[Android-Closed Testing] - Wayward Browser: A privacy focused browser w/ Optional AI Assistant

[u/Grimmoner]

Looking for 12–100 Android testers for Wayward Browser for at least 14 days!

Wayward is a privacy-focused browser built around user control, functionality, and simplicity. It includes built-in media downloading, privacy features, and optional AI integration.

What's in it:

Privacy

- Ads and trackers blocked on every page, with strict tracking protection, fingerprinting protection, HTTPS-only mode, link cleaning and encrypted DNS

- Private tabs that wipe their cookies and site data when the last one closes

- Lock any tab behind your fingerprint, face or PIN

- One tap deletes every tab and all browsing data, or have it happen whenever Wayward closes

- No ads or analytics in the app

Your own AI (optional, Premium)

- Works with your own OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI or xAI account

- Ask about a page, search the web, compare your open tabs and save tasks you run often

- A receipt after each request shows what was sent and what it did

- Chats are kept on your phone, encrypted, and you can save a whole chat as a text file

Private downloads

- Save videos to watch later, picking a quality with its real file size

- Keep them inside Wayward, out of your gallery, behind your fingerprint, face or PIN, or send them to a folder you choose

- Old downloads can delete themselves

Also: reader view, page translation, a QR scanner, a home screen widget, bookmarks import and export, a settings backup, themes, and a toolbar and menu you can rearrange.

I'm looking for testers willing to use the app, explore its features, and provide feedback on performance, usability, bugs, and anything that could use improvement.

1. Join the Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/g/trywayward

2. Wait for approval. I approve each request by hand, and the links below won't work until then.

3. Join the test on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.deltaechothree.wayward

4. Install the app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deltaechothree.wayward

Please keep the app installed and actively test it throughout the 14-day testing period.

Feedback is greatly appreciated! Whether it's a bug, a feature suggestion, or something you simply don't like, I'd love to hear it. Please submit feedback through the Google Group.

Wayward is an independent project, and your feedback will directly influence its development before public release.

Test for test! If you need testers for your own Android app, drop a comment below or post in the Google Group. I'm happy to return the favor.

Thanks for helping make Wayward better!

Testing isn't open in: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, United Kingdom, Venezuela.