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Change any website. Then change it back.

Modfare is a calm web browser for Mac and Windows. Hide the bits of a page you don't want, make it quieter or the words bigger, and put it all back with one click.

Download for Mac and Windows Or change this page first

Version 0.12, an early preview. Everything stays on your computer.

Modfare's Home: the time over Monet's painting Low tide. Below it a search box, a dock of sites (BBC News, YouTube, Facebook, Gmail, Wikipedia, Hacker News) and a Getting started list.

Home is the time over a painting, a dock of your sites, notes and a to-do list, and music in the bar. A little desk inside your computer.

Under it: Hokusai, Red Fuji

A real advert, on this page, being a nuisance. Click it.

This page is a website too. So change it.

These are real mods, working on this page now, on your computer. Nothing is sent anywhere. The lime number counts what's on, and one button puts it all back.

Nothing changed yet Hidden things are only hidden. Nothing is deleted.

The web, the way you'd like it.

A mod is a change to a site. You don't need to know how it works. You point at what you'd change, and Modfare does the rest, on your computer and never on theirs.

  1. The first time you open Modfare, it shows you a practice page. Click the advert, choose Hide it, and it's gone. One more click brings it back.

    That's the real first run. Try Hide it.
    A practice page called The Riverside Weekly, with a loud WIN A CRUISE banner selected and a menu offering Hide it, Hide all of these, Quieter and Cancel. The same practice page with the banner gone, and a note: Gone. It'll stay gone. Change it back.
    Under it: Monet, Garden house at Antibes

  2. Here YouTube has four mods on, among them No Shorts and No adverts. Click one off and that part of YouTube goes back to how it was.

    YouTube in Modfare with the Mods panel open, showing four changes on: No Shorts, No adverts, Hold still and No ads.
    Under it: Charles-François Daubigny, River sunset

  3. Site mods, looks, ways to read, widgets and Chrome extensions, all in one place. Each one shows you before and after, then tries itself on the page in front of you.

    The add-on page for YouTube as a feed, with before and after pictures and a button to try it on YouTube.
    Under it: George Inness, Summer meadow

  4. Add them once and they're kept out of every page and your feed, hidden even as you type them. The settings are in plain words, with Simple and Everything.

    Calm and safety settings: hide things I would rather not see, a list of my words, and blur pictures in my feed until I click.
    Under it: Martin Johnson Heade, Moonlit shore
A practice page called The Riverside Weekly, with a loud WIN A CRUISE banner selected and a menu offering Hide it, Hide all of these, Quieter and Cancel. The same practice page with the banner gone, and a note: Gone. It'll stay gone. Change it back.
Under it: Monet, Garden house at Antibes
YouTube in Modfare with the Mods panel open, showing four changes on: No Shorts, No adverts, Hold still and No ads.
Under it: Charles-François Daubigny, River sunset
The add-on page for YouTube as a feed, with before and after pictures and a button to try it on YouTube.
Under it: George Inness, Summer meadow
Calm and safety settings: hide things I would rather not see, a list of my words, and blur pictures in my feed until I click.
Under it: Martin Johnson Heade, Moonlit shore

Small things, made with care.

For kids, grandparents and everyone between. Simple when you want it, and as freeform as you like when you don't.

First run

Tell it what it's for.

Everyday life, studying, making things, work, or keeping things calm. Your first space is built to match: its sites, its changes, its picture.

Modfare's welcome: Hello. What's Modfare for? with choices for everyday life, school, making things, work and keeping things calm, beside a preview of Home.
A way to read

Wikipedia, as a book page.

Reading room clears the clutter and sets the words large and even.

Wikipedia's Tide pool article as it comes, with menus and small text. The same article with Reading room on: one calm column of larger text.
Add-ons

One shelf for everything.

See what's on for the site in front of you, and what else it could be.

Add-ons for YouTube: four changes on here, with YouTube as a feed, No adverts, No Shorts and others.
Private

Your mods, notes, to-do list and history live on your machine. A mod changes the page in front of you, never the site itself.

Everything stays on your computer.

For developers

A mod is a file you can read.

Who made it, which sites it's for, what it can see, and a short list of steps. Open it, change it, share it.

"name": "Calm feed",
"for": ["*"],
"asks": ["read-page"],
"steps": [
  { "do": "lens", "use": "loud",
    "on": "article" }
]
Coming from Arc or Chrome

If you loved Arc's calm, there's room for you here.

Arc showed a lot of us that a browser could feel calm and personal. It closes on 22 December. If you're looking for somewhere new, Modfare can bring your things over from Arc or Chrome the first time you open it, so your new home doesn't start empty.

  • Bookmarks
  • Your sites
  • Chrome extensions
YouTube in Modfare, with the Shorts and adverts taken off. Under it: Church, Twilight

Make the internet yours.

Version 0.12 is out now for Mac and Windows, as an early preview. Change anything, and change it back whenever you like.

Download for Mac and Windows