Ma recherche
Private search, smart fallback
Free
Send Safari searches to your own SearXNG instance at home, and to a public engine of your choice when it is out of reach. Switches by itself, both ways.
Use the search engine you choose in Safari — including a private one running at home —
and never lose search when it is out of reach.
Ma recherche sends the searches you type in Safari's address bar to the engine of your
choice. It is built for a self-hosted, private engine such as a SearXNG instance on your
home network, and backs it with a public fallback: Qwant, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage,
Google, Bing, Ecosia, or any address you provide.
CHECKS AND SWITCHES BY ITSELF
• At home or on your VPN, searches go to your private engine.
• Away, they go to your fallback engine, with no error page and nothing to change.
• Back home, the very first search goes to your private engine again.
The check is a plain request to your engine. No Wi-Fi name, no VPN status, no location
permission: what matters is whether your engine answers.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• The redirect happens inside Safari, before the request leaves your device: Safari's
default engine never sees your query.
• No account, no analytics, no advertising. Nothing is ever sent to the developer.
• Open source (MIT): read the code on GitHub.
WORKS WITH SAFARI'S ENGINES
Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, on any country domain. Only address-bar
searches are redirected: a search typed on a search engine's own page is left alone.
The toolbar popup shows where your searches go, lets you force the private or the
public engine, and re-checks your instance on demand.
Requires iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or macOS 14 or later.
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Now in German, Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. The setup steps quote Safari's exact wording.
The developer, Olivier TEISSONNIERE, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Olivier TEISSONNIERE
- Size
- 6.8 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Olivier Teissonniere