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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

2024-09-02

Quick Search (5@56) 7 5 LastUpdate: 2016-05-15
Swift Search (4.5@27) 10 3 LastUpdate: 2018-09-18
Andro Search (Files Contacts) (4.4@2,810) Ǥ 9 5 LastUpdate: 2017-05-04
FTWFT - Find the word for you (4.1@9) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-12-01 Github; search in printed text via camera
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 (4.5@605) Ǥ 13 2 full text file searcher
Quick Search (2.7@12,020) Ǥ 18 6
Search Everything Lite (2@107) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-12-16 / Everything - Smart Search (1@92) 5 1 LastUpdate: 2016-07-06
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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github

Web Search

2024-09-02

DuckDuckGo Private Browser (4.7@2,164,887) 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@15,562) Ǥ 19 2
Quick Search Widget (with ads) (4.7@11,689) Ǥ 5 4 / Quick Search Widget (4.8@548; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 4 1
Smart Search & Web Browser (4.6@99,671) Ǥ 21 2
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) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-06-28 Vorstellung 4/2018; Datenschutz-Test 9/2019 private web search
Setter (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
Presearch Privacy Browser (4.2@4,385) Ǥ 27 2 Github
MetaGer Search (4.2@279) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / MetaGer Search (0@0) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Datenschutz-Test 9/2019
Simple Search (4.2@147) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Vorstellung & Howto 9/2019
eTools Private Search (4.1@439) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ private search
Multi Search Pro (4.1@79) 2 2 LastUpdate: 2017-11-19
Qwant – Search engine (3.9@16,484) 14 1 Vorstellung 3/2017 | 9/2019
Onion Search Engine (3.9@3,117) Ǥ 5 3 LastUpdate: 2022-05-02
Mojeek (3.8@312) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Quick Search (3.7@232) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-09-26
Custom Search Bar Widget CSBW (3.6@3,350) Ǥ 8 2
Multi Search Engines Search It (3.6@575) 7 2
Gugal (0@0) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ GitLab; Gogle + searx/SearXNG
Search searx (0@0) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-12-24 search widget for Searx
Custom Search (0@0) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-09-06 Github

Image Search

2024-09-05

Google Lens (4.7@2,366,562) 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; reverse image search
Image Search - PictPicks (4.3@20,310) Ǥ 7 1
search by image on web (4.2@144) 10 2 LastUpdate: 2021-12-16
Image Search (4@20,747) 8 9
Reverse Image Search - Multi (4@19,033) Ǥ 7 3
Photo Sherlock Search by photo (3.9@53,155) Ǥ 6 3
Search By Image (3.8@57,993) Ǥ 8 3
ImageSearchMan - Image Search (3.7@131,567) Ǥ 12 7
DroidIris (3.6@8,116) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-08-28
image search for google (3.2@7,909) Ǥ 9 6 LastUpdate: 2020-01-10
CamFind (3@18,234) Ǥ 14 6 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 10 7 LastUpdate: 2017-12-16
TIDY Text-to-Image Discovery (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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)

2024-09-05

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