nip

The Minimalist Browser

Privacy

Nip collects nothing and sends nothing anywhere.

No accounts, no analytics, no tracking

There are no accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting and no tracking. The only network traffic is the web pages you ask for, fetched by the iPhone’s own web engine exactly as Safari would.

What stays on your phone

Nip keeps a 30-day list of the pages you visited, on the phone only, which you can see and clear by going to nip/history. Beyond that it remembers only what it needs to work: which sites are currently locked and until when, the page you left open so it can bring you back to it, and the app a site has declared for itself. All of it lives in the app’s own storage on your phone, is never shared, and expires on its own.

Your settings (search engine, idle timeout, lockout period, and whether limits are on) are stored on the phone and read only by the app.

Camera, microphone, motion and location

These are used only while the QR scanner is open (camera), or when a website asks and you allow it in the prompt Nip shows. Camera, microphone and motion answers are forgotten when the app closes. Location follows the iPhone’s own setting for Nip. Nothing is recorded or kept by Nip.

Downloads

Downloads are offered to the share sheet from a temporary folder and deleted as soon as you have sent or saved them. Nip keeps no files.

Website data

Clear Website Data, at the bottom of nip/settings, removes everything websites have stored on the phone through Nip: cookies, logins, caches and site storage.

Passwords

Nip never reads, stores, or handles passwords. Password AutoFill is provided by the iPhone and works the way it does in any app.

Search and websites

Searches go to the search engine you pick in Settings (Google or DuckDuckGo) under that engine’s own privacy policy. Websites you visit see what they would see from any browser.

This website

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Last updated November 10, 2026.