Bow 0.1.1

A big update to Bow: a new first start, Reader view, sync between your Macs, and a lot more of what made Arc feel fast.

Install

Download Bow-0.1.1-arm64.dmg below, open it and drag Bow to Applications. Bow is signed and notarized by Apple.
It needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 13 or later. Already on 0.1.0? Bow updates itself: the
sidebar says Update ready once it has downloaded.

What's new

A new first start

• Bow opens with an onboarding of its own: a glow on your desktop grows into the window, then a few short steps.
• Bring your things. Pick the browser you use now (Arc, Dia, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera
  or Chromium). Bow reads it first and tells you what it found, then brings everything over, or only the parts you
  choose. Your sidebar fills in as it lands.
• Choose a color for your Space, meet the essentials (with small live demos), and make Bow your default browser.
  Open it again any time from Help › Welcome to Bow….
• Import from Dia and Opera is new; the File menu has them too.

Reading and browsing

• Reader view: the article without the site around it.
• Compact Mode and Focus Mode, and a toolbar that hides and slides in from the top edge.
• Split View: drag the divider, swap panes, a 2×2 grid, and keys for layouts.
• Peek grows out of the link you clicked and shrinks back into it, like Arc's.
• The link menu opens a link in Peek, in Split View or in a Little Window.
• Pages come back scrolled where they were after a restart or a crash.
• Notes on tabs and folders.

Tabs, Spaces and the Command Bar

• Tab power tools: pick several tabs at once, switch to an open copy, close duplicates, search all tabs.
• Space templates, and per-Space defaults: a Space's own search engine and its own page on ⌘T.
• Archive without surprises: Never Archive, per-Space timing, Undo, and an "archives soon" hint.
• Command Bar: reopen recently closed tabs, history by date, sums and unit conversions as you type, and command
  chains (several actions and pages in one command).
• Smarter sleeping tabs: keep chosen sites awake, Sleep Tab now, and a Task Manager.

Live folders

• GitHub notifications and your issues, Jira and Linear lists, Hacker News and subreddits.

Your Macs and your data

• Sync between your Macs through a folder you choose (iCloud Drive works), without an account.
• Backups: export everything to one file, restore it, and keep automatic hourly copies.

Privacy

• HTTPS-Only Mode, a privacy report of what the blocker stopped, and forget site data on quit, per profile.

Your Mac

• Bow can be picked as the default web browser in System Settings.
• A shortcut from any app brings up the Command Bar or a Little Window.
• Air Traffic Control by the app a link came from, and Test a link.
• bow:// addresses for other apps, with Raycast script commands built on them.
• A shortcut editor: give any menu command your own keys. Plus ⌘, Settings, a shortcuts sheet, zoom per site, your
  download folder, search keywords, Save Page As and Export as PDF.
• Boosts can be shared and imported as files.

Fixes

• ⌘W on a Pinned tab puts its page away in every window that showed it; on a pane of a pinned split it closes only that
  pane.
• Peek keeps its buttons when the pointer rests on a sidebar tab or folder.
• Reader view reads pages wrapped in one big form (older sites), and never takes the site's name as the title.
• Many smaller fixes to Library, the Command Bar, the ⌃Tab switcher and the find bar.

Bugs and ideas are welcome in Issues.

Bow is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Browser Company. No Arc code is used; the importer shows each browser's
own logo (Arc's and Dia's included) only to name the browser an import comes from.

SHA-256 of Bow-0.1.1-arm64.dmg: 24af4c339afb9f591ba6d2338543c17632d6ce5ab4dad7d20355a4ea06fec9aa