Rabb.it is gone. This is the closest thing left.
Rabb.it shut down in July 2019 after a funding round fell through, and Kast bought its remaining assets that month — but Kast has since been acquired by Amaze and discontinued as well. The closest thing to Rabb.it available now is a shared cloud browser: one browser everyone in the room can see and take turns controlling, opened from a link with nothing to install.
Rabb.it is no longer running
| Rabb.it | Waddle | |
|---|---|---|
| Still running | No — shut down July 2019 | Yes |
| Install needed | Desktop app, later a browser version | Nothing. A link opens in any browser |
| Shared browser everyone can drive | Yes, this was the original idea | Yes |
| Works on a phone | Patchy | Yes |
| Guests need an account | Yes | No, only the host does |
| Games in the room | No | Yes |
Where Rabb.it is the better pick
Rabb.it got there first and got it right: a room with one browser in it that everyone could use. It had roughly 3.6 million monthly users when it closed, which says more about the idea than about the company that ran out of money running it.
Why Rabb.it shut down
In May 2019 a funding round fell through. Staff were laid off, and in July the company announced it was ceasing operations. On 31 July 2019 Kast acquired what was left — the intellectual property, the software stack and several patents.
It was not a product failure. The service had around 3.6 million monthly active users at the end, which is why the idea kept resurfacing and why people are still searching for it seven years later.
The thing that has changed since 2019
Rabb.it ran into the wall that every group-watch service of that era hit: the cost. Running a real browser in the cloud for every room is expensive, and doing it at scale for a free product is what emptied the bank account.
What is different now is that everyone joining a room is just watching a video stream, so a phone is a first-class device rather than a problem, and a room can be handed round instead of depending on one person's laptop staying open.
What to expect from a shared browser today
Make a room, send the link, and whoever you send it to is in — no account, no download, on a laptop or a phone. Everyone sees the same browser, and control is passed around on request rather than owned by whoever started it.
The rest is the hangout: voice chat, text chat and reactions in the same place as the video, and games in the room for the bits of the evening where nobody is watching anything.
Common questions
Why did Rabb.it shut down?
A funding round fell through in May 2019, staff were laid off, and the company announced it was ceasing operations in July 2019. Kast acquired its remaining assets on 31 July 2019.
Is Rabb.it coming back?
No. Its assets went to Kast in 2019, and Kast was itself acquired by Amaze in 2025 and discontinued as a standalone app.
What is the best Rabb.it alternative?
A shared cloud browser is the direct descendant of what Rabb.it did. Waddle gives you a room with one browser everyone can see and take turns driving, from a link, with nothing to install.
Do guests need an account?
No. Joining needs only the link. Hosting a room needs a free account.