Dia
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
5warn 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”
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.”
“Dia looks like ChatGPT web client. It's mediocre at best”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- A farewell to Arc browser 5 mentions
- Thunderbird for iOS 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What browser do you use? 2 mentions
- Art: Keep using Arc after shutdown 1 mention
- Ask HN: Has anyone else found Google unusable lately? 1 mention
- Show HN: PatchMyGear – a living map for your studio gear (cables and checklist) 1 mention
Data: dia.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 12
“in Dia, you cannot even turn off AI”
“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'd really want to be on Dia as I have much respect for its original creators”
“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.”
“tried dia for a bit but that's a bit of an underkill”
“Visio, draw.io, or dia do the logical layer nicely but it’s very difficult to lay out the ports consistently”