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New app using SearXNG with Material You (f-droid.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by TheJnx@piefed.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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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.

  • ๐ŸŒ™ Material You theming
  • ๐Ÿ” System search integration (search bar widget, popup text action)
  • ๐ŸŒ Choose from public SearXNG instances or add your own
  • ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Privacy-focused (no unnecessary data collection!)
  • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Supports Android 5+

Source: https://codeberg.org/Linerly/searxist

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[โ€“] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] TheJnx@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are some that work perfectly

[โ€“] Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Care to share?

[โ€“] TheJnx@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Since it is a public instance a lot of people searching make its harder to not get blocked by Google.. I prefer to selfhost mine and me the only one using it.