major child safety test. Not to mention that these abbreviations cause harm to website authors and publishers whose work is deleted without compensation. So this feature alone is enough to make Quiche my default iPhone browser.
If you really want AI back, you can turn it back on in Settings, then Search. But I like that the default here is to favor websites made by real people. Search results are so cluttered with AI-generated snippets that real pages keep getting relegated to the bottom, and Quiche is taking a step that feels like a small but meaningful win for anyone who still likes to browse the real web.
