MetaGer: Search & Browser

MetaGer

About this app

MetaGer.de is a German meta search engine with a focus on privacy and variety of results, run by the non-profit SUMA-EV.

This app is a full browser built around that search: native, fast, and private by default.

• Search your way: switch between web, image, news, science and product search, all in one tap.
• Tab groups: keep work, shopping and private browsing apart, each with its own cookies, logins and history — move a tab into another group whenever you like.
• Anonymous search: your MetaGer key for ad-free searches is separated from your queries by blind signatures.
• Account and top-up without leaving the app: sign in once, or hand your key to another device with a QR code.
• Tracker and ad blocking, on from the start.
• Set MetaGer as your default browser: links from other apps open here, protected the same way.
• Address bar with local history — encrypted on-device, never on a server.
• Instant dark, light or system theme.
• Open anonymously: view a page in a remote browser without loading it yourself.
• No account required, no profile, no advertising IDs.

The source code of this app is free (AGPL-3.0).

Ratings and reviews

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Doesn't even make sense from the start. You telling me I have to buy my searches? It says free but no obvious explanations as to how one uses it. Where exactly does this "key" go? I don't even see a search box except one that doesn't work.

I like the idea of it, but unless you open everything up anonymously, it doesn't really seem to help. It just opens your search results in Google Chrome which is installed in Android, the Google operating system. So I feel like, "What is the point?".

This is the best search engine I have found. There is less B.S. in the search results and it runs smoothly. There are a variety of options in the settings including an option to use this search engine for free.

What’s new

Downloads: a new Downloads screen lists what you have downloaded, so you can open a file, delete it or take it off the list — kept per browsing group and erased with that group's data. A running download shows its progress there and in a bar in the app, with buttons to cancel it or open the file or folder. Downloads from sites you are signed in to no longer fail when the tab is not in your default group.