Private because there is nowhere for your data to go
Pathfinder keeps every account on your own machine. No account to create, no cloud to sync to, no model reading your work. Here is exactly what that means, and what the app never does.
What Pathfinder never does
Nothing to sign up for. Pathfinder works the moment you open it, with no login and no account on our side.
No telemetry, no analytics, no usage statistics, no crash reports. On the free tier the app reports nothing back to us at all. With Pro it checks your licence key about every ten days, and that check carries the key and nothing else.
Your accounts, cookies, and history stay in folders on your PC. There is no Pathfinder server holding your data.
No assistant, no chatbot, no model. Nothing reads your tabs, summarises your work, or learns from how you browse.
Pathfinder is not funded by advertising. You are the customer, not the product being sold to one.
On your machine, in plain folders
Each account you add is a real browser profile stored in a folder on your PC, holding that account's cookies, local storage, and cache. Your list of apps, accounts, and workspaces is a local configuration file.
- One folder per account, kept apart from the others.
- Nothing is synced to a server, because there is no server.
- Remove Pathfinder and the profiles go with it, on your terms.
The only things that leave your machine
A private browser is not one that never touches the network. It is one that is clear about when it does. For Pathfinder, four things happen on their own, and two more happen only when you ask for them. This is all of them.
The sites you choose to visit
When you sign into a website, you are dealing with that site directly, as in any browser. It sets its own cookies inside that account's isolated profile.
A check for updates
Pathfinder asks our download host whether a newer version exists. That request carries only what any download does, and is never used to profile you.
The ad and tracker blocklist
Blocking is on by default, and the filter list behind it is fetched from its publisher when you first launch Pathfinder, then refreshed a couple of times a month. It is a plain file download: it tells them nothing about which sites you visit, because the matching happens on your machine.
Icons for your speed dial tiles
The new tab page asks Google's public favicon service for the icon of each site you have pinned. That sends the domain of a tile you created yourself, and nothing else: not your history, and not the pages you open. Private and local addresses are never looked up, and you can pick a letter or a custom image per tile to avoid the lookup entirely.
Two things happen only because you chose them. If you buy Pro, the app checks your licence key about every ten days, and that check carries the key and nothing else. If you type a message in Settings > Feedback and press Send, that message and the two version numbers shown on screen are sent, and nothing is sent if you do not press Send.
Nothing else. No background pings, no analytics beacons, no account sync. If it is not one of the six above, Pathfinder is not sending it.
This website is private too
pathfinderbrowser.com is a set of static pages served with no third-party analytics and no advertising trackers. The privacy of the product would not mean much if the site selling it watched you instead.
Two forms ask you for something: the Mac and Linux interest form on the download page, and the "tell me when Pro opens" form. If you use the first we store the platform you asked for and the address you typed, so we can tell you if that build happens. If you use the second we store the address, so we can send you one email on the day. No IP address, no browser, no country, no marketing list.
Both forms use a Cloudflare Turnstile check to stop automated submissions. That loads a small script from Cloudflare, the same company that hosts this site, and may set a cookie scoped to the challenge itself. It is the one third-party request the site makes; nothing else on any page calls out to anyone but us.
Read the full privacy policy for the plain-language detail on data, updates, and the accounts you sign into.
A browser that keeps your accounts to yourself
Free to download. Windows only. Mac and Linux are built on request.