There are many Internet and off-line browsers today, but AtomNet has some special characteristics that make it different: Smallness. Zip support: AtomNet browses HTML pages and images and plays WAV files, compressed into zip files,. Full text search into zip files. AtomNet Favorites can point to HTML, Zip and Image local files, as to online files. No installation is required to run Atomnet. Only one file (atomnet.exe) is demanded. It demands few system resources.

Support frames, jpeg, bmp and animated gif images.
Althought AtomNet can browse the Web, their main use is off-line and Intranet browsing and document distribution in zipped format.

AtomNet is useful also to access to digital books collections, either in HTML or ASCII format.