A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON BROWSING
Your websites, your ideas, your corner of the internet. Meet a browser that brings them together in a calmer, more personal space.
Free to download · Windows 64-bit · Community project
LESS NOISE. MORE DISCOVERY.
Make room for work, curiosity and everything in between. Thoughtful organisation puts the familiar tools right where you need them.
Keep Personal, Work and Create tabs organised. Collapse the sidebar when you want more room to explore.
An illustration of RIYANOVA’s spaces
A visible theme switch, distinctive tab colours and a layout that gives your websites room to breathe.
Revisit browsing history, save bookmarks and restore your normal browsing session when you return.
Choose Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Yahoo or Ecosia in Settings.
An offline Help centre with screenshots, topic search and bookmarks. Just press F1.
YOUR ISLAND. ON AIR.
Live television, cinema channels and the sounds of home, together in Entertainment. Local Radios brings 21 Mauritian and Rodrigues stations right into your browser.
Radio Plus
Radio One
Top FM+ MBC, Radio Moris & moreStreams are supplied by their broadcasters; regional restrictions and outages may apply.
PRIVACY, ON YOUR TERMS
Choose the browsing mode that fits the moment. RIYANOVA makes the differences visible, so you know what each mode does.
Your normal profile remembers your sites, settings and session, so returning feels familiar.
YOUR EVERYDAY ORBITA separate, temporary session that does not save application browsing history. Private mode does not hide your IP address.
A TEMPORARY SPACEA dedicated private window routes websites through a bundled Tor client. Wait for the connection to complete before browsing.
UNDERSTAND TOR’S SCOPERIYANOVA’s Rust core uses Microsoft WebView2 for website rendering on Windows. Tor mode is not equivalent to the full anti-fingerprinting protections of Tor Browser.
SMALL ISLAND.
EXTRAORDINARY
POTENTIAL.
BUILT WITH A BIGGER PURPOSE
RIYANOVA is part of a Public Project Initiative by HumanSignal, developed in Mauritius with a belief that talent has no borders.
Our ambition goes beyond a browser: to encourage local developers, create opportunities to learn and collaborate, and contribute to a more independent software ecosystem.
V.C.Founder & Lead Developer · RIYANOVA
Developer · R.I.Y.A-AIx Quantum
Find the full founder’s letter and Community Donation section inside the app.
Download RIYANOVA for Windows and make the web your own.
RIYANOVATHE WEB. IN YOUR ORBIT.Version 0.3 · 64-bit · 37.8 MB
Unsigned development build. Microsoft WebView2 is required; setup checks for it and can install it from Microsoft if needed.
SHA-256 · RIYANOVA-0.3-Setup.exe
4a4253e4a85d629a73c35c82bb92000e46f4f5cb9a4ccdb24ce4e34fe9a8bd1fYes. RIYANOVA is a community-oriented project distributed under GNU GPLv3. You can download this Windows development build free of charge. The optional Community Donation section supports the project’s development.
A 64-bit Windows PC and the Microsoft WebView2 runtime. Setup includes the app-local Visual C++ runtime libraries, checks WebView2 and offers installation from Microsoft when it is missing. Internet access is needed for websites, live broadcasts and Tor.
The native application core is written in Rust with Slint. The browser interface uses local HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and website rendering uses the Chromium-based Microsoft WebView2 engine. RIYANOVA does not claim to be a new non-Chromium rendering engine.
RIYANOVA provides a bundled Tor client, a separate private profile and Tor-routed website traffic. It does not reproduce Tor Browser’s complete fingerprinting resistance. Camera/microphone access, downloads and external app actions are blocked in Tor mode. For higher-risk anonymity needs, use the official Tor Browser.
Open Entertainment, choose Local Radios and select a station. Radio plays inside RIYANOVA with station artwork, pause, mute, volume and previous/next controls. Stations and broadcasts are operated by their respective providers, and availability may change.
RIYANOVA uses WebView2 for modern website compatibility. Some providers restrict embedded-browser sign-in; authenticated Gmail compatibility is not guaranteed. The app includes an explicit Open Gmail in Edge fallback.
This release is an unsigned development build. The download section includes the exact installer’s SHA-256 checksum so you can verify that your downloaded file matches this release. A checksum confirms the file’s identity; it is not a digital publisher signature.