A native macOS browser built on WebKit. No bundled engine, no telemetry, and extensions from all three ecosystems.
What it does
Liquid Glass window furniture, a unified sidebar, tab groups with a proper switcher, and a focus mode that puts everything but the page away.
Ad and tracker blocking through WebKit’s own content rule lists, plus tracking parameters stripped out of URLs before they are opened.
Safari, Chrome and Firefox extensions, with the full tab lifecycle wired up — the part most WebKit hosts skip, and the reason extensions elsewhere load but never run.
No accounts, no sync service, no analytics. Reading list, history, bookmarks and downloads stay on the Mac.
Under the hood
There is no Chromium in the app bundle, so Vela is a fraction of the size of a forked browser, inherits Apple’s security updates, and gets the platform’s power behaviour for free. When an extension fails, Vela reads WebKit’s own error list and tells you which API it died on rather than failing silently.