United StatesGet Ecosia’s browser to start planting trees with your searches. Like other search engines, we make money through ads, but we use 100% of our profits for the planet. The Ecosia community has already planted 150 million trees in over 35 countries. With one download you can help tackle climate change while also protecting your privacy. Download the Ecosia app today to plant trees as you search — it’s completely free! Ad blocker and fast browsing — The Ecosia app is based on Mozilla’s Firefox and gives you an intuitive, fast and secure browsing experience with everything you need, including tabs, incognito mode, bookmarks, downloads, and dark mode. We also show a green leaf beside your results that are pro-environment, helping you make greener choices whilst you search. Plant trees with your searches and be climate active every day — The Ecosia community is tackling climate change, protecting wildlife, and collaborating with local communities around the world, planting the right trees in the right places. Protect your privacy — We don’t create a profile of you or track your location, we never sell your data to advertisers, and your searches are always SSL-encrypted. We want trees, not your data. Carbon negative browser — Not only do the trees we plant absorb CO2, we also have our own solar plants. They don't just produce enough renewable energy to power all your searches, but twice as much! This means more renewables (and fewer fossil fuels) in the electricity grid. Radical transparency — Our monthly financial reports disclose all of our projects so you can see exactly what our profits are going towards. We’re a not-for-profit tech company that dedicates 100% of its profits to climate action. Get Ecosia today and be climate active every day
So glad this exists
Ecosia is a wonderful search engine and something easy you can do to help the planet.
United StatesTruly doing no evil
As a browser and search engine this is one of the best I know of. You have all the same functionality you would with the major browsers being built off of Mozilla; none of the junk that's made those extremely unpleasant to use, and most of all your browsing creates a positive impact. An AI chat option that isn't defaulted in your searches, tucked away in a tab if you never want to use it, built off of OpenAI if you want a summation of a certain topic. Privacy options are pretty good, maybe not as robust as other options in the app store but for sure better than others. You always have the option to accept, reject, or manage the cookies you want or need for a website you visit along with prevent pop-ups and trackers in the app's settings and settings for the app within phone settings respectively. While there are still an ad section at the top of search results they don't take up all you see without scrolling down; it's a single section that is labeled as such rather than some results even past labeling being ad/sponsored content; Ecosia is ad-supported not an advertising company providing scant actual results. Which leads to the best part: you get quality and give the environment more trees with every 50 browses. Those extra trees like our carbon and are a factor in mitigating climate change, I take pride in being able to browse and search the way I want and contribute in a small way that collective makes a giant difference in the world for the better. Ecosia not only strives to achieve carbon-neutrality, they achieve it and continue to exceed where other's with similar missions and more resources simply don't. This is by all of the metrics that matter Ecosia is the best option for mobile browsing and searching I know and it's the only option I use and recommend those looking to leave ads behind and create more leaves for us and future generations to marvel at, learn about maybe even using this browser, and enjoy the shade of with or without a phone in hand.
United StatesPlant trees!
This is a great browser/search engine and it helps the environment. It’s a no-brainer!
United StatesEcosia is like butter!
Using it does not distract me every time I use it like Google did. There’re no “taylor made” and interesting articles that pop up to distract me every time I want to look something up. Ecosia does not add stress or anxiety to my life. Using is keeps me calm, thank you! I get distracted and forget what I want to look up with Google. That’s frustrating for me, someone with ADD, whose thoughts easily fall out of my head anyway. ECOSIA KEEPS ME CLEAR HEADED, CALM, and satisfied with search results. I’ve been using it for a week and find it super dooper easy to navigate, share and pin. THANK YOU, brilliant, thoughtful and caring creators! I can’t believe it does not cost a penny, either.
United StatesVery slow typing
What’s the deal with Ecosia wanting to do a search every time I type a letter, so the Search box gets way behind what I’m typing? Edge does not do this. I don’t think Ecosia was always like this, but it has been for awhile. I like the Ecosia widget, but I’ll be looking for an alternative to Ecosia today. UPDATE: It seems it is only the widget that has this problem. I like the widget. Fix the widget please.
United StatesSave the planet and use this search engine
Just as good as google and just as free, this search engine is a B-corp non-profit that uses its profit to plant trees and is carbon negative. No reason not to switch! See carbonalmanac.org for more changes you can make right now.
United StatesOverall great, just one issue as of recent
The keyboard has been very slow recently & I hope it will be fixed soon. However, I have not had this issue before, and I love everything else about the app and company. I feel safe while using Ecosia, as well as good about it!
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We fixed some bugs and added some stability improvements.
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