- Price$2.99
- CategoryUtilities
- First releasedApril 21, 2009
- Versions12 archived
- Installable12 of 12
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerAlexander Clauss
- Bundle IDde.icab.iCabMobile
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueiCab Mobile is a web browser for iOS. iCab Mobile is customizable in almost all areas and can thus be made into your very own personal browser.
PRIVACY: In private mode, no private data is saved permanently. Special private tabs increase privacy even further, with only a small loss of comfort.
PROFILES/USER ACCOUNTS: Any number of profiles/user accounts can be created, with each profile having its own settings, bookmarks, etc. Profiles are suitable for an iPad that is used by the whole family, but also for users who want to separate professional and private surfing.
TABS, WINDOWS: iCab Mobile can open any number of websites simultaneously in tabs. Tabs can be saved and organized in groups so that they can easily be loaded together again later. Tabs can be protected against accidental closing or overwriting. On the iPad, multiple app instances can be opened as windows (Stage Manager, Split View), even with multiple profiles simultaneously (since iOS 18).
FILTERS: Filters can be used to block advertising, trackers, etc. Popular filter lists can be used directly (Easylist, AdBlock Plus, uBlock & compatible), but you can also define your own.
USER INTERFACE: The user interface is freely configurable. Action, context and text selection menus, toolbars and gestures can be adapted to your own needs.
ACCESSIBLE: The user interface is barrier-free and adapts to the system font size and is compatible with VoiceOver.
BOOKMARKS: Bookmarks can be organized in folders. “Smart folders” create special collections based on self-defined rules (e.g. the latest bookmarks from the last 2 weeks). Colored labels allow further categorization.
DOWNLOADS: Download any files and manage the files in the download manager, including unpacking/creating ZIP archives, exporting/importing, etc.
SEARCH: The app offers a large list of search engines (self-expandable) that you can use to search directly on the web. It is also possible to search on the current page.
WEBSITES: You can define what websites can and cannot do. Highlight important content with a highlighter, hide unwanted elements, allow buttons to be clicked automatically (e.g. for cookie messages). Control permissions for camera, microphone and sensor usage. Pro users can even inject JavaScript and CSS code into websites to customize them to their liking.
EXPORT/IMPORT: All data can be exported/imported (for creating backups, data synchronization with other devices/apps)
WIDGETS: Widgets allow you to control the App and open bookmarks directly from the home screen. Websites can also be displayed directly there.
APPLE WATCH: Open websites directly on the Apple Watch (albeit limited). Remotely control iCab Mobile on the iPhone from the Watch.
FURTHER FEATURES: - Quick starter - Configurable browser ID (UserAgent) - Full support for international domain names - Simple built-in RSS reader - Kiosk mode - a more limited version of the full-screen mode for kiosk systems.
The app includes a store where you can give us a tip via InApp purchase to additionally support the further development of the app. The development of the app takes a lot of time and is a lot of work, which the low purchase price cannot cover. Te sources of income used by the big popular browsers, such as advertising, deals with search engines, tracking etc. are not an option for iCab Mobile. Tipping is completely voluntary and you won't miss out on any important features if you don't tip. However, users who tip will be given the option to change the app icon as a thank you.
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Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 18 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2, 2010 | 2.1 | — | 214 | $1.99 |
| April 8, 2011 | 4.6 | — | 1,272 | $1.99 |
| January 11, 2012 | — | — | 1,584 | $1.99 |
| April 25, 2013 | — | — | 1,945 | $1.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25love the customization options and UI, this is the only decent browser for iPad and iPhone ive found. well worth the low one time cost. highly recommend
A group of us told the developer changes were needed for years now. Could’ve released a beta through TestFlight. Users don’t deserve this.
The only browser I can get everything to work properly on…with some configuration. Creator is great with queries.
icab used to be intuitive, simple, and felt focused on usability. It was a lesson on how to make a modern browser that had just the right features and users enjoyed using. The latest update tosses all that. Everything takes extra taps, from switching profiles, tap tap tap, to attempting to view or browse downloaded images. The photo viewer / slideshow was a feature of perfection, now destroyed with tiny buttons in the center bottom (you must literally set down your device and obscure the screen with your hand to tap arrows to swap between photos, as opposed to the prior right / left side of the screen tap. Oh, and Animated gifs? No longer browsable in the viewer without 'tap tap tap' to open each individually. Deleting all of your tabs randomly also seems to be a new feature. Usability is now cumbersome & feels like "work". The only good thing left is the independent download management, but even that has been updated to take more taps and generally be more difficult. icab now genuinely causes frustration and grief to use, which is sad to experience after over a decade of it being near perfection. RIP private optimized workflows, and RIP icab. If you haven't updated to 11, just don't.
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This was once an excellent browser. It was “reinvented” a while ago which was a poor job with change for the sake of change being the apparent objective. Now it has rendering issues with major websites. AMEX crashes iCab, Amazon renders poorly, other sites simply stop loading with some of the page missing. More and more I’m using Safari. Once Safari has a decent cookie manager, iCab will simply be uninstalled.
Along with clunky tabs that only display part of the first word in a website title, or all appear as Untitled, inability to partially edit or delete as before, now it’s all or nothing. You either allow websites to track every move you make, you can now only delete the whole cookie or leave it as is. Lots of other features that have been eliminated or ruined. But now the big one. As of last update, you can no longer save webpages as PDFs. You get a single blank page. Also gone is verification that the pdf has been saved. You have to check your downloads after every single pdf is created. From the best browser in the universe for more than a decade to a completely destroyed, all but useless piece of junk. Sorry Alex. Why did you kill iCAB?
Been trying to make it work for weeks. Finally realized it’s not me, it’s the app. Been using this app since v1. Now I have to find a different browser. There are pages that won’t even load in this browser that load fine in every other browser. How is that even possible?
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.