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I built a frugal text browser (Narrow32) because I don't want to pay for internet (europe.pub)
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Hey,

my phone plan (free plan) allows surfing the web for free but with very slow speeds between 32 kbps and 64 kbps. Safari would not load pages and just display website is not reachable due to a timeout. So, I came up with the idea to build a frugal text browser with some nice features that works with my phone plan.

I can disable loading images, media or web fonts. I can set an ad blocking DNS. I can even use LLMs with my slow connection. In settings you can set your own LLM base url and api key. In an emergency situation this is amazing!

I hope other people enjoy it as much as I do. It's completely free.

The app is called Narrow32, search in App Store :)

Btw: The community guided me to !imadethis@lemmy.zip

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

that looks awesome, but tbh i think making it ios 26.1 or higher is a missed opportunity. many people will slow connections will also be using old, out-of-date phones, so making it require the very latest version seems silly to me

[–] q1p_@lemmy.zip 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I will change this tonight. Which version do you suggest setting the iOS version requirements to?

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

imo, the lowest possible, the better

im not an ios dev, and you are, so you’ll certainly know more about this than me, but from searching the minimum xcode 16 can target is ios 15. imo that’s fine enough, and from what i’ve seen it’s not even possible to upload something made for an older version anymore

thank you for replying btw! and good luck with your projects!

[–] q1p_@lemmy.zip 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I will push a new build in a few minutes. Thank you for suggesting this.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

yay, thank you!

[–] q1p_@lemmy.zip 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

New build pushed. But it will take 24 hours for Apple review.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Looking forward to it!