Since 2018, Progressive Web Apps (PWA) were on the rise. Progressive Web Apps are just like native mobile apps but is entirely contained within your choice of browser, may that be Firefox or Chrome.

One huge benefit of PWAs is that they are very light on mobile data usage. That is, except if you watch 1080p videos all day on multiple social media instances.

One Open Source app from the FDroid app store is called WebApps by TobyKurien. It’s an app that tries to compartmentalize your web activities by sandboxing them into separate instances. At least that’s what the app is trying to do.

As of writing this post, Webapps does its job fine. When I try to create separate sandboxes for social media sites like Twitter or Facebook, it separates each profile from each other.

It also prevents third party cookies by blocking everything except for first party connections (but you can unblock using one of its buttons). It can also add Saved Webapps to your homescreen as a shortcut and let you access your PWAs with a single flick and not touch the main app if you wish to do so.

However, it occasionally slips and ends up mixing two profiles together. This is probably a flaw created Android’s stock WebView implementation and Android’s Multitasking feature.

Another thing I want to point out is that your options for customizing your User Agent is pretty limited. You can only select from the select few that the app presents to you.

Other than that, you can’t manage or delete cookies that has been stored in your sandboxes. There might be reasons for this implementation, but I’m not a fan of it.

Overall, it’s a good app if you don’t have multiple identities on a single site. It’s able to separate profiles if you’re careful enough to kill the app safely (through the app’s Exit function).

Edit: I still think Firefox’s First Party Isolation (available for Android and Desktop) does the job better if you don’t have more than one account on a website. You can always use User Agent plugins to change it.