helium

<div align="center">
    <img src="resources/branding/app_icon/raw.png"
        title="Helium" alt="Helium logo" width="120" />
    <h1>Helium</h1>
    <p>
        The browser built around privacy, consent, and comfort.
    </p>
    <a href="https://helium.computer/">
        helium.computer
    </a>
</div>

## Downloads
> [!NOTE]
> Helium is in beta, so unexpected issues may occur.
> Please report them if they haven't already been reported.

The easiest way to download Helium is [helium.computer](https://helium.computer/).
It'll pick a compatible binary for your platform automatically.

The same releases can also be downloaded from source on GitHub:

- [Latest macOS release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/releases/latest)
- [Latest Linux release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux/releases/latest)
- [Latest Windows release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows/releases/latest)

Helium supports automatic updates on macOS and Windows.

## Helium repos
All Helium packaging, tooling, services, and components are open source
and published on GitHub.

### Platform packaging and tooling
- [Helium for macOS](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos)
- [Helium for Linux](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux)
- [Helium for Windows](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows)

### Web services
[Helium services](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-services) are Helium's
privacy-first cloud services that handle the extension proxy, !bangs, filter
lists, browser updates, crash reports, and etc. The services are self-hostable
and the repo includes exactly what we use and host, down to Ansible playbooks.

### Components
- [Helium uBlock Origin](https://github.com/imputnet/uBlock) is a
Helium-specific fork of uBlock Origin that includes our filters, defaults, and
CNAME uncloaking.

- [Helium onboarding](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-onboarding) includes
the browser setup experience seen at `helium://setup` on first launch.

- [Helium non-free assets](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-nonfree-assets)
repo handles non-free assets used in Helium, such as search engine icons and
icons of other browsers.

### Tooling
- [Chromium tarballs](https://github.com/imputnet/chromium-tarballs) creates
prepared Chromium source archives used by Helium builds.

- [Helium Prism](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-prism) is a Svelte UI
Component library used in onboarding and the landing page.

### Legal documents
[Helium Legal](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-legal) repo includes the
source for [Terms of Use](https://helium.computer/terms) and
[Privacy Policy](https://helium.computer/privacy) documents, along with their
full change history.

## Development
macOS and Linux are our primary development platforms, so they're the
recommended development environment for community contributions.

[> See development docs in macOS repo](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/blob/main/docs/building.md#development-build-and-environment)

Linux packaging