Violoncello - Text Browser is made and published by
John Spahr.
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Pros & Cons
Text-focused reading experience with ad-free browsing
Bookmarking for quick access to favorite sites
Easy sharing from your main browser into Violoncello
Premium customization options for fonts and colors
Limited built-in search and broader feature set compared to some rivals
About Violoncello - Text Browser
Violoncello - Text Browser is a tools app developed by John Spahr.
Download Statistics
Violoncello - Text Browser has been downloaded 33 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 560 times.
User Ratings
Violoncello - Text Browser is rated 3.95 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 370 ratings.
App Information
Violoncello - Text Browser is freely available from Google Play. The APK size is 6.51 MB. The latest APK version available is 3.1.0. The last update was on July 28, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Violoncello - Text Browser requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The APK has been available on Google Play since December 2020.
Description by John Spahr(from Google Play)
Meet Violoncello, a powerful text-only web browser for Android! This app is great for reading text-heavy webpages such as articles and blog posts, as it removes annoyances such as ads and videos.
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Comments on Violoncello - Text Browser for Android
★★★★☆Rob the Quiet· Dec 25, 2022
Nice! Just a bit of obscure how to add bookmarks, also being able to set the background color of the search and title bars would be nice. Content can be tricky to sift through, but we can't expect web developers to optimize their sites for text browsers, so it is what it is.
★★★★★Tariq Ahmed· Jun 17, 2025
This browser is incredibly powerful and extremely efficient in consuming the internet. If you have a limited internet bandwidth and want to read only without showing images or videos, this browser is exactly what you need.
★★★★★Surya ッ· Mar 9, 2024
That's what I look for... I am looking for only text based browser. I often distracted by image, videos that displayed in other browser. Hope this browser never support image a and videos
★☆☆☆☆Nate Morrison· Mar 18, 2026
Barely functioning browser, the back button function doesn't work, and nav bar is buried under home buttons. -Using Pixel 9
★☆☆☆☆RBL· Aug 13, 2026
Address bar it's at the bottom of the screen and can be obscured by One UI's navigation icons. Please allow the address bar to be moved. Unusable otherwise.
★★☆☆☆felix hallqvist· Oct 21, 2022
Looked promising, and succeeds where all other browsers failed me (a site displaying only a "no script" tag, with the rest being hidden). But has no dark-theme, and with its white bg is thus unusable to me. There was a note about a premium version having theme feature (but nothing whether any are dark), but this is the free version, so it is what I'm reviewing here. It also failed at a site all other browsers succeeds (even with JS disabled), with a cloud fare error regarding JS disabled.
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