About
Built by one person.
Maho is developed and maintained by an individual developer — not a team, not a startup, not a venture-backed company. This page exists so you know who’s behind the software you’re trusting with your browsing and your email.
Founder
Why one person
Browsers are usually built by 200-person teams at the largest tech companies. Maho takes a different bet: a tight, opinionated, well-architected browser maintained by a single accountable person can move faster, ship more honestly, and stay closer to its users than a committee can.
The tradeoffs are real. There is no support team. There is no enterprise sales function. There is no marketing budget. What there is, is direct line to the person making every architectural decision — and a product that doesn’t answer to a board.
Contact
How to reach me
For any question — product, pricing, privacy, security disclosure, partnership — you can email [email protected]. Real human response, usually within a day or two.
For security vulnerabilities specifically, please use the same address with subject prefix [security]. I take disclosures seriously and will acknowledge receipt within 48 hours.
Funding
How Maho stays funded
Maho is free to use with BYOK (bring your own API key) — that path stays free forever. The development is sustained by Maho Pro and Maho Max, managed-AI subscriptions for people who want premium models without managing API keys. There are no ads, no data sales, and no cut of your API spend.
If subscriptions don’t cover costs, Maho doesn’t continue. That’s honest. It’s also why the business model is on every page that matters — you should know how the lights are kept on for the software you depend on.
Trust
What this means for you
Maho is proprietary software, not open source. That means you can’t fork it or audit the source code. To compensate, the architecture is documented in the engineering blog, the network behavior is verifiable on your own device, and the person who wrote the code is reachable at the email above.
That’s the deal. A browser that respects you, built by someone who answers their own email.
Try the browser.
Free forever. macOS today. iPhone and Android in development.
Download for macOS