Ecosia: Browse to plant trees.

Plant trees as you browse. Over 200 million trees planted.

Total ratings

4.28 (Rating count: 179,993)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Supports a great cause (planting trees)
  • Good browser alternative with a nice UI/UX
  • Ad blocking functionality
  • Group tab feature
  • Dark mode option
Cons
  • Frequent crashing and freezing issues
  • Problems with image search and results
  • Inability to transfer bookmarks between devices
  • Group tab feature makes it hard to track open tabs
  • Inconsistent search results compared to Google
Most mentioned
  • Crashing and freezing
  • Image search issues
  • Ad blocking not effective
  • Problems with tab grouping
  • Loss of bookmarks
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 2.50
All time rating average: 4.28
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-11-30
Brandon Lipsky
I'd give this app the 5 stars it deserves if not for an incident I had with it. Basically, this app lets you make bookmarks, but it doesn't actually save/back them up on the cloud. I un/reinstalled Ecosia for a separate issue, and lost everything. I tried getting back as much as I could to import elsewhere, but it was incompatible. Tech support just said that's how things were. My phone's getting old so is close to retiring, and I don't want to lose 1300+ bookmarks when I have to get a new one.
2024-11-02
Isabel Green
I'm kind of disappointed with the addition of Google to the image results, not only does it open a new tab when you select the images option, but it's not even Ecosia's image results, it's Google's. If I wanted Google integrated in my search engine, I'd just use Google. I kind of really liked to old formatting, as opposed to using Google.
2024-10-17
Charles Annecharico
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. Recent issue of not being able to access image search, so Ill have to lower rating until that's fixed.
2024-06-13
Shyanne O'Donnell
I actually love this app. I love being able to group like tabs in one area. One for shopping, one for news articles etc. the reason for the 3 stars is I pinned my fitness application from the ecosia browser to my home screen. While trying to remove it I accidentally deleted the whole app. I lost all of my bookmarks(46) and every single one of the tabs I had open(about 74). I am really upset and its highly unlikely I'm gonna use the app again.
2024-01-25
Mugusta Bjeonklei
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.
2024-01-16
Lisa Person
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.
2023-09-06
River Handley
i used to love ecosia and recommend it to everyone but not anymore. i loved the option of ad blocking... except it doesn't work. i still get ads all the time where there shouldn't be. the accessability in the settings to zoom text warps the whole web page and cuts off parts of it instead of just increasing text size? it used to work just fine. little stuff like this slowly make it bothersome at best, unusable at worst.
2023-08-21
Bryan Loveless
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.
2022-08-01
V Sondervan
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.
2021-11-02
Mar B
I've been supporting Ecosia for over a year, and while I love the concept, it's slowly becoming significantly less usable. Many websites are not showing on Ecosia searches, causing me to have to go to Google to search. Some examples are dnd resources like WikiDot (which used to show up) or literally anything that might edge on being "adult content". Please fix these search engine gaps.
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