Brave Search Alternatives

Brave Search is described as 'Is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks' and is a very popular web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Brave Search for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, iPad and Google Chrome apps. The best Brave Search alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great apps like Brave Search are Startpage, SearXNG, Google Search and Searx.

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Brave Search alternatives are mainly Web Search Engines, but if you're looking for Image Search Engines or Privacy Tools you can filter on that. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Brave Search.
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  1. MetaGer icon
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    MetaGer is an open source metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24...

    88 MetaGer alternatives

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
  2. YOU.com icon
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    Discover You.com — your platform to access all the leading AI models in one place, tailored to your preferences. Here’s why you’ll love it:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. 4get icon
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    This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or whatever the...

    64 4get alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Tor
     
  4. Whoogle Search icon
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    Get Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Yandex.Search icon
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    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.

    98 Yandex.Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • iPad
     
  6. Arc Search icon
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    Arc Search is a modern, AI-powered mobile browser. Features include a quick keyboard pop-up for searches, ad and tracker blocking, webpage summaries with the Browse for Me feature, auto-archive for inactive tabs, and a distraction-free Reader mode.

    64 Arc Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  7. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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    Waterfox Private Search is a meta-search engine whose goal is to eventually serve as the default search option for Waterfox, reducing our dependency on Microsoft and other intermediaries who typically serve as gatekeepers between you and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. Mwmbl Search icon
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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