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Swisscows review

Swiss family-friendly search engine with its own index that says it stores no search data, plus paid Pro, email and VPN products.

By the Comredix review desk · Updated November 14, 2026

Quality (40%)
7.2
Experience (25%)
8.2
Value (35%)
8.4

Swisscows is a Swiss search engine that says it does not store data, anonymizes all queries and builds no user profiles. Its main difference is that it is family-friendly by design: pornographic and sexual content is neither indexed nor displayed, which makes it a practical default for children and schools. Swisscows says its results rely on its own index, and it offers an anonymous preview window for viewing results. Search is free. Swisscows Pro is a paid, ad-free version that also lets you choose which sources appear, for example hiding TikTok and Instagram and highlighting scientific articles. The company also sells Swisscows.email, EdelCloud storage and Swisscows.VPN, which starts from 7.00 CHF a month and covers up to three devices. Prices are shown in CHF and EUR here, so we could not confirm a USD figure for Pro. The always-on filter is the trade-off: adults may find some legitimate results missing.

Who it is for

families who want filtered results by default

Price

Free; Swisscows Pro, VPN and email are paid (USD price not shown here).

Swisscows is the free search engine that does not enrich itself from the users' data
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 14, 2026.

Key features

  • No tracking, no search history and no user profiles
  • Pornographic and sexual content is neither indexed nor displayed
  • Own search index
  • Anonymous preview window for results
  • Swisscows Pro adds ad-free results and source controls, such as hiding TikTok and Instagram

Strengths and weaknesses

  • Strength: Adult content filtering is built into the index, which suits schools
  • Strength: Swiss servers and data protection law
  • Strength: VPN for up to 3 devices sold by the same company
  • Weakness: Pro pricing is not shown in USD
  • Weakness: Filtered index can hide legitimate adult health content
  • Weakness: Smaller feature set than the top picks

Key facts

  • Price: Free; Pro paid
  • Based in: Switzerland
  • Adult content: Not indexed
  • VPN: From 7.00 CHF a month

Where it ranks

Swisscows is No. 9 in our Best Private Search Engines verdict.

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