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imputnet/helium

Private, fast, and honest web browser

85GPL-3.0C++

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Stars: 18,807
Forks: 502
Watchers: 57
Open issues: 462
Contributors: 110

Star history, last 90 days+24 over 5 snapshots

2026-07-24 · 18,7832026-08-06 · 18,807

Star history, last 90 days
Date	Stars
2026-07-24	18783
2026-07-25	18807
2026-07-28	18807
2026-07-30	18807
2026-08-06	18807

Today

— stars today

This week

— stars this week

This month

— stars this month

Momentum

35.0

growth rate 0.00%/day

From the README

<div align="center">
    <img src="resources/branding/app_icon/raw.png"
        title="Helium" alt="Helium logo" width="120" />
    <h1>Helium</h1>
    <p>
        The Chromium-based web browser made for people, with love.
        <br>
        Privacy-first with unbiased ad-blocking. No bloat and no noise.
    </p>
    <a href="https://helium.computer/">
        helium.computer
    </a>
</div>

## Downloads
> [!NOTE]
> Helium is currently in beta, so unexpected issues may occur.
> Please report them if they haven't already been reported.

The easiest way to download Helium is [helium.computer](https://helium.computer/).
It'll pick a compatible binary for your platform automatically.

The same releases can also be downloaded from source on GitHub:

- [Latest macOS release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/releases/latest)
- [Latest Linux release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux/releases/latest)
- [Latest Windows release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows/releases/latest)

## Helium repos
All Helium packaging, tooling, services, and components are open source
and published on GitHub.

### Platform packaging and tooling
- [Helium for macOS](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos)
- [Helium for Linux](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux)
- [Helium for Windows](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows)

### Web services and Helium components
- [Helium services](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-services)
- [Helium onboarding](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-onboarding)
- [Helium fork of uBlock Origin](https://github.com/imputnet/uBlock)

## Development
macOS is our primary development platform, so it's the recommended
development environment for community contributions.

Linux packaging includes a similar development script, so the same guide
can be applied there too.

[> See development docs in macOS repo](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/blob/main/docs/building.md#development-build-and-environment)

## Contributing
Before contributing to Helium, please read the guidelines in
[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).

## Credits

### The Chromium project
[The Chromium Project](https://www.chromium.org/) is at the core of Helium,
making it possible in the first place.

### ungoogled-chromium
This repo is based on [ungoogled-chromium](https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium),
but heavily modified for Helium. Special thanks to everyone behind ungoogled-chromium,
they made working with Chromium way easier.

### Other Chromium browsers

Helium includes some patches from other open source Chromium browsers:

- [Inox patchset](https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset)
- [Debian](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium-browser)
- [Bromite](https://github.com/bromite/bromite)
- [Iridium Browser](https://iridiumbrowser.de/)
- [Brave](https://github.com/brave/brave-core)

All patches are sorted by vendor in the [patches](patches/) directory of this repo.

## License
All code, patches, modified portions of imported code or patches, and
any other content that is unique to Helium and not imported from other
repositories is licensed under GPL-3.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).

Any content imported from other projects retains its original license (for
example, any original unmodified code imported from ungoogled-chromium remains
licensed under their [BSD 3-Clause license](LICENSE.ungoogled_chromium)).

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Eloston
Eloston
1.3k
wukko
@imputnet
816
dumbmoron
jj · @imputnet
538
Ahrotahn
354
Zoraver
76
PF4Public
57
LeFroid
Timothy Vaccarelli · JPMorgan Chase & Co.
52
networkException
FITKO (Föderale IT-Kooperation) · Germany
46
tangalbert919
Albert Tang · @LineageOS · United States
40
wchen342
15
iskunk
Daniel Richard G.
13
seppiola
13
qvint
Capwell Enterprises
12
implicitfield
12
tectiv3
tectiv3
11
Nifury
Sheng
11
dubvulture
M Rota
9
nopjmp
nopjmp · United States
8
chrme
nik · Russia
7
tie
Ivan Trubach · Russia
7

Quality score

Would you bet a product on this? Bounded 0–100 and slow moving.

85/10085

Maintenance: 90%; How recently the default branch was pushed to
Releases: 96%; Recency and cadence of tagged releases
Community: 94%; Contributor breadth and bus factor
Issue backlog: 85%; Open issues measured against the size of the audience
Documentation: 78%; README depth, plus a homepage and topics
Licensing: 55%; How freely the code can be adopted

What to know before adopting

Copyleft license — derivative works must be open-sourced
Derivative works must be released under the same licence.

Details

Created: last year
Last push: 12 days ago
Last release: 13 days ago
Release tag: 0.14.9
Releases in the last year: 30
Default branch: main
Size: 29k KB
Owner type: Organization
Owner location: —
Discovered via: topic:privacy
First indexed: 13 days ago
Last synced: 12 days ago

imputnet/helium

Private, fast, and honest web browser

85GPL-3.0C++

View on GitHub Website

Stars: 18,807
Forks: 502
Watchers: 57
Open issues: 462
Contributors: 110

Star history, last 90 days+24 over 5 snapshots

2026-07-24 · 18,7832026-08-06 · 18,807

Star history, last 90 days
Date	Stars
2026-07-24	18783
2026-07-25	18807
2026-07-28	18807
2026-07-30	18807
2026-08-06	18807

Today

— stars today

This week

— stars this week

This month

— stars this month

Momentum

35.0

growth rate 0.00%/day

From the README

<div align="center">
    <img src="resources/branding/app_icon/raw.png"
        title="Helium" alt="Helium logo" width="120" />
    <h1>Helium</h1>
    <p>
        The Chromium-based web browser made for people, with love.
        <br>
        Privacy-first with unbiased ad-blocking. No bloat and no noise.
    </p>
    <a href="https://helium.computer/">
        helium.computer
    </a>
</div>

## Downloads
> [!NOTE]
> Helium is currently in beta, so unexpected issues may occur.
> Please report them if they haven't already been reported.

The easiest way to download Helium is [helium.computer](https://helium.computer/).
It'll pick a compatible binary for your platform automatically.

The same releases can also be downloaded from source on GitHub:

- [Latest macOS release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/releases/latest)
- [Latest Linux release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux/releases/latest)
- [Latest Windows release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows/releases/latest)

## Helium repos
All Helium packaging, tooling, services, and components are open source
and published on GitHub.

### Platform packaging and tooling
- [Helium for macOS](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos)
- [Helium for Linux](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux)
- [Helium for Windows](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows)

### Web services and Helium components
- [Helium services](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-services)
- [Helium onboarding](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-onboarding)
- [Helium fork of uBlock Origin](https://github.com/imputnet/uBlock)

## Development
macOS is our primary development platform, so it's the recommended
development environment for community contributions.

Linux packaging includes a similar development script, so the same guide
can be applied there too.

[> See development docs in macOS repo](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/blob/main/docs/building.md#development-build-and-environment)

## Contributing
Before contributing to Helium, please read the guidelines in
[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).

## Credits

### The Chromium project
[The Chromium Project](https://www.chromium.org/) is at the core of Helium,
making it possible in the first place.

### ungoogled-chromium
This repo is based on [ungoogled-chromium](https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium),
but heavily modified for Helium. Special thanks to everyone behind ungoogled-chromium,
they made working with Chromium way easier.

### Other Chromium browsers

Helium includes some patches from other open source Chromium browsers:

- [Inox patchset](https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset)
- [Debian](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium-browser)
- [Bromite](https://github.com/bromite/bromite)
- [Iridium Browser](https://iridiumbrowser.de/)
- [Brave](https://github.com/brave/brave-core)

All patches are sorted by vendor in the [patches](patches/) directory of this repo.

## License
All code, patches, modified portions of imported code or patches, and
any other content that is unique to Helium and not imported from other
repositories is licensed under GPL-3.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).

Any content imported from other projects retains its original license (for
example, any original unmodified code imported from ungoogled-chromium remains
licensed under their [BSD 3-Clause license](LICENSE.ungoogled_chromium)).

Excerpt of 3,394 characters

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Top contributors20 shown

Eloston
Eloston
1.3k
wukko
@imputnet
816
dumbmoron
jj · @imputnet
538
Ahrotahn
354
Zoraver
76
PF4Public
57
LeFroid
Timothy Vaccarelli · JPMorgan Chase & Co.
52
networkException
FITKO (Föderale IT-Kooperation) · Germany
46
tangalbert919
Albert Tang · @LineageOS · United States
40
wchen342
15
iskunk
Daniel Richard G.
13
seppiola
13
qvint
Capwell Enterprises
12
implicitfield
12
tectiv3
tectiv3
11
Nifury
Sheng
11
dubvulture
M Rota
9
nopjmp
nopjmp · United States
8
chrme
nik · Russia
7
tie
Ivan Trubach · Russia
7

Quality score

Would you bet a product on this? Bounded 0–100 and slow moving.

85/10085

Maintenance: 90%; How recently the default branch was pushed to
Releases: 96%; Recency and cadence of tagged releases
Community: 94%; Contributor breadth and bus factor
Issue backlog: 85%; Open issues measured against the size of the audience
Documentation: 78%; README depth, plus a homepage and topics
Licensing: 55%; How freely the code can be adopted

What to know before adopting

Copyleft license — derivative works must be open-sourced
Derivative works must be released under the same licence.

Details

Created: last year
Last push: 12 days ago
Last release: 13 days ago
Release tag: 0.14.9
Releases in the last year: 30
Default branch: main
Size: 29k KB
Owner type: Organization
Owner location: —
Discovered via: topic:privacy
First indexed: 13 days ago
Last synced: 12 days ago

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