Doodo vs Advanced Search Smart Options
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doodo
This search engine prioritizes user privacy by delivering accurate results without saving search history. It aims to provide a clean and improved browsing experience, challenging the notion that internet privacy is impossible.
- Accurate search results
- No search history saved
- Privacy-focused
- Improved design
- Secure browsing
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Our Mission! Doodo began as an idea for a better search engine experience. We decided to make a bold move and show accurate search results and not save search history. We told the world “Others tracks and sell your data ". We want to improve in design and not make you want to close your browser the second you see our results page. Many people believe that you simply can't expect privacy on the Internet. We disagree and have made it our mission.
Advanced Search Smart Options
Simplify complex web searches by inputting keywords. This tool automatically generates advanced search queries with operators for precise results. Explore options like exact matches, date ranges, and specific file types.
- Keyword-based advanced search
- Automatic search operator generation
- AND, OR, and exclusion searches
- Numerical and date range filtering
- Specify site, domain, and file type
- Search scope selection (title, content, URL)
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This app allows you to perform advanced web searches with just inputting keywords. Web searches can be conducted using search operators, enabling various search options. However, using search operators often requires combining alphabets and symbols with spaces, which can become cumbersome. For instance, When you want to search for "Apple Inc." articles within Wikipedia's page content, you would need to input the following: allintext: apple -fruit site:wikipedia.org The app automatically generates such commands, enabling you to perform advanced searches by just inputting keywords. The search engine used is Google. Available Search Criteria ・AND search, including all keywords ・Exact match search for keywords ・OR search, including any of the keywords ・Exclusion search, excluding certain keywords from results ・Numerical ranges (e.g., from $1,000 to $5,000, from 3kg to 10kg) ・Range of update dates ・Language ・Region ・Specific sites or domains ・Related sites ・File formats (pdf, doc, xls, ppt, etc.) ・Search scope (page title only, page content only, page URL only, etc.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doodo at none against Advanced Search Smart Options's 1. Doodo also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Advanced Search Smart Options's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (29 vs 7). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Advanced Search Smart Options sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Doodo asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Doodo against 4.4 for Advanced Search Smart Options. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 29 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Doodo's written reviews are positive against 71% of Advanced Search Smart Options's.
Doodo ships an update every 3 months, Advanced Search Smart Options every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doodo | Advanced Search Smart Options |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 4.4 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Doodo global initiative private limited | manabu ueda |
Customer experience
Doodo
Advanced Search Smart Options
In-app purchases
Doodo
No in-app purchases
Advanced Search Smart Options
- Ad-Free Plan$3.99
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