This Safari extension lets you customize your default search engine and settings. Easily switch between preferred search engines, including AI assistants, and modify options like hiding AI Overviews or changing language. It offers quick search shortcuts and emoji search functionality.
What We Love
- 👍 Blocks Google AI overviews
- 👍 Enables custom search engines
- 👍 Works on iPhone, Mac, iPad
- 👍 Seamless integration with Safari
- 👍 Free and no ads
- 👍 Works in private mode
- 👍 Fixes Safari's limited search engine options
- 👍 Allows site-specific searches
- 👍 Supports Perplexity (PPLX)
- 👍 Great for self-hosted search engines
- 👍 Hides trending searches
- 👍 Redirects searches effectively
- 👍 User-friendly setup (mostly)
- 👍 Developer responsiveness
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance
- 🐛 Setup can be difficult
- 🐛 Causes rapid redirects/CAPTCHAs
- 🐛 Redirect screen displayed
- 🐛 App crashes on export
- 🐛 Requires enabling google.com
- 🐛 Potential search data leakage concerns
- 🐛 Block page can be slow/stuck
- 🐛 Works on macOS, not iOS
- 🐛 Unremovable 'Open in Google app' banner
- 🐛 Doesn't always perform udm14
- 🐛 Safari freezes with Brave Search
