About
We make Tern because we wanted a browser that keeps the day in order. This is why it exists, what we hold to while we build it, and who we are.
OSIJEK, CROATIA · 45.55° N · 18.68° E
Why Tern exists
Most of us live in the browser now. Work, the house, the trip we keep planning, the long article saved for Sunday. It all ends up in one row of tabs, and by Wednesday nothing can be found.
We think a browser should keep your day in order, not add to the clutter. So Tern gives each part of your life its own Space, lets you lay pages side by side in Desks, and lets tabs you have not looked at for an hour go to sleep until you click them again.
When we added an agent, we set one rule before anything else: it asks before it acts. It works in your tabs where you can see it, it uses your own Claude key, and it stops to ask before anything that books, buys, pays, sends, posts, deletes or accepts.
We are a small team and we take our time. Tern is built for the Mac, for people who keep it open all day, with the care we would want from software we rely on ourselves.
Why a tern
The Arctic tern breeds in the Arctic and subarctic of Europe, Asia and North America. Each year it flies from its northern breeding grounds to the coast of Antarctica and back, the longest regular migration of any known animal.
It covers all that distance and still comes home: terns are long lived, and many return to the same colony year after year. We wanted a browser like that. Go as far as the day takes you, and find everything where you left it.
The mark is a tern in flight, drawn in one stroke.
Principles
One
Calm by default
Nothing blinks for your attention. Unused tabs go to sleep, and the agent speaks up only when something changes.
Two
Asks before it acts
The agent waits for your OK before it books, buys, pays, sends, posts, deletes or accepts. Return on its own never approves.
Three
Your data stays yours
History and tabs stay on your Mac. Sync goes through your own iCloud. Trackers are blocked in every Space.
Four
Built for Mac
It follows the Mac's own ways: its keyboard shortcuts, its translation, its Keychain for your key.
Who makes it
Tern is made by Front Tribe, a small studio in Osijek.
Press kit
The app icon and screenshots.
The Tern app icon and screenshots of Spaces, Desks and the agent are available on request. Write to hello@ternbrowser.com and we will send them.
Contact
Write to us.
Questions about Tern, press, or something we should hear. Send it here.
FRONT TRIBE · OSIJEK, CROATIA