YabMove from Brave to Yab.
Yab brings Brave’s pinned and open tabs, passwords, cards, bookmarks, history, extensions and your sign-ins, from every profile.
Yab reads it straight from Brave’s files on your Mac. Nothing goes through a server, and Brave can stay open.
Checked October 9, 2026 against Yab’s current release. The full story is in the Manual’s Bringing in from another browser.
What comes over
| From Brave | Into Yab |
|---|---|
| Pinned tabs and tab groups | Yes |
| Open tabs | Yes, if you ask for them |
| Passwords | Yes, from every profile |
| Cards and addresses | Yes |
| Bookmarks | Yes |
| History | Yes |
| Extensions | Yes, fetched fresh from the Chrome Web Store; their own settings stay behind |
| Sign-ins to sites | Yes, so you stay signed in; a few sites may ask again |
How
- 1Download Yab and open it. It needs macOS 15.4 or later.
- 2In the welcome, choose Bring from Brave. It takes everything in one go. Later, Settings › General › Bring in from another browser brings each kind on its own.
- 3macOS asks whether Yab may use Brave’s key in your keychain, which locks its passwords, cards and sign-ins. Choose Always Allow.
- 4It finishes in the background and says when it is done. Brave can stay open the whole time.
What changes after Brave
Yab next to Brave, area by area. The full comparison has the table and sources.
AIYab leads
Only Yab has an agent that clicks, types and finishes tasks in your pages. Leo chats about your tabs, PDFs and images, with no account, on Brave’s models or your own; an agent is in early testing behind a flag, in a separate profile without your sign-ins. Yab’s agent works in tabs of its own beside yours, signed in as you, on your Claude or ChatGPT plan; Send, Pay and Delete wait for your yes.
Agents like Claude Code and CodexYab leads
Brave has no MCP server or command line for outside agents. Yab can be driven over MCP and a command line, through yab mcp and the yab command, for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client.
Tabs and windowsYab leads
Brave has tabs down the side as a setting, Split View, folders in the sidebar and tabs that sleep. Yab has tabs down the side, spaces, Split View, folders in the sidebar and tabs that sleep.
Priceeven
Brave: Free, with Leo; Leo Premium $14.99/month; Brave VPN $9.99/month. Yab: Free; its AI runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan.
Where it runsBrave leads
Brave runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android. Yab runs on Mac. On a Mac, Brave needs macOS 13 or later and Yab needs macOS 15.4 or later. On the phone, Brave: iPhone, iPad and Android; syncs tabs, bookmarks, passwords and history, no account. Yab has no phone app yet.
Engine and extensionsa matter of taste
Brave is built on Chromium, as Chrome is; Yab on WebKit, the engine Safari uses. Both take extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
PrivacyBrave leads
Brave has an ad blocker built in, a VPN and open code. Brave says Leo doesn’t keep or share chats, doesn’t train on them and doesn’t collect identifiers like IP addresses. Yab has an ad blocker built in. Yab has no account and no server of ours between you and your sites; what your agent reads goes to Anthropic or OpenAI under your account.
Questions
Does moving change anything in Brave?
No. Yab only reads Brave’s files. Brave keeps everything, and you can go on using both.
Do I have to close Brave first?
No. Yab reads Brave’s files while it is open.
Will I stay signed in to my sites?
Mostly. Your sign-ins come with the rest, so most sites open signed in. A few ask you to sign in again.
Do my extensions come?
Yes. Yab fetches each one you had switched on fresh from the Chrome Web Store and runs it on WebKit, the engine Safari uses. Most work as in Chrome; what an extension kept itself, like its own sign-in, stays in the old browser.
Can I bring it in again later?
Yes, any time, from Settings › General › Bring in from another browser.
What does Yab cost?
Nothing. Its AI runs on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, if you connect one.
Yab, Yet Another Browser.
Free for the Mac. Arc’s sidebar, your own Claude or ChatGPT as the agent, Chrome extensions on WebKit.