Simple Search

Tobias Bielefeld

About this app

This is a very basic app. Designed for people who wants to use a search widget with their preferred search engine.

This app contains a search bar to type in a search query, which will be opened in the Internet browser. A widget for the home screen will simply start the app.

You can change the search engine in the settings (Default is DuckDuckGo) or type in a custom search string. The app also saves the search queries as a history.

Source code: https://github.com/TobiasBielefeld/Simple-Search

Ratings and reviews

Completely and utterly without pretense, this app does exactly what I wanted and needed. It is exactly what it says it is. Even if all you want to do is use Google Search, this app circumvents all that added, useless fluff (and giant bubble rounded edges) and takes you right to the results, in your preferred browser. Fantastic.

This is a great app. Great Google search button alternative. The only thing I hate is that there is no option to turn on suggestions. Fix this and it gets 5 stars from me. Another suggestion is to start the search field in the center of the screen since most phones are so big and reaching to the top takes two hands. Dark mode is great too!

This app is terrific. I can escape Google's heavily bias/censored search engine by choosing another (my preference is duckduckgo for uncensored Web searching). Also you are free to use any web browser you choose. Perfect.

What's new

* Add small delay to showing the keyboard to fix it not showing at all
* Add option to close app after starting the search
* Removed incorrect change of search bar background color