Last year, The Browser Company released Arc’s first iPhone companion app, letting users save URLs for later use on the desktop. The startup’s latest mobile app, Arc Search, focuses on search.
The app’s main AI-powered feature, “Browse for me,” returns a well-designed webpage containing search query information. The functionality uses OpenAI and other models to read at least six web pages and create a new page with parts.
When I searched “How to make a perfectly poached egg,” Arc Search generated a page containing “Ingredients and Tools,” “Poaching Technique,” “Cooking Process,” and other advice. Many valuable photographs and videos were on the page. 
When I asked, “What changes Apple made to the App Store in response to DMA?” the browser summarized well. The Cupertino-based tech giant’s website summarized its statements, although it didn’t cover everything.
These pages let me quickly find information, and the “Dive Deeper” area lets me explore topic-related connections. Unfortunately, I must screenshot these sites to distribute them.
Other aspects
Instead of using the AI-powered functionality, users may touch the query to use Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Ecosia—whichever you designate as the default.
Last Monday, the Browser Company allowed Arc desktop clients to utilize Preplexity as their primary search engine. Whether the mobile client will have this option is unclear.
Reading all webpages is straightforward with a reader mode and bookmarking. Yet no organizational system stores these bookmarks.
To avoid tab overload, the Arc Search browser archives tabs after 1 day (customizable). You may slide and hold from the left side of the screen or use the bottom bar tab switcher to view your open tabs.
Automatically, Arc Search disables GDPR and newsletter popups, advertisements, and trackers. This iPhone companion browser may be set as the default, unlike the first.
Arc built a browser this way—why?
In a post on X, The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller stated the business wants to build the fastest way to search things up, as most people use phone browsers. It starts with a central search bar. It opens with a keyboard, so you can type the inquiry instantly.
The new Arc Search browser seeks to make you feel like you’re engaging with an AI agent that will look up stuff, summarize material, and display it beautifully using its page creation feature. This method was used with Google’s SGE and Perplexity AI. However, browsers have mostly included AI-powered tools to summarize sites or help you compose posts. Arc Search is merging these feature surfaces.
What next?
Arc will maintain its mobile link-saving sidekick, but it expects to integrate both browser clients eventually.
The business also intends cross-browser synchronization. Miller stated in his post that iCloud cannot be relied on while the business rolls out the Windows client. So the team is creating Arc’s own synchronizing experience, which will arrive soon.
Arc removed its Mac queue last year for public download. Its beta Windows client uses a queue. The firm sought to give this new Arc Search client a low-barrier entry point so people could browse without creating an account.
