Dia browser
Ranked 26 of 53 web browsers by recommenders
People like its polished, well-designed interface and its return of many Arc features, and the built-in AI can be ignored. The main caveat is the paid plan and the AI features pushed in the browser.
People like its polished, well-designed interface and its return of many Arc features, and the built-in AI can be ignored. The main caveat is the paid plan and the AI features pushed in the browser.
46 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 14
- criticize it
- 32
- approval share
- 30%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 14 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Well-designed, nice-to-use interface
“Despite wanting to hate it, I like the browser a lot. You can turn off the shit AI features, and it's a well designed and thoughtful UX.”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “some browsers (Arc, Dia) are so gorgeous you don't want to work with anything else”
Comment from 13 Oct 2026 in “Thunderbird for iOS” “it's very nice to use. Sadly, it still doesn't have all of Arc's features”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” Built-in AI can be ignored
“Despite wanting to hate it, I like the browser a lot. You can turn off the shit AI features, and it's a well designed and thoughtful UX.”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “no one's using their AI, something Arc makes totally optional and invisible”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “You can just turn off / ignore the AI crap and it's great”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” Brings many Arc features
“they have added most of the Arc features into Dia now - the ones I still miss are Peek, Air Traffic Control, and Nested Folders”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “this got better after the recent inclusion of Spaces similar to Arc”
Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: What browser do you use?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Built-in AI intrusive and distracting
“I never use the built-in AI in Dia and get annoyed when a query that I wanted to go to a search engine gets answered by the assistant instead.”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “it feels half baked, and the AI Chat button is an annoyingly permanent ads”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “Dia is focused more on AI tools, and seems to be more distracting for me”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” Still missing some Arc features
“they have added most of the Arc features into Dia now - the ones I still miss are Peek, Air Traffic Control, and Nested Folders”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “it's very nice to use. Sadly, it still doesn't have all of Arc's features”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” Distrust of maker after Arc
“You're OK returning to the vendor that fucked you over with their last product and trusting that they won't do it again with their new product?”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “I don't understand in what world I would migrate to a browser made by the people who just killed their browser”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “Then the whole Dia thing… boy am I glad I didn't invest my time in that.”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Orion 1.0” Pushes users toward paid plan
“Dia has a pretty hefty paid plan last time I checked, and so you will be using a browser constantly pushing you from free towards paid.”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser” “I don’t want to be pushed towards a $100 per month plan where the «key feature» is an AI morning brief.”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “A farewell to Arc browser”
Other web browsers people recommend
The four most recommended other web browsers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | 1,572 | 1,371 | 53% | 12 | 16 yrs125 owners | — |
| Google Chrome | 503 | 1,086 | 32% | 12 | 10 yrs11 owners | — |
| Brave | 397 | 248 | 62% | 12 | 4.9 yrs16 owners | — |
| Safari | 307 | 577 | 35% | 12 | 13 yrs27 owners | — |
| Dia browserThis page | 14 | 32 | 30% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 48 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“they mostly keep adding AI to a browser that does not need it”
“no one's using their AI, something Arc makes totally optional and invisible”
“You can just turn off / ignore the AI crap and it's great”
“Profiles aren't as good to use as spaces, and there's no way to share favorite tabs across profiles”
“I never use the built-in AI in Dia and get annoyed when a query that I wanted to go to a search engine gets answered by the assistant instead.”
“No one cares about Dia browser”
“Dia is focused more on AI tools, and seems to be more distracting for me”
“but its an afterthought. I used it for a month and came back, it was not a good experience.”
“Man that is a crazy price for an unimpressive list of features.”
“You're OK returning to the vendor that fucked you over with their last product and trusting that they won't do it again with their new product?”
“it was 861 MB large. That seems... absurd.”
“Dia feels very much designed for a project manager that spends all of its day in web applications.”
“Your IP address, IP address-location data, device ID, the pages you visit using Dia and queries submitted”
“it feels half baked, and the AI Chat button is an annoyingly permanent ads”
“Dia looked like a generic Google Chrome clone with AI stapled on”
“Dia was always significantly worse”
“they have added most of the Arc features into Dia now - the ones I still miss are Peek, Air Traffic Control, and Nested Folders”
“I don’t want to be pushed towards a $100 per month plan where the «key feature» is an AI morning brief.”
“Dia has a pretty hefty paid plan last time I checked, and so you will be using a browser constantly pushing you from free towards paid.”
“it failed to do so, asked me to try again in a few minutes or contact Atlassian support”
“the privacy of this one doesn't look so good tbh”
“there are so many powerful features they refused to port to Dia”
“I don't understand in what world I would migrate to a browser made by the people who just killed their browser”
“it's very nice to use. Sadly, it still doesn't have all of Arc's features”
“Venture capital funded, closed source, and AI... doesn't sound good.”
“Despite wanting to hate it, I like the browser a lot. You can turn off the shit AI features, and it's a well designed and thoughtful UX.”
“Dia looks like ChatGPT web client. It's mediocre at best”
“some browsers (Arc, Dia) are so gorgeous you don't want to work with anything else”
“I can't for the life of me figure out what to do with the feature”
“Dia afaik uses chromium and chromium likes ram”
“this got better after the recent inclusion of Spaces similar to Arc”
“which is built by a much smaller team”
“Lately, Dia browser and raycast handle this nicely.”
“should have taken this route ages ago”
“Isn't that essentially Dia?”
“missing some of the greatest failures like Bard, Dia Browser, Sora, etc.”
“The Browser Company being bought by Atlassian”
“it’s very difficult to lay out the ports consistently and have them flow.”
“This is a streaming version of their previously released Dia TTS, which was an original work.”
“Then the whole Dia thing… boy am I glad I didn't invest my time in that.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.