# Cromite

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Cromite and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a privacy-focused Chromium fork for Android that feels fast, clean and compatible. The most common caveat is that its filtering breaks some sites, especially Cloudflare captchas.

## Why people recommend it

- Recommended as go-to Android browser (6 comments): "On Android, I would also recommend both IronFox and Cromite." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886436)) "May I suggest Cromite, instead of ungoogled-chromium?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46190752)) "I recently switched from iceraven to Cromite." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993440))
- Fast, clean, compatible browsing (3 comments): "Finally I've found my Kiwi browser replacement. It is also feels faster than both Firefox and Brave on Android" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509122)) "just give you a clean and compatible browser without any frills" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309506)) "everything worked for me in Cromite and Firefox" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547856))
- Grid new tab page shortcuts (2 comments): "good new tab page with 4x4 shortcuts (2x4 pinnable) with direct access to bookmarks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899203)) "pretty sure Cromite allows more options than just grid view which I hate" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533996))

## What people warn about

- Cloudflare Turnstile and captchas fail (2 comments): "a privacy conscious fork of Chromium for Android, has constantly issues with CloudFlare Turnstile" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346154)) "you simply cannot pass CF captcha" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459639))
- Filtering breaks some sites (2 comments): "Chromite and Iron Fox filtering out a ton of stuff so a lot of sites simply don't work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540249)) "RuntimeError: The browser supports WebGL, but initialization failed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732656))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Firefox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/firefox.md): 1572 recommend
- [Brave](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brave-browser.md): 397 recommend
- [Safari](https://hackerapproved.com/p/safari.md): 307 recommend
- [Orion Browser by Kagi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/orion-browser.md): 206 recommend
- [LibreWolf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/librewolf.md): 113 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cromite", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cromite/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).