Windows & Android

Browse like you were never here.

No history. No cookies. No cache. Your session is wiped when you close the browser and again when you open it, so nothing carries over. Nothing is kept unless you save it yourself.

Version 1.1.7 11.3 MB Free, no account
The Incognito Browser shield, dissolving at the bottom
What it does

Private is the only mode there is.

Other browsers hide a private mode in a menu you have to remember. This one has no other mode: every tab, every time, without you doing anything.

No history to find

Cookies, local storage, databases and the cache are wiped, not hidden. There is no history feature to clear, because the sites you visit are never recorded.

Blank in the app switcher

Open your recent apps and other browsers show a live picture of the page you were reading. This one shows a blank card. You can still take a screenshot yourself; it is other people the card is hidden from.

Ads and trackers stopped

Requests to ninety thousand known advertising and tracking domains never leave your device. Pages load lighter and use less of your data.

Popups wait for you

Sites that open windows on their own, or bounce you somewhere you never asked to go, are held back and shown to you first. You decide.

Cast to your TV

Send video and audio from any page to a Chromecast, or to a Samsung or LG over DLNA. Pages with several videos let you pick the one you want.

The same on your desktop

A real Windows version, not a phone app in a window. Each launch gets a throwaway profile that is deleted when you close it.

A look inside

Quiet, and out of your way.

Nothing to configure, no onboarding, no account. It opens on a clean start page and gets out of the way.

On the desktop

Opens clean, every single time

Incognito Browser on Windows, showing its empty start page

No tiles of sites you visited, no suggestions built from what you read yesterday. There is nothing to build them from. The only tiles are favorites you add yourself, and you can hide those too. Everything is already on: the settings are there to switch things off, not to turn privacy on.

On your phone

Light or dark, whichever you keep

Incognito Browser on a phone, in its light and its dark theme

Tabs, downloads, casting and the ad blocker, in an app that downloads in about ten megabytes. It follows whatever your phone is set to, or you can pin it to one.

Rare

Almost no private browser has a desktop version.

Most privacy browsers stop at the phone. This one runs properly on Windows: it registers as a real browser, opens your local files, casts to your TV, and throws its whole profile away when the window closes. Same idea, same shield, a keyboard and a big screen.

Download

Get it.

Free, no account, no sign-up. There is no server of ours for anything to be sent to.

Windows

Installs for your user only, so there is no administrator prompt. Adds itself to Windows as a browser you can pick as the default. Take it from the Microsoft Store and it keeps itself up to date. Take the installer instead and you need no Microsoft account.

version 1.1.7 from the Microsoft Store 14.9 MB, kept up to date as an installer 11.3 MB, no account needed Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit installer sha256 3fb355f13a8e71ca7bd3f6954dd647f1c592fc9e33da4099de190d9c5f52d3f2

Android

Phones and tablets running Android 8 and up. Take it from Google Play and it keeps itself up to date. Take the file instead and you need no Google account at all.

version 1.1.7 from Google Play about 10 MB, only what your phone needs as a file 55.6 MB, every kind of phone in one Android 8.0 and up

What this is not. Everything above happens on your own device. Websites still see your address and whatever you do on them, and your internet provider still sees which sites you connect to. This is not a VPN and not Tor: it does not hide you from the network, it keeps your device from keeping a record. The privacy policy spells out exactly who can still see what.

Android asks before installing a file. The first time it will say the source is not allowed and offer you a settings screen. Switch it on for whichever app you downloaded with, go back, and the install carries on. Android asks that of everything that does not come from a store.

The installer warns you the first time. Windows says the publisher is unknown, because this app has no paid signing certificate yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. From the Microsoft Store there is no warning at all, because Microsoft signs it. Every new program without one gets this, and the warning goes away as more people install it. If you want to be certain the file is the one published here, check its SHA-256 against the value above with Get-FileHash.