Rize 0.2.1

Install: download Rize from rize.sh, open the disk image, and drag Rize to Applications. Needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 13 or later. Installed copies update themselves.

New in 0.2.1

• Rize, by name. The new tab page shows the Rize wordmark, its R with the sun rising in it.
• Roomier tabs. Rows in the sidebar are a little taller, with a little space between them and larger site icons.
• Delete a profile from the sidebar: right-click the space dots or the space's name and choose Delete Profile, or use Delete Profile… in Edit Profile. Rize asks first.

Fixed

• Choosing anything in a tab's right-click menu (Pin Tab, for one) no longer opens the sidebar's own menu straight after.
• A new tab (⌘T) takes the keyboard at once, even from a web page: start typing without clicking.
• The sidebar's hover follows the pointer while a page has the keyboard, instead of staying on the last row clicked.
• Pages no longer flicker when the assistant opens, a panel slides, or the address suggestions appear.

Rize 0.2.0

Install: download Rize from rize.sh, open the disk image, and drag Rize to Applications. Needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 13 or later. Copies of 0.1.0 update themselves.

New in 0.2.0

• Passwords. After you log in, Rize asks to save the password, and fills it in when you click the key in the address field. Passwords stay in the macOS Keychain on your Mac.
• Setup on first launch. Make Rize your default browser, bring over bookmarks and history from Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge or Safari, connect Claude or ChatGPT, and pick a look. Every step can be skipped.
• Spaces. Each profile is a space in the sidebar. Swipe across it, or press ⌃→ and ⌃←, to move between them.
• The site chip. Beside the address: whether the connection is secure, the camera and microphone while a page uses them, and a card with the site's permissions.
• Certificate warnings. A page whose certificate doesn't check out shows a clear warning instead, and Rize never offers to go on to a site that requires a secure connection.
• Sleeping tabs. Tabs you haven't looked at for a while let go of their memory, and load again when you come back.
• Protected video. Widevine now installs by itself a minute after the first launch, so DRM video in VP9 plays. Services that need H.264 or Google's verified media path (Netflix among them) still don't: Rize says why under the page and offers to open it in Safari or Chrome.
• The assistant is redrawn: each step it takes folds into a line you can open, and the composer takes tabs with @ and saved prompts with /.
• After a crash, Rize says so on the next launch and can show you the report. Reports stay on your Mac.

Updates now come from rize.sh. This release and the ones after it are published there, and Rize checks it for updates.

Rize 0.1.0

The first release of Rize, a browser with an AI assistant built in.

Install: download Rize.dmg below, open it, and drag Rize to Applications. Needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 13 or later. Rize updates itself from here on.

What's inside

• Chromium under the hood, so sites and Chrome extensions work.
• Tabs down a sidebar (or across the top), with pinned tabs, folders and split view.
• An assistant beside every tab that can read the page and use the browser for you. It runs on the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already have, with no API keys.
• Profiles, each with its own tabs, sign-ins and theme.
• 41 themes, keyboard shortcuts for everything (⌘/ lists them), and passkeys with security keys.