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Incognito is the latest web browser that is now officially open for use on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The main attraction of this third-party application is that it offers completely anonymous Internet surfing. It’s perfect for those who don’t want to let others trace their web activities.

Incognito keeps everything in memory as far as a particular web session is maintained but forgets every thing the moment the session is ended. It never saves history, passwords, credit card information, information filled in forms and keywords used in search engines. Apart from this all your online multimedia activities are also erased. Nobody can find out the videos you watched, the songs you heard, the flash games you played or any other file accessed by you. Incognito provides full support to keep the linked media files anonymous. It also sports an orientation lock mode.

Incognito is easy to install and use. Its UI is great and there is a customisable home page that can be shaped as per your preferences. Not only security wise but the Incognito is known for its speedy performance too on both the Apple iPod touch and iPhone. It can load any web page (including the ones containing heavy flash work) at a blazing speed. You can find it at the App Store.

Apple is entertaining the third party Internet browsers nowadays and some of them have already been provided a space in the App Store. As of now there are only three third party browsers that can be downloaded from App Store for the iPhone, and compete with Apple’s Safari browser.

The first one is Edge Browser. The speciality of EDGE is that it allows full screen web browsing. However, to offer this the browser sacrifices on screen controls and navigation menus. So unless you are using analytics or working on a site about which you know each and everything the EDGE is useless. But EDGE is the only third party browser that is available for free. The second web browser that is Incognito that is very useful if you fear of leaking your website activities to another user. This browser leaves no traces of any session established between the phone and the web server. In other words you can browse the Internet without any worries as nobody can find out that which web sites you visited. The only downside of this browser is that it comes with a price tag of $1.99.

Another third party browser exclusively developed for Apple iPhone is the WebMate browser. You can get it by paying just 99 cents. If you are addicted to tabbed browsing then this one is for you. But this one also has its own limitations, and Safari naturally remains the best browser for your Apple iPhone. It cannot save information of active tabs. That means if you switch from one tab to other the latter one will get reloaded from scratch. So the overall browsing experience will be slow.