Zeed reasons over your tabs, memory, and the page you’re reading, and
can take actions when you ask.
Your data never leaves your device by design. Chromium-based. The AI runs on your own OpenRouter key — billed by your provider, not by us.
Vertical tabs keep 100+ tabs tidy · sidebar graphs your context · tools act when you ask
AUR helper (yay / paru):
yay -S zeed-binFree · no ads · bring your own API key · macOS (Apple Silicon) also available — notarized
Your Chrome extensions, bookmarks, and passwords come along.
Try these on day 1
Open Zeed and paste one in. Then — while the answer is still fresh — paste the follow-up beneath it. The depth shows up after you chain two.
Skim a docs page, post-mortem, or PR description without reading every line.
Summarize this page in 3 bullets, then list 2 things I should double-check before acting on it. Then paste this
Now open each of those 2 things in a new tab and tell me which one to verify first. Have a few candidate tabs open? Let the sidebar pick across them with the page context.
Compare the options across my open tabs and recommend one, with the trade-off in a single sentence. Then paste this
Now write a 4-sentence note I can paste back to the people deciding with me, including the trade-off. Group 30+ tabs by topic in one shot instead of dragging them by hand.
Group my open tabs by topic, name each group in 2 words, and tell me which group to close first. Then paste this
Now in the group you said to close first, tell me which 3 tabs are worth glancing at before I close it. Agent fills the forms and stops at the confirm screen. You click submit.
Find this book on Amazon, add it to cart, and stop at the order review screen so I can press place order. Then paste this
Now back at the cart, suggest 2 related books worth adding and tell me in one sentence why each fits — wait before adding anything. Stay in flow: have the sidebar branch the next 3 angles into fresh tabs.
Pick the 3 most important angles from this article, open a fresh tab for each one, and tell me which angle to dig into first. Then paste this
Now in that angle's tab, find the 2 strongest sources and summarize each in 2 sentences. Come back tomorrow, ask the sidebar what you were chasing, and continue.
Pull up what I was researching here yesterday, tell me where I left off, and suggest the next concrete step. Then paste this
Now draft a 1-paragraph note to my future self covering what I learned and what to do next when I open this tomorrow. On a GitHub diff? Walk the change with the sidebar instead of scrolling alone.
Walk me through this PR: name the 3 files most worth careful review, the top risk in each, and one question I should ask the author. Then paste this
Now draft a 4-line review comment for the riskiest file, in a tone that invites the author to push back. Prompts run on your own OpenRouter key, straight from your machine to your provider — Zeed's servers are not in the path.
Five things Zeed promises
Thinks with you
Open tabs, past notes, the paragraph you’re reading — all stitched into context. The sidebar continuously surfaces what matters now, and chat answers on top of that context instead of from scratch.
Takes action
Tell the sidebar “find this book on Amazon and get to the checkout screen” and Zeed opens the tab, searches, fills forms, and stops before submitting. Any purchase, post, or delete always waits for your confirmation.
Can’t see your data
Memory, history, bookmarks — all stored locally. Telemetry is a short allowlist of anonymous events — never URLs, page content, or chats — and one click turns it off. Other AI browsers stream your activity to their cloud. Zeed literally can’t, by construction.
Your key, your bill
Other AI browsers bundle their provider and charge $20/mo. Zeed's AI runs on your own OpenRouter API key: you pay the provider directly, and Zeed takes no cut. Models are currently fixed (chat: GLM-5.1, web search: Perplexity Sonar) — a model picker is under consideration, not shipped.
One-click migration
Chromium under the hood. All 190,000+ Web Store extensions, your bookmarks, saved passwords, autofill, and site compatibility work out of the box. Make it your daily driver, not a side-experiment.
Against other AI browsers
Atlas / Comet / Fellou / Opera Neon ship in-house LLMs and stream your activity to their cloud — and none of them ship for Linux. Zeed runs on your LLM key, on your device, Linux-first.
| Feature / policy | Zeed | Atlas | Comet | Fellou | Opera Neon | Brave + Leo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native Linux build | ✓ Linux-first | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Chrome extensions work as-is | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-click Chrome import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ✓ |
| BYO API key (direct billing) | ✓ OpenRouter (models currently fixed) | — | — | — | — | ◯ Leo BYOM |
| On-device data (by construction) | ✓ | △ | — | △ | △ | △ |
| Diff source public (hackable) | ✓ MPL-2.0 | — | — | partial | — | ✓ MPL-2.0 |
| MCP (Claude/Cursor tools reuse) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Built by subtraction (no crypto / news feed / ads) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Monthly price | $0 | $20 (Plus) | $0–20 | $0+ | sub | $0 (Leo $15) |
✓ = full / ◯ = limited / △ = policy claim without structural guarantee / — = no
Based on each vendor’s public material as of 2026-06. Independent research.
Arch / Ubuntu / Debian / macOS (beta). iOS is in TestFlight beta.
AUR helper (yay / paru):
yay -S zeed-binOr manual makepkg:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/zeed-bin.git
cd zeed-bin
makepkg -siGrab the latest .deb and install:
curl -LO https://github.com/efg-technologies/zeed-browser-dist/releases/latest/download/zeed-browser_149.0.7827.102.60-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./zeed-browser_149.0.7827.102.60-1_amd64.debGPG-signed APT repo (apt-get install zeed-browser) is in progress.
Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple — no Gatekeeper warnings, no quarantine workarounds. Install via Homebrew or grab the .dmg.
Homebrew (recommended):
brew install --cask efg-technologies/zeed/zeedOr manual .dmg:
curl -LO https://github.com/efg-technologies/zeed-browser-dist/releases/latest/download/zeed-149.0.7827.102.60-mac-arm64.dmgApple Silicon (arm64). Notarized — opens like any Mac app.
On first launch, paste your OpenRouter API key. That’s it.
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Roadmap
FAQ
Three things. (1) Your data stays on your device by design — others stream to their AI cloud. (2) The AI runs on your own OpenRouter key — you pay the provider directly, with no markup (models are currently fixed: GLM-5.1 chat, Sonar search). (3) Turn AI off and Zeed is just Chromium, so you can leave without friction.
Yes. Chromium-based, so all 190,000+ Web Store extensions, bookmarks, saved passwords, and autofill carry over. Your Chrome profile is read-only — if you don’t like Zeed, go back.
On your device only — localStorage and SQLite. Memory, history, bookmarks, chat logs never leave. Anonymous telemetry is a minimal allowlist — never URLs or content — on by default with a one-click opt-out. Private mode disables AI entirely.
Currently the models are fixed: chat and Agent run on GLM-5.1, web search on Perplexity Sonar — both through your own OpenRouter key, so billing stays between you and OpenRouter. There is no model-picker UI today; one is under consideration, not promised.
Zeed is free, no ads. LLM usage you pay directly to the provider. Zeed takes no cut, so heavy users pay the lowest possible rate. Optional paid tiers ($5/mo+) for multi-device sync and cloud features are coming.
Linux today (Arch AUR + Ubuntu/Debian .deb) and macOS (Apple Silicon, beta). On iPhone, Zeed Mobile is in TestFlight beta — see zeed.run/mobile. Cloud sync is on the roadmap.
Zeed extracts user intent, decisions, and discoveries from pages and chat, then organizes them across five layers (Profile → TabGroup → Tab → Topic → Memory). The AI reads from this instead of asking you from scratch every time. Raw logs are not retained.
Any buy / send / delete / publish requires your approval. Prompt-injection from hostile pages is blocked structurally. If that’s still too much, private mode disables AI entirely.
Also from EFG Technologies
Zeed Search is an AI search from the same company: AI answers on top of raw results, Deep research, image search, shareable answer links, and the Zeed Brief morning email. The free tier covers daily use; Pro lifts the limits.
| Feature | Free | Pro ¥980/mo |
|---|---|---|
| Search (raw results) | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| AI answers (summaries) | 10 / day | Effectively unlimited* |
| Deep research | 10 / month | Effectively unlimited* |
| Image search | 5 / day | Effectively unlimited* |
| Share an answer (URL) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zeed Brief (morning email) | Preview issue | Every morning |
*Fair use, not infinity: past roughly 20 AI answers/day, 60 Deep researches/month, or 150 image searches/month, Pro requests may be temporarily slowed. We publish these numbers instead of promising “unlimited” and quietly degrading the product.
Quotas and fair-use thresholds may be adjusted without notice as we tune real costs.
AI search has real per-use costs that we pay to model and search-API providers: one Deep research run costs us about ¥4 (¥2–9 depending on sources), one AI answer about ¥1, one Brief issue about ¥0.6. Free quotas are funded by Pro subscribers. ¥980/month covers a typical Pro user’s usage with margin left to keep building — that’s the whole business model, no ads, no data sales.