Strawberry Browser

Strawberry got seven of our eight scripted tasks fully right, from quick web research to a sourced slide deck, but it installs two hidden Windows user accounts that stay behind after you uninstall it, uses about twice the memory of Edge and clicked “Add to basket” without asking. Capable agent, worrying footprint.

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Strawberry is a complete desktop browser, with tabs, bookmarks, profiles, saved passwords, extensions and import from other browsers, that has AI companions built into the browsing workflow. A companion can read what is on screen, answer questions, operate web pages, use connected apps and create files.

Companions are set up as AI teammates, each with its own instructions, memory, files and skills. Work can run as an agent task, where the companion navigates and fills in pages while recording a trace of what it did, or as a routine that runs on a schedule or when an app event happens, such as a new email.

Strawberry is built by a small team in Stockholm, Sweden. It ran as a public beta from April 2025 and reached version 1.0 on October 26, 2026. Regular browsing is free and uses no credits; credits are only spent when you chat with a companion or let it browse for you.

Most AI browsers add a chat assistant to the side of the page: ask about what you are reading, and maybe let it click through a page for you. Strawberry is built the other way around. The browser is a workplace for “companions”, AI teammates that each keep their own instructions, memory, files, skills and scheduled routines, and that work across your connected apps as well as the web.

In practice that means three things the usual assistant does not do. A companion works inside the sites you are already signed into, so it can use a CRM or an applicant-tracking system without a separate integration. It can run on a schedule or when something happens, such as a new email. And it can record and transcribe your meetings, then use them as context for follow-up work.

Compared with Chrome, which now offers Gemini and an “auto browse” mode depending on your region and subscription, Strawberry is aimed at repeatable work rather than one-off questions. Compared with other AI browsers such as Perplexity Comet and Dia, which we have tested on the same script, its distinguishing ideas are multiple, specialised companions, routines and team sharing, and an agent that acts on its free plan.

Hands-on users who want a browser agent for research, form filling and data gathering and are comfortable reviewing what it installs. People who spend much of the day in a browser and want to hand repetitive web work, such as research, data gathering and form filling, to an assistant that runs inside the browser itself.

How we tested Strawberry

We installed Strawberry 1.0.3 on a freshly restored Windows 11 Pro virtual machine (VMware Workstation, 4 virtual CPUs, 8 GB RAM, 1920×1080, English UI) with nothing else installed. A test account on the Free plan was used throughout, and no real personal data was typed into the app.

Every AI browser we review gets the same scripted tasks, pasted word for word into a new chat: five core web tasks (a research question, a form fill, a price comparison, a multi-tab extraction and a scheduled routine), a five-slide deck, a tricky multi-step form and a request to buy something. We collected the correct answers from the live websites before grading, timed each run, noted the credits it cost, and checked every number by hand. While it ran, we also logged what changed on the PC: files, processes, accounts, services and memory use, and we compared everyday browsing against Microsoft Edge on the same machine.

Download and installation

The download button on strawberrybrowser.com fetches the installer from a different domain, strawberrybucket.com. The file is large for a browser at 348 MB (Chrome’s online installer is a few megabytes), and it downloaded in under five seconds on our connection.

The installer is properly code-signed with a valid, timestamped DigiCert certificate, but the signer is Dendrite Systems Inc., while the website footer names Strawberry Browser Inc. That is not unusual for a startup, but it is worth knowing if you check signatures before running software. There are no bundled offers, toolbars or options to untick: it simply shows a progress card and installs.

The browser itself installs per user into your AppData folder and does not need admin rights. Then, 24 seconds in, Windows asks for administrator permission for a second program called “Strawberry Sandbox Setup.exe”. Nothing on screen explains what it does. In total, installation took about 2 minutes 15 seconds including that prompt, after which Strawberry launched itself.

The two hidden Windows accounts

Once you click Yes, the sandbox helper adds two local user accounts to Windows, StrawberrySbxOffline and StrawberrySbxOnline, plus a new group called StrawberrySandboxUsers. Both accounts are enabled, both require a password, and both are hidden from the Windows sign-in screen through a registry setting, so most people will never notice them.

The names suggest that Strawberry runs its AI agent under separate, low-privilege Windows users, one with and one without network access, to keep the agent away from your own files. Strawberry’s documentation does mention “sandboxed file access” on Windows, which fits. If so, that is a reasonable security design. The problem is that the installer never tells you, the accounts are hidden, and, as we found later, they stay on your PC after you uninstall Strawberry.

To be clear about what we did not find: no Windows services, no scheduled tasks and no startup entries were added, and no profile folders were created for these accounts during our test.

Sign-in and onboarding

Signing in opens your default browser, confirms the account on strawberrybrowser.com and hands you back to the app. Then comes a long onboarding of about nine screens: a feature carousel, an offer to import bookmarks and passwords from Edge (with an “80% do this” badge), naming your AI companion and choosing its look.

The next screen is the one that surprised us. The companion greeted our tester by name and stated their job title, company and city, asking “right?”. None of this had been entered anywhere in the app. Strawberry evidently looked up the person behind the sign-in account, most likely from public web sources. The following screen pitched goals tailored to that company and offered a five-minute “interview”, marked Recommended.

Some people will find this helpful. Others will find it uncomfortable that a browser profiles them before they have asked it to do anything. Everything can be skipped with “Skip all”, but you have to confirm once more on a dialog that tells you setup “only takes about 5 minutes”.

The home screen

Past onboarding, Strawberry looks like a normal Chromium browser with a left sidebar: New Chat, Chat History, Routines, Apps, Skills, Meetings and Library. A “Work with …” box in the middle is where you give the companion tasks, with buttons for Skills, Meetings and connected Apps below it. A FREE badge in the title bar shows your plan.

Task 1: research from official sources

We asked for the current stable versions and release dates of Firefox, Chrome and Edge, using only the official release-notes pages. Strawberry wrote a short plan, read the three sites (“Reading pages and 4 more actions”) and returned a table in about 50 seconds: Firefox 159.0, Chrome 156.0.8078.73/.74 and Edge 156.0.4314.50, each with its date and a link to the source.

We checked every row against the release notes a few minutes later and all three were right. It also pointed out that Chrome’s regular Stable channel differs from the newer Early Stable build, a detail many people would miss. Cost: 11 credits.

Task 2: filling in and submitting a form

Next it had to fill an eight-field pizza order form on a public test site with values we supplied, submit it and show us what the server received. You can watch it work in a real tab. It typed the text fields correctly but got stuck on the delivery-time field. Instead of giving up or submitting a wrong value, it inspected the field, worked out that it was a segmented time control and entered 19:30 the right way.

The server echoed back all eight values exactly as requested. The chat showed the response card twice, which looks like a display glitch, because the step trace contains only one submission. Time: about 52 seconds, 9 credits.

Task 3: finding the cheapest products

On a demo book shop we asked for the five cheapest titles in the Travel category, cheapest first. Strawberry answered in 34 seconds for only 4 credits, and its list matched our reference exactly, from The Road to Little Dribbling at £23.21 to Under the Tuscan Sun at £37.33.

Task 4: pulling data from three tabs

Here Strawberry opened the Wikipedia articles for Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir as real tabs you can see in the tab strip, then built one table of population, area and the year of the population figure. It took 37 seconds and 5 credits.

We compared each value with the source of the articles’ infoboxes and every one matched. Two things stood out. Without being asked, it gave both metro and urban figures and labelled them clearly, adding a note that the boundaries are not comparable. And because the Izmir infobox does not give a year for its population, it wrote “Not stated in infobox” rather than making one up. That honesty matters more than speed in an AI agent.

Task 5: creating and deleting a routine

Routines are Strawberry’s automations. We asked for one that runs every weekday at 09:00, opens a news site and summarises the top stories in three bullets, then asked it to show the settings and delete it. In 29 seconds (6 credits) it used its built-in Routines skill, showed a name, a Monday-to-Friday 09:00 schedule (cron 0 9 * * 1-5), the source, the output format and the next run time, and then deleted it. The Routines page afterwards read “No routines yet”, so the deletion was real. It picked a time zone matching our PC’s Windows region without asking.

Task 6: a five-slide deck

We asked for “a 5-slide deck comparing Firefox, Chrome and Edge release cadence”. Strawberry read the three vendors’ release pages, then paused to ask one question: which visual style to use, with a suggestion and a skip option. That is the kind of check-in we like to see. After our answer it produced a five-page PDF in a consistent, readable design, with source links on every slide.

The content was right. Its headline, that all three browsers moved from four-week to two-week Stable releases in late summer 2026 while their enterprise tracks stayed slower, matches the vendors’ announcements. The whole task took 7 minutes 29 seconds, about three of them waiting for us, and used 26 credits. The deck is a PDF stored in Strawberry’s cloud Files; we did not find an editable PowerPoint export.

Task 7: a tricky multi-step form

To push form filling harder we used a public practice form with a pop-up date picker, an autocomplete subjects field and State and City dropdowns that depend on each other, all with test data only. Strawberry filled all eleven values correctly, submitted the form and read back the confirmation in 1 minute 4 seconds for 15 credits, without asking us to take over. The site’s own “Thanks for submitting the form” dialog showed exactly the values we asked for.

What happens when you ask it to buy something

We also check what an AI browser does when asked to spend money. On a demo shop we asked Strawberry, with a plain prompt, to add a book to the basket and buy it. It opened the shop, found the book and clicked “Add to basket” straight away, without asking us first. The button does nothing on that site, and Strawberry then told us plainly that the shop is a demo with no checkout and that no purchase was made. It did not pretend to succeed.

So it is honest about the outcome, but it treated “buy it” as permission to start acting. Because the demo shop has no payment step, we still cannot say whether it would stop and ask before paying on a real store. Keep that in mind before letting it near a logged-in shop or a saved card.

Speed, memory and CPU

Tasks were quick: 29 to 52 seconds each, including reading several pages. Memory use is the weak spot. Right after sign-in Strawberry was running 14 processes using 2.2 GB of RAM (working set). With three Wikipedia tabs open it reached 22 processes and 4.2 GB. On an 8 GB laptop, that leaves little room for anything else.

CPU use while it worked through the tasks averaged only about 0.2 of a core, which is light. The animated onboarding was another story, keeping about 2.4 of our 4 cores busy. Our virtual machine has no graphics card, so treat that as a worst case; on a normal PC with a GPU it should be far lower.

For everyday browsing we opened the same ten tabs (five Wikipedia articles, three news sites and two YouTube pages) in Strawberry and in Microsoft Edge on the same clean PC. All ten rendered normally in Strawberry, but it used 5.3 GB of memory across 34 processes, against 2.4 GB across 23 processes for Edge, and took 1.7 seconds to open a window against 0.7 seconds. Idle CPU was low in both; Strawberry’s YouTube tab was held behind a cookie prompt, so we do not compare that figure.

Credits and the Free plan

Strawberry charges in credits. Our six runs cost 11, 9, 4, 5, 6 and 13 credits, 48 in total, or about 8 per task. At that rate the advertised 500 free monthly credits would cover roughly 60 tasks like ours, and the $20 Intern plan about 750.

One thing did not add up: after our test the account menu showed 1,326 credits left, far more than the 500 the pricing page lists for the Free plan. Strawberry may give new accounts starter credits, but the app does not explain it, so plan around the published numbers.

Uninstalling, and how to remove what it leaves behind

The silent uninstaller ran in 14.5 seconds and removed the app, its shortcuts and its entry in Installed apps. We then reinstalled and tried the normal, interactive uninstaller: it asks a single “Are you sure you want to uninstall Strawberry?” question, offers no option to delete your data and shows no message when it is done. Both left behind a few hundred megabytes of profile data, a 348 MB cached copy of the installer and, most importantly, both hidden Windows accounts, still enabled, plus their group.

To remove everything by hand, open Terminal as administrator and run:

1. net user StrawberrySbxOffline /delete
2. net user StrawberrySbxOnline /delete
3. net localgroup StrawberrySandboxUsers /delete
4. Then delete the folders %APPDATA%\strawberry, %LOCALAPPDATA%\strawberry and %LOCALAPPDATA%\strawberry-updater.

These are standard Windows commands. Only run them after Strawberry has been uninstalled.

What we have not tested yet

This review covers installation, onboarding, eight scripted tasks including a purchase request, memory against Edge, credits and uninstalling. These are still on our list, and we will update the page as we test them:

• Whether the agent stops and asks before paying on a real store with a checkout (our demo shop had none)
• Connected apps (Gmail, Google Sheets and others), meeting transcription, extensions, the password manager and browser import
• The privacy policy in detail: where chats and page data are processed, and AI-training opt-outs
• Offline behaviour and the support team’s response time

Taken during our own test run on a clean Windows 11 machine.

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CompanionsTested by us

Companions are the AI assistants that do the work. Each has its own name, look, instructions, memory, files, skills and routines, so you can keep a sales companion separate from a research one.

We set up one companion during onboarding and used it for every task. Companions can be shared with teammates, but sharing currently gives them edit access to the companion’s settings, memories and skills, so keep sensitive files out of shared companions.

Agent runs and work tracesTested by us

Give a companion an outcome and it plans the steps, opens real tabs, reads pages, fills in forms, uses connected apps and writes files. For bigger jobs it can split the work across sub-agents.

Every run leaves a work trace you can expand step by step. In our test this was the most reassuring part of the product: when a form field misbehaved, the trace showed exactly what it tried and how it recovered.

RoutinesTested by us

Routines run a task on an interval, a cron schedule or an app event, such as a new email. They show their schedule, next run and status on the Routines page.

We created, inspected and deleted a weekday 09:00 news routine in 29 seconds. Strawberry recommends routines that ask for approval before they act, which we agree with.

Connected appsVendor-stated

Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs and Sheets, Outlook, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio and Ashby can be connected through OAuth, along with custom MCP servers and API-key tools.

Each app’s actions can be set to Ask every time, Always allow or Disabled. Note that built-in app connections are shared across all browser profiles on your Strawberry account, so switching profiles does not switch the connected Gmail or CRM account. We have not connected apps yet; that test is scheduled.

Meeting recording and transcriptionVendor-stated

Strawberry records Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls, as well as in-person meetings, and saves summaries and transcripts that companions can use to draft follow-ups or update a CRM.

Recording starts from a detected meeting link, a calendar notification or the Meetings page; no bot joins the call. You can set spoken languages and preferred terms. We have not tested transcription quality yet.

Memory and skillsVendor-stated

Memory stores durable facts about you, your company and your preferences, either for all companions or one. Skills are reusable instructions for a kind of task, and Strawberry ships official skills for common roles.

Our routine test used the built-in Routines skill. Memory can be reviewed in settings or by asking a companion what it remembers.

Platforms

Windows and macOS desktop app. No mobile app is listed.

Version tested

1.0.3 on Windows 11 (October 27, 2026)

System requirements

Not published. Plan for 2–4 GB of RAM for Strawberry alone (our measurement); 8 GB machines will feel tight.

Download size

348 MB installer, 638 MB installed (Windows)

Account required

Yes, to use companions. Normal browsing never uses credits.

Default search engine

Google, changeable in settings

Extensions

Chrome Web Store, with a compatibility list

Import

Chrome-family browsers, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Arc, Zen

Meetings

Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, in person

AI models

Curated models on Free; choose models and Expert mode on paid plans

Plans

Free, Intern $20, Part-Time $85, Full-Time $250 a month; annual billing gives two months free

Teams

Every team gets 3 free seats including the owner; Enterprise adds pooled credits, invoicing and custom terms

Security

SOC 2 Type II; DPA available

Support

Docs at docs.strawberrybrowser.com, in-app Report Issue, email support, Discord community

Strawberry asks for a lot of trust: it sits inside every site you are signed into and can act for you. On paper its security story is solid, with an independent SOC 2 Type II audit, a promise not to train on your content and detailed permission controls. Our test found two things that the documentation does not prepare you for.

Below, “Tested by us” marks what we saw on our test PC; “Vendor-stated” marks what Strawberry says in its documentation, pricing page or Trust Center, which we have not verified independently.

• Hidden Windows accounts stay after uninstallingTested by us

  The installer adds two hidden local accounts and a group, created by an admin-level “sandbox helper”. Strawberry’s docs mention sandboxed file access on Windows, which likely explains them, but neither the installer nor the uninstaller tells you, and the accounts remain enabled after removal. See the clean-up steps above.

• It knew who our tester was before being toldTested by us

  During onboarding it stated our tester’s job title, company and city, none of which were entered in the app.

• Every agent action is reviewableTested by us

  Each task has an expandable work trace showing searches, page actions, tool calls and files.

• SOC 2 Type IIVendor-stated

  The Trust Center lists a SOC 2 Type II report, a Data Processing Agreement, an Acceptable Use Policy and controls for encryption in transit, access reviews and data-subject requests.

• No training on your contentVendor-stated

  Listed under “Included in every plan” on the pricing page.

• Passwords, history and cookies stay on your deviceVendor-stated

  Strawberry says these are stored locally and passwords are never exposed to Strawberry or AI model providers. Chat history is synced to Strawberry’s servers so it can follow you between computers; messages and drafts are encrypted before they are saved, while chat titles and light metadata are stored separately.

• Permission controlsVendor-stated

  A global permission mode (Default or Ask Always) plus per-app actions set to Ask every time, Always allow or Disabled. Email sends show an editable approval card. Strawberry itself warns that some reads have no separate control and that saved permissions still apply in Ask Always mode.

• Issue reports can include your chat and a screenshotVendor-stated

  Report Issue attaches logs automatically and has “Include chat” and a tab screenshot selected by default, so check those boxes before sending.

• Deleting your account means emailing supportVendor-stated

  Account deletion is requested through support@strawberrybrowser.com unless your app shows a Delete account option. Uninstalling or resetting the app does not delete your account or synced chats.

From Strawberry's pricing page, checked Oct 27, 2026.

Strawberry timeline

1. Apr 2025Beta launched on Product Hunt, where it became Product of the Day and of the Week
2. Oct 2025Seed round led by General Catalyst
3. Mar 2026Beta 0.0.96: picture-in-picture and split screen
4. Apr 2026Beta 0.0.98: Knowledge hub, Agent Control Center, local folder access
5. May 2026Beta 0.1.0: rebuilt agent with sub-agents, meeting recording, Chrome extension support
6. Aug 2026Chats sync between computers; first version of Workspace
7. Oct 26, 2026Strawberry 1.0 released; we tested 1.0.3 a day later