Qwant Alternatives for Linux

Qwant is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is SearXNG, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Qwant and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Qwant are YaCy, Whoogle Search, TrackMeNot and SearchLock.

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Qwant alternatives are mainly Web Search Engines, but if you're looking for Ad Blockers or Image Search Engines 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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    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.

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  1. SearXNG icon
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    Metasearch engine aggregating results from up to 251 services, offering strong privacy, no tracking, encrypted connections, Tor access, script and cookie flexibility, customizable engines, support for 58 languages, and user-selectable light or dark themes.

    103 SearXNG alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     
  2. 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...

    90 YaCy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. TrackMeNot icon
     20 likes

    TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy:...

    17 TrackMeNot alternatives

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  5. SearchLock icon
     8 likes

    SearchLock is a privacy-friendly search engine that prevents the tracking of your personal searches by the big search engine companies and others.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Firefox
     
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