Open Source Apps with 'Search Engine' feature

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  1. SearXNG icon
     146 likes

    Metasearch engine aggregating results from 251 services with strong privacy, script and cookie flexibility, Tor support, and user-controlled search preferences.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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    +1
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    103 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good15 reviews
  2. FSearch icon
     84 likes

    FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    FSearch screenshot 1
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    +1
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    87 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent13 reviews
  3. Scira icon
     26 likes

    Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet. Powered by Vercel AI SDK! Search with models like Grok 2.0.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    Updated screenshot, from GitHub repository.
    Mode selection, with the "Buddy" option hovered over.
From: https://x.com/zaidmukaddam/status/1897352497372463150
    Response to the prompt "tell me about typescript interfaces" being generated in Web mode.
From: https://x.com/zaidmukaddam/status/1897352497372463150
    +4
    Hovering over a completed task in Extreme mode (Deep Research).
From: https://x.com/zaidmukaddam/status/1897822424009244800
    13 alternatives
  4. YaCy icon
     148 likes

    YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    YaCy screenshot 1
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    +6
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    90 alternatives
  5. MetaGer icon
     59 likes

    Open source metasearch engine with no tracking, combining results from multiple search engines, offering private, non-censored searches, and operated by a nonprofit.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
    Homepage. With dark mode.
    Setting for web. With dark mode.
    MetaGer screenshot 2
    +3
    MetaGer screenshot 3
    88 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good12 reviews
  6. Morphic icon
     18 likes

    Morphic it's a fully open-source AI-powered answer engine with a generative UI. Built with Vercel AI SDK, it delivers awesome streaming results.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    Morphic screenshot 1
    Morphic screenshot 1
    Morphic screenshot 2
    +1
    Morphic screenshot 3
    25 alternatives
  7. Whoogle Search icon
     36 likes

    Self-hosted meta-search yielding Google results without ads, JavaScript, tracking, cookies, AMP links, or referrer data, offered with easy one-click Docker deployment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    90 alternatives
  8. 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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
    Search settings retrieved from main instance.
    Instance list retrieved from main instance.
    Homepage of main instance.
    63 alternatives
    3.2
    Fair12 reviews
  9. Open source search engine crawling the web’s independent, non-commercial content, prioritizing small sites, supports white-label setups and low-cost operation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Marginalia Search screenshot 1
    Marginalia Search screenshot 1
    Marginalia Search screenshot 2
    47 alternatives
  10. Mwmbl Search icon
     15 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Main Page
    Search Result For "Mastodon"
    71 alternatives
  11. Meilisearch icon
     40 likes

    Meilisearch helps you shape a delightful search experience in a snap, offering features that work out-of-the-box to speed up your workflow.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Meilisearch screenshot 1
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    +4
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    25 alternatives
  12. Wiby icon
     12 likes

    In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Wiby screenshot 1
    61 alternatives
  13. Censys icon
     24 likes

    Censys is a search engine that allows computer scientists to ask questions about the devices and networks that compose the internet.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Censys screenshot 1
    Censys screenshot 1
    24 alternatives
  14. Learn Anything is the platform for knowledge discovery that helps you understand any topic through the most efficient paths, as voted by the community. Each topic has a mind map with nodes to other subtopics, external links and resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    Home Page
    Searching for "Web Development"
    Searching for "Guitar"
    +2
    Searching for "Linux"
    3 alternatives
  15. TIDY icon
     7 likes

    Offline semantic Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image search on your Android phone! Powered by quantized state-of-the-art large-scale vision-language pretrained CLIP model and ONNX Runtime inference engine.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    5 alternatives
  16. ArcadeDB icon
     3 likes

    One DBMS that supports SQL, Cypher, Gremlin, HTTP/JSON, MongoDB and Redis. ArcadeDB is a conceptual fork of OrientDB, the first Multi-Model DBMS. ArcadeDB supports Vector Embeddings.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Java
    Graph
    Login
    Query
    +3
    Schema
    12 alternatives