VebMove from Safari to Veb.
Reference archive: this page documents the original Yab browser. Features, platforms and release dates here do not describe the current Veb prototype. Veb release plans →
Veb takes Safari’s passwords, cards, bookmarks and history through Safari’s own export.
It goes through Safari’s own export, on your Mac. Nothing goes through a server.
Checked October 9, 2026 against Veb’s current release. The full story is in the Manual’s Bringing in from another browser.
What comes over
| From Safari | Into Veb |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Yes, from Safari’s export |
| Cards | Yes, from Safari’s export |
| Bookmarks | Yes |
| History | Yes |
| Open tabs | No |
| Extensions | No: Safari’s are its own. Add Chrome’s from the Chrome Web Store |
| Sign-ins to sites | No: you sign in again |
How
- 1Download Veb and open it. It needs macOS 15.4 or later.
- 2Choose Safari… from a Bring In menu, in the welcome or in Settings › General. Veb opens Safari.
- 3In Safari, choose File › Export Browsing Data, keep Passwords and Credit Cards ticked, and save it in Downloads.
- 4Veb notices the file, brings it in, and offers to move it to the Trash, since the file isn’t encrypted.
What changes after Safari
Veb next to Safari, area by area. The full comparison has the table and sources.
AIVeb leads
Only Veb has an agent that clicks, types and finishes tasks in your pages. Apple Intelligence sums up pages, sorts tabs into topics and watches a page for price drops, and the Passwords app can change weak passwords for you; no agent that works through sites. Veb’s agent works in tabs of its own beside yours, signed in as you, on your Claude or ChatGPT plan; Send, Pay and Delete wait for your yes. Veb runs on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for; the other on its own AI.
Agents like Claude Code and CodexVeb leads
Safari can be driven over MCP, through safaridriver --mcp in Safari 27, once you allow remote automation and outside agents. Veb can be driven over MCP and a command line, through yab mcp and the yab command, for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client.
Tabs and windowsVeb leads
Safari has spaces. Veb has tabs down the side, spaces, Split View, folders in the sidebar and tabs that sleep.
PriceSafari leads
Safari: Free with macOS; Apple Intelligence is free on Macs with M1 or later. Veb: Free; its AI runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan.
Where it runsSafari leads
Safari runs on Mac and iPhone. Veb runs on Mac. On a Mac, Safari needs macOS 15 or later and Veb needs macOS 15.4 or later. On the phone, Safari: built into iPhone and iPad; syncs tabs, bookmarks, history and passwords via iCloud. On the phone, Veb: Veb for iPhone, in beta on TestFlight; syncs spaces, tabs, bookmarks, history and chats.
Engine and extensionsa matter of taste
Both are built on WebKit, the engine Safari uses. Safari takes extensions from the App Store, as Safari extensions, Veb from the Chrome Web Store.
PrivacyVeb leads
Safari has no ad blocker of its own. Apple Intelligence runs on the Mac or on Private Cloud Compute, which Apple says doesn’t store what you ask or make it accessible to Apple. Veb has an ad blocker built in. Veb has no account and no server of ours between you and your sites; what your agent reads goes to Anthropic or OpenAI under your account.
Questions
Does moving change anything in Safari?
No. Veb only reads Safari’s files or the files you export. Safari keeps everything, and you can go on using both.
Will I stay signed in to my sites?
No. Sign in once in Veb; it keeps the passwords you brought and offers them under each sign-in box.
Do my extensions come?
Not from here. Veb runs Chrome extensions: add them from the Chrome Web Store, where Add to Veb sits in place of Chrome’s button.
Can I bring it in again later?
Yes, any time, from Settings › General › Bring in from another browser.
What does Veb cost?
Nothing. Its AI runs on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, if you connect one.
Veb, Very Expensive Browser.
Free for the Mac. Arc’s sidebar, your own Claude or ChatGPT as the agent, Chrome extensions on WebKit.