Upket Browser

Hien N.

About this app

Upket Browser is a simple, fast web browser built for Android TV, phones and tablets. One small app with the same features on every screen.

Made for the big screen
• Smooth on-screen cursor driven by your TV remote's D-pad – no touchscreen or mouse needed
• Hold an arrow at the screen edge to scroll the page; pick the cursor's speed and style
• Remote media keys control videos and music playing on the page
• "Arrow keys to page" hands the remote to web games and players
• Large, remote-friendly menus, tabs and address bar, on your Android TV home screen
• Control the TV from your phone: scan a QR code for a touchpad, D-pad, keyboard and tab list (same Wi-Fi)

Great for video
• Full-screen video: play/pause and ±10 s in the middle of the screen, seek bar, speed 0.5x–2x, mute; pick the video on pages with several
• On phones and tablets: double-tap the sides to skip 10 s, swipe the left half for brightness and the right half for volume, pinch to zoom
• Picture-in-picture on supported devices – keep watching while you use other apps
• Background playback on phones and tablets, with a Play/Pause notification
• The screen stays on while a video plays

Built-in ad blocker
• Blocks ads and trackers on websites, on by default, and helps with YouTube ads
• Uses EasyList, EasyPrivacy, a Vietnamese list and uBlock Origin filters, updated every day
• Optional lists: OISD, AdGuard DNS, HaGeZi, StevenBlack, Peter Lowe's and cookie notices
• Add your own list addresses, or turn off the lists you do not want
• Allow ads on a site you like with one tap from the menu

Pop-up and redirect blocking
• Stops pop-ups and pages that send you to another site on their own, on by default
• Links you tap and sign-in or payment windows still open
• Allow pop-ups for a site from the menu, remembered per site

Private and clean
• Private tabs: no history, and cookies and site data are deleted when you close the last private tab
• Switch between normal and private browsing on the home page
• Clear browsing data any time, or automatically on exit
• Secure DNS (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, AdGuard) and HTTPS-only mode
• Global Privacy Control asks sites not to sell or share your data
• No account, no ads, no analytics – your history and bookmarks stay on your device

Your way, site by site
• Text size and page zoom, remembered for each site
• Request the desktop or mobile version of a site, remembered for each site
• Dark web pages: darken sites that have no dark theme of their own
• Turn JavaScript or autoplay off for a site
• Per-site permissions for camera, microphone and location – allow, block or reset them in Settings

Everything you expect from a browser
• Light and dark theme, following your system or your choice
• Reader mode: just the article, without clutter
• Tabs with close all and undo close, bookmarks and history (grouped by day)
• Import and export bookmarks from other browsers
• Voice search and suggestions from your bookmarks and history in the address bar
• Find in page, and share a page's address to other apps
• Long-press links and images to open in a new tab, copy, share or save
• Pull to refresh, and add a page to your home screen
• Open links and text shared from other apps, or make Upket your default browser
• Open links in apps: YouTube, Maps and the like can open in their installed app, after asking (phones, optional)
• 11 search engines (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave, Ecosia…) or your own
• Downloads with progress notifications, cancel and retry
• File upload and sign-in on sites that ask for them
• Clear error pages when a site cannot be reached, with a Try again button
• Address bar at the top or bottom; a single bar in landscape and on tablets
• 12 languages, including English, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Pages are shown by Android System WebView (version 101 or newer; the app asks you to update an older one).

What’s new

New in 2.6.0:
• Video full screen: play/pause and ±10 s in the middle of the screen; on pages with several videos, pick the one you want
• 10 more languages, 8 more search engines (Yahoo, Brave, Ecosia…), custom search
• Open links in installed apps (phones, optional)
• More ad-block lists: OISD, AdGuard DNS, HaGeZi, StevenBlack, Peter Lowe's
• TV: cursor speed and styles; hold Up or Right to reach the address bar or video controls
• Phone remote: swipe D-pad, media buttons, landscape layout