Kumo

A Wayland Mobile Browser Source

Description

Kumo is a web browser with a UI focused on portrait-mode touchscreen mobile devices. It is optimized to run on low-end hardware with a limited battery life.

Features

Kumo is a UI written around Safari's WebKit browser engine, so they should be comparable in behavior and performance.

The following noteworthy features are implemented:

Built-in adblocker
Whitelist-based cookie policy
Shell-like URI completion
Session recovery
Tab groups

Source

Notice

Also available for Arch Linux ARM-based distributions through a special repo.

Project links:

Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: pre-release

This project has not seen a release yet. It may be in development for a short time only, or maybe longer. It should work mostly fine, but don't expect to find it packaged in your distribution.

The project repository was created on 2024-02-24.

The last known commit happened on 2025-04-16.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-04-17

Features

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.catacombing.kumo.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flathub/org.catacombing.kumo/refs/heads/master/org.catacombing.kumo.json

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-only

Backend: wpewebkit

Programming languages: Rust C

Build system: cargo

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/catacombing/kumo/refs/heads/master/org.catacombing.kumo.metainfo.xml