Ecosia: Browse to plant trees.

4.3
178K reviews
10M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Like other search engines, we make money through ads, but we use 100% of our profits for the planet. The Ecosia community has already planted 200 million trees in over 35 countries.

With one download you can help tackle climate change while also protecting your privacy. Download the Ecosia app today to plant trees as you search — it’s completely free!

Ad blocker and fast browsing — The Ecosia app is based on Chromium and gives you an intuitive, fast and secure browsing experience with everything you need, including tabs, incognito mode, bookmarks, downloads and a built-in ad blocker. We also show a green leaf beside your results that are pro-environment, helping you make greener choices whilst you search.

Plant trees with your searches and be climate active every day — The Ecosia community is tackling climate change, protecting wildlife, and collaborating with local communities around the world, planting the right trees in the right places.

Protect your privacy — We don’t create a profile of you or track your location, we never sell your data to advertisers, and your searches are always SSL-encrypted. We want trees, not your data.

Carbon negative browser — Not only do the trees we plant absorb CO2, we also have our own solar plants. They don't just produce enough renewable energy to power all your searches, but twice as much! This means more renewables (and fewer fossil fuels) in the electricity grid.

Radical transparency — Our monthly financial reports disclose all of our projects so you can see exactly what our profits are going towards. We’re a not-for-profit tech company that dedicates 100% of its profits to climate action.

Get Ecosia today and be climate active every day

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Website: https://ecosia.org
Our blog: https://blog.ecosia.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecosia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecosia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ecosia
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/EcosiaORG
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ecosia
Updated on
Feb 14, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity, and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
170K reviews
Mugusta Bjeonklei
January 25, 2024
It's been great for the most part, but in the last week or two it's been freezing at random and when it does this my entire (brand new, Android 13) device is unresponsive; I just had to do a hard reboot to get control of my phone back. Idk if this has anything to do with Google trying to end all adblocking through Chrome and Chromium, or what. I've recently been seeing some ads too, even with a VPN and this browser.
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Ecosia
February 2, 2024
Thanks for your comment, we'd like to investigate this issue further and try to resolve it for you. Please reach out directly to our mobile support team by going to App Settings → About Ecosia → Feedback and one of the team will then be able to help! Let us know that you come from the Play Store!
Lisa Person
January 16, 2024
I've used Ecosia for ~5 years. I love the work they are doing to address climate change and deforestation. The built-in ad blocker and option to reject cookies is helpful, but less robust since the June 2023 update. The browser performs moderately well, but is fairly useless for local results. AI-driven auto-completes are laughably poor. The latest update added tab groupings, which renders the platform cumbersome and time-consuming. Google did this to much backlash and then reversed course.
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Charles Annecharico
September 24, 2023
Great browser alternative, with load times fast as any competition. Have had issues with image results in the past being zoomed in for no reason, but opening image in separate tab seemed to resolve that, and some bugs when they switched up how the tree count looks, which reset my search counter and is still broken, but that isn't a necessary feature so I won't complain. Love to see where their profits go and all their projects, overall great app!
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What's new

We fixed an issue that caused problems navigating through the bookmark folders.