Best self-hosted Search Engines apps

ElasticSearch

★ 77,110

Distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine.

MeiliSearch

★ 58,232

Meilisearch is an ultra-fast, typo-tolerant search engine that's easy to add to any site or app. Self-hosted, it delivers instant search without relying on paid services like Algolia.

SearXNG

★ 32,549

SearXNG is a metasearch engine that aggregates results from many services without tracking you. Self-hosted, it's the private alternative to Google Search, with no profiling or ads.

Typesense

★ 26,076

Blazing fast, typo-tolerant open source search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.

ZincSearch

★ 17,862

Search engine that requires minimal resources (alternative to Elasticsearch).

OpenSearch

★ 13,244

Distributed and RESTful search engine.

Manticore Search

★ 11,834

Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).

bitmagnet

★ 4,114

BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration.

Yacy

★ 3,966

Peer based, decentralized search engine server.

Aleph

★ 2,384

Tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case.

Apache Solr

★ 1,628

Enterprise search platform featuring full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.

sist2

★ 1,272

Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool.

Hister

★ 1,241

Personal web search engine with automatic indexing of visited websites. Supports offline local result previews, local files, multi-user handling and optional semantic search.

Websurfx

★ 1,138

Aggregate results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. It is extremely fast and provides a high level of customization (alternative to SearX).

Fess

★ 1,115

Powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server.

Meme Search

★ 681

AI-powered meme search engine. Automatically extracts descriptions from images using vision-language models, then indexes with vector embeddings for semantic and keyword search.

Sosse

★ 2

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.