Quick Search - Search Anything

Teja Karlapudi

About this app

Quick Search lets you search apps, shortcuts, contacts, files, calendar events, notes, reminders, notifications, and settings, plus the web with 30 search engines, all from one search bar. Use it as a standalone search app, a Spotlight-style overlay over any app, or as your full home screen launcher.

Privacy First: Quick Search is ad-free, tracker-free, and open source. Your data stays on your device.

Key Features:
- Search apps, app shortcuts, contacts, files, calendar events, notes, reminders, notification history, and device settings instantly, with typo-tolerant matching
- 30 search engines: Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Spotify, Reddit, Wikipedia, and more, plus custom engines
- Overlay mode: Pull up search over any app (Spotlight-style)
- At a Glance: Today's events, reminders, alarms and timers, media controls, missed calls, OTP codes, weather, battery and device status, and more, on Home or as a widget on any launcher
- AI Search: Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, Groq, Meta AI, OpenCode, or any OpenAI-compatible provider, with optional Tavily web results
- Built-in tools: Calculator, Unit and Currency Converter, Date & Time Calculator, World Clock, Alarms & Timers, Weather, and Dictionary
- WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal & Google Meet actions for contacts
- Reminders and notes created right from the search bar
- Aliases and trigger words to jump to any search engine, section, tool, or result
- Voice typing with the mic button in the search bar
- Launcher mode with app lock, Android Private Space support, gestures, and a Widgets Panel for any Android widget
- Home screen widgets: Search, At a Glance, Custom Buttons, Media Controls, Note, and Countdown
- Default assistant, Quick Settings tile, edge swipe, and floating button to open Quick Search anywhere
- One-handed mode and bottom search bar
- Backup & Restore your settings when switching devices

Fully Customizable:
- Compact, card-less layout to fit more on screen
- Material You and multiple themes (Mono, Forest, Aurora, Sunset) with light/dark mode and AMOLED black
- Wallpaper or custom image as background, with blur and transparency
- Adjust font size, app grid, icon size, and search bar style
- Icon pack support and themed icons
- Filter file types in results, with folder whitelist/blacklist

Permissions: Each permission only unlocks the features that need it. Quick Search keeps working if you decline the optional ones.

- Usage access: Shows recently used apps and improves app suggestions.
- Contacts and phone: Search contacts, place calls, and end an ongoing call from At a Glance.
- Files and calendar: Include device files and calendar events in search results. Calendar access is read-only.
- Notification access: Powers notification history, notification dots, At a Glance items, and media controls. Notification data stays on your device.
- Notifications and alarms: Deliver reminders and show items you pin to the notification shade.
- Accessibility service: Used only for the optional double-tap Home gesture to perform Android's system Lock Screen action. Quick Search does not read, collect, store, or share screen content or other personal data through this service.

Ratings and reviews

I have been looking for an app like this for a long time. I used Sesame for a while, but it was always a little buggy and didn't quite do everything that I wanted, leaving me wanting for more. Quick Search is everything that Sesame could have been. This app changes the way that I use my phone. The operation of my phone is all in one place, making it lightning quick to access any app, setting, file, or function just by typing a few letters in the search bar. Keep up the good work!

Really cool and has a lot of potential. Great UI and customization options, too. But I'd like to see the search functionality improved. Selecting an auto suggestion option should go right to search, not make me hit enter again. Also, if I type something in and an app is the first option, I'd like a setting to have it do a web search anyway. And it looks like the mic icon on the widget does nothing but open the search bar? I'd like to set that to opening another search provider (e.g Perplexity)

edit: developer added color changes and now this is my preferred app for search :) ty. original review: pretty decent replacement for sesame, though it doesn't seem to have as deep integrations yet. I also really wish I could change the colors of the widget as it doesn't match my set up at all and my only choices are black or white

What’s new

- Two-finger swipe gestures
- New AI provider: Opencode
- Customize the Home search bar (in Appearance settings)
- Open the All Apps drawer with gestures
- Search a file extension (for example, .pdf) to see all files of that type
- Long press any app to open it in Google Play
- The Dictionary tool no longer needs an API key
- Option to hide the status bar
- Add a note to a notification directly by searching for "Create Notification Note"
- Bug fixes, performance improvements and UI enhancements