8 November 2026LondonRelease notes, No. 2Modfare 0.4
Spring tide.
The biggest tides of the month, and the week Modfare learned to change a whole page, not just parts of it.
A spring tide is the big one, when the sea comes furthest up the beach and goes furthest out. This week Modfare stopped tidying pages and started reshaping them. Browse YouTube one video at a time. Swipe through Hacker News. Read the Guardian as big tiles from across the room. Ask for it in your own words, and it happens.
We also asked a question we should have asked from the start: how do you like the web? Answer once, and every site you have, and every site you add, is set up to suit you, each change with its reason and its Undo.
From the Modfare team, in London.
A new way to browse any page.
Press Ctrl Shift E and pick one. A feed, one thing per screen. One at a time, keep or skip, with a list of what you kept. Big Picture, big tiles and big type you move through with the arrow keys, made for a television, older eyes, or the dense business app you use all day. A reader, the article alone in a calm column. Show the page puts it back.
YouTube, one at a time.
Search results become a feed, each video filling the screen with its title and what it's about. Hacker News becomes a deck you keep or skip. Wikipedia becomes a page to read and nothing else.
Say what you want.
Make it like TikTok. No ads and no suggestions. Big Picture for this. Plain rules on your computer answer what they can. Add your own Claude API key in Settings and Claude writes the mod from an outline of the page, its landmarks and headings and repeated parts, never anything you've typed. Every mod it writes goes through the same checks as the rest before it runs.
Nothing looks removed.
When a mod hides something, the page now closes up around it. The box that only held an advert folds away, the label that said Advertisement goes with it, and a grid that lost a column spreads what's left. If you can tell something was taken away, we haven't done our job.
How do you like the web?
The welcome now asks, in a few taps: how pages should feel, what gets in your way, and how you like to browse. Modfare puts on the mods that fit, on the sites you have and every one you add, each with a reason you can read. One you take off stays off. Change your answers any time in Settings.
And the smaller things.
- Read it aloud. Select any text, right-click, and Modfare reads it to you.
- Nine views to start. Feeds, decks, Big Picture and readers for YouTube, Hacker News, the BBC, the Guardian and Wikipedia, and one of each for every other site.
- Your key stays yours. A Claude API key is sealed by your computer's own keychain, and used only when you ask for a change.
- Views remember your place. Leave a feed and come back, and you're where you were.
And a good deal more. Every change is on GitHub.
Past issues
Release notes, No. 1 · 8 November 2026Slack waterModfare 0.3: the quiet between tides.Research notes, No. 1 · 7 November 2026Notes from the workshopAn OS inside your OS.Spring tide is out now.
Modfare 0.4 for Mac and Windows, in early preview.