Search with SearXNG natively on Android.
searxist (pronounce: searchist) is a simple Android app to wrap SearXNG in a WebView with Material You colors, plus some system integrations.
- 🌙 Material You theming
- 🔍 System search integration (search bar widget, popup text action)
- 🌐 Choose from public SearXNG instances or add your own
- 🛡️ Privacy-focused (no unnecessary data collection!)
- 📱 Supports Android 5+
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The app itself is great, but it doesn’t currently allow access to instance settings (like selecting which search engines to use). Additionally, SearXNG has been struggling to return Google results lately, which really limits its usefulness at the moment. For now, I’ve found 4get to be a better alternative.
I truly miss the SearXNG of a few months ago, before Google broke it. It was such a fantastic tool, and I hope it can regain its former glory soon.
Mmm, I really didn’t know 4get, I thought it was another generic search engine like Metagear, I’ll be trying it for a while, I like that you can switch between different search engines, although the design is a bit… Bizarre haha
The design IS bizarre x) But it works :)
In my experience, the puplic searxng instances I use(d) are broken and only spit out gibberish, if anything at all for a few months.
There are some that work perfectly
Care to share?
Thank you!
I hope Lawnchair will add this as a search engine
