Get rewarded for browsing and support your favorite content creators
With your old browser, you paid to browse the web by viewing ads with your valuable attention. You spent your valuable time downloading invasive ad technology that transmitted your precious private data to advertisers — without your consent.
Today, Brave welcomes you to the new Internet. One where your time is valued, your personal data is kept private, and you actually get rewarded for your attention.
When you join Brave Rewards, your browser will automatically start tallying (only on your device’s local storage) the attention you spend on sites you visit. Once a month, Brave Rewards will send the corresponding amount of BAT, divided up based on your attention, from your local browser-based wallet to the sites you’ve visited. You can remove sites you don’t want to support, and tip creators directly too.
All of this is anonymous: nobody (not even us here at Brave) can see who supported which sites. We can only count up the total support for each site and send the BAT their way. Content creators can use our partner Uphold to convert the BAT they earn into a currency of their choosing.
Shields 🛡️
Ad blocking
Fingerprinting prevention*
Cookie control*
HTTPS upgrading*
Block scripts*
Per-site shield settings
Configurable global shield defaults
Brave Rewards 💲
Earn by viewing private ads
Tip your favorite creators
Contribute monthly to sites
Auto-contribute to sites
Verify with Uphold and move funds in and out of your wallet
Become a verified creator and start earning BAT from tips, contributions and referrals
Security 🔒
Clear browsing data
Built-in password manager
Form autofill
Control content access to full-screen presentation*
Control site access to autoplay media
Send “Do not track” with browsing requests
Tabs & Windows 📑
Private Windows
Pinned Tabs*
Auto-unload*
Drag and drop*
Duplicate*
Close Options
Find on page
Print page
Address Bar 🖥️
Add Bookmark
Autosuggest URLs
Search from address bar
Autosuggest search terms
Show/hide bookmarks toolbar*
Show secure or insecure site
Brave Firewall + VPN (paid feature, iOS only) 🔥
Unlike many browsers that offer VPNs which mask a user's IP address, Brave’s Firewall + VPN, powered by Guardian, offers enhanced security and privacy by encrypting and protecting anything users do while connected to the Internet.
Block ads and trackers across all apps
Protects all connections
We never share or sell you info
VPN server does not know who you are
Search 🔍
Choose default search engine
Use keyboard shortcuts for alternate search engines*
Option to use DuckDuckGo for private window search*
Extensions/Plugins 🔌
Brave Desktop now supports most of the Chrome extensions in the chrome web store