Arc is being sunset on December 22, 2026. After that date, you won't be able to sign in to or use Arc. Please note that we will deactivate all Arc accounts on December 22. Once an account is deactivated, we will delete user personal data associated with the account within 30 days.
I've been expecting this news for a while, and I moved to Zen when they changed direction originally. Can highly recommend it as a near drop-in replacement for Arc, albeit built on Firefox.
Have had Zen in my browser collection for a while. On my Mac it's a secondary browser and it's my primary elsewhere.
It's picked up all the most important parts of Arc's design while leaving behind the bits that were questionable (such as TBC's decision to not have bookmarks) and at this point it's pretty solid.
I had been continuing to use Arc for the odd site that insists on something Chromium-based (usually without good reason) since it's the only chromeclone that feels somewhat at home on macOS and hasn't succumb to an ugly generic flat look. It'll be missed.
For a while Arc was my main, but I switched to Orion when it was announced that Arc was going on maintenance mode. Since then I've waffled between Orion and Safari.
I've been using Arc on my personal laptop and phone exclusively for a couple years now, and want a more informed reason to or not to invest in moving over to Dia.
When they first started making Dia they said Arc is too difficult for new Users, and it will not grow above a certain point because they mistakenly made it a niche power user product.
But that's why I personally liked it, it was for a power user. Having multiple profiles, and a clean working environment, a lot of small but smart really thought out features. It felt like a actual revolutionary product.
In Dia there is a constant menu bar, for instance to make it easier for users. But it spoils the whole clean experience of Arc.
Dia seems to be just for mainstream, I can understand giving the focus to Dia, but removing Arc seems to be foolish. Especially when so many people are still using it.
Dia is focused more on AI tools, and seems to be more distracting for me, the focus seems to be to sell us a subscription, it feels quite different from the straightforward feature rich, power user browsers, which was Arc.
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It's picked up all the most important parts of Arc's design while leaving behind the bits that were questionable (such as TBC's decision to not have bookmarks) and at this point it's pretty solid.
I had been continuing to use Arc for the odd site that insists on something Chromium-based (usually without good reason) since it's the only chromeclone that feels somewhat at home on macOS and hasn't succumb to an ugly generic flat look. It'll be missed.
For a while Arc was my main, but I switched to Orion when it was announced that Arc was going on maintenance mode. Since then I've waffled between Orion and Safari.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483715
They are trying to add Arc features into Dia, but its an afterthought. I used it for a month and came back, it was not a good experience.
I've been using Arc on my personal laptop and phone exclusively for a couple years now, and want a more informed reason to or not to invest in moving over to Dia.
But that's why I personally liked it, it was for a power user. Having multiple profiles, and a clean working environment, a lot of small but smart really thought out features. It felt like a actual revolutionary product.
In Dia there is a constant menu bar, for instance to make it easier for users. But it spoils the whole clean experience of Arc.
Dia seems to be just for mainstream, I can understand giving the focus to Dia, but removing Arc seems to be foolish. Especially when so many people are still using it.
Dia is focused more on AI tools, and seems to be more distracting for me, the focus seems to be to sell us a subscription, it feels quite different from the straightforward feature rich, power user browsers, which was Arc.