Arc’s ‘better mobile browser’ is now available on Android

After months of waiting, present Android users tin instrumentality the Arc Search app for a spin. It’s present available arsenic an unfastened beta connected the Google Play Store aft developers teased an Android version of the app successful August.

Arc is The Browser Company’s instrumentality connected web browsing, billing itself arsenic offering amended customization options than competitors. The Arc Search app besides comes with an AI feature, called “Browse for me,” that searches the web for your query and comes up with a summary based connected its sources.

The app besides automatically archives aged tabs, blocks ads by default, and gets escaped of data-tracking popups, which has maine tempted to power distant from Edge. While Arc initially launched arsenic a Mac-only desktop browser, the Arc Search app launched wide for iOS devices successful January and on Windows successful April.

Speaking to The Verge on our Decoder podcast past month, The Browser Company co-founder and CEO Josh Miller said helium plans to motorboat a paid merchandise that volition use “additional functionality connected top” of the app. “We truly deliberation of Arc Search arsenic the companion app to the desktop product... but the volition of Arc Search: it is the mobile browser to the desktop browser,” Miller said.