DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience64.7% of reviews
Neutral8.1% of reviews
Negative experience27.2% of reviews

~ Based on 3,585 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai

Is DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai Safe?

DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai is 97/100.

This assessment is based on 2,420,050 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

97.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,417,546 App Store ratings for DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai.

Is DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai Legit?

DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

New

I’ve only recently started using this app , I find it a little hard to navigate.

Not being asked for blood

Not being asked for blood by google just to try to watch a youtube video. Like that I can see what’s being blocked. like the ease of an app. Like that AI is there but an option not an intrusion. Thank you!

Freedom

I love that it blocks ads and tracks and gives me as much of an unbiased database as possible.

Awesome for no lifers

Built in adblock that works on twitch and youtube

Change is good for the soul

Enjoying it. Pretty easy to adjust to

Thank god no AI

Finally a search engine that doesn’t force you to use AI

Browser

perfect

Happy

The app chats vpn Duck is awesome private and they keep it private if your tired of sites company’s tracking stalking you Try You will wonder why you didn’t leave the others before. Love you guys and ladies.

please get rid of the unskippable intro

thanks ill then actually review the app, deleting it for now tho not even gonna try it.

Love app

I’ve used DuckDuckGo since I got my first iPhone yrs ago and do love it! I have a question, I thought it was free? I’m confused because as of a month or so ago I had to choose a plan and now pay $9.99 mo?

Weekly updates is really getting annoying

The tread of weekly updates is really annoying, get your act together and do it right the FIRST time.

Just downloaded it

Best ever. Fast and I think it’s safe

Wish I used it sooner!

Love that AI is optional, trackers blocked, data can be deleted, searching works great!

DDG

Too many updates, frequent crashes and pages have to be reloaded; pop-up’s still occur. Then again? iPhone 15 is known for these issues and may not be the app. Still, too many updates.

Be careful

UPDATE


I HAVE PERSONALLY HAD TO CONTACT COMPANIES THAT WERE USING MY DUCK ADDRESS AND THE FORWARDING EMAIL WAS CHANGED. I did get a response saying I should hire someone locally. THIS WAS AFTER RECEIVING CREDITS FROM DUCK DUCK GO AND I ACTUALLY CALLED MY CREDIT CARD COMPANY TO FIND OUT WHY. DO NOY USE THEIR VPN - GET SURF-SHARK AND YOU CAN CREATE ALIASES RIGHT ON YOUR PHONE NOW. SOMEHOW I BECAME A DEVELOPER ON MY FIRE STICK FROM AMAZON ON NETFLIX. All I needed from duck was to have my duck email removed - but no - they couldn’t be bothered. WHOEVER HANDLES THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE SHOULD BE FIRED FOR LAZINESS. A request so simple couldn’t be accomplished. Stay off and away from them. I have used them for over 10 years and had paid for subscription’s at times - but to be lazy to remove a duck email that forwards to a cloud ID is dangerous and I hope their supervisor sees this and trust me - this will end up on You Tube. You never know who you are dealing with or who they know. Treat people kindly and go the extra mile. With automation coming people will be losing their jobs. How could someone not care that my account was compromised and refuse to delete it. It will be on YouTube and I will post where.

I loved this app - until someone hacked my phone and downloaded the desktop browser and I had a duck email that ended up compromised. I have no way to contact duck. Someone even created a name for me to use to review apps that is unhappy but I put 3 stars. I never created that name. I am deleting it after I see what they have done. I had to cancel subscriptions with proton because without locking my screen time they even made an iCloud domain. I am too scared to use duck now and it was my go to for years. I wish could contact them and resolve my issue. Someone is using their VPN and my emails are constantly being used because I get notified that someone just signed into duck on a browser on the web and I don’t use duck anymore because of it.
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Personal Review

It hasn’t been extensive but, every search has been on the money.

News filters by date have stopped working

As of November 3rd 2026 the filter by date options: “past day” “past week” and “past month”, do not return any results. Instead a page reading “No news articles found for *** Try clearing your filters and searching again.
Filters currently applied: Time”
This is both in the app and browser.

Левое

Приложение ложное не рекомендую

It WAS my go-to - two stars, POOF

I still come back like a rejected lover, the duck player is almost awesome, but the closed captions are important to me when I try to catch some accents -

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They finally fixed it

They got rid of some major showstopper bugs.