Search

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

Search Apps

2026-05-10

Pixel Search: Universal Search (4.5@4,001) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Review 1/2026
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@761) Ǥ 14 2 full text file searcher
Quick Search (2.1@11,584) Ǥ 19 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

2026-05-10

DuckDuckGo Browser, Search, AI (4.7@2,414,075) 22 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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@15,963) 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2024-07-30 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 (4.3@4,514) Ǥ 29 2 Github
Simple Search (4.3@176) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Vorstellung & Howto 9/2019
Smart Search & Web Browser (4.2@103,025) Ǥ 21 2
Qwant – Search engine (4.1@19,158) 15 1 Vorstellung 3/2017 | 9/2019
Onion Search Engine (3.9@3,069) Ǥ 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
eTools Private Search (3.9@462) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2024-03-20 private search
MetaGer Search (3.9@305) 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@3,503) Ǥ 8 2
Multi Search Engines Search It (3.6@597) 7 2 LastUpdate: 2024-01-04
Mojeek (3.5@740) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
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
searxist (0@0) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Codeberg; Search with SearXNG natively on Android

Image Search

2026-05-10

Google Lens (4.7@2,836,036) Ǥ 9 2 successor of Google Goggles that is based on Google Assistant, see Wikipedia: Google Lens
SauceNAO (4.4@119) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; reverse image search
search by image on web (4.2@147) 9 2 LastUpdate: 2021-12-16
ImageSearchMan - Image Search (4@159,493) Ǥ 13 6
Photo Sherlock Search by photo (4@54,960) Ǥ 6 3
Image Search - PictPicks (4@22,058) Ǥ 7 1
Reverse Image Search - Multi (4@21,416) Ǥ 7 3
Search By Image (3.7@59,586) Ǥ 9 3
Image Search (3.6@21,182) 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@7,855) Ǥ 9 6 LastUpdate: 2022-10-04
Image search (2.5@82,514) Ǥ 6 2 LastUpdate: 2019-03-18
CamFind (2.4@18,143) Ǥ 14 6 LastUpdate: 2023-09-06 reverse image search
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)

2026-05-11

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