FAQ.
The honest answers: private search, the AI, the wallet, access, the token, and where to find us.
It's the architecture. Searxly runs a real search engine (SearXNG) locally on your Mac and aggregates results on-device. There's no Searxly server in the middle keeping logs of your queries, because the server is your computer. No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry.
No. The SearXNG engine is built into Searxly as a self-contained, signed runtime: no extra apps, no dependencies, nothing to set up. One click and Searxly creates your private instance, generates a strong secret, deploys its theme, and starts it on 127.0.0.1 for you.
Those still route your query through their servers. You're trusting a company's promise. Searxly removes the company. A real SearXNG engine runs on your Mac and aggregates results from many engines on-device, so the thing that knows what you searched is a computer you own. It's privacy you can verify, not just trust.
When you search a known person, company, product or place, Searxly builds a card beside your results: a summary, key facts and a banner pulled from Grokipedia, plus the verified official site from a curated, auditable entity database. It's keyed to the entity, never to you, and you can flag a correction with "Improve this panel."
Yes. Ad & tracker blocking and content-safety filtering are built into the core, on by design. The privacy tools aren't add-ons you hunt for in settings; the safe choice is the default. (A local, encrypted password vault with built-in TOTP codes ships in both editions.)
Yes. Searxly VPN is live. One tap routes your whole connection through a Searxly-run exit node, so sites and your network see the server's IP, not yours. It's built on macOS's own IKEv2/IPSec client (no third-party app and no account), and you pay by card or privately in crypto. See the VPN →
Yes. Keys are generated from a standard BIP-39 phrase and encrypted on your device. They never leave it: not to us, not to a cloud, not to anyone. Your recovery phrase is yours alone. We literally cannot move your funds.
Five EVM networks today (Base, Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum and Polygon), all from one recovery phrase. You can also import private keys, add watch-only addresses, set price alerts, and connect to dApps with origin-bound approvals and a built-in phishing guard.
Searxly is free to download for macOS (Apple Silicon): no account, no waitlist, no gate. Grab it from the download page. An optional paid Maximum edition adds extra hardening.
A separate, locked edition of Searxly for macOS. It runs in Maximum Privacy, over Tor by default, and can never be turned down: if the protection is not up, requests are blocked rather than sent from your real address. It adds hardened fingerprint defenses, amnesic sessions, and an in-app self-test that proves what it claims. One payment licenses one Mac, with no account and no renewal. See the overview and price or read how it's built.
No. Searxly has no token, and is not affiliated with any token that uses its name. Any coin traded under the Searxly name is not ours, not endorsed by us, and not something we have any involvement in. Please treat it accordingly. Searxly is funded by Maximum licences, VPN passes, and the in-app swap fee.
Searxly doesn't ship a chatbot. Instead it exposes its private browsing (web search, page reading, knowledge lookup and, opt-in, real browser actions) as tools your own local AI can call over the Model Context Protocol. Bring Ollama, LM Studio or any MCP client; everything runs on your Mac and nothing is sent to any AI company. Read more →
No. Searxly runs no model and picks no model. It runs a small tool server on your machine (loopback-only, token-gated, off by default) that your own local AI connects to. The intelligence is entirely yours; Searxly just answers the tools your model calls and routes them through your own private search. The tools are open and auditable; the privacy is the point.
No. Your prompts and chat live in your own AI client, not in Searxly. The tool server only receives the specific tool calls your model makes, runs them locally through your own SearXNG and browser, and writes them to an activity log you can read. Nothing is sent to a Searxly server, and the server is off until you turn it on.
The source is published for transparency and review. Searxly is native to Mac and iPhone, the Mac app (Apple Silicon) is built with SwiftUI + WebKit, and the iPhone edition is in beta (App Store coming), with an on-device Apple Intelligence AI Overview, a Private Mode and a live news feed.
Need direct help? Contact support and we'll reply by email. To chat, join the community: the Telegram channel for announcements, the Telegram community and Discord server to chat, and @Searxly on X. Those are the only official channels. Anything else claiming to be Searxly isn't.
Searxly is free because of people who chip in.
There are no ads, no trackers and no data to sell, so there's no revenue hiding in the background. If Searxly is useful to you, a few euros keeps the servers and the certificates paid for.