Brink started as a personal solution to scattered research and grew into an iPad browser built around the way studying and research actually happen.
I'm an independent developer and cybersecurity student based in the UK. Studying while working full time made one problem increasingly obvious: the tools around research are often disconnected from each other.
The browser finds the source. A different app stores the notes. PDFs end up somewhere else. Citations are built separately. Recordings live in another app again. And once enough tabs are open, even finding the original source becomes part of the work.
Brink began as an attempt to bring those pieces together around the browser. Over time it has grown into a research workspace where browsing, projects, folders, saved sources, notes, PDFs, recordings, citations and focus tools can live alongside each other.
The idea is simple: the less time you spend managing the tools around your research, the more time you can spend on the research itself.
Research doesn't stop when a page loads. You read, compare sources, save material, highlight useful passages, make notes, work through PDFs, build references and try not to get distracted halfway through it all.
That's why Brink isn't trying to become a collection of unrelated extras. Its features are built around one workflow: browse, collect, organise, cite and focus.
Research Projects take that further by giving different assignments, modules and topics their own workspace. Each project can keep its own folders and saved material together, while the General workspace remains there for everything else.
Brink is iPad-only by design. The iPad is capable of being a serious study and research device, and Brink treats it that way rather than approaching it as simply a larger phone.
“I built the browser I wish I'd had when I started studying. Every feature exists because I needed it myself.”Josh Bradley · Developer of Brink Browser
New features should make the research workflow more useful without turning Brink into a cluttered browser that tries to do everything for everyone.
Your browsing history, search queries, research projects, saved pages, notes and lecture recordings aren't collected by Brink. Limited analytics and diagnostics help improve the app, while the content you create stays on your device.
Projects, folders, citations, Reader Mode, PDFs, notes and capture tools exist to support the work around research rather than compete for attention with it.
Focus sessions, Study Mode and website blocking are there for the moments when getting the work done matters more than having every corner of the web one tap away.
Brink is independently developed. Feedback can directly influence what gets improved, what gets simplified and what gets built next.
Brink isn't backed by investors or built around an advertising business. It's an independently developed paid app, funded by the people who choose to use it.
The one-time purchase helps fund continued development, maintenance and the work that goes into improving Brink over time.
GradePilot is another independent app I build for university students, focused on tracking assessments, grades and academic progress.
View GradePilot on the App Store →See how Brink brings projects, saved research, citations, reading tools and focus features together around the browser.
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