Freedom Search vs !bangs Search
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Freedom Search
This browser prioritizes your privacy by minimizing website requests and automatically blocking third-party trackers and ads. It also assigns a privacy score to each site, offering transparency about data usage.
- Privacy-first browsing
- Blocks third-party trackers
- Blocks unwanted ads
- Assigns website privacy scores
- Minimizes website requests
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Freedom Search - Privacy Browser The Freedom browser was built from the ground up with privacy in mind. The moment you open the Freedom browser, the application aims to enhance security by sending the fewest requests possible to other websites. In addition, Freedom blocks third-party trackers and unwanted ads automatically. The privacy-based search engine, Freedom, also offers a privacy-first mobile browser. This browser blocks trackers and assigns each website a privacy score, providing a transparent view of what each site does or tries to do with your data.
!bangs Search
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DuckDuckGo's bang redirects are too slow. Enable on device redirects with !bangs Search. Supporting all of DuckDuckGo's bangs on device, use the !(short key) (your search) to quickly search all areas of the internet, supporting all of the 13k bangs that exists
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Verdict
Freedom Search and !bangs Search are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Freedom Search | !bangs Search |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOM | Aidan Dye |
In-app purchases
Freedom Search
No in-app purchases
!bangs Search
No in-app purchases
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