Broadway Download

Cut across.

Broadway is a browser for the Mac, named for the one street that ignores Manhattan's grid. Built on WebKit and drawn entirely in AppKit, with spaces, split view and a sidebar that keeps up with your pull requests, meetings and agents.

Download for macOS

Version 0.1 for macOS 27 or later, on Apple silicon.

Broadway's window in dark mode: a near-black sidebar, a little see-through and grainy, with pinned tiles, a folder called New York Trip and loose tabs beside a Wikipedia article about Manhattan's street plan. Broadway's window in light mode: the same sidebar with pinned tiles, a folder called New York Trip and loose tabs beside a Wikipedia article about Manhattan's street plan.

A space for each side of your day

Personal, work, a side project. Each space keeps its own tabs, pins, folders and colour, and can start signed out with cookies of its own, so two accounts on one site never meet. Swipe two fingers sideways and the whole window follows.

Two pages, one window

Drag a tab onto the edge of a page, or press ⌥⌘N, and the window splits. Each pane is a card of its own with a bar of its own: back, forward, reload and that site's controls. Drag the divider to give one side more room.

Split view in dark mode: a documentation page on the left and a dashboard on the right, each pane with its own bar. Split view in light mode: a documentation page on the left and a dashboard on the right, each pane with its own bar.

Leave the tab, keep the video

A video you were watching floats in a corner when you move to another tab, another space or another app. Glass controls skip fifteen seconds either way, change the speed and turn on subtitles. Go back to its tab and it goes home.

Broadway's window in dark mode, open on an article about tide tables. In the sidebar, another tab is still playing a film. Broadway's window in light mode, open on an article about tide tables. In the sidebar, another tab is still playing a film.
The film from the other tab, floating over the corner of the window with glass controls: back to its tab, speed, close, back and forward fifteen seconds, pause, and a progress bar. The film from the other tab, floating over the corner of the window with glass controls: back to its tab, speed, close, back and forward fifteen seconds, pause, and a progress bar.
A floating call window: four people in a grid, one of them speaking, with microphone, camera and leave buttons beneath. A floating call window: four people in a grid, one of them speaking, with microphone, camera and leave buttons beneath.

Calls float too

Leave a tab that is using your camera or microphone and the call follows you as a small window that shows only the people, with mute, camera and leave on its bar.

A meeting alert: Atlas weekly, in 1 min, on Google Meet, with Mara and 2 others, and buttons to join or snooze. A meeting alert: Atlas weekly, in 1 min, on Google Meet, with Mara and 2 others, and buttons to join or snooze.

Meetings find you

A minute before a meeting a card appears with Join, even when Broadway is behind other apps. The call opens in the space it belongs to.

Native all the way down.

  • WebKit underneath. Pages run on the engine that ships with macOS.
  • AppKit on top. The window, the sidebar and every control are drawn the way Mac apps draw them, and menus are real macOS menus.
  • Glass where things float. The address field, Find and the floating video wear Liquid Glass. Pages stay solid.
A Pull Requests folder in the sidebar: seven rows with passing and failing checks, a stack of three with a draft, a change request and an approval, and dots for new activity. A Pull Requests folder in the sidebar: seven rows with passing and failing checks, a stack of three with a draft, a change request and an approval, and dots for new activity.

Pull requests live where your tabs do

A folder in the sidebar follows the pull requests waiting on you, read from the GitHub you are signed in to. Each row shows its checks, its review and the comments still unanswered. A merged one celebrates and leaves.

Drive it from a terminal

The broadway command opens pages, reads them and clicks through them, for you, your scripts and your coding agents. It speaks MCP too.

$ broadway open https://example.com
$ broadway snapshot
$ broadway click @e3
$ broadway read | head

Agents get a corner of their own

Let agents use Broadway and each one works in tabs of its own. They stay under one Agents row at the foot of the sidebar, folded, with a line saying who is at work; unfold it and each agent's tabs are there. When one needs a yes, the row says so with its question, and one press takes you to the tab that asks. On the page you see where the agent is, and ⌘. takes over.

Two agents at work in Broadway, dark mode: Claude Code types into a search field under a pointer with its name, and Codex waits for an answer to a question shown at the foot of the page. At the foot of the sidebar the Agents row is unfolded: it says Codex needs you, with each agent's tabs under its name. Two agents at work in Broadway, light mode: Claude Code types into a search field under a pointer with its name, and Codex waits for an answer to a question shown at the foot of the page. At the foot of the sidebar the Agents row is unfolded: it says Codex needs you, with each agent's tabs under its name.
The Morning Brief tab: the brief, named for its day of the week, set over a landscape painting, with one line about the day beneath it. The Morning Brief tab: the brief, named for its day of the week, set over a landscape painting, with one line about the day beneath it.

A brief with the first tab of the morning

Once a morning a brief arrives as a tab: today's meetings, the weather, what needs you and what you left open yesterday. Its greeting is written on your Mac.

A tide times page opened in Peek over the article that linked to it, with buttons to close it, open it as a tab or keep it beside. A tide times page opened in Peek over the article that linked to it, with buttons to close it, open it as a tab or keep it beside.

Peek at a link without leaving the page

Shift-click a link and it opens in a panel over the page. Close it, open it as a tab, or keep it beside what you were reading.

Quiet unless you say otherwise

Ads and trackers, blocked
Blocked inside WebKit before a request is made, on by default. Cross-site tracking is prevented and click IDs are cut from addresses.
Private windows that keep nothing
Each private window has storage of its own. Close it and its sign-ins and cookies are gone; history was never written.
A say over every site
Camera, microphone, location, notifications and your local network are asked for by name and kept per site. ⌘E opens the controls for the site you are on.
The top corner of Broadway's window on a Wikipedia article, with the site controls menu open under the address field. The top corner of Broadway's window on a Wikipedia article, with the site controls menu open under the address field.
The site controls menu: Connection is secure, Block Ads and Trackers ticked, Hide Elements, Translate, zoom, Copy Address and Copy Page as Markdown. The site controls menu: Connection is secure, Block Ads and Trackers ticked, Hide Elements, Translate, zoom, Copy Address and Copy Page as Markdown.

And the small things

  • Undo for tabs. ⌘Z brings back a closed tab, a moved one, a renamed folder. Thirty steps deep.
  • Speed keys. S slower, F faster, D back to normal, on any video, from half speed to three times.
  • Answers in the address field. Sums, units, time zones, dates and currencies, before you press Return.
  • Link rules. Decide which space a link from another app opens in.
  • Copy Page as Markdown. For your notes, or for the agent you are briefing.
  • Translate on your Mac. A page in a language you do not read, translated in place.
  • Chrome extensions. Install them from the Chrome Web Store.
  • Bring things over. Bookmarks and passwords from the browser you use now.
  • Passwords in the keychain. Saved in the macOS keychain and shown with Touch ID.
  • Any look you like. Start from Noir, Gray, Glass, Dusk, Paper or Midnight, or mix a colour, a blend, glass and grain yourself.
Broadway's icon: a dark map of Manhattan's street grid with one white line crossing it.

Take Broadway.

The icon is a map of Manhattan: the street grid, tilted 29 degrees, and Broadway crossing it, with its one bend at Grace Church on Tenth Street. The line down this page is the same street.

Download for macOS

Version 0.1 for macOS 27 or later, on Apple silicon.