Bare renders Markdown directly — no JavaScript, no cookies, no tracking.
Just the content you came to read.
⚠ Early development — build from source or watch releases.
Pages load in milliseconds, not seconds. No megabytes of JavaScript to parse — Bare fetches and renders only what matters.
Scripts and cookies are structurally impossible — not a setting you can forget to enable. Your browsing is yours alone, by architecture.
Markdown is rendered consistently regardless of the source. No pop-ups, no ad carousels, no layout surprises. Just the words.
Bare speaks the original internet’s languages. Navigate Gopher holes and Gemini capsules as first-class citizens alongside the modern web.
https://
gemini://
gopher://
file://
Enter a URL in the address bar
Bare fetches the content
Clean Markdown is rendered
Native .md URLs are rendered directly. HTML pages are converted to Markdown via
a Readability-style extractor — stripping away ads, navigation, and noise to surface the actual content.
Privacy in Bare is not a setting — it’s the architecture.
| Feature | Status | Privacy benefit |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Not supported | Zero tracking, no malware execution |
| Cookies | Not supported | No third-party tracking |
| CSS | Minimal / none | No CSS fingerprinting |
| Images | Optional | Prevents tracking pixels |
| Tracking | Impossible | Total protection |
Pre-built binaries are coming soon. Check GitHub Releases for the latest builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
GitHub ReleasesRequires Rust and the Tauri prerequisites.
git clone https://github.com/FrankBurmo/bare.git
cd bare
cargo install tauri-cli
cargo tauri buildBare is free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license. Contributions, bug reports, and ideas are all welcome.
Built with Rust + Tauri. Tiny binary, no Electron bloat.