Open Source Searx AlternativesTop Web Search & Image Search Engines like Searx

The best open source alternative to Searx is SearXNG. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Searx and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Searx are YaCy, MetaGer, Openverse and Whoogle Search.

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  1. SearXNG icon
     146 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
  4. Openverse icon
     72 likes

    Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. 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)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    47 Marginalia Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. searxist icon
     8 likes

    A simple Android app to wrap SearXNG with Material You colors, plus some system integrations.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Sherlock icon
     18 likes

    Command line tool that checks usernames across hundreds of social media platforms, outputs results as text, CSV, or JSON, is cross-platform and open source, lightweight, privacy-respecting, supports bulk searches, aids security audits, and digital investigations.

    28 Sherlock alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. LibreX icon
     9 likes

    LibreX gives you results from Google, Qwant, Ahmia and popular torrent sites without spying on you.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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