Bare

Bare is a de-Googled Chromium build for Android, built for privacy, control, and freedom on the web. It strips Google tracking, telemetry, and AI integration while keeping browser extensions and uBlock Origin. It adds background video playback, saving media from sites that normally block it, your choice of download manager, and more.

Bare removes Google sign-in, browser telemetry and AI features from Chromium. Desktop extensions work, and uBlock Origin comes installed.

What you can do - Install desktop extensions from the Chrome Web Store, a CRX file or an unpacked folder. Pin the ones you use to the toolbar. - Use the full uBlock Origin, included by default. You can disable or remove it. - Put the address bar at the top or bottom, arrange the toolbar, and switch between list and grid views for tabs. - Open your tabs in a drawer that slides in from the left, as page thumbnails or as a list. The regular tab switcher has the same grid or list choice. - Set each button on the bottom bar, including Find in page, Search, Back, Forward and the tabs drawer. Swipe along the bottom bar or the address bar to switch tabs. A minimal address bar is a single row with New tab, Tabs and Menu, and you can hide items from the three dot menu. - Find Settings grouped into Your Browser, Preferences & tools and Bare. Pick an app icon (Light, Dark or Retro), let the System theme use true black, and make pages fit the phone's width while keeping the user agent you chose. - Manage extensions on a phone-sized page that shows each one's version and status, with switches for Enabled and Allow in Incognito, Install CRX, Load unpacked and Update all. Bare offers to install a .crx when it finishes downloading, and the Chrome Web Store is laid out as a phone list. - Translate pages by sending their text to a LibreTranslate-compatible server that you enter, after you confirm. Google Translate is a separate choice and stays off until you turn it on. - Lock Incognito with fingerprint or face only, wipe it after 1, 3 or 5 failed unlocks, and allow or block screenshots in it. - Turn on security options: secure connections, third-party cookie blocking, hiding your local address in WebRTC and hardened JavaScript. - Receive web push through a distributor app that you pick in Settings, instead of through Google. - Keep supported video playing with the screen off. Save media from a page, or send downloads to another manager. The other app gets the page address and the User-Agent, and your cookies only if you allow it, never from Incognito. Long press a video that a page streams and choose Download video to fetch the file the page names. - Choose your search engine. DuckDuckGo is the default; Google (No AI) is available, and you can add your own.

License BSD-3-Clause license