DuckDuckGo

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] 5/5 · US Privacy: Keeps me secure and private with out being traced other then for safety concerns
2. [R8] 5/5 · US Ver Nice to use personal data: My computer teacher teaching our class students that is True.
3. [R15] 5/5 · US Web: Security
4. [R34] 5/5 · US Wonderful app: Easy to use and great privacy
5. [R12] 4/5 · US Love it: You guys are awesome for adding no ads on YouTube! The only issue is when selecting “turn on duck player” and it goes to the small screen, I have CC selected, and when I make the view large, the CC isn’t showing, and the enlarged view isn’t large at all on my iPad.
6. [R22] 5/5 · US Almost Perfect!: I know this isn’t a novel concept, but i’m so delighted that the youtube ads get filtered out. It’s almost baffling to me how nice the browser is without being scummy, cogsuckjng, or underhanded. I think my only request would be for videos to be able to play in PnP (picture in picture). I multitask a lot and if my videos were running on screen WHILE using the app, this app would
7. [R48] 4/5 · US Geoff Schmitt: Security level is excellent It keeps all out that is undesired such as YouTube videos ads it helps you get the answers you need
8. [R60] 5/5 · US Grateful: Great browser, very grateful to have it! Thank you developer. Privacy protections sound very good (I’m not honestly qualified to judge) and no YouTube ads is an incredible bonus. Anonymized AI is also terrific. If possible to add a reader mode like safari that would be great.
9. [R7] 5/5 · US Love this because I’m not forced to use AI !!!: Found this browser and never looked back
10. [R28] 5/5 · US An actual search engine, not generative AI: I’ve heard about it for years, but Google forcing AI upon my internet searches made me make the jump! So glad I did! I do want them to make a version with the AI buttons completely removed. I do not want to use AI.
11. [R31] 5/5 · US Best search engine ever: I’m new to DuckDuckGo, so still exploring. Like that I can turn off ai and not deal with it at all. Best part is the privacy, no tracking, data not collected. Lots of cool features.
12. [R35] 5/5 · US Fast, safe and optional AI: Best Browser! Does not force you to use AI and isn’t leaching off of you.
13. [R30] 5/5 · US No nonsense browser: I appreciate the direct information free of side distractions with which other browsers bombard me .
14. [R36] 5/5 · US Like: Love Duck Duck Go easy and convenient!
15. [R39] 5/5 · US EASY: Simple searches. Choices for search engines and ai. Privacy,choice,simplicity,well done!
16. [R49] 5/5 · US Feels free and easy to use DuckDuckGo: Thank you for this worthy creation and I hope you carry on the good work
17. [R5] 3/5 · US Needs more work: I love duck duck and have referred it to many of my friends but when I started having problems I decided to try an update. Wish I never had! I have updated twice now. It is very slow to load if it does at all. Please fix duck duck I don’t want to use google😔
18. [R19] 2/5 · US Really really: Slow for me
19. [R57] 1/5 · US What happened!: I always use this browser. Now after today’s update, it crashes when I click on the address bar to search. I can’t even type one letter and it crashes. I will get rid of this review and give 5 stars if you fix it please. I still use an iPhone 6s Plus. Software version 15.8.3. I will not update my phone to the last old phone update (15.8.8) because I heard it becomes pretty much com
20. [R88] 1/5 · US Awful: Runs super slow and lags my iPad a ton. The adblocker doesn’t block anything. The search doesn’t show relevant information. Also no local history at all for normal browsing is bad.
21. [R10] 1/5 · US Trash: This is ChatGPT, this is not an independent ai or a safe personal construct, it’s ChatGPT
22. [R18] 1/5 · US You lied: Remove more ai I want it long gone.
23. [R20] 1/5 · US Gate keeping.: Once again another AI app that was advertised as private and can Ask ANYTHING withholds information or refuses to provide certain information. Whats the point of AI apps they’re no better than Google searches on safe mode. Stop advertising this app as if it can provide anything you want to know about
24. [R23] 3/5 · US Unskippable tutorial needs to go: The unskippable tutorials and forced AI use should be removed with prejudice.
25. [R13] 3/5 · US Wtf: Your last update erased all my tabs!!!! Priceless info I needed!!!
26. [R42] 1/5 · US Auto deletes all tabs: 3rd strike u go to HELL
27. [R133] 2/5 · US Update blew away ALL bookmarks: It was good until their update blew away all of my bookmarks without any warning. I lost everything I had saved. DDG has now been uninstalled.
28. [R14] 5/5 · US Searches defective need to find facts elsewhere: Need to go back to what you used to do in searches so republican based media ends up in the search before page 100 or wherever it is hidden now! Subjects not discussed in legacy media is just never found but is available out there! Fix this!
29. [R21] 1/5 · US DuckDuckgo IS MICROSOFT!!!!: Duckduckgo search results are already horrible, Because its Microsoft. It’s worse now, to get you to click Search Assist; THAT CANNOT BE TURNED OFF. Its always been bad, this is terrible. Stop believing this BS Duckduckgo is the worst at protecting your privacy. Microsoft Tracks you on DuckDuckGo. Stop trusting garbage
30. [R55] 1/5 · US Getting Worse: It is better than Google or Bing or many other search apps, but day after day it gets worse. Many results are totally irrelevant. I’m extremely disappointed with this app. I’ve looked and looked for better apps to use for searching, but cannot find any.. It seems AI has destroyed the average search engine. Another casualty of AI. I will never use AI. And those who do must live with
31. [R78] 3/5 · US Best browser with short comings: The search is not that great, I just use google anonymously. There are some navigation issues with the disappearing bottom navigation sometimes so popups prevent scrolling so you have to close the app.
32. [R6] 1/5 · US “Blocks pops” and replaces them with its own.: This app is incredibly difficult to use because it’s constantly displaying pop ups to tell you about how it’s blocking pop ups.
33. [R68] 3/5 · US It has it’s limitations: Ad blocker is arbitrary; some sites have managed to pull up my app store app, or YouTube. Some sites have difficulty playing videos (both embedded and alternate viewer).
34. [R79] 1/5 · US The lie: They lie I see ads all the time. Fake
35. [R100] 2/5 · US New user: My first impressions are that DDG attracts A LOT of scammy individuals. Pop-ups and ads appear nearly constantly. No more trial period from me. I am back with Safari.
36. [R61] 3/5 · US Advanced Options missing in Settings: I need to turn off hardware acceleration in the browser to be able to stream videos on my Mac. This current version is missing the Advanced settings ton do that. How do I turn off hardware acceleration now? I have to go back to chrome if I can’t turn that off.
37. [R189] 3/5 · US No extension for my password manager: I installed it, but deleted it pretty fast when I realized there was no way for my password manager app to integrate. While I really wanted, duck duck go’s superior ad blocking., I’m not about to give the app all my passwords.
38. [R392] 3/5 · GB Good but still not up to date with other browsers: Good security but doesnt offer a translated page version (like safari)
39. [R455] 3/5 · GB Translation: website translation is needed
40. [R4] 2/5 · US Duck Player with VPN Issue: Duck Player never work for YouTube through a VPN connection!
41. [R84] 3/5 · US Great Browser… But…: I like everything about this app especially when I use it with the VPN, it blocks so many unwanted and unnecessary ads. The only reason for the three stars is that when VPN is on, my Apple CarPlay doesn’t work! I was not aware of this feature so I thought something was wrong with my iPhone. I’m pretty savvy with Apple devices and products, I dissected EVERYTHING on my settings
42. [R44] 3/5 · US Disappointed in latest update: I just updated this app and it is not adhering to the settings I have in place for this app. I have searching set to not keep past results or search bookmarks, but that is exactly what it is doing. It is ignoring my settings. I wonder what other settings it is ignoring. Fix the app. Why have settings if you are going to ignore them?
43. [R83] 1/5 · US Unnecessary: As of late, additions and changes feel as untested and unnecessary. As if they are created on a whim. One of the best features of this browser was the ability to created a new by holding down the square that hold the number of tabs open. Now that actions prompts a choice between a new normal tab or a fire tab (incognito). Useless. Especially when the whole browser experience was origi
44. [R414] 3/5 · GB Good Browser but With Faulty Links: This an excellent browser to watch videos free from adds as long as one uses Duckduck player. This is very useful when it comes to You Tube videos with erratic never ending adds if one were watching from Safari Browser infected with multi-bugs and trackers stored in many IPads. However, it seems that Duck Duck App has also started to fail. When clicking on You T
45. [R45] 1/5 · US ai NOT Optional: Been using this app for years, have all the ai and autocomplete features turned off but somehow every search has suggestions and autocomplete. So clearly the ai features are not optional, despite the lady’s protestations.
46. [R103] 1/5 · US Loved it until AI took over: How do I disable AI?
47. [R136] 1/5 · US Keep your ai. I never needed it!!: Ai is unecessary and it gets in the way. How can I turn it off???
48. [R430] 3/5 · GB Needs to stop changing settings: Needs to stop changing settings everytime it updates - ai features automatically turned on - infinite scroll goes off - let us user's decide if we want ai features on, etc - not you at duckduckgo constantly changing it to make us have to use it.
49. [R148] 3/5 · US Privacy is solid but speed sooo slow: I’m satisfied with the privacy and searches although search results vary from big search engines like google and bing yet I’m olay with is. Major issue is the speed. It takes way too long to process a page that takes like 1-2 sec in edge and chrome.
50. [R501] 3/5 · CA Nice but No Password Manager Integration, No Reader Mode: I really like this browser and this search. I heard they started blocking ads on YouTube and thought I’d finally try to switch from Firefox. However, two key things are missing for me: 1. No 1Password integration, apparently because the browser doesn’t support extensions still. This is a big deal breaker for me. 2. Less of a deal breaker