The AI agent reads the page you are on and does the tedious parts — clicking, typing, extracting — in a tab of its own on your iPad, not in a virtual browser somewhere else. The keys do the rest: one press follows a link, opens a tab or runs a command, so you never reach for the screen. The model is yours to pick: Apple Intelligence on-device, or your own key.
Chat apps make you paste the page. Cloud-agent browsers take your session somewhere else to work on it. Geek Browser keeps the whole thing in one window on your iPad: the page, the AI agent, the keys.
Ask about what you are reading, or hand over a task. It clicks, types and reads in a tab of its own, step by step.
Apple Intelligence on your iPad, or your own key for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek. Nothing in between.
Every action has a key, Vim-style: follow a link, open a tab, run a command, start the AI agent. Remap any of them.
Type a question in the address bar and press Enter: it answers from the page you are on. Give it a task and it opens a copy of the page in its own tab, marked ✦, and works through it while you keep reading. Every step, every token and the running cost show in the side panel. Press Esc and it stops.

An AI browser that works for you has to browse as you. Most of them do it by running a browser in their own cloud and handing it your session. Geek Browser does it in the tab in front of you.
| Cloud-agent browsers | Geek Browser | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it browses | A virtual browser in the vendor's cloud. Your session cookies are copied to it so it can act as you. | The tab in front of you, on your iPad. Cookies and sessions never leave the device. |
| Which model | Theirs. You get what the browser ships. | Apple Intelligence on your iPad, or your own key for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek. |
| What it costs | Their AI agent sits behind a subscription tier, billed monthly. | Free. On-device costs nothing; with your own key you pay your provider, at cost, and set a budget per task. |
| What the vendor sees | Browsing context passes through their servers and is kept for a retention window. | Nothing. Requests go from your iPad to the provider you chose. There is no server of ours in the path. |
| Account | Sign in to use it. | There is nothing to sign into. |
The left column describes how cloud-agent browsers document their own iPad apps. Compare for yourself — the questions are the right ones to ask of any AI browser.

Use the model already on your iPad: Apple Intelligence answers reading tasks on-device, with no key, no account and nothing sent. Or bring the LLM you like — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek — on your own key, billed to you at your provider's prices. Either way, nothing passes through us.
On-device — summaries, explanations and translations answered by your iPad. Nothing transmitted, works with the network off.
Private Cloud Compute — Apple's larger model for a longer piece of work, under its own privacy guarantees. Still no key, still no account.
Your key — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek for tasks that act on pages. It stays in the Keychain, and requests go straight from the app to the provider.
Your bill — their prices, no markup and no monthly fee to us. On-device, the number stays zero.
Press f and every link gets a two-letter label — type it to open. o opens the address bar, : a command palette, / finds in the page. j k scroll, ⌘⇧] walks the tabs. If you know Vim or Vimlike, you already know Geek Browser.
:tab, :set darkmode=true, :javascript, :ping, and your own.Works with any hardware keyboard — Magic Keyboard, a Bluetooth keyboard, or the one on your Mac.



History, bookmarks, tabs, settings and the AI agent's memory files stay on your iPad and in your own iCloud. There is no Geek Browser backend that could hold them, and no analytics SDK in the app.
In the browser on your iPad. It drives a real tab — the ✦ tab — using the same session you are already signed into, so nothing is copied anywhere. Only the model call leaves the device, and only to the provider you picked. With Apple Intelligence on-device, not even that.
Apple Intelligence on-device and Apple's Private Cloud Compute need no key at all. For Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek you add your own API key, kept in the Keychain. You can change model per task.
Nothing on-device. With your own key you pay your provider at their prices, with no markup from us. The panel shows tokens and estimated cost while a task runs, and you can set a budget per task. A saved command that already worked replays without the model, for free.
Everything read from a page is fenced as untrusted content, so text on a page is data to read, never an instruction to follow. On top of that, Guard mode stops for your approval before submitting, paying, posting, deleting or leaving the site, every run has a step limit, and Esc ends it immediately.
No — there is nothing to sign into. No sign-up, no profile, no sync service of ours.
Yes. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads, and the AI agent is not behind a paid tier.
Geek Browser works by touch too, but it is built for a hardware keyboard: Magic Keyboard, any Bluetooth keyboard, or a Mac's.
Yes, on Apple silicon Macs as an iPad app from the Mac App Store, with the same keys.
Geek Browser is a real browser to iPadOS, so iCloud Keychain fills passwords and passkeys on any site. The AI agent never sees them: it stops at sign-in pages and hands you the tab.
Yes. Export from Vimlike's Website Settings and import the file in Settings › Websites. Key names, site scripts and per-site commands come along.