If you're having issues with the app not working whatsoever, install the Apple TestFlight app. There is a dev preview of an upcoming update that fixes the problem. The link can be found from Kagi's changelog on their site (you might see a notification bell on the search page). To quote the log: "Kagi Search for Safari update If you are using Safari with iOS developer beta (17.5), Kagi Search for Safariextension may have stopped working due to a bug introduced in this iOS release last week. We have released a TestFlight version of the new version that should work. We are planning to release it to app store as soon as we get positive verification from users. It may help long term if you took a second and sent feedback to Apple to consider including Kagi as a search engine choice in Safari. Thank you 🙏"

Kagi is a great search engine, just try it and you'll see that it meets or beats Google in every search. It's so good at finding results that it has created a new problem of sometimes spoiling the plots to TV shows for me. Imagine how it'll work for that programming topic you're researching? Don't imagine, I'll tell you! I'm an iOS developer by trade and Swift changes constantly -- Kagi manages to show me properly relevant results instead of years-old posts that bump their publishing date to stay on top of SEO rankings. Kagi sometimes magically shows me sub-results by by language version, too! I have no idea how it works so well, it feels impossible.That said, Kagi (the search engine) is great, but I want to focus on talking about the quality of Kagi (the company) instead.I sent an email to Kagi with feedback around an issue. They engaged in a conversation with me about it in only a few hours and within days they had updated their App Store description to reflect limitations with Safari and provide more transparency to their users.I had first-hand proof within minutes of being a Kagi customer as to their commitment to transparency, which is a core reason I wanted to use Kagi in the first place.It can only get better from here!

Give Kagi a whirl. I am very pleased to pay a nominal fee for my family to have access to safer search made for humans to use (not to use humans). Thoughtful use of AI. Ad free. Tracker free. It is much more peaceful in terms of the noise when searching the web.The extension is a difficult implementation to get your searches routed in Safari. Take a moment to ask Apple to add Kagi as a default search option in Safari. Also take a look at Orion Browser on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS-it’s a neat browser-fast-like a beefed up Safari.

This is not a review of the Kagi search engine, this is about the Kagi extension for Safari... Version 2.0 which came out Dec 27 or so, finally fixed my biggest concern with the Kagi extension - they swapped the framework they use so that now you can have Kagi installed and it doesn't need to have access to every website you visit, AND it still can allow the ability to use other search engines when you actually want to. Very much improved, and thank you Kagi team!