Ecosia: Browse to plant trees.

Ecosia

About this app

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 200 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 Chromium and gives you an intuitive, fast and secure browsing experience with everything you need, including tabs, incognito mode, bookmarks, downloads and a built-in ad blocker. 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

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Website: https://ecosia.org
Our blog: https://blog.ecosia.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecosia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecosia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ecosia
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/EcosiaORG
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ecosia

Ratings and reviews

I absolutely love the idea behind the browser and it functions smoothly. However, I truly don't like that when searching in English as a European in Europe, I keep getting American results. I have absolutely no use for such results and because of this I regularly have to use Google for search, which I hate as I don't want to use their search engine. Searching for products and stores is also very difficult since the results again tend to lead to American sites.

Lovely. Quite similar work as plain old Chrome. Searches might not be 100% accurate just yet but it's decent enough. Of course, we're not planting a million trees in the world by searching how long you had to cook your pasta, but it's a great alternative and they're putting it pretty simple for you to understand. Overall, they have videos of the development and if it works almost the same as other browsers then I'm more than fine using it.

Great work you guys do to create this kind of idea for nature. I read an article studying the legitimacy of ecosia and the writer seemed 75% convinced, so maybe a bit more noise and transparency on earnings vs trees planted is in order. For functionality: mostly everything works well. I get occasional errors with forms and scripts, as well as scaling. Lately, though, I've been blocked or forced to do Captcha on some pages (ie. travelgenio) thinking I'm a bot. Could you look into this?

What's new

Customisation: You can now decide which contents are displayed on the Homepage.

We updated the entire foundation of our app. This makes our browser faster, more stable and more secure.

We are always working hard to make Ecosia better for you. Send any questions or feedback to our team at [e-mail], we love hearing from you!