Hide your real IP,
from inside the browser.
Searxly already keeps your search, your keys and your AI on your Mac. The in-app VPN closes the last gap that can't be solved on-device — your IP address. One tap routes your whole connection through a Searxly-run exit node, so the sites you visit and the network you're on see the server, not you. It rides on macOS's own VPN client, and you pay for it privately in crypto, with no account and nothing tying it to your name.
One tap. Your traffic exits somewhere else.
Flip the VPN on from the toolbar and Searxly opens an encrypted IKEv2/IPSec tunnel from your Mac to a Searxly-operated exit node. From there your requests reach the open web carrying the node's IP, not yours, and the responses come back through the same tunnel. It's system-wide, not just the active tab, and it's built on Apple's own NetworkExtension VPN client — there's no third-party VPN app, no closed-source binary and no kernel extension to trust.
- ✓Uses macOS's built-in, audited VPN stack — not a bundled binary
- ✓Your real IP is replaced by the exit node's, for every connection
- ✓The tunnel is encrypted, so your network and ISP can't read it
Named, not hand-waved.
NetworkExtension (NEVPNManager) — system-wide, no kernel extension, no Go, no third-party appWhat changes the moment it's on.
A VPN is easiest to judge by who can see what. Here's exactly what shifts the instant you flip it on, and the one thing that doesn't change because it was never exposed to begin with.
A VPN that doesn't know who you are.
Most VPNs hide your IP but ask for an account, a card and your trust in a closed app. Searxly's is built to the same standard as the rest of the browser — private by architecture, paid anonymously, native to the OS.
One tap, system-wide
A pill in the toolbar flips it on. It protects your whole connection — every app request that leaves the machine — not just one browser tab.
Anonymous payment
Paid in USDC straight from your own wallet. No card, no email, no account — there's nothing linking the VPN pass to your real identity.
The OS does the tunnel
Built on Apple's NetworkExtension and the standard IKEv2/IPSec stack. No bundled VPN binary and no kernel extension you'd have to take on faith.
Your IP, hidden
Sites, trackers and your local network see the exit node's address. Your ISP sees only an encrypted tunnel — not where you go or what you load.
Never auto-charged
Passes are time-boxed and you choose to renew them. There's no subscription quietly billing a card every month, because there is no card.
Funded fairly, not by your data
Kept cheap by Searxly's 0.65% swap fee — lower than the ~0.85% MetaMask and Phantom charge — instead of by logging or selling your activity.
What a VPN can and can't do.
Search and keys can stay purely on your Mac. A VPN can't — your traffic has to exit somewhere, and that somewhere is a server we run. So a VPN moves trust rather than removing it: away from your ISP, toward the operator. We'd rather say that plainly than pretend it's magic.
Back to the trust model→- ✓It hides your IP from the sites you visit and from your local network.
- ✓It encrypts your traffic from the Mac to the exit node, so your ISP can't read it.
- ✓It takes no identity — no account, no card, nothing tying a session to your name.
- ✕It can't make you invisible — the exit node forwards your traffic, so it's a trust relationship with us, the operator.
- ✕It's one location for now — a single Searxly node today, with more to come as we grow.
- ✕It's in beta — rolling out and being tested in the open before the first public release.
The last layer: your address.
Local search, agentic tools for your own AI, keys that never leave — and now an IP that isn't yours either. One tap, paid privately, native to the Mac.