Search

The pendant to “desktop search” – i.e. to quickly find installed apps and stored content.

Search Apps

2021-03-27

Swift Search (4.4@23) 11 3 LastUpdate: 2018-09-18
FTWFT - Find the word for you (4.4@7) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-12-01 Github; search in printed text via camera
Fast Finder (4.3@2,023) Ǥ 11 1 LastUpdate: 2018-04-17 apps, contacts & more
Andro Search (Files Contacts) (4.2@2,738) Ǥ 11 5 LastUpdate: 2017-05-04
Quick Search (4.2@79) 6 1 LastUpdate: 2017-07-08
Quick Search (4.2@51) 7 5 LastUpdate: 2016-05-15
Quick Search (4@11,973) Ǥ 14 8
Search Everything (3.9@2,133) 4 1 LastUpdate: 2016-03-19
DocSearch (Search Filename & File Content) (3.8@267) Ǥ 9 2 / DocSearch+ (Search Filename & File Content) (4.4@100) Ǥ 11 3 full text file searcher
Search Everything Lite (3.8@92) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-12-16 / Everything - Smart Search (3.8@89) 5 1 LastUpdate: 2016-07-06

Web Search

2021-03-27

DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser (4.8@1,062,360) 12 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Vorstellung 1/2018 | 4/2018; Kurzvorstellung 5/2015; Intro 10/2018 | 3/2019; Datenschutz-Test 9/2019 incl. tracking protection, site rating & TOSDR
Smart Search & Web Browser – light & fast engine (4.7@77,249) Ǥ 19 4
Select Text to Search (4.7@26) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; add a "Web search" action to the text selection toolbar
Ixquick Private Search (4.6@4,588) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-11-17 private search
TSearch.in (4.6@164) 8 6 LastUpdate: 2016-02-20 „privacy oriented“ web search
Phone book, caller ID, weather, timetables, etc. (4.5@13,863) Ǥ 20 2
Easy Searcher (4.5@48) Ǥ 4 4 LastUpdate: 2016-09-12
Startpage Private Search (4.3@16,188) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-06-28 Kurzvorstellung 5/2015; Vorstellung 4/2018; Datenschutz-Test 9/2019 private web search
Quick Search Widget 🔍 (free) (4.3@11,243) Ǥ 5 6 / Quick Search Widget 🔍 (4.8@455; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 4 2
MetaGer Search (4.3@165) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / MetaGer Search (0@0) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / MetaGer Suche (0@0) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Datenschutz-Test 9/2019
Multi Search (4.3@112) Ǥ 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-07-30
Just Search (4.3@65) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-10-12 Github
eTools Private Search (4.2@327) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ private search
Search Engine Search It : Multiple Search Engines (4.1@326) 6 2
Simple Search (4.1@135) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Vorstellung & Howto 9/2019
Swisscows Search (4.1@118) Ǥ 10 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-03-27 Vorstellung 4/2018 | 9/2019
Search Engines | All in One (4.1@94) 3 2 LastUpdate: 2016-09-01
Multi Search Pro (4.1@75) 2 2 LastUpdate: 2017-11-19
Multi Search - Alpha (4.1@8; ~EUR 1.50) 3 1 LastUpdate: 2016-06-13
Custom Search Bar Widget CSBW (3.9@2,758) Ǥ 9 3
Onion Search Engine (3.8@2,509) Ǥ 5 4
Quick Search (3.8@231) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-09-26
Qwant - Privacy & Ethics (3.6@11,148) 14 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Vorstellung 3/2017 | 4/2018
searxer (0@0) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-07-03 Github; search the web using Searx API
Search searx (0@0) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ search widget for Searx
Setter (0@0) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; meta-search, reverse image search and translator tool
Custom Search (0@0) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-09-06 Github

Image Search

2021-04-06

Img Sauce (4.7@89) 1 2 LastUpdate: 2018-06-20
Image Search - PictPicks (4.6@12,799) Ǥ 8 4
Google Lens (4.5@948,704) Ǥ 11 2 successor of Google Goggles that is based on Google Assistant, see Wikipedia: Google Lens
Image Search - ImageSearchMan (4.5@77,987) Ǥ 12 6
Image Search (4.4@18,560) Ǥ 7 9
Search By Image (4.3@41,784) Ǥ 9 4
search by image on web (reverse image search) (4.3@83) 9 1
Photo Sherlock - Reverse Image Search (4.2@32,013) Ǥ 9 4
Reverse Image Search (Multi-Engines) (4.2@9,949) Ǥ 7 4 / Reverse Image Search : search by image (4@2,596) Ǥ 8 3
PicFinder - Image Search (4.1@63,671) Ǥ 7 4
Search Image (4@3,026) 3 5 LastUpdate: 2017-12-16
JS Image Finder (3.8@1,461) 4 4 LastUpdate: 2016-06-04
Image Search App (3.8@53) 9 9
Image Search Tool (3.8@20) 5 1 LastUpdate: 2016-02-11
image search for google (3.7@7,480) Ǥ 9 6
Search by image (3.7@4,268) Ǥ 8 17 LastUpdate: 2017-11-12
Search By An Image (3.7@504) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-06-13
DroidIris (3.6@8,116) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-08-28
ImgFinder-Image Search (3.6@368) 10 1 LastUpdate: 2017-03-18
Image Search (3.3@83,111) Ǥ 9 2 LastUpdate: 2019-03-18
Super Image Search (3.1@16,278) 5 3 LastUpdate: 2016-04-07
CamFind (2.9@18,099) Ǥ 18 7 LastUpdate: 2019-07-31 reverse image search
Image Hunter - Search By Image (2.5@240) Ǥ 10 7 LastUpdate: 2017-12-16
SauceNAO (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; reverse image search

Further Readings:

The 10 Best Reverse Image Search Apps (3/2020)
Android-Apps ersetzen: Suche (2/2020)
Hintergrund: Was Suchmaschinen über uns verraten (9/2019)
Suchen ohne Zuschauer: DuckDuckGo, Qwant, StartPage und Swisscows (4/2018)

2021-04-06

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