Ecosia Reviews

Just one issue

Johnny Achkar

I would appreciate adding the “X” button to the browser, it would be helpful. Other than that, it is an amazing browser that supports a great cause.

Easy to use

Bobellerz

Nice and easy to use. Replaced my web browsing with it.

I really want to like this app

I hate you gnarwhal

Honestly, there should be more apps like this. Apps like Ecosia can really help conserve our planet’s resources. However, this concept alone is keeping this app on my home screen. From a UI standpoint, Ecosia is a watered-down version of Google. Simple functions like refreshing the page require you to press an extra button (a solution I actually admire but is not very efficient). And what I dislike the most is that certain links that work on any other browser out there do not work on Ecosia. This is extremely frustrating. Many things about this app need to be fixed. Simply taking inspiration from the Google browser would really help improve this app, and I feel that many more people would download it if it were improved. Regretfully, I probably won’t use this app a lot until its problems are resolved (right now, it’s just not practical to use), but I really, really hope this app is improved on.

Suggestions ((-:

Nico Mesa

I love love love this app & it’s cause, however I do have some suggestions to make as encouragement for improving & to help increase the number of users. 1. Changes to maps/location features, as they are very poor & automatically reroute to google anyways. Personally, it makes me wonder why not just start off using Google Maps in the first place, if that’s where I’m gonna end up going to? It also affects the relevance of search results too which can be irritating. 2. Photo viewing under the images tab is not as smooth or fluid as maybe Google’s viewing screen, which I think could appeal to more people than it currently does 3. Overall fluidity I would say could use some improvement, actually 4. Highlighting information at the top of the screen for specific searches that way users don’t have to click through links and manually search for information, Ecosia can just provide a snippet of information above all search results for users to view 5. Tab navigation/buttons are awkward to use & don’t seem very efficient for browsing as well

Great for the most part

D. Nikolaeva

I genuinely like using this on my phone. However. There are some problems with the computer version. First off, for some reason, while using it on the computer, one of my old google themes was enabled. I had not even searched for google themes, and it appeared in the background. Ecosia was still the search engine, however. Oh well, I took it out and continued. A few minutes later, I went to look for one of my bookmarks, which I had organized into folders when I was still using google, and I saw that they were completely out of order! They were not in the folders I had placed them in before, and I was a bit upset. I feel like the extension was undoing my settings. Anyways, there are plenty of good reasons to use the app, since it helps to plant trees and everything, but the computer version seems to have various issues, which I do not understand.

Attaining info and planting trees

KidClutch35

2 birds, 1 stone

Awesome Alternative

Aw3someS0cks

This app is wonderful because it makes you feel like you're doing something good for the world while you're just lazily enjoying the internet! I wish that it saved what page you were on, because if you close the app completely, whatever website you might have been on will be gone. It would also be nice if it showed recent searches, but the predicted searches that you can quickly click are nice. It works nicely, but there are some small perks of Safari (the default browser) that this doesn't have. Overall, I'm glad to have found Ecosia!

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