Floorp finally wants a spot on your phone

Floorp users have been asking for a mobile app for ages, and it looks like they are finally getting one. The team behind the customizable browser posted a teaser on X highlighting that a mobile app is on the way.

Beyond the screenshot of the homepage that they shared in the post, we don’t know anything else about what to expect. There’s no release date or any other screenshots of the browser itself.

Still, the announcement did not come out of nowhere. A few days earlier, on July 31, Floorp had already been poking around for ideas.

The team asked Japanese users what features they would actually want in an iOS browser, and said a separate survey for international users was coming too.

One user said they wanted proper tab support and a toolbar that stays put while scrolling. Another, an Android fan, jumped in to say they hoped a future Android version would support extensions from both Chrome and Firefox. That request lines up with what Floorp is already known for on desktop, where Chrome Web Store extension support is one of its selling points. If the mobile app carries that over, it would immediately stand out in an already crowded field of browsers.

That said, since they asked about iOS in particular, it’s safe to assume that we might see Floorp on iOS ahead of Android.

But Floorp isn’t the only lesser-known browser that’s coming to mobile. Just last month, the team behind Aside said their own mobile app was on the way without giving a hard date either. It seems like everyone has figured out that a desktop browser alone only gets you so far when people live on their phones.

For now, Floorp fans are stuck doing the one thing nobody enjoys. Waiting. 

Whether the app can match the flexibility that made the desktop version popular is the real question, and that is one we cannot answer until Floorp shows more than a teaser.

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