Dia Browser
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
9warn against
Dec 28, 2025first mention
Oct 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“At this point, everything I used in Arc is in Dia.”
switched from Arcon “A farewell to Arc browser”
“some browsers (Arc, Dia) are so gorgeous you don't want to work with anything else”
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“Isn't that essentially Dia? (Pro is 20USD/month.)”
Caveats and dissent
“in Dia, you cannot even turn off AI”
“I used it for a month and came back, it was not a good experience.”
former Arc useron “A farewell to Arc browser”
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“cancelled the download when I noticed it was 861 MB large. That seems... absurd.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- A farewell to Arc browser 8 mentions
- Thunderbird for iOS 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What browser do you use? 2 mentions
- Art: Keep using Arc after shutdown 1 mention
- Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest 1 mention
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent 1 mention
Also written as Dia Browser. Data: dia-browser.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 20
“in Dia, you cannot even turn off AI”
“nothing feels the same”
“At this point, everything I used in Arc is in Dia.”
“I use Dia now and then”
“I used it for a month and came back, it was not a good experience.”
“cancelled the download when I noticed it was 861 MB large. That seems... absurd.”
“I will not switch to Dia”
“I'd really want to be on Dia as I have much respect for its original creators”
“the privacy of this one doesn't look so good tbh”
“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 was not willing to switch to Dia looking at what The Browser Company did to arc”
“I've been using Dia, and this got better after the recent inclusion of Spaces similar to Arc.”
> and then became somewhat eclipsed by Skills (another Anthropic invention) I thought it was The Browser Company’s invention? https://claude.com/blog/skills > Introducing Agent Skills > October 16, 2025 I can find articles and Reddit posts about Dia Browser’s Skills from July 2025.
“Isn't that essentially Dia? (Pro is 20USD/month.)”
“missing some of the greatest failures like Bard, Dia Browser, Sora”
“tried dia for a bit but that's a bit of an underkill”
“I keep trying Dia every few months, but... nah.”
“It's been nearly a year since Dia launched”
“Visio, draw.io, or dia do the logical layer nicely but it’s very difficult to lay out the ports consistently”