# EWW (Emacs Web Wowser)

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/eww/

6 people recommended EWW (Emacs Web Wowser) in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 6 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Built-in text browser in Emacs that renders pages without JavaScript and strips clutter with readable mode.

Summary written by Claude from 10 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Renders pages without JavaScript (3 comments in the sample): "If you mostly use the browser for reading, you'd be surprised how much EWW actually renders." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222799)) "If Emacs can't render the HTML then the website is not worth using." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289787)) "It rendered perfectly, without JavaScript, in Emacs EWW." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011895))
- Works well within Emacs (2 comments in the sample): "all tends to work very well with eww" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492558)) "most of the browsing in eww" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132932))

## Other text browsers people recommend

- [Lynx web browser](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lynx/): 34 recommend, 8 mixed, 8 criticize
- [Links web browser](https://hackerapproved.com/p/links/): 14 recommend, 3 mixed, 3 criticize
- [w3m](https://hackerapproved.com/p/w3m/): 12 recommend, 5 mixed, 1 criticize
- [Chawan terminal web browser](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chawan/): 12 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "EWW (Emacs Web Wowser)", https://hackerapproved.com/p/eww/ (6 recommend, 2 mixed, 2 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.