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The pendant to “desktop search” – i.e. to quickly find installed apps and stored content. Or for stuff online…

Search Apps

2025-11-19

Andro Search (Files Contacts) (4.4@2,810) Ǥ 9 5 LastUpdate: 2017-05-04
Search Everything (3.9@2,283) 3 1 LastUpdate: 2016-03-19
DocSearch (Search Filename & File Content) (3.8@279) Ǥ 8 2 LastUpdate: 2021-07-28 / DocSearch+ Search File Content (4.3@721) Ǥ 13 2 full text file searcher
Quick Search (2.1@11,866) Ǥ 18 27
RecollDroid (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ GitLab; Android front end to the Recoll full text search engine typically used to index all of your desktop/server files
Search to browser (0@0) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2021-10-09 Github; forwards search intents to your default browser
AppSearcher (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2024-01-13 Github

Web Search

2025-11-19

DuckDuckGo Private Browser (4.7@2,366,379) 23 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Vorstellung 1/2018 | 4/2018; Kurzvorstellung 5/2015; Intro 10/2018 | 3/2019; Datenschutz-Test 9/2019 | 6/2021; How-to 4/2022; incl. tracking protection, site rating & TOSDR
search.ch (4.7@15,884) Ǥ 18 2
Quick Search Widget (with ads) (4.7@11,715) Ǥ 5 4
Select Text to Search (4.6@46) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; add a "Web search" action to the text selection toolbar
StartPage Private Search (4.6@11) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-06-28 Vorstellung 4/2018; Datenschutz-Test 9/2019 private web search
Setter - A multi-purpose search app for Android (4.6@8) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; meta-search, reverse image search and translator tool
Just Search (4.5@69) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-10-12 Github
Smart Search & Web Browser (4.3@102,497) Ǥ 21 2
Presearch Privacy Browser (4.3@4,491) Ǥ 28 2 Github
Simple Search (4.3@168) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Vorstellung & Howto 9/2019
eTools Private Search (4.1@457) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2024-03-20 private search
Qwant – Search engine (4@18,233) 15 1 Vorstellung 3/2017 | 9/2019
Onion Search Engine (3.9@3,049) Ǥ 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
MetaGer Search (3.9@299) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / MetaGer Search (0@0) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Datenschutz-Test 9/2019
Custom Search Bar Widget CSBW (3.7@3,489) Ǥ 8 2
Quick Search (3.7@232) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-09-26
Multi Search Engines Search It (3.6@597) 7 2 LastUpdate: 2024-01-04
Mojeek (3.3@601) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2024-01-14
Gugal (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ GitLab; Gogle + searx/SearXNG
Search searx (0@0) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-12-24 search widget for Searx

Image Search

2025-11-29

Google Lens (4.8@2,743,091) Ǥ 9 1 successor of Google Goggles that is based on Google Assistant, see Wikipedia: Google Lens
ImgFinder-Image Search (4.5@369) 9 1 LastUpdate: 2017-03-18
SauceNAO (4.4@119) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; reverse image search
Reverse Image Search - Multi (4.2@21,166) Ǥ 7 3
search by image on web (4.2@147) 9 2 LastUpdate: 2021-12-16
Image Search - PictPicks (4.1@21,678) Ǥ 7 1
Photo Sherlock Search by photo (4@54,642) Ǥ 6 3
ImageSearchMan - Image Search (3.9@153,007) Ǥ 13 6
Search By Image (3.7@59,405) Ǥ 9 3
Image Search (3.7@21,164) Ǥ 8 4
DroidIris (3.6@8,116) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-08-28
image search for google (3.2@7,884) Ǥ 9 6 LastUpdate: 2020-01-10
CamFind (2.7@18,200) Ǥ 14 6 LastUpdate: 2023-09-06 reverse image search
Image search (2.5@82,514) Ǥ 6 2 LastUpdate: 2019-03-18
Image Hunter - Search By Image (2.5@255) Ǥ 9 7 LastUpdate: 2017-12-16
TIDY Text-to-Image Discovery (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2023-10-20 Github; Offline semantic Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image search

Further Readings:

The 10 Best Reverse Image Search Apps (3/2020 - 10/2023)
Android-Apps ersetzen: Suche (2/2020 - 12/2021)
Hintergrund: Was Suchmaschinen über uns verraten (9/2019)

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