Unfortunately they will never catch Google, which makes me sad as a ten year user. USA User and Programmer. First problem is being out of the UK, trying to compete in the US Market. Not even remotely close. Come on guys, I WANT you to succeed! Honestly you will have to employ far smarter Engineers and Programmers/Coders. Scale 1–10 against Google who I hate and refuse to use? You’re a 1/One. Have to do better guys if you desire to compete in the US Market. If it’s a cost thing, which it always is, consider outsourcing to dark web coders/programmers. Tho known for dishonesty, they will at the very least, get you all up to American 2024 standards. I had to search ten times for the true owner on a HORSE in an American TV series. I never got to the true owner. That should speak volumes to you Engineers. You simply must do waay better. I want you to succeed. We HATE GOOGLE/Bezos! But to be the best in America requires a reality check on how you compete against the known best. Sadly, you’re sorely lacking. Come on UK Engineer’s! I am rooting for you. And have given you TEN years of my valuable time using only Duckduckgo. You MUST CATCH UP guys ok? Love and truths from America…smile. Get a Venture Capitalist for goodness sakes. I really want you to WIN!!

Updated Review as of March 12, 2025 Additional rating as of today March 12, 2025 Well again this is the 3rd time this week I have to update the app! Frustrating that I have to do it every time I have to go online!!! Why is my DuckDuckGo Privacy Pro allowing all of my search queries to be completed through Google instead of DuckDuckGo? I would really appreciate any responses to this along with a fix to this! Looking at my battery usage trying to understand why I have to charge iPhone everyday lately and this is why, over the last 10 days DuckDuckGo shows 10 hrs 20 min online use and 63 hrs 12 min of background use which is 33% of total use. This shouldn't be happening since I have turned off all Background Activities! Plus the apps version keeps getting reduced to a lower version, I have to keep going to the App Store and update it every time I want to go online which is daily. I keep sending feedbacks on many issues but they never respond nor fix them. Google keeps getting past their privacy blocks along with many others and they don't work on that either. Somehow there's another device that it's backing up to that's not mine nor can I stop it because I don't have apin. Well that's because I never set it up as I don't have another device! I have reported this as well with no response! I even paid for the Privacy Pro and now it's out of control!

I would consider myself someone who really tries to find the best search engine that is clean, consistent, and has great user protection. I have tried a lot of search engines from Chrome, Brave, Edge, Safari; just to name a few. All of these platforms are not as user friendly as Duck Duck Go in my opinion and don’t make my data privacy and user safety as transparent and easy to use as Duck Duck Go. Having recently jumped on this platform after trying all the others, I can confidently say that I have uninstalled all the other search engines and have solely adopted Duck Duck Go as my main search engine. Beyond just user safety, I am a user that has pretty significant ADHD, meaning that cleaner, direct platforms when it comes to user navigation help me tremendously in staying to task and organizing bookmarks as I progress through the day. Overall, I really have found Duck Duck Go to be a phenomenal search engine in the first month that I have began using it and I honestly won’t go back. Additional Note: I am an IPad User and this review is based on my experience using the IPad app.