Vivaldi 7.1 for Android: Your Browsing, Smarter and Simpler

We are thrilled to bring you Vivaldi 7.1 for Android, with features to make your browsing experience smoother and more efficient. With this update, we are putting even more control at your fingertips, making it easier to stay organized and focus on what matters most.

Here’s what’s new in Vivaldi 7.1:

An Easier Way to add Your Speed Dials

Speed Dials are more than just bookmarks, they’re your personal launchpad for the web. Whether it’s your go-to news site, favorite online tools, or the platforms you use daily, Speed Dials let you access everything important to you in just one click. Adding new websites to your Speed Dial is now faster and more intuitive with the new Add Speed Dial dialog. The new Speed Dial dialog now shows sections for Popular and Frequently Visited sites, helping you quickly save what you need, making it quicker than ever to organize your favorite sites on the Start Page.

Two Android phones. One showing Vivaldi's Start Page with Speed Dials, the other showing the new add Speed Dial dialog. An arrow from the "Add" button on the Start Page points towards the second phone with the dialog.

Stay Focused with Reader View

For 7.1 we have made Reader View much more accessible from the menu, making it easier for you to dive into the content that matters most. Reader View lets you focus entirely on the text by simplifying pages for an optimized reading experience. Whether you’re catching up on articles, exploring blogs, or tackling in-depth reports.

Vivaldi on Android with the main menu open, highlighting the Reader View toggle.

Find Tabs Instantly with Tab Search

If you have ever struggled to locate a specific tab, this feature will be a game changer. The new Tab Search functionality in the Tab Switcher allows you to search for the title of the page or the URL, and immediately find the tab you need. Whether it is a shopping page, a recipe, or a research article, you can now locate your tabs quickly and effortlessly.

Vivaldi on Android's Tab Switcher. An arrow is pointing at the search button in the top right corner.

A Smarter Start Page

Your Start Page just got smarter. With the new Reopen Start Page options, you can choose how you want to kick off your browsing session. Select from Top Sites, Last Visited Group, or First Group (group listed as first, you can customize this as well), depending on your needs. By default, the Last Visited Group is selected, so you can pick up right where you left off. Whether you want to revisit frequently used sites, dive into your saved groups, or continue from your last session, this feature makes it easy to stay organized and jump straight into your browsing with no hassle.

Start Page settings in Vivaldi on Android. An arrow is pointing at the "Reopen Start Page with" option.

Quickly Save Your Favorite Sites

Saving your favorite pages just got a whole lot easier. With the new Add Page to menu item, you can quickly save the current page to your Start Page, Bookmarks, Reading List, or even directly to your device’s Home Screen. Whether it’s an article you want to read later, a go-to website for work, or something you need quick access to, this feature gives you the flexibility to organize your browsing exactly the way you want. In just a couple of taps, you can ensure everything you need is right where you expect it, making your browsing smoother and more efficient than ever.

Vivaldi on Android with the main menu open, highlighting the "Add Page to" option. List of places where the tab can be added to is shown on the right side.

New Default Search Engines

To keep Vivaldi free and independent, we’ve made a small but important update: changing some of our default search engines. These adjustments are part of our efforts to support the ongoing development of the browser. Our partner search engines that generate revenue for us are: Startpage, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and Qwant. As part of this setup, we also made changes to ensure that ad attribution works correctly, this is needed for us to be paid by our partners. Rest assured, Vivaldi doesn’t track you, profile you, or sell your data.

Seamless Sharing with Send Tab to Device

Ever found the perfect article, recipe, or video on your phone but wanted to continue on your desktop? With Send Tab to Device, you can instantly share tabs between your Vivaldi-enabled devices. Whether you’re switching from couch mode to work mode or heading out the door, your tabs are just a click away. It’s seamless, fast, and keeps your browsing flow uninterrupted, because the last thing you need is to lose track of where you left off.

This update is all about helping you browse smarter and saving you time, Vivaldi 7.1 makes your Android browsing experience better than ever.

Download or update Vivaldi for Android now, and as always, thank you for being part of the Vivaldi community. Together, we are fighting for a better web.

Changelog from Vivaldi 7.0 to Vivaldi 7.1

New

[New] Add a new bookmark from Top Sites (VAB-10216)
[New] Add Reader View toggle to the menu (VAB-6633)
[New] Add new Speed Dial Dialog (VAB-9782)
[New] ‘Add Page to’ menu implementation (VAB-9781)
[New] Add ‘X’ to remove Typed History and Direct Match entries (VAB-10524)
[New] Introduce ‘Reopen Start Page with’ option (VAB-10316)
[New] Search tabs in the Tab Switcher (VAB-10491)

Settings

[Settings] Add Address Bar setting to search manager (VAB-10659)
[Settings] Allow Background Audio Playback setting not prompting to restart Vivaldi when setting is selected via Search (VAB-10392)
[Settings] Capitalize feature names in settings’ descriptions (VAB-10661)
[Settings] Cannot search for domain name in custom search engine (VAB-7032)
[Settings] Display on ‘Reopen Start Page with’ does not update instantly (VAB-10396)
[Settings] Move home page setting to general category (VAB-10224)
[Settings] Status Bar Visibility display does not get reflected instantly (VAB-10264)
[Settings] Update strings related to ‘Reader View’ (VAB-10481)

Start Page and Speed Dials

[Speed dial] Tools category mislabeled (VAB-10625)
[Start page] ‘Add new group’-button stops working when there is no bookmark folders (VAB-10469)
[Start Page] Choosing ‘Top Sites’ in Reopen Start Page setting should enable Top Sites (VAB-10549)
[Start page] Customize start page sheet: Update margins and hide description (VAB-10294)
[Start page] Custom speed dial image blinks in opening a new tab (VAB-10358)
[Start page] Custom start page background image not shown in new tab (VAB-10389)
[Start Page] Group does not remember last state (VAB-10485)
[Start Page] Incorrect Text color on light default speed dial thumbs (VAB-10688)
[Start Page] Incorrect color for default thumbnails (VAB-10679)
[Start page] Move start page preference for showing custom switch to the bottom (VAB-10316)
[Start page] Removing top sites removes Speed dial group (VAB-10345)
[Start page] Speed dials gets overlapped (VAB-10319)
[Start page] Speed dial icons blurred in some cases (VAB-10483)
[Start Page] Title for top sites section should be “Frequently Visited” (VAB-10647)
[Start Page] View jumps from top sites to first group when adding bookmark from Top Sites (VAB-10374)

Tablet

[Tablet] Close panel when switching tabs (VAB-10448)
[Tablet] Fix for pages shifted down after browser restart on foldables and tablets (VAB-10101)
[Tablet] Menu settings should not be available (VAB-10390)
[Tablet] Misplaced info text in Sync Settings (VAB-10313)
[Tablet] Tracking pop-up close button issue (VAB-10568)

Tabs

[Tabs] Disabling tab stacking does not dissolve tab stacks (VAB-10365)
[Tabs] New tab isn’t created when the only open tab stack is deleted (VAB-10554)
[Tabs] Refactoring of new tab creation when no open tabs (VAB-10694)
[Tabs] Tab Bar performance fix (VAB-10490) [Tabs] Tab strip new tab button margin fix for foldable (VAB-10372)
[Tab Switcher] Button is missing in landscape mode when Address Bar is at the top (VAB-10375)
[Tab Switcher] Colour difference when searching private (VAB-10502)
[Tab switcher] Closed tab stacks are not visible in tab stack pane and stack count is not updated (VAB-10311)
[Tab Switcher] Icons for options in tab switcher are wrong (VAB-10565)
[Tab Switcher] QRCode and reload button should not be visible (VAB-10503)
[Tab Switcher] Last closed tab not listed in Closed Tabs (VAB-10551)
[Tab Switcher] Prevent accidental removal of a tab from a stack (VAB-10499)
[Tab switcher] Normal tabs are shown in private tabs section of the tab switcher (VAB-10328)
[Tab Switcher] Number in Tab Stacks Pane does not update (VAB-10560)
[Tab Switcher] Sign in to sync UI is shown when already logged into sync (VAB-10590)
[Tab Switcher] Suggestions in private view in tab switcher do not open pages (VAB-10561)

User Interface

[UI] Ambiguous icons in main menu (VAB-10685)
[UI] Blue dot on the V icon should be removed (VAB-10564)
[UI] Disable hover / tab preview showing on Android (VAB-10292)
[UI] Icons in the root bookmark folder has wrong colour (VAB-10414)
[UI] Polish Speed Dial dialog (VAB-10684)
[UI] Ugly scrollbar while swiping between pages on Speed Dial and Tab Switcher (VAB-10651)
[UI] UI polish for Tracker blocker dialog (VAB-10357)
[UI] Update string for double tap back to close setting (VAB-10271)
[UI] Wrong text size in Notes panel (VAB-10416)
Upgraded to 132.0.6834.110

Other

[Bookmarks] Panel close button is wrong (VAB-10580)
[Onboarding] Merge two buttons of the last onboarding step (VAB-10630)
[Reading list] Disable editing items after adding one (VAB-10281)
[Help page] Help page should open in regular tab (VAB-10438)
[Strings] Update text ‘Help & Feedback’ to ‘Help'(VAB-10437)
[Sync] Removed bottom border/divider in sync settings (VAB-10388)
[Tracker and Ad Blocker] Allow for Ad Attribution (VB-109764)
[Tracker and Ad Blocker] Why am I seeing ads section in Tracker Blocker dialog (VAB-10621)
[Translate panel] Dropdown menu in translate panel doesn’t work unless text is manually deleted (VAB-9698)
[Translation] Georgian and Sinhala are not in the App language list (VAB-10356)