Maxthon vs Puffin Web Browser
Maxthon
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| Figure | Maxthon | Puffin Web Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · Web browsers | 9.0 (#12) | 7.4 (#131) |
| Spec score · Mobile Browser Software | 8.7 (#4) | 7.7 (#23) |
| Privacy | The browser advertises anti-tracking, ad blocking, incognito browsing, and a free VPN; the homepage says its VPN is provided by Bright Data. | CloudMosa says it does not log the contents users browse. |
| Support | The site directs users to its help center, troubleshooting and bug-report page, community forum, and customer service contact information for support. | The Puffin Support Center offers help topics for Flash Browser, including connection issues, subscriptions, browser features, and security and privacy. |
Plans
Puffin Web Browser
- Education (Puffin 365)$1 a month
- Personal (Puffin 365)$2 a month
- Business (Puffin 365)$5 a month
- Family (Puffin 365)$5 a month
- Enterprise (Puffin 365)$10 a month
In their own words
Maxthon
Maxthon is a free Chromium-based browser with built-in notes, password management and an AI chat assistant. Signing in syncs bookmarks, settings, Maxnote, password-manager data and quick-access URLs across devices. Maxnote can record, organize, clip and share URLs, text, images and links. Maxthon 7 supports Chrome extensions, and its desktop versions can sync extensions between Windows and macOS. Reading mode removes ads and other page elements, Read Aloud converts webpages to speech, and split-screen browsing shows multiple pages in one window. Listed privacy tools include ad blocking, anti-tracking, incognito mode and a free VPN provided by Bright Data. Maxthon's privacy policy says searches through its default MaxAsk engine, which uses Google as its search content provider, involve collecting search queries, IP addresses and browser details. Maxthon says it encrypts account information and sensitive data stored locally or in the cloud, as well as data during account synchronization. Super Bookmarks requires a VIP subscription, and video downloads are limited for logged-in users.
Puffin Web Browser
Puffin Web Browser has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.