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Section: Installation & Usage

Features

What Kuro offers, grouped by area, with an honest status for each feature.

Features are grouped by area below. Each one carries a status so you can tell what the project has announced from what is still being built.

Listed
Named in the project's own feature list.
Experimental
Under active development. Behavior may change.
Planned
On the roadmap. Not available yet.

Tabs and organization

  • Vertical tabs and advanced tab management

    Tabs arranged vertically, with tools for managing many tabs at once.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Pinned tabs and tab groups

    Keep important tabs in place and group related ones together.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Workspaces

    Separate sets of tabs for different contexts, such as work and personal browsing.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Split views

    View more than one page side by side in a single window.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.

Customization

  • Extensive customization

    Control over how the browser looks and behaves.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Keyboard shortcuts

    Powerful shortcuts for common actions.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Themes

    Visual themes for the interface.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.
  • Profiles

    Separate browsing profiles.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.

Privacy and performance

  • Privacy-focused browsing

    Privacy is a core design requirement, not an add-on.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Performance-focused design

    Kuro aims to keep resource use low and the browser responsive.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Tracking protection

    Built-in tools to limit tracking.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.
  • RAM Saver

    Sleeping or discarding inactive tabs when appropriate, with user-selectable modes: Balanced, Memory Saver and Maximum Saver. It is meant never to destroy active work or unexpectedly close sessions.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.

Productivity and extensions

  • Notes and productivity tools

    Tools for getting things done without leaving the browser.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Web app support

    Use websites as web apps.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Extension support

    Add functionality with browser extensions.

    Listed: Named in the project's own feature list.
  • Screenshots

    Capture pages from within the browser.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.

AI

  • Kuro AI

    Optional, local-first assistance. You choose whether to enable it.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.

Sync and sessions

  • Optional sync

    User-controlled synchronization, kept separate from basic browser functionality. You will not need sync to use Kuro.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.
  • Session management

    Tools for saving and restoring browsing sessions.

    Planned: On the roadmap. Not available yet.

Guides for each feature