Elsewhere Browser
A home for everything you’re doing. A doorway to everything you’re missing.
Elsewhere Browser is a standalone, Chromium-based browser that sets out to make working and discovering on the internet more thoughtful — and more delightful.
The browser is the room where most of our working lives now happen, and its basic shape has barely changed in twenty years. Tabs pile up. Projects scatter across windows, bookmarks, and notes apps. Coming back to something after a week means reconstructing it from memory.
Meanwhile the wider internet — the strange, generous, handmade one — gets harder to find behind the same few feeds. We think there’s room for a browser with a point of view: one that helps you hold on to what you’re doing, and opens a few good doors to things you’d never think to look for.
Pillar one
Focus
A calmer way to organize long-running digital projects. Capsules hold the tabs, saved pages, and quick notes for one thing you care about — so you can put it down and pick it up again without starting over.
See the conceptPillar two
Wander
A doorway into the unexpected internet. Three thoughtfully chosen destinations at a time, nudging you past your usual corners — with you holding the dial, and the reasons always in view.
See the concept
Focus
Put it down. Pick it up. Nothing lost.
A Capsule is a persistent home for a project — a kitchen renovation, a thesis, a trip, a side project that runs for months. It keeps that project’s tabs, the pages worth saving, and the small notes you’d otherwise lose. Let a Capsule rest and it gets out of your way entirely. Come back and it’s exactly as you left it, with a gentle reminder of where you were.
Focus — Capsules (interactive concept preview)
Capsules
zellige-studio.example
Welcome back. Last here Tuesday. You were comparing glaze samples and halfway through the cabinet guide.
zellige-studio.example
Zellige tile — glaze samples
Wander
Three doors at a time. You choose how far.
Wander shows three destinations at a time — sites made by people who cared — balanced across topics, with one deliberately outside whatever you asked for. You set how far afield to go. Every pick explains itself. And when you’ve opened enough doors, it suggests you walk through one.
Wander — Three doors (interactive concept preview)
Why these three?
- Picked from a small, hand-chosen list.
- Weighted by the distance you set, varied by topic.
- One door always sits outside your lean, so you don’t just get more of the same.
- Nothing you click here is recorded.
Three doors.
Round 1
Sound · Places
Radio Garden
Spin a globe and tune into live radio stations from almost anywhere on Earth.
Why this: A well-loved classic, picked to keep this round varied. The quickest way to hear a city you’ve never been to.
Science · Art & design
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Painstaking interactive explainers of how watches, cameras, and GPS actually work.
Why this: A lesser-known gem, picked to keep this round varied. Some of the most generous teaching on the internet.
WildcardPlaces · History
TESSA — LA Public Library
The LA Public Library’s digital collections, including a century of photographs of the city.
Why this: Wildcard — chosen from outside what you asked for, on purpose. Your neighbourhood, a hundred years ago.
Each round has an end.
What Wander won’t do
Three at a time. A round has an end, on purpose.
Every destination says why it’s there. You hold the dial.
Nothing is tuned to keep you scrolling or coming back.
One door is always a wildcard, chosen outside your lean.
The technical ambition
A real browser, built from the engine up.
Elsewhere is a true, independent browser built on Chromium — starting with macOS on Apple silicon. It’s a native Mac application with Capsules and Wander built into the browser itself, not bolted on top. Extensions, Electron wrappers, and web apps can’t reach that deep.
That’s a serious undertaking, and we’re approaching it honestly. Elsewhere keeps its changes to Chromium small, so Chromium’s security fixes can reach it quickly, and everything it keeps about you stays on your Mac. The first experimental build is with friends and family now. Plenty is still rough or unbuilt, which makes it a good time to get involved.
Try the experiment
An early build, for friends and family.
The experiment runs on Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 13 Ventura or later. It has Capsules, a Library for saved pages and notes, Wander, and a command palette. It’s signed and notarized by Apple and updates itself.
Expect rough edges. Tell Garrett what works and what doesn’t at ghought@gmail.com.
Get involved
Join this experiment.
We’re looking for people who want to explore, sketch, and prototype a better browser together — in person in Los Angeles when we can. No résumé required. Bring ideas and a point of view.
Interaction, visual, type, and motion — people with strong opinions about how software should feel.
C++, Chromium, Swift and macOS, systems and performance — or the appetite to learn them properly.
Anyone who’s worked on an engine, a fork, an extension platform, or the standards behind them.
Writers, curators, and internet explorers who could help shape what Wander shows — and why.