If there’s one thing the world doesn’t need, it’s another browser app. From Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to Safari, Opera, Vivaldi, and countless others, internet users are pretty well-served when it comes to browsing the web.
However, that isn’t stopping one Utah-based startup from launching a new mobile browser app that lets users “swipe” through search results as web pages, rather than clicking back and forth on separate links.
Following a limited release on iOS and Android, Cake is launching its browser globally for everyone from today, and the company revealed it has secured $5 million in funding from Peak Ventures, Pelion Ventures, and Kickstart Seed Fund.
How it works
Although the major mobile browsers do offer some differences in terms of features, they are broadly similar in terms of how you interact with them: You set a default search engine, enter your keywords, and scroll through the results until you find what you’re after. Cake, however, veers from that well-traveled course by giving you the results already loaded in tabs that you swipe through from left to right.
When you first set things up with Cake, you’re asked to select your default search engine from either Google or Bing, and Cake then guides you through a few need-to-know tidbits about the app.
You’ll be able to search for whatever you want as you normally would, and then you’ll see a bunch of tabs along the top for each website in question.
There is an option to view All Results when you swipe to the left of the first tab, which shows the search results in a traditional scrollable format.
However, that isn’t what Cake is all about — rather than clicking in and out of each result, you just swipe to the left to read the results already loaded on their own pages.
Based on our brief tests, the Cake browser worked well, though I do have some…
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