— ✨ New Early Access Feature: “Enable as default browser.” Your most-requested feature is finally here!
— 🕵️ All links open in Incognito Mode by default if there’s no corresponding Lite App already present.
— 🧩 This version is a major rewrite of the app: 100% Kotlin + several changes to make future feature development faster.

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

— ✨ New Early Access Feature: “Enable as default browser.” Your most-requested feature is finally here!
— 🕵️ All links open in Incognito Mode by default if there’s no corresponding Lite App already present.
— 🧩 This version is a major rewrite of the app: 100% Kotlin + several changes to make future feature development faster.
- 🐞 Bug fix: The notifications toast does not show up randomly.

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

— ✨ New Early Access Feature: “Enable as default browser.” Your most-requested feature is finally here!
— 🕵️ All links open in Incognito Mode by default if there’s no corresponding Lite App already present.
— 🧩 This version is a major rewrite of the app: 100% Kotlin + several changes to make future feature development faster.
- 🐞 Bug fix: The notifications toast does not show up randomly.

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

● Enable as Default Browser: Your most-requested feature is finally here, in Early Access!
    • Turn this on in Settings, and you can open all links from other apps within Hermit.
    • Links will open in the Lite App if you have one, or in Incognito Mode otherwise.
    • This is available today for our Early Access Program members, and in the future to everyone else in the next release.
● Incognito Mode: All web links open in Incognito Mode by default if there’s no corresponding Lite App already present.
● 100% Kotlin: We have fully rewritten the app in a new language.
● Replaced several libraries with better Kotlin-friendly ones:
    • ButterKnife –> Kotlin Synthetics
    • Gson –> Moshi
    • Glide –> Coil
    • RxJava –> Coroutines
    • Cupboard –> SqlDelight
    • Guava –> OkHttp (for some functions).

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Huge Improvements to Dark Mode: try the new & improved Dark Mode!
🐞 “Page blocked” alerts auto-dismiss in 3 sec + can turn off permanently
🐞 Better handling of the Back button when switching between Lite Apps

Also:
✨ ENABLE AS DEFAULT BROWSER is Out of Early Access
✨ CONTENT BLOCKER CUSTOMIZATION is New in Early Access
✨ Gestures in Frameless Mode: swipe in from bottom of left/right edge to open drawers

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Huge Improvements to Dark Mode: try the new & improved Dark Mode!
🐞 “Page blocked” alerts auto-dismiss in 3 sec + can turn off permanently
🐞 Better handling of the Back button when switching between Lite Apps

Also:
✨ ENABLE AS DEFAULT BROWSER is Out of Early Access
✨ CONTENT BLOCKER CUSTOMIZATION is New in Early Access
✨ Gestures in Frameless Mode: swipe in from bottom of left/right edge to open drawers

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Huge Improvements to Dark Mode: try the new & improved Dark Mode!
🐞 “Page blocked” alerts auto-dismiss in 3 sec + can turn off permanently
🐞 Better handling of the Back button when switching between Lite Apps

Also:
✨ ENABLE AS DEFAULT BROWSER is Out of Early Access
✨ CONTENT BLOCKER CUSTOMIZATION is New in Early Access
✨ Gestures in Frameless Mode: swipe in from bottom of left/right edge to open drawers

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Reorganized Settings for each Lite App & Main App. Clearer, easy to navigate, better looking
✨ Got Premium for cheap many years ago? Happy with 5+ years of updates? Got Play Store credit & want to show your support? Tips accepted with gratitude! (in Settings)
✨ Always set a custom user agent for all requests: some feeds require it
INCOGNITO MODE:
✨ Colors match site’s scheme
✨ Quickly close window in one tap
✨ Set Dark Mode correctly
✨ Correctly open newly-created Lite Apps from URLs

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Reorganized Settings for each Lite App & Main App. Clearer, easy to navigate, better looking
✨ Got Premium for cheap many years ago? Happy with 5+ years of updates? Got Play Store credit & want to show your support? Tips accepted with gratitude! (in Settings)
✨ Always set a custom user agent for all requests: some feeds require it
INCOGNITO MODE:
✨ Colors match site’s scheme
✨ Quickly close window in one tap
✨ Set Dark Mode correctly
✨ Correctly open newly-created Lite Apps from URLs

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Reorganized Settings for each Lite App & Main App. Clearer, easy to navigate, better looking
✨ Got Premium for cheap many years ago? Happy with 5+ years of updates? Got Play Store credit & want to show your support? Tips accepted with gratitude! (in Settings)
✨ Always set a custom user agent for all requests: some feeds require it
INCOGNITO MODE:
✨ Colors match site’s scheme
✨ Quickly close window in one tap
✨ Set Dark Mode correctly
✨ Correctly open newly-created Lite Apps from URLs

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Reorganized Settings for each Lite App & Main App. Clearer, easy to navigate, better looking
✨ Got Premium for cheap many years ago? Happy with 5+ years of updates? Got Play Store credit & want to show your support? Tips accepted with gratitude! (in Settings)
✨ Always set a custom user agent for all requests: some feeds require it
INCOGNITO MODE:
✨ Colors match site’s scheme
✨ Quickly close window in one tap
✨ Set Dark Mode correctly
✨ Correctly open newly-created Lite Apps from URLs

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● AOSP Compatible

✨ Set as Default Browser:
Set Hermit as your default browser to open links from anywhere in the proper Lite App.
If you don’t have a Lite App set up for a particular URL, then Hermit will open it in Incognito Mode by default.
Get the best of Privacy, Performance, & Personalization in one easy-to-use app.
✨ Dark Mode Improvements: The new Dark Mode works much better than the previous implementation, on many more sites as well. Try it out!
✨ Gesture Navigation Support: On recent Android versions that support Gesture Navigation, Hermit now fully supports edge-to-edge display. When in a Lite App, swipe in from the bottom 200 pixels to open the Bookmarks drawer (left edge) or Quick Settings (right edge). Any area above the bottom-most 200 pixels will invoke the system gesture (Back button behavior).
✨ Configurable Content Blocker: Exclusively available to our Early Access subscribers, you can now select which specific kinds of content you would like to block in Hermit Lite Apps. Configurable categories include: Adware and Malware, Coin Miners, Misinformation, Hate, and Propaganda, Pornography, Gambling.
✨ Tips Accepted with Gratitude: Got Premium for cheap many years ago? Happy with 5+ years of free updates? Got some extra Play Store credit lying around & want to show your support? You can send us tips (Coffee, Pizza, or a Meal!) through the App Settings all paid via Google Play.
✨ Automatic Theme in Incognito Mode: Your phone’s status bar (icon area) now matches the colors of the sites you visit. If a theme color is too light, Hermit automatically makes the icons black (instead of the default white).
✨ Better Compatibility in Incognito Mode: Hermit’s Incognito Mode was too strict for many web sites to work correctly, so we’ve relaxed a few restrictions to match what other browsers allow. Your data will still be deleted as soon as you exit Incognito Mode.
✨ Better Feed Compatibility: Hermit now always adds a custom user agent to all outgoing feed fetch requests, which some sites require for their feeds.
✨ More Prominent Buttons for Deleting, Sharing, and “Add to Home Screen”: In response to feedback from many of you, we’ve made these buttons more prominent in the Lite App Settings.
✨ Improved Apps List: Huge improvements in drag-and-drop behavior, icon shadows, responsiveness, and animations.
✨Scriptlets Stay Open: If you close a Lite App with the Scriptlets section expanded in Quick Settings, then it stays expanded for easier access the next time.
✨ Internal Improvements, Bug Fixes, & Performance Improvements:
• Android API Related Changes: The Android API no longer allows apps to add multiple home screen icons in bulk. The intrusive dialog shown by modern Android versions requires user confirmation for each icon to be added, and if the user does not confirm
(which they can’t, during a bulk import), then the icon does not get added.
• Better Text Handling: Fixed the long-standing issue with the white background behind the cursor in some EditText fields.
• Replaced Kotlin Android extensions with ViewBinding.
• When opening AdminActivity, force the keyboard to always be hidden.
• Google fixed a frequently-reported crash in In-App Purchases: Updated to com.android.billingclient:billing:3.0.1 which has the fix.
• Alerts auto-dismiss within 3 seconds, instead of infinite duration.
• Added a “Don’t Show” button to the Alerter that permanently hides the notification for blocked content.

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● Fixed Default Browser Switch
● AOSP Compatible

- Reorganized Settings for each Lite App & Main App. Clearer, easy to navigate, better looking

- Got Premium for cheap many years ago? Happy with 5+ years of updates? Got Play Store credit & want to show your support? Tips accepted with gratitude! 🙏 (in Settings)

- Always set a custom user agent for all requests: some feeds require it
- Set Dark Mode correctly
- Correctly open newly-created Lite Apps from URLs

- Reorganized Settings for each Lite App & Main App. Clearer, easy to navigate, better looking
- Got Premium for cheap many years ago? Happy with 5+ years of updates? Got Play Store credit & want to show your support? Tips accepted with gratitude! (in Settings)
- Always set a custom user agent for all requests: some feeds require it
- Set Dark Mode correctly
- Correctly open newly-created Lite Apps from URLs

● Premium features Unlocked
● Early Access Program Unlocked
● No Unlocker Needed
● Analytics Removed
● Fixed Default Browser Switch
● AOSP Compatible
● Compression Flags Untouched
● No Third Party Patch / Lib

Introducing Sandboxes: Isolated Containers with Multiple Profiles! (Early Access Feature)
• Separate your work accounts from personal accounts.
• Create a separate sandboxed environment for privacy-invasive sites.
• Use multiple accounts, all active at the same time, in the same browser.
• Use Incognito Mode for sites that offer preferential treatment to first-time users (e.g. free access to paywalled content).