Flakes

About Flakes

Flakes is an AI native, keyboard first browser for macOS focused on helping users stay in a state of deep work. It blends Vim style navigation, a powerful command palette, and an embedded assistant called Drift AI that understands open tabs, all inside a fast SwiftUI and WebKit based interface built to minimize clutter and distractions. Key Features: Keyboard-first navigation: Vim inspired h j k l controls, link hints, tab switching, and window management keep power users on the keyboard instead of the trackpad. Command palette (⌘K): A single shortcut searches history, opens URLs, runs browser commands, and triggers AI queries, reducing the need to memorize many separate shortcuts. Drift AI context awareness: The built in assistant reads open tabs to answer questions, summarize, translate pages in real time, and hold conversations about whatever content is visible, with AI features optional and off by default. Focus mode and smart history: A distraction free reading mode hides toolbars and the address bar, pairs with built in ad blocking, and works alongside smart history to reduce tab overload. Native macOS performance and privacy: Built with SwiftUI and WebKit, Flakes delivers quick cold starts, smooth scrolling, a relatively small memory footprint, local browsing with default ad blocking, and an isolated private mode that leaves no history.

Key features

• ✓Keyboard-first navigation
• ✓Command palette (⌘K)
• ✓Drift AI context awareness
• ✓Focus mode
• ✓Smart history
• ✓Native macOS performance and privacy

Use cases

• ✓Software developers and engineers use Flakes to browse API docs, logs, and issue trackers without leaving the keyboard.
• ✓Productivity oriented knowledge workers adopt the focus mode and smart history to manage research heavy work with many tabs while staying distraction light.
• ✓Writers and researchers combine distraction free reading with Drift AI summaries and Q&A on long articles, papers, and reports.

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