Search
The pendant to “desktop search” – i.e. to quickly find installed apps and stored content. Or for stuff online…
Search Apps
2025-07-06
- 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@686) Ǥ 13
2
full text file searcher
- Quick Search (2.4@12,034) Ǥ 17
27
- Search Everything Lite (2@107) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-12-16 / Everything - Smart Search (1@92) 5
1
LastUpdate: 2016-07-06
- RecollDroid (0@0) 3
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
LastUpdate: 2021-10-09 Github; forwards search intents to your default browser
- AppSearcher (0@0) 3
Github
Web Search
2025-07-06
- DuckDuckGo Private Browser (4.7@2,304,279) Ǥ 24
1
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@15,809) Ǥ 18
2
- Quick Search Widget (with ads) (4.7@11,715) Ǥ 5
4
/ Quick Search Widget (4.8@554; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 4 1
- Select Text to Search (4.6@46) 0
Github; add a "Web search" action to the text selection toolbar
- Startpage Private Search (4.6@11) 5
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
Github; meta-search, reverse image search and translator tool
- Just Search (4.5@69) 0
LastUpdate: 2018-10-12 Github
- Smart Search & Web Browser (4.3@102,071) Ǥ 21
2
- Presearch Privacy Browser (4.2@4,447) Ǥ 27
2 Github
- Simple Search (4.2@160) 2
Github; Vorstellung & Howto 9/2019
- eTools Private Search (4.1@456) 2
private search
- MetaGer Search (4.1@293) 5
/ MetaGer Search (0@0) 5
Datenschutz-Test 9/2019
- Qwant – Search engine (3.9@17,489) 14
1 Vorstellung 3/2017 | 9/2019
- Onion Search Engine (3.9@3,038) Ǥ 2
- Quick Search (3.7@232) 4
LastUpdate: 2014-09-26
- Custom Search Bar Widget CSBW (3.6@3,445) Ǥ 8
2
LastUpdate: 2023-08-21
- Multi Search Engines Search It (3.6@594) 7
2
- Mojeek (3.4@487) 1
- Gugal (0@0) 2
GitLab; Gogle + searx/SearXNG
- Search searx (0@0) 1
LastUpdate: 2020-12-24 search widget for Searx
Image Search
2025-07-08
- Google Lens (4.7@2,619,609) Ǥ 8
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
Github; reverse image search
- Image Search - PictPicks (4.2@21,308) Ǥ 7
1
- search by image on web (4.2@147) 10
2
LastUpdate: 2021-12-16
- Reverse Image Search - Multi (4.1@20,551) Ǥ 7
3
LastUpdate: 2023-08-31
- Photo Sherlock Search by photo (4@54,269) Ǥ 6
3
- ImageSearchMan - Image Search (3.8@145,446) Ǥ 14
6
- Image Search (3.8@21,084) Ǥ 8
5
- Search By Image (3.7@59,155) Ǥ 10
3
- DroidIris (3.6@8,116) 4
LastUpdate: 2019-08-28
- image search for google (3.2@7,897) Ǥ 9
6
LastUpdate: 2020-01-10
- CamFind (2.7@18,222) 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
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)
2025-07-08