xEngine for Safari User Reviews

Customer Experience

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Negative experience50.0% of reviews

~ Based on 14 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Is xEngine for Safari Legit?

xEngine for Safari appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for xEngine for Safari is 80/100.

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Top reviews

Works fine

I use it to set my default search to my local instance of SearXNG… works like a champ!

Works as intended!

After following the instructions, it works just as I hoped! All my searches now go to StartPage. My only disappointment is that it doesn’t seem to work in private tabs despite enabling it to work in private mode. But perhaps I am missing something. I can settle for DDG at least in that scenario!
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Better than others

I've tried a few other extensions for using a custom search engine in Safari and I find this one works the best. It seems to load the custom engine directly rather than having the default engine load then redirecting.

Не работает

No work

Not working properly

Broken on iOS18. Was working fine before, now it only works if choosing Google in safari settings.

Shouldn’t need full access for all websites

it’s supposed to replace the default search engine, so it should only need the permission for reading Google.com (and maybe the others) and not all the website.

Please fix that and it will be 5 stars.

Otherwise, since It’s not open source, how are we supposed to trust this extension?

Stopped working

Used to work every time, now it loads ddg for most of my searches as that’s the Safari default. Was good while it lasted.

Literally Did not work at all

I downloaded, opened the app, followed the prompts, allowed the extension, selected Brave as my search engine and NOTHING HAPPENED lol even restarted my phone and still nothing

Response from developer

You need to grand history permission, and set “All Websites” to “Allow”.

Everything I ever wanted from Safari!

Ingenious! Exactly what I have been looking for so long and finally I can switch back to Safarai as my default browser.

На Вентуре работает отлично.

На телефоне работает. На бигсуре не работает.

Brave Search enfin sur Safari

Je cherchais depuis longtemps comment faire pour mettre par défaut Brave Search sur Safari sans trouver solution car il n'existe pas de plugin comme avec Qwant. Ce n'est plus un souci avec xEngine !

Pour que ça fonctionne, il faut que Safari soit paramétré comme navigateur par défaut et avec Google en moteur de recherche. Il faut bien penser à activer l'extension xEngine également et le tour est joué. Un grand merci au dev !
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Не работает

Не запускается на Big Sur. За что я заплатил?(((

Must have app!

Safaris default search engines is not good enough. This app allows you to use any default search engine of your choosing and it works seamlessly!

I would also recommend considering this developers other app xSearch for Safari, which has the same feature as this app and way more!

I can't get it working on iOS or macOS

Unfortunately it doesn't work.