Flakes · Your next browser

Press ⌘K and a single box handles search history, URL entry, commands, and AI questions. Instead of memorizing dozens of shortcuts or digging through menus, you type what you want and pick from the results. That matters. This one shortcut is what makes the keyboard-first browser actually usable, since you don't have to learn every binding up front.

Flakes borrows Vim motions, so h/j/k/l move you around and f surfaces clickable link hints. You can switch tabs, scroll, and manage windows without leaving the keyboard for a mouse. If you already think in Vim, this is the part that feels like home right away.

Drift AI is the assistant layer, and it reads your open tabs. Ask a question and you get a direct answer that spans everything you're viewing, not just the page in front of you. It also handles real-time translation and lets you hold longer conversations about the content on screen. It's optional. That matters if you'd rather keep AI features off by default.

Press ⌘Enter and the toolbar, address bar, and other chrome disappear. Only the page is left. Ad blocking is on by default too, so the whole feature aims at people who want to read and work without visual noise. One shortcut. No settings menu required.

Flakes is written in SwiftUI and WebKit rather than shipped as a wrapped web app. So cold start is fast, scrolling is smooth, and the memory footprint stays small. Why does that matter? A browser that feels like part of macOS rarely gets in your way, and one that feels bolted on always does.

It's a local browser with ad blocking turned on out of the box. Private mode leaves no history and stays isolated in memory. AI features are opt-in rather than forced on, a deliberate choice given how much a browser sees.