# Ecosia: Search to plant trees

> Plant trees as you browse.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id670881887](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id670881887)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id670881887`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ecosia GmbH
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (9,364 ratings)
- **Version:** 12.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **First published:** 2013-08-12
- **Size:** 324 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ecosia-search-to-plant-trees/id670881887)
- **Website:** [https://info.ecosia.org](https://info.ecosia.org/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.ecosia.org/privacy](https://www.ecosia.org/privacy)

## Description

Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees as you browse. By using it, your searches help fund climate action, support biodiversity, and empower local communities. Ecosia uses only what’s needed to deliver results and encrypts your queries, so your privacy stays intact.

Powered by renewable energy, Ecosia operates as a not-for-profit, steward-owned company that publishes monthly financial reports showing exactly how your clicks translate into real-world impact. Join millions of eco-conscious users and plant trees with every search.

## Rankings

- #18,410 — Overall
- #10 — Superpowered Internet Browsers
- #3 — environment
- #7 — sustainable
- #19 — search
- #31 — search bar

## Review summary

Many reviewers praise Ecosia for its tree-planting mission and eco-friendly approach, along with a clean, easy-to-use design and the option to disable AI features. However, they cite drawbacks: concerns about AI's environmental impact, slow loading and reliability problems, crashes on older devices, privacy/verification friction, and issues with login and seed tracking or syncing across devices. Overall, users value the environmental goal but worry about performance, reliability, and privacy related to recent AI changes.

### Pros

- Planting trees with every search / clear environmental mission
- Eco-friendly focus and climate action emphasis
- Clean, easy-to-navigate design
- Ability to disable or opt out of AI features
- Seedlings earned with searches to support environmental causes

### Cons

- AI feature controversy: perceived harm to the environment and conflict with sustainability claims
- Slow loading and overall performance issues
- Crashes and instability, especially on older devices
- Privacy concerns and verification friction (sketchy policies, Cloudflare)
- Account issues: frequent logouts, seed-tracking limitations, and lack of cross-device syncing

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id670881887)