It started with a Google search. Something completely ordinary — Safe Search turned on, the way it's supposed to be — and the image results still had things in them I didn't want to see. The setting that's supposed to be the seatbelt of the internet, and it just… didn't work. I remember thinking: if Google can't get this right, with all their data and engineers, what's actually keeping any of us safe?

I went looking for a real fix. Browser extensions exist, but they're brittle and you're trusting whoever maintains them — same problem as Safe Search, smaller team. Parental control software is clunky and assumes you're protecting someone else, not yourself. Nothing felt like the calm, deliberate thing I'd actually want to use every day.

So I started building. I'm an iOS and macOS engineer by trade — Swift, AppKit, SwiftUI, the whole Apple stack — and Blur is everything I love about my craft poured into a single app. Native macOS. WebKit under the hood. On-device AI running on your GPU. Design that doesn't shout. No third-party dependencies. No tracking. No upsells, ever.

It will always be free. It will always be open source. It will always be the browser I wish I'd had a year ago.

If Blur makes your browsing a little calmer, that's the whole point. If it doesn't, tell me why — I read every message.

— Omar Elsayed