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The productivity gain claims are quite a bit overrated with Sidekick. What was once impressive "productivity features" 5+ years ago are now commoditized across pretty much every new browser on the market.
In-fact, their design and user-experience feels quite lacking when compared to the likes of Arc Browser and even SigmaOS.
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Sidekick makes the Internet distraction-free. It speeds up your workflow and protects against attention killers
What is promised as a "productivity browser for focused work", is really just a Chrome browser with a sidebar containing pinned apps which are essentially just a way to access those apps in split-view. Is that what productivity means to you?
What Sidekick requires a completely new browser for, can be solved by simply using Chrome or Firefox alongside an extension like Workona.
(Yes, I'm saying that Sidekick Browser is more of a feature than it is a standalone product).
The most promising feature with Sidekick is being able to easily jump between different work and personal accounts from the sidebar, in apps like Gmail, Notion, and Google Drive. For those who are using different Chrome profiles to achieve this currently may appreciate this.
With that, only 2 sessions (accounts) are supported for free, to add more than that, you'll be jumping into a pro tier, and the question is, are you open to paying for these "productivity features"? It's a tough call as to if there's enough value here to justify paying, when browsers like Arc Browser offer unlimited sessions/spaces, and effectively sidebar apps for free.
You'll also never get a mobile app with Sidekick, so if you invest much of your time into building out your spaces, it'll be restricted just to desktop. Now that doesn't sound very productive to me, you? 😅
On this note, if you're considering Sidekick Browser instead, well, good luck noticing a difference between these two, they are quite similar and uninspiring.
Sidekick Browser works on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Sidekick is a desktop-only browser, they have no plans on adding a mobile app and doesn't seem likely that they will add it in the future.
Sidekick Browser uses Chromium as the foundation like most other browsers out there, so the level of privacy stems on Chromium being at the foundation. That said, they do go a step further and have a baked in VPN service and they claim to never disclose users' search information. That said, you probably are no more or less secure or private using Sidekick as you would be with other browser on the market like Arc Browser or Firefox.
We've tracked and verified the above companies are using this software in their team's stack.