Voksa

The browser built for going live.

Stream, record or share your screen without ever leaking an email, an IP address, a phone number or a private URL. Voksa masks them on screen before a single frame can escape, keeps the wrong tab from being heard, and panics faster than you can.

Windows · macOS · Linux

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Why Voksa?

Every streamer and remote worker knows the fear: you share your screen, open one wrong tab, and your email, your client's name or your home IP is on the recording.

A VOD keeps every frame. Anyone can pause on the exact one where your data was visible. One leaked frame is leaked forever.

Blurring after the fact is too late. Voksa is a full desktop browser built around one guarantee: when Stream Mode is on, nothing sensitive is ever painted. Not for a frame, not during a reload, not inside an iframe. And around that guarantee, a complete toolkit for going live.

 

🛡️ Stream Mode

 

🎙️ The streamer arsenal

 

🎯 Why not just a masking extension?

An extension runs inside a page the browser has already drawn. It reacts after the fact, so on every load, reload, new tab, iframe or fast page change there is a window of a few frames where the raw content is painted first. Your VOD records every one of them.

Voksa works the other way around: because it IS the browser, pages are kept invisible from the very first byte and only revealed after masking has run. There is no window, on any navigation path, by construction.

	Masking extensions	Voksa
When masking happens	After the page is drawn	Before the page is ever shown
Frame-by-frame VOD scrubbing	Recovers transition frames	Nothing to recover
Browser UI (tabs, address bar, suggestions)	Untouchable by extensions	Masked too
Store pages, internal pages, PDF viewer	Extensions are blocked there	Covered
Other extensions' popups (your password manager's vault)	Extensions are blocked there	Covered
Starts with your recorder	No idea OBS exists	Auto-arms with OBS, Streamlabs, XSplit, vMix
The screen-share picker	Chromium's, raw thumbnails	Voksa's own, masked before delivery
Background tab starts blasting music	Nothing	Auto-muted while live
Keep a tab's audio away from OBS	Virtual cable + second browser	Right-click the tab
Panic while the game has focus	Extensions live inside the browser	System-wide shortcut
Camera, mic, location prompts on stream	Still pop up	Auto-denied

 

🌐 Your everyday browser

 

 

🔑 Sign in and extend

• Google, Gmail and YouTube sign-in works in-app, like in any browser.
• Extensions install straight from the Chrome Web Store: uBlock Origin, Bitwarden and friends just work, with toolbar icons, badges, popups, cascading right-click menus and drag-to-reorder.

🧠 Tabs that respect your machine

• Memory Saver: inactive tabs genuinely give their memory back to the OS, then come back where you left them, scroll position and half-filled forms included. Three levels, an always-alive site list, a manual "put to sleep" action.
• Pinned tabs, multiple windows, full session restore (quitting restores everything, like Chrome), reopen closed tab (Ctrl+Shift+T), per-tab mute and audio indicators.

🔎 Search your way

• Seven engines built in (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Qwant, Ecosia, Startpage) plus your own, with %s standing for the query.
• Every engine gets a keyword: type duckduckgo.com, hit Space, and search it without changing your default.
• On startup: the New Tab page, your previous session, or pages you choose.
• Links feel faster: DNS, TCP and TLS are warmed for hovered links (never while streaming: the warm-up itself would leak hostnames).

🧰 Everything a daily driver needs

• Downloads with progress, pause and cancel; find in page; per-site zoom that sticks; print with live preview and PDF export; picture-in-picture; HTML5 fullscreen.
• A built-in PDF viewer, HTTP Basic Auth dialogs (router admin pages, intranets), a proper TLS interstitial with "proceed anyway" (per host and certificate, memory-only).
• Bookmarks with nested folders and drag and drop; searchable history; fine-grained clear browsing data (what × since when).
• Full dark mode, French and English, Chrome-style settings with search, automatic background updates.

🚚 Switching is a single click

• Import from Chrome or Firefox: bookmarks and history. Never passwords: decrypting another browser's vault is not something a healthy program does.
• Voksa registers as a default browser with Windows, macOS and Linux.

 

🔒 Private by architecture

No account. No cloud. No telemetry. Your history, bookmarks and settings live in local files on your machine, and nowhere else.

• The only servers Voksa talks to on its own are your search engine's suggestion endpoint as you type, and GitHub Releases to check for updates.
• Site permissions are yours: every camera, microphone or location request prompts, decisions are remembered per site and editable from the address bar.
• Built on free software, and it says so: voksa://credits lists all 40 open source projects shipped inside a Voksa build, with their licenses.

 

📥 Install

Grab the file for your platform from the latest release:

Platform	File	Notes
Windows	Voksa-Setup-x.y.z.exe	Unsigned for now: SmartScreen may warn on first run. Click "More info", then "Run anyway".
macOS (Apple Silicon)	Voksa-x.y.z-mac-arm64.dmg	Signed and notarized by Apple. Requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.
macOS (Intel)	Voksa-x.y.z-mac-x64.dmg	Signed and notarized by Apple. Requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.
Linux	Voksa-x.y.z.AppImage	Self-updating. A .deb is also available (manual updates).

Once installed, Voksa updates itself automatically in the background.

 

🤝 Contributing

Voksa is open source (GPL-3.0) and contributions are welcome. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md; every pull request runs the full suite on Windows, macOS and Linux, including end-to-end scenarios that actively try to leak data through the masking. A regression on the core guarantee cannot merge quietly.

 

📄 License

GPL-3.0

 

If Voksa saved your stream once, it already paid for itself.

It is free and open source anyway. ⭐ A star helps other streamers find it.