It's pretty good. Ads are blocked well, the searches are more accurate than Chrome, and the UI/UX is better than Chrome too. My only problem with Ecosia is that it asks for cookies anytime you start a new incognito tab (if you haven't already made one). I would give Ecosia a 5 star rating if it didn't ask for cookies in incognito mode. Over all, it's brilliant.
I appreciate that something as simple as using this browser helps plant trees, which is why I have been using the app for at least two or three years now. It functions well, I don't have trouble finding the web pages I want. It doesn't have the fancier features that Chrome does and the image search results needs work (some images get cut off when using it on mobile). But I honestly can't complain as it suits my needs. I hope this app continues to grow, improve, and plant lots more trees!
I just started using ecosia on my pc to avoid ai results, and I love it. It is pretty too! I really want to make it work on my phone as well, but the widget is so unsightly. I wish I could make it transparent. (It might be a conflict with my launcher, not sure) I would also love to see a mic button on the widget so I could use it like I do my google widget, and easily search things by voice.
very nice search engine, i would say it's almost on par with chrome. there's just a couple of things missing: such as when i look up the definition of something it won't pop up with the definition, i have click on tje link to the dictionary. it's missing little google shortcuts like that. but, if you're cool with that you should definitely switch.
It was okay in the beginning, but now after using it for a few weeks, it has gotten so slow! I thought it was just my phone so I searched through Google instead, and Google immediately brought up the common website I was trying to open. So I have now uninstalled this app. I'm sorry I can no longer help your company, but when I'm looking up stuff, I'm usually in a hurry trying to get somewhere or grab rewards while I'm in a store. (We've gotten spoiled from other search apps.)
The browser is not only amazing, but I can input any search via the drop down bar, but there's an issue with that, the drop down search bar (when you swipe down on your phone to show you the quick settings and notifications menu at the top of your phone) for some reason doesn't auto register space characters in between words when swiping your words like I'm doing now. Using that search bar forces me to push the space bar which is a minor inconvenience, otherwise an amazing app.
I've used this app for a long time and this browser used to be my favorite. However the grouped tab update has made it unusable. I constantly lose track of the tabs I have open, and some webpage interface elements get blocked by the group tab bar on the bottom which you can't make go away. This browser has also long suffered from the lack of ability to transfer bookmarks, even between Ecosia browsers on different devices. I've tried for months but will probably switch to Firefox now.
Good stuff. I really like the trees and think it has a nice design. I also appreciate the recent addition of a dark mode. I'd really like better privacy protections (like blocking fingerprinting and all that kinda stuff, and blocking cross site tracking and third party cookies and automatically clearing cookies and stuff upon exit) though. I'd also like the ability to block video autoplay. And please make it easier to download the ecosia app (not "just" a browser extension) on a computer!
I love it! Feels great to know that you're helping the planet, even if it's a tiny contribution! Love the new adblocker, it doesn't allow adding filter lists as shown in the preview screenshot tho! Please add it ASAP. One more thing, bottom URL bar is the way to go as smartphones keep getting bigger. Please add an option for that too.
I'm very happy I can use Ecosia as a standard web browsing app, but I just wish some of the features were as nice and detailed as the others. One feature I can think of that would be greatly helpful for me is if I were able to drag tabs around to reorganize them. That's something I could do on Google Chrome/Safari, and I just wish we could do that on Ecosia as well. Other than that I really appreciate Ecosia's mission in planting trees!
