Where we're going.
This isn't a changelog of what shipped last week. It's the destination — one idea, held without compromise: every part of the web that knows something about you should run on hardware you own. Your search, your traffic, your keys, and the intelligence on top of them.
Give people back the web that was quietly taken.
Somewhere along the way, "free" became a trade — your attention, your data, your behavior, sold back to you as convenience. We're building the other version of the web: the one where the software works for you and answers to no one else. Not privacy as a switch you flip, but as the shape of the whole thing.
Not for everyone. For you.
We're not chasing the whole market. We're building for the people who already feel what's wrong and want somewhere to go.
If you've worked out that “free” usually means you're what's being sold, this is built for the version of you that wants out — not a better deal on surveillance, an exit from it.
Your search, your history, your wallet — and in Maximum, your password vault — held on your own machine, sealed on-device, never rented from a company that can quietly read them.
Point the local AI you already run at a private browser it can actually use. An open protocol, every call auditable, and nothing that phones home to us or anyone else.
Under surveillance, behind a censor, or just far from the servers everyone else designs for — a private web is worth the most exactly where it's hardest to have. It should reach you too.
Five moves, one direction.
Each of these is a direction we're committed to — where the product is heading, not a date on a calendar.
Search that stays on your machine.
A full search engine already runs on your own hardware — no server in the middle ever sees both the question and the answer. We want to make that engine faster, broader, and impossible to take away: more sources you control, sharper ranking that answers to intent instead of ad money, and results that hold up when an upstream engine breaks or you go offline.
Privacy that's built in, not bolted on.
Privacy here isn't a policy you're asked to trust — it's the shape of the software. The work ahead is to keep closing every gap a browser can close: wider anonymous routing, less metadata leaking out of each request, leave-no-trace as the easy path rather than the expert setting. And to stay honest about the limits a stock engine can't cross yet, instead of pretending they aren't there.
Intelligence that belongs to you.
We took the chatbot out on purpose. No model of ours, no cloud bill, no prompts flowing off your machine. Instead we're turning Searxly into a private set of tools your own local AI can call — so the intelligence runs on your hardware, and your questions, pages, and history never leave it.
Everything you own, nothing you rent.
No account to make, no login to be private, no subscription standing between you and control of your own data. Keys and secrets are yours and stay on the device. We want more of the web to work the way it always should have: self-custody as the default, not the advanced option.
The same freedom, everywhere you are.
Today it's a Mac app. The direction is the whole private stack — search, shields, and your-own-AI — on the phone in your pocket and every screen you use, without handing back an inch of what makes it private in the first place.
In the open, or not at all.
No metrics collected on you. No claim we can't show you the code for. No ship date we'd have to fake. We put a thing out when it's actually right, we publish the limits next to the wins, and the source is there to read. Everything above is a destination we mean to reach — a commitment, not a delivery date.
Own your corner of the web.
The Mac app is free today, and it's the first step of all of this. Take it, and follow along for where it goes next.