# Ma recherche — Private search, smart fallback

> Private search, smart fallback (iPhone/iPad app by Olivier TEISSONNIERE.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ma-recherche/id6817923708 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Olivier TEISSONNIERE](https://appshunter.io/developer/1848924977)
- Category: Utilities, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-10-07
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Ma recherche?

Use the search engine you choose in Safari — including a private one running at home —
and never lose search when it is out of reach.

Ma recherche sends the searches you type in Safari's address bar to the engine of your
choice. It is built for a self-hosted, private engine such as a SearXNG instance on your
home network, and backs it with a public fallback: Qwant, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage,
Google, Bing, Ecosia, or any address you provide.

CHECKS AND SWITCHES BY ITSELF
• At home or on your VPN, searches go to your private engine.
• Away, they go to your fallback engine, with no error page and nothing to change.
• Back home, the very first search goes to your private engine again.

The check is a plain request to your engine. No Wi-Fi name, no VPN status, no location
permission: what matters is whether your engine answers.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• The redirect happens inside Safari, before the request leaves your device: Safari's
 default engine never sees your query.
• No account, no analytics, no advertising. Nothing is ever sent to the developer.
• Open source (MIT): read the code on GitHub.

WORKS WITH SAFARI'S ENGINES
Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, on any country domain. Only address-bar
searches are redirected: a search typed on a search engine's own page is left alone.

The toolbar popup shows where your searches go, lets you force the private or the
public engine, and re-checks your instance on demand.

Requires iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or macOS 14 or later.

## Is Ma recherche safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Ma recherche.

## Is Ma recherche legit?

Ma recherche has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ma recherche is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 0.2.0 — 2026-10-14

Now in German, Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. The setup steps quote Safari's exact wording.

### 0.1.0 — 2026-10-10

No release notes.

## More apps by Olivier TEISSONNIERE

- [AstroCollect FR](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astrocollect-fr/id6754565656)

All apps by Olivier TEISSONNIERE: https://appshunter.io/developer/1848924977

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