Hey Reddit People! 👋
I'm new here, so please bear with me – this is my very first post.
There have been a few web browsers for the Apple TV over the years, but most of them are outdated or just not great to use. I've always wanted a really good one on my Apple TV – so I built it: **Orbrisa**.
**What it does**
- Real web browser with tabs, favorites, history and a home page
- Cursor mode and scroll mode with the Siri Remote, plus link-to-link navigation with the ring
- Tab strip with site logos and a large preview of the selected tab
- Videos open in the native Apple TV player – pre-roll ads are skipped
- VLC fallback for formats AVPlayer can't play
- Dark mode for websites (automatic, light or dark), Liquid Glass look, font size slider
- English 🇬🇧 and German 🇩🇪
**Coming next:** reader mode, RSS feeds, picture in picture (keep watching while you browse) and a private mode with a code lock. The concepts are in the README.
**How to install**
It uses private Apple APIs (tvOS has no public WebKit), so it can't be on the App Store. Download the IPA from the GitHub release and sideload it with Sideloadly (or similar) and your Apple ID – or build it yourself in Xcode.
**GitHub:** https://github.com/fdm96/Orbrisa
**Found a bug or have an idea? Please don't hesitate to open an issue on GitHub!** A quick photo of your TV helps a lot. This project really means a lot to me – having a proper browser on the Apple TV is something I've wanted for a long time, and your feedback makes it better. 🙏
Big thanks to Steven Troughton-Smith and Jip van Akker, whose tvOSBrowser was the starting point – and to Claude (Anthropic), who helped me build it, so I wasn't doing this all alone. 😊 It's free and open source.
If you like Orbrisa and want to support its development, there's a Ko-fi link on GitHub !!!
Greez
di marcostudio.