68
Stack Score
Best for
Privacy-conscious users who want a chat-style search with citations and visual previews and don't want to pay for Perplexity Pro.
At a glance
- Pricing
- free
- Setup time
- Instant
- Learning curve
- easy
- Last verified
- 5/19/2026
What we love
- ✓Genuinely private — no tracking or ad targeting
- ✓Visual snapshots help you preview sources before clicking
- ✓Free forever for the core search use case
Where it falls short
- −Smaller index than Google or Bing — long-tail queries miss
- −Answers can be shallower than Perplexity on deep research
- −No team or pro features — purely a consumer search tool
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20261 tier
Free
$0
forever
- ✓Unlimited search
- ✓No ads
- ✓No tracking
- ✓All AI features
Why we picked it
Free and decent. Try it if you want a quick answer without an account.
Overview
AI search that summarizes results instead of just listing them. Free and privacy-focused.
Key features
- ●Chat-style search interface instead of a results page
- ●No ads, no tracking, no profile-building
- ●Visual snapshots of source pages alongside answers
- ●Generative AI answers with citations to the source
- ●Built-in summarize-this-page and explain-this-page tools
- ●Available as web, iOS, Android, and browser extension
Best use cases
Privacy-first daily search
Replace Google for everyday queries without leaking search history to an ad network.
News and topic exploration
Use chat interface to dig into a news topic with citations and follow-ups.
Quick page summaries
Drop a URL and get a summary or explanation of the contents.
Integrations
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