Shift vs Wavebox
No leader: the top candidate Wavebox has only 0.28 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for browser productivity. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Shift
A Chromium-based desktop browser that lets users create separate workspaces (Spaces) for different roles and integrate multiple apps with built-in AI features. Automatically manages logins across integrated apps and includes native security protections.
Wavebox
A browser designed to integrate with multiple productivity and collaboration platforms, enabling users to manage work-related web applications from a single interface. It provides extension support and browser automation capabilities.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Shift
Free forever or $199.99/year for Advanced
- FreeFree
- 5 Spaces
- 10 apps per Space
- Browser Builder and templates
- Limited Shift AI usage
- Carbon-neutral browsing
- Advanced$199.99/year
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited Spaces
- Unlimited apps per Space
- Expanded Shift AI usage
- Priority customer support (video calling)
- TeamContact sales
- Consolidated billing
- Central dashboard for management
Wavebox
From £6.91/month. Free tier available. 7-day free trial; 30-day money-back guarantee.
- BasicFree
- 2 groups
- 2 apps in each group
- 1 extension
- One dashboard
- Pro£6.91/month billed annually
- Unlimited spaces, groups & apps
- All extensions
- Cloud sync
- Unlimited dashboards
- Teams£10.75/user/month
- Everything in Pro
- Connect
- Shared dashboards
- Wavebox Live
- Consolidated billing
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Asana
Shift
- Chrome Extensions
- LM Studio
- Cloudflare
- Google Web Risk
- Avira
- ProofHub
- Sentry
- Toggl
- RescueTime
- XMind
- Miro
Wavebox
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Teams
- ClickUp
- Monday
- Atlassian
- AirTable
- Slack
- Google Workspaces
Shift or Wavebox: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.