Show HN: Tap – Mac browser that lays everything side by side instead of in tabs
Tap is a new Mac browser designed to eliminate the need for tabs by displaying everything side by side on a single canvas. Users can easily access pages, notes, and tools without switching between tabs, enhancing productivity. The browser also features drag-and-drop functionality, AI-assisted notes, and a select-to-act toolbar for seamless interaction with content.
- ▪Tap allows users to view all their open pages, notes, and tools on one canvas without the need for tabs.
- ▪The browser includes features like drag-and-drop live embeds, OCR, and AI-assisted note-taking.
- ▪Users can create workspaces to organize their open items by context, making it easier to manage multiple tasks.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Tap |
| Canonical URL | https://tapbrowser.com/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 09:03:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T09:19:59.862Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T09:19:59.862Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | t-ZAzvQsWvfO |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
TapWorkspaceNotesDownloadDownloadNow available for macOSThe browser withno tabs.Everything open, side by side. Your pages, notes, and tools live on one canvas you scroll — all in view, all at once. You never switch tabs again.Download for MacSee it in actionFree · macOS 13+ · Apple SiliconTalk to the maker on Discord→01 — One canvasOpen it once.It stays.Every tab switch is a tiny act of forgetting. Tap ends it — everything you open stays laid out in front of you, side by side. Need the other thing? It's not behind a tab.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Tap.
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