Mojeek vs Surfy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mojeek
This app offers a private search engine experience directly on your device. It provides unbiased results generated by its own technology without tracking your activity. The service is committed to user privacy and is hosted in an environmentally friendly data center.
- Independent search results
- No user tracking
- Proprietary search technology
- Privacy-focused
- Environmentally friendly hosting
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Our app provides an on-device version of the Mojeek search engine, which includes the following features: • Independent and unbiased search results • Search that doesn’t follow you around • Search technology created from the ground up • Hosted in the UK’s Greenest Data Centre Independent and unbiased search results Mojeek is a crawler based search engine with its very own index of web pages, so we are not reliant on any other engine to produce our results. Mojeek doesn't have an agenda because we believe it’s a search engine’s job to provide you with relevant search results, not to force a point of view on you. Search that doesn’t follow you around Mojeek was the first search engine ever to state that it doesn't track its users, and we've been committed to privacy ever since. This means Mojeek does not possess any identifying information on you, such as IP addresses, search history or click behaviour. That's because we think it’s your right to search the web without someone following you around. Search technology created from the ground up When you do a search on Mojeek, the results shown have been generated by our own algorithm, from our own database of web pages, which was crawled and made searchable by our own technology. Hosted in the UK’s Greenest Data Centre As a search engine, our servers need to be connected 24/7 and use more power than most, so our responsibility to minimise our footprint on the environment is something we believe to be very important. This is a key reason why we chose Custodian to host and run our servers, as a winner of the 'Green Data Centre' accolade at the Datacentre Leaders Awards. About Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/about/ Mojeek Privacy Policy: https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy.html Mojeek Blog: https://blog.mojeek.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mojeek Twitter: https://twitter.com/mojeek Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mojeek
Surfy
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Get instant answers with open search. Find concise, essential information in one click with incredibly fast text or image search.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mojeek at none against Surfy's shown. Mojeek also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mojeek ships an update every 5 days, Surfy every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mojeek | Surfy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (27 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mojeek Limited | Surfy Ltd |
In-app purchases
Mojeek
No in-app purchases
Surfy
No in-app purchases
