Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Ghostpeek

A private search engine that encrypts your search terms.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ghostpeek launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
GhostlyX▲131
Privacy-first analytics without cookies or clutter
Apr 2026 · ghostlyx.com · its alternatives →
2
Ghostery 8▲306
Blocks ads, stops trackers, and speeds up websites
2018 · ghostery.com · its alternatives →
3
Ghost Jobs▲260
Bringing transparency to the job market
2024 · ghostjobs.io · its alternatives →
4
TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite▲184
Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite - torrent-net/README.md at master · lmatteis/torrent-net
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
5BA
Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'▲747
2019 · kerkour.fr · its alternatives →
6
Google Invisible reCAPTCHA▲428
Protects your website from spam and abuse
2017 · cloud.google.com · its alternatives →
7
Candle▲65
Search engine for trustworthy information
2021 · candle.to · its alternatives →
8
A search engine that doesn't track you, where users vote for results▲62
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
9
Ghost Inspector 2.0▲261
Automated browser testing made easy.
2017 · ghostinspector.com · its alternatives →
10
DeSearch▲118
Crypto and Blockchain focused search engine
2018 · desearch.com · its alternatives →
11YC
You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs▲361
Skip the groundwork with our AI-ready Web Search APIs, delivering advanced search capabilities to power your next product.
2021 · you.com · its alternatives →
12
Ghost▲350
Open-source, self-hosted game servers
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
13
DuckDuckGo Privacy App & Extension▲357
Privacy, simplified. Available on all major platforms.
2018 · duckduckgo.com · its alternatives →
14
The Social Search Engine▲71
A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search engine
2021 · its alternatives →
15DR
DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)▲269
I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…
2022 · its alternatives →
16
Mixpeek▲78
Full-text file search API for your app
2021 · mixpeek.com · its alternatives →
17
Ghostery Privacy Browser▲104
Private, fast, tracker and ad-free mobile browsing
2018 · ghostery.com · its alternatives →
18
Mystery Search▲119
Google, but you get the last person's search
2024 · mysterysearch.lol · its alternatives →
19
Desearch▲113
First Decentralized AI Search for Builders & Agents
2025 · desearch.ai · its alternatives →
20NF
NameMonk – fast domain search using web sockets and Bloom filters▲85
2013 · namemonk.com · its alternatives →
21
Ghostboard.io▲92
Analytics of your Ghost blog
2018 · growblog.io · its alternatives →
22
Search Encrypt▲69
The Privacy Based Search Engine
2017 · its alternatives →
23
GhostDesk▲94
Real-time AI overlay for meetings & invisible to screenshare
Mar 2026 · ghost-desk.app · its alternatives →
24
LazyWeb Alpha▲96
Search without ads or tracking. View results how you want.
2021 · lazyweb.ai · its alternatives →

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