[画像:searxist]

(pronounced: searchist)

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Overview of searxist on iMac, iPad, and iPhone

A simple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS app to wrap SearXNG.

Features

• 🫧 Liquid Glass theming (iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26+)
• 🌐 Choose from public SearXNG instances or add your own
• 🛡️ Privacy-focused (no unnecessary data collection)
• 📱 Supports iOS/iPadOS 18+
  • Mac Catalyst is used for the macOS app, for now

Why would I want to use this?

Unlike other search apps, this app uses SearXNG, which is a free and open-source metasearch engine.

When you use SearXNG, your search queries get proxied before passing them to various search engines. Not only will you get various results, but it also preserves privacy since the searches aren’t directly linked to you.

The app provides a list of public instances from searx.space for you to use. If you have an instance (either that you host yourself or hosted by someone else), you can add it as well.

If you do use your own instance, make sure other people are also using it to blend in. If the instance is used by only one person, search engines can still link the searches back to you.

The app does not collect any information; it only passes search queries to the SearXNG instance that you use.

Install

For iOS and iPadOS, since this app is not on the App Store yet, you will need to install the app through other means (also known as "sideloading"). You can use AltStore or SideStore ¹ to install the IPA file from the Releases page onto your iPhone or iPad.

For macOS, you can download the DMG file from the Releases page. Once downloaded, open the DMG file, then drag searxist to the Applications folder. Since this app is not notarized yet, you will need to do one of these methods to open the app:

Method 1: Terminal

Run this command in the Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/searxist.app

...to mark the app as safe; otherwise, macOS will block the app from running.

Method 2: System Settings

Another way is to use the System Settings:

1. Open the app first; you’ll see a security warning as expected:

"searxist" Not Opened

Apple could not verify "searxist" is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.

2. Click Done to dismiss the warning.
3. Open System Settings, then Privacy & Security in the left panel.
4. In the right panel, scroll all the way to the bottom and click Open Anyway next to the app warning ("searxist" was blocked to protect your Mac.), then confirm by clicking Open Anyway again and enter your user account password.

Contribute

Reporting Issues

As I only have a Mac² to develop this app, my own app testing is limited to being on macOS and using the Simulator. Please create a new issue in the repository and describe it in detail if you encounter any problems on your device!

Donate

If you’d like to support the development of searxist and having it available on the App Store, consider contributing financially via Ko-fi, Liberapay, or PayPal. Thank you!

Donate using Liberapay

Translations

Translating searxist

Help translate the app into more languages! You can contribute translations on Codeberg Translate. Translation status

If there are no new features added, the app will be released manually every two weeks (or so) after the latest release to include translations.

Translating SearXNG

In most cases, SearXNG itself already has translations for many languages; you can still contribute translations to SearXNG on Codeberg Translate! Translation status

Code

If you’re wondering where the files are, they’re in the searxist directory. Inside that directory, the code for the screens are in the Screens directory. And other things like models and utility are in the Models and Utility directory respectively.

The app UI uses SwiftUI.

License

searxist is licensed under the GNU GPL 3.0 or later—see the LICENSE file for more information.