Yalqen vs Safari on Mac: Chromium or WebKit?

The short answer

Which one fits you?

Chromium engine, so pages render the way they do in Chrome and the full Chromium DevTools are built in. Safari renders with WebKit and ships Web Inspector.
Vertical tabs are the default layout. Safari keeps a horizontal tab bar; its sidebar lists tab groups.
Ad blocking built in from the first launch. Safari limits cross-site tracking but leaves ads to content blocker extensions.
Chrome Web Store extensions, with limits. Safari installs its own extensions from the App Store.
A command bar on ⌘L that searches, jumps to tabs and history, and runs developer commands by name.

Safari comes with every Mac, needs no install and is usually lighter on memory and battery than a Chromium browser built on Electron, which is what Yalqen is today.
Safari syncs tabs, bookmarks, history and passwords across Mac, iPhone and iPad through iCloud. Yalqen has no sync yet.
Safari is the only way to test how a site behaves in WebKit on the Mac, which every iPhone browser also uses.

Side by side

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The basics
	Yalqen	Safari
Source code	Open source (MIT)	Proprietary, built on open-source WebKit
Engine	Chromium, through Electron	WebKit
Platforms	macOS 13+ on Apple silicon	macOS, iOS, iPadOS, visionOS
Price	Free	Free, comes with macOS
Privacy by default
Blocks ads
Blocks trackers
Works without an account
Features
Vertical tabs
Tab groups
Command bar with developer commands
Renders pages like Chrome
Chrome Web Store extensions
Sync between devices
iPhone and iPad