Dia vs Norton Neo

Dia is a macOS web browser with an assistant for questions and requests about the current page, other tabs, selected text, and browsing history. The free plan includes profiles, tab groups, split view, picture-in-picture, ad and tracking blocking, and cross-device sync, but has no AI features. Better Answers costs $20 a month and adds AI answers and contextual chats. Better Days costs $100 a month and includes six times more usage than Better Answers, plus additional work features. AI usage is measured in Tasks, resets each billing cycle, and pauses at the limit unless the user buys additional usage. Extra usage is available in $20 credit blocks, which roll over for up to three months. Profiles can separate work, freelance, and personal tabs, logins, and AI contexts. Morning Brief gathers calendar, inbox, and key links; Skills let users save frequent requests for reuse. The plans page lists connections to Slack, Gmail, Notion, Microsoft Outlook, GitHub, Google Calendar, and Figma. Dia says it does not sell personal data or use browsing data to build ad profiles, and that Sync is end-to-end encrypted.

Norton Neo is a free browser combining Norton security technology, a built-in VPN, ad and tracker blocking, and AI features. Its default ad blocker targets ads, trackers, pop-ups and common cookie consent banners, while Norton Web Shield checks links and can block phishing or malicious destinations before they load. The VPN encrypts traffic and can assign a different virtual location to each tab. It includes 5 GB of data per month, or unlimited use when Neo is the default browser. Prompts can run on the device through Local AI or use cloud models. Neo says chat history is stored on-device by default and conversations are not used to train AI models. Optional encrypted sync carries bookmarks, saved passwords, open tabs and chat history across devices. Neo can connect to Gmail and Google Calendar for email and schedule tasks from the Magic Box. It offers browser-data import on first launch and is available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows. Neo says users can opt out of aggregate, non-identifying product telemetry.