At DuckDuckGo, we believe the best way to protect your personal information from hackers, scammers, and privacy-invasive companies is to stop it from being collected at all. That's why millions of people choose DuckDuckGo over Chrome and other browsers to search and browse online. Our built-in search engine is like Google but never tracks your searches. Our browsing protections, such as ad tracker blocking and cookie blocking, help stop other companies from collecting your data. While our optional integrated AI features, Search Assist and Duck.ai, are private and never use your data to train AI. Oh, and our browser is free — we make money from privacy-respecting search ads, not by exploiting your data. Take back control of your personal information with the browser designed for data protection, not data collection.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
Protect Your Searches by Default: DuckDuckGo Search comes built-in, so you can easily search online without being tracked.
Shield Your Browsing History: Our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection blocks most trackers before they load, greatly exceeding what most popular browsers offer by default.
Chat Privately with AI: Duck.ai lets you have private conversations with 3rd-party AI models, anonymized by us and never used to train AI.
Secure Your Email (Optional): Use Email Protection to block most email trackers and hide your existing email address with @duck.com addresses.
Watch YouTube Videos Without Targeted Ads: Duck Player protects you from targeted ads and cookies with a distraction-free interface that incorporates YouTube’s strictest privacy settings for embedded video.
Automatically Enforce Encryption: Shield your data from network and Wi-Fi snoopers by forcing many sites to use an HTTPS connection.
Escape Fingerprinting: Make it harder for companies to create a unique identifier for you by blocking attempts to combine info about your browser and device.
Sync and Back Up Securely (Optional): Sync encrypted bookmarks and passwords across your devices.
Clear your tabs and browsing data in a flash with the Fire Button.
Banish cookie pop-ups and automatically set your preferences to minimize cookies and maximize privacy.
And many more protections not available on most browsers, even in private browsing mode, including protection from link tracking, Global Privacy Control (GPC), and more.
DUCKDUCKGO SUBSCRIPTION
Subscribers get
• Our VPN: Secure your connection on up to 5 devices.
• Access to advanced AI models in Duck.ai: Chat privately with AI models built for complex tasks.
• Personal Information Removal: Find and remove personal info from sites that store and sell it.
• Identity Theft Restoration: If your identity is stolen, we’ll help restore it.
DuckDuckGo Subscription Pricing & Terms
Payment will be charged automatically to your Apple Account until you cancel, which you can do in app settings. You have the option to provide an email address to activate your subscription on other devices, and we will only use that email address to verify your subscription. For terms of service and privacy policy, visit https://duckduckgo.com/pro/privacy-terms
Read more about our free Tracking Protections at https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/web-tracking-protections
Privacy Policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://duckduckgo.com/terms
Note about 3rd-Party Tracker Protection and Search Ads: while there are some limitations following search ad clicks, viewing ads on DuckDuckGo search is anonymous. Learn more here https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/web-tracking-protections
I cannot get over what this web browser has shown me. Every time I use it I have to click on the top left of the search bar to see the list of which left wing based companies were trying to track my movements and searches online. Still amazes me how invasive we’ve let these people and these companies become. Like a bunch of frogs in ever-warming water... how soon before that water becomes boiling? How many more liberties will we allow them to take before we wake up and realize we have a right to our privacy and our freedom? I just wonder how long it will be before someone tries to shut this app down for not giving in to the invasive and manipulative agenda the other web browsers all exhibit. I’m sure monitoring our online presence is just the beginning. I fully expect their “cancel culture” to hit this area next. Media and online manipulation are their weapons of choice at the moment and if we have the opportunity to start to “pull back the curtains” to actually see that manipulation (like this app does so beautifully) we are risking being woken up to the reality that we’ve allowed ourselves to be manipulated up until now. Wake up America! This isn’t about Trump. It’s not about Republicans. This is about your freedom and mine. I took back a little off the freedom of privacy when I downloaded this app. I dare you to do the same. Now how long do you think it will be before some cancel-culture manipulator tries to remove this comment because they don’t agree with it and/or they don’t want y’all to know the truth?
LOVE THIS APP!!! Wish there was an option for screen time limits
xfrogiexx
I love love love this browser, it is safe and simple, and I love it more than the browser I used to use, which was safari 😒 loll. I don’t have much to say to hype it up bc I have a specific reason for this review, and it is to request more options for screen time limits. On an iPhone, screen time limits are automatically put on EVERY website on safari, which is annoying if you need to research for school or look something up. With duckduckgo, it doesn’t do that, which is one reason I switched. BUT, I am young and deal with a phone addiction like other teens usually do, and I wish you could choose specific sites to limit on duckduckgo. This is my idea:In the menu, go to settings and click “screen time limits”, it’ll show you a simple set up menu where you can manually type in the specific websites you would like to limit and how long you have screen time on them. You do not have limits automatically on EVERY website, but only the ones you choose!! Or you can choose to do limits for every website, or make everything automatically have limits and choose what websites to allow. I feel like if that idea was implemented, it could help a lot of teens who need a better relationship with their phones but also need access to the web for school research. I have screen time limits until 12 PM (I requested it bc it helps with productivity), so if I have last minute homework to do that morning, I need to be able to reach a site to get it done and not have to send 12 billion requests for each individual site and annoy my parents and myself. Anyway, PLEASE look into this, I know I’m not the only one wanting a feature like this! Love the app, just not great for those struggling with their screen time :)
Still needs work
StanleyB95
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for around a decade and I think it’s a huge improvement over Google, but the browser and search engine still need work. First of all, DuckDuckGo stores your search history and loads all kinds of third party trackers, despite claiming not to. On multiple occasions I have seen previous searches and results from months ago randomly show up (either as suggestions or full searches) when I open browser. You can see the list of third party trackers that are loaded by clicking on the shield icon, and while I appreciate the transparency, its infuriating to see that they still regularly load trackers from Google ads and others. I feel that this is false advertising—our privacy is not being protected if they’re loading Google trackers, but they claim that it is. Second, the search results are still mixed and not always all that accurate. This has been an issue from the beginning—I always resort to google when I need precision. Finally, why is there no stop button on the browser? If a link is taking forever to load (which it often does), I need to be able to press stop and try a different link. Or if I clicked a link by mistake, I need to be able to stop it from loading and resume what I was doing. Honestly, I can deal with all of the above issues, but the lack of a stop button is a serious problem for me. Every browser needs a stop button; it’s been a bare minimum basic browser feature since the 90s. I really hope DuckDuckGo will consider adding one. Thank you.
開發者回覆
To be clear, DuckDuckGo never collects/stores your search history. This is the first thing in our privacy policy (https://duckduckgo.com/privacy).The DuckDuckGo app may store some history data on your device (and ONLY on your device). This data is only accessible to the user of the app, not to DuckDuckGo. We put the Fire Button front and center to make sure it's easy for people to delete data from their device whenever they want.
Why is Google now performing my searches and not DuckDuckGo?
mistek322
Updated Review as of March 12, 2025Additional rating as of today March 12, 2025Well again this is the 3rd time this week I have to update the app! Frustrating that I have to do it every time I have to go online!!! Why is my DuckDuckGo Privacy Pro allowing all of my search queries to be completed through Google instead of DuckDuckGo? I would really appreciate any responses to this along with a fix to this!Looking at my battery usage trying to understand why I have to charge iPhone everyday lately and this is why, over the last 10 days DuckDuckGo shows 10 hrs 20 min online use and 63 hrs 12 min of background use which is 33% of total use. This shouldn't be happening since I have turned off all Background Activities! Plus the apps version keeps getting reduced to a lower version, I have to keep going to the App Store and update it every time I want to go online which is daily. I keep sending feedbacks on many issues but they never respond nor fix them. Google keeps getting past their privacy blocks along with many others and they don't work on that either. Somehow there's another device that it's backing up to that's not mine nor can I stop it because I don't have apin. Well that's because I never set it up as I don't have another device! I have reported this as well with no response! I even paid for the Privacy Pro and now it's out of control!
• As usual, we've included some bug fixes and improvements.