Fully-featured Vivaldi for Android is now available on Play Store

Vivaldi has pushed beta version of Vivaldi browser for Android to Google Play Store and is available to download. After bringing Sync to PC, Vivaldi’s main priority is to get into mobile devices. The company has been working on mobile for a while now, we’ve now a beta version with unique features available for daily use, give it a spin today.

Vivaldi’s CEO Jon Von Tetzchner says the android app is “continuation of desktop experience of Vivaldi. The interface looks like this below when you open a new tab in Vivaldi and you feel at home when you use Android version. For instance, the panels on the desktop is also available on mobile at the left-corner of the app, allows you to quickly access bookmarks, downloads, History, and Notes.

Vivaldi interface on Android

Vivaldi offers both light and dark themes to view content on the web. Vivaldi’s unique Notes feature lets the user “quickly add checklists, agenda items or facilitate a research project without disruption of switching apps” and notes can be synced across more devices.

Managing tabs is easier in Vivaldi on Android. The clone tab option lets you create a copy of the current tab. Jon Von Tetzchner says ” Vivaldi’s tab switcher makes finding and managing tabs breeze as well.  With a quick swipe, you can find an open tab, private tab, recently closed tab or even a tab that’s open on another device logged into same Vivaldi account”

Vivaldi comes with Bing as a default Search engine, you can switch to any other by choosing from these search engines: Yahoo, Google, DuckDuckGo, etc.

Vivaldi “keeps your tabs private” in Private browsing mode. Vivaldi Sync offers end-to-end encryption and lets you choose which data to sync to devices. Vivaldi also brings screenshots feature and reading mode to mobile.

Currently, Vivaldi for Android is in beta and supports Android Lollipop and later versions. You can download Vivaldi beta from here.

Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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