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Grazing is a new universal web browsing app for iPad and iPhone’s. I haven’t tested it on the iPad yet so this review will be focused on the iPhone v2 of Grazing.

When I heard about grazing I was intrigued. You have to be confident in your product to go up against a native app such as Safari and most browsers I have tested have failed to live up to or provide a better experience than Safari for iPhone/iPad.

Grazing is about the closest to a full web browser experience I have come across in any browser app to date. That in itself is quite an achievement.

Here is an overview of some of the features included:

•  Fullscreen: Drag the toolbar up or down to show your tabs or enter fullscreen mode.
•  Thumb controls: Slide your thumb in to hit common commands on the Slidepad.
•  Touch optimized: Just pan back and forth to switch tabs. Plus gestures, helpful overlays, and more.
•  Save links with your favorite services, including Instapaper, ReadItLater, Delicious, PinBoard, and more.
•  Sharing with Twitter and Facebook.
•  Searching Multiple search engines, always open in a new tab, search based on selected text, find-on-page, and more.
•  Ad Blocking, set your cookie preferences, and tell websites you don’t want to be tracked with Do Not Track.
•  Custom user agents – tell specific sites you’re a desktop browser to avoid iPad blocking or redirecting.

Grazing has some very innovative features that include multiple ways to view tabs. My favorite by far is simply swiping left to right across the screen. This feature alone is worth the current price, it feels very natural and has certainly increased my productivity. You can also swipe up from the bottom menu bar to view current tabs with a screen shot or tap the tabs button for a view much like in safari.

Grazing even includes a flurry of screen gestures for quickly jumping between tabs, moving back and forward between pages and opening new tabs.

To enter full screen mode simply tap & swipe the address bar upwards and do the opposite to bring it back.

Another feature I thought was a nice touch is that Grazing shows the sites favicon in the address bar.

Its obvious a great amount of thought has been put into the main features as well as the small details and it shows.

The bad? At the moment Grazing doesn’t offer the most fluid of interactions. Currently some gestures and actions look and feel/look sluggish and clunky. I sincerely hope these can be addressed in a future version as I could this app becoming my default browser.

At its introduction price it really is a no brainer we’re confident you will love it’s features and innovative use of tab switching, gestures, search and more.