Brevier
A reading browser: the web without JavaScript, set in your own type
io.github.gurov.brevier
About Brevier
Brevier opens a web page, reduces it to its text and structure — headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes, code, tables, images — and sets it in the reader's typography: a comfortable line length and leading, warm paper in light or dark, four ready-made styles or your own face, size and spacing. No JavaScript runs and no site styles apply. The type is the reader's, not the site's.
What it does
• Articles, blogs, documentation and long reads come out as clean text. The page's own contents, the feeds it offers and its navigation sit on a shelf at the side.
• Long reads remember where you stopped and offer to continue from there.
• Every article you read is kept on the phone as your copy: it opens after the site has changed or gone, and "Search what you've read" looks through all of them.
• Search from the address bar: words that are not an address go to DuckDuckGo Lite, and the results come back as a list of links.
• RSS, Atom and JSON feeds, including feed files and feed:// links. A feed of comments on one page reads as a thread, and so do Hacker News, Lobsters and Discourse forums.
• Documentation straight from GitHub and GitLab repositories: type gh:owner/repo.
• Tabs, history, bookmarks, find on page, zoom, saving an article as Markdown (with its images, as a zip).
• Pages read in the last week open without downloading.
• Back and forward return to the place you were reading.
• It can be your default browser: links from other apps open in new tabs, and what needs JavaScript or a login goes on to your other browser in one tap.
• Check this page: a score from 0 to 100 for how well a page reads without JavaScript, with the reasons.
What it does not do
• Run JavaScript, apply site styles, keep cookies or log in.
• Show ads, count its users or ask for an account. Brevier reports nothing to anyone: it fetches the pages you open and what it takes to read them, and your searches go to DuckDuckGo.
Sites assembled entirely by JavaScript do not open. Brevier says so plainly