nova

A new light on the web

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Most browsers are tools.
Nova is a perspective.

What it does

The web, treated like it's worth keeping.

Reading-first

Article pages render in Helvetica on warm parchment. No ad sidebars. No cookie popups. Just the words you came for.

Yours, by default

Sidebar width, top bar height, palette, homepage backgrounds, time format. Drag any edge to resize. Right-click anything to edit.

Calm by design

Slow tabs. Considered defaults. The browser doesn't try to keep you here — it tries to get you back to the page.

How it looks

Built like a Mac app. Set in Helvetica.

Sidebar tabs that collapse to icon-only. Bookmarks that aren't an afterthought. A homepage you can actually edit. Drag any chrome edge to resize — no settings dialog required.

Good evening, Daniel.

22:18

Tuesday, May 12

Made for people who'd
rather read than be fed.

Under the hood

Chromium where it counts. Helvetica everywhere else.

SigmaOS-style sidebar. Vertical tabs. Drag the right edge below 100px and it collapses to a row of letter chips.
Bookmarks that live everywhere. Sidebar, address-bar star (⌘D), homepage cards. Right-click to rename, remove, or open in a new tab.
A homepage you actually edit. Pencil in the bottom right. Pick a background by category, upload your own, set 12- or 24-hour time, choose what shows.
Chrome-grade shortcuts. ⌘1–⌘9 to switch tabs, ⌘⇧[/] for prev/next, ⌘[/] for back/forward, ⌘L for the address bar, ⌘, for Settings.
Theme it any way. Seven swatches plus a custom color picker. Light mode, dark mode, blue mode, peach mode — all on the same Helvetica skeleton.

Available now

Download Nova for macOS.

Free. Signed by Apple. Built for Apple Silicon. No tracking, no telemetry, no account required.

Download Nova DMG · 94 MB · Apple Silicon

Requires macOS 11+ on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

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