chromium VS brave-browser

Compare chromium vs brave-browser and see what are their differences.

chromium

The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source (by chromium)

brave-browser

Next generation Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows. (by brave)
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chromium brave-browser
223 1367
17,358 16,484
2.4% 1.4%
10.0 9.9
1 day ago about 16 hours ago
JavaScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Mozilla Public License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

chromium

Posts with mentions or reviews of chromium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-06.

brave-browser

Posts with mentions or reviews of brave-browser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chromium and brave-browser you can also consider the following projects:

Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn't include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.

ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

thorium - Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.

Brave-AppImage

iridium-browser - Iridium Browser source code

WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements