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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

Great browser alternative, with load times fast as any competition. Have had issues with image results in the past being zoomed in for no reason, but opening image in separate tab seemed to resolve that, and some bugs when they switched up how the tree count looks, which reset my search counter and is still broken, but that isn't a necessary feature so I won't complain. Recent issue of not being able to access image search, so Ill have to lower rating until that's fixed.

Just start using. The UI is a little awkward. Usable, but formatting makes it much less convenient than Google. Google brings up recommended articles, uses bigger fonts, and when displaying an article displays the info you searched for, thos does not. Biggest upside is the eco friendly aspect. Not going to be my default browser, but will use it sometimes.

Had some quirks but after becoming familiar with how the browser works, I'll never go back. IE the back button sometimes freezes up the screen but this is easily remedied by exiting/closing a page properly; I think it might help me to not be so lazy while browsing lol Like the stacking incognito feature so I can go back to something I was working on. Love that I'm also helping put carbon back into the soil! 1-20-19 started crashing after closing the tab. Last few days major lag!

What's new

- Bug fixes and performance improvements

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!