Qwant Alternatives

Qwant is described as 'Privacy-first European search engine offering multi-platform web and image search, no tracking, no personalized results, and supports 13 languages' and is a very popular web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Qwant for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, Mozilla Firefox, iPhone and Google Chrome apps. The best Qwant alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great apps like Qwant are Startpage, SearXNG, Google Search and Brave Search.

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Qwant alternatives are mainly Web Search Engines, but if you're looking for Image Search Engines or Privacy Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Qwant.
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  1. MetaGer icon
     59 likes

    Open source metasearch engine blending results from several sources, offering private, uncensored web search, transparent algorithms, no user tracking, and nonprofit operation, with public code, energy-efficient hosting, and an optional dark theme interface.

    87 MetaGer alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
  2. Yandex.Search icon
     116 likes

    Yandex is the fastest growing search engine in the world, serving primarily Russian users. It has been experimenting with an English-based search engine, but its main operations are for its Cyrillic engine.

    96 Yandex.Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • iPad
     
  3. Uruky icon
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     11 likes

    Private, ad-free meta-search engine with no tracking, no query logging, and no personal data collection. Supports both web and image search, allows domain/TLD personalization, is fully EU-based, offers a monthly pay-as-you-use model, and includes night mode for users.

    27 Uruky alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Whoogle Search icon
     36 likes

    Ad-free, privacy-focused meta-search providing Google results without tracking, JavaScript, cookies, or AMP links, supporting proxies and autocomplete. Customizable, Docker-deployable, mobile-ready, with theme options and additional privacy features.

    90 Whoogle Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 4get icon
     24 likes

    This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft/globohomo bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or...

    63 4get alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
     
  6. Open source search solution crawling the web to prioritize small and non-commercial sites, supporting unique discovery of personal content, white-label deployment, cost-effective hardware, side-loaded indexing, and ongoing improvements for configurability.

    48 Marginalia Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. Swisscows icon
     24 likes

    Privacy-first search engine providing web and image searches with no data tracking, no profiling, servers in Switzerland for privacy, encrypted connections, and automatic filtering of offensive or adult content to ensure a family-friendly experience.

    80 Swisscows alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  8. searxist icon
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    A simple Android app to wrap SearXNG with Material You colors, plus some system integrations.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. Meta-search engine acting as a privacy-preserving proxy without persistent user tracking or targeted ads, providing domain blocklists, advanced operators, switchable future backends, custom themes, link controls, and a clean interface for private results.

    53 Waterfox Private Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Mwmbl Search icon
     16 likes

    Mwmbl is a non-profit, ad-free, free-libre and free-lunch search engine with a focus on useability and speed. At the moment it is little more than an idea together with a proof of concept implementation of the web front-end and search technology on a small index.

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    • Online
     
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