Patanyx Browser

A lightweight, Rust-based desktop browser built with privacy at its core.

Leave less behind.

Private by architecture, not just settings.

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Treasure hunt

Spot PATANYX. Unlock Premium. Seven PATANYX ads are out from September 21 to October 5, 2026, in Chicago, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Danville, Pennsylvania. Photograph one, share it, and the first 100 entries get three months of Premium. Hints and how to enter. Download PATANYX Browser here. New to PATANYX? Read the quick guide. What Premium unlocks: the Premium guide.

Released

PATANYX is out, for Windows and Linux, and it brings PATANYX's Fingerprint Divergence: different sites see different fingerprintable signals, reducing their ability to correlate your activity across the web. Download it here.

Also new

The color detection from XLiteOCR, EdgeXene's open-source OCR engine, now runs inside PATANYX: check a photo before you share it and it finds text hidden by low contrast, then tells you what it says.

770,000+ local, multi-source phishing and malware protection

Zero accounts, sign-ups or sync

5 min of no input and the vault locks itself again

Every hour it checks for a newer phishing list

A look inside

The tour

Watch PATANYX at work.

The PATANYX vault panel, with the passphrase field and the lock-when-idle options

01 What the page contacted

Decide what a page is allowed to reach.

Block ads and trackers so the request never leaves your computer. Freeze a page once it has loaded, or open tabs that keep nothing. Then pick who resolves the sites you visit.

02 Tab Activity

See what a tab is doing.

What this tab is up to, with buttons to freeze it, quarantine it, forget its cookies, or save it as a PDF.

The Tab Activity panel, showing network requests, storage, connection, cookies and archive controls for the current tab

03 Privacy test

Tested by someone else.

One run of EFF's Cover Your Tracks: tracking ads blocked, invisible trackers blocked. It also reports a nearly-unique fingerprint, which is the limit we do not hide. Run it yourself.

EFF's Cover Your Tracks results in PATANYX: strong protection against web tracking, with tracking ads and invisible trackers blocked

04 Encrypted DNS

Encrypted DNS (Windows only)

Keep your DNS lookups out of your ISP's view.

A PowerShell window running Resolve-DnsName over the destination addresses one browsing session reached, most of which resolve to no name at all

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Ranked #1 Product of the Day on PeerPush, September 18, 2026.