It is very common for an Android phone that is several years old, full of memory, and low on resources to run slowly. There are many tricks to improve the situation, but essentially switching to a lighter app ecosystem than Google’s is often one of the best solutions.

At Xataka, we had the opportunity to test Arc Search in beta for Android and took a pretty in-depth look at the PC version. Finally, the stable version reaches Google’s operating system and the result is clear: one of the best alternatives to Google Chrome.

In my case, I have a Google Pixel 6 with GrapheneOS to escape Google and Arc Search will remain installed to further improve its performance.

Google Chrome is not a giant application, but it takes up more than 100 MB of space on our phone and is known as one of the browsers that uses the terminal’s resources worst. Arc Search weighs just 6 MB and has almost everything you need in a browser.

How does Google outperform Chrome? From various aspects. The first of these is that it has various functions supported by artificial intelligence. Yes, it surprises me too that AI is being sold to me as a positive point, but there is good news in this case.

Arc Search allows two types of navigation: the classic one, where we have the usual search results, and the one summarized by artificial intelligence. What this enables is the ability to respond quickly to our calls thanks to artificial intelligence. For example, if you are looking for the best mobile phone for under 200 euros, it will give you a summary of what the main technology portals show.

Since it is a fairly minimalist browser, it has everything necessary for ad blocking, cookie throttling, fast clearing of browsing history and daily browsing. If you’re wondering, this browser is based on Chromium.

The application is completely free and does not contain any ads. If you want to save both space and performance on your mobile phone, you can download it from Play Store and disable Chrome.

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