Find anything on your phone easily with Pixel Search - the all-in-one search app
Pixel Search: Universal Search delivers on-device, all-in-one search across apps, contacts, files, calendar events, and web suggestions with a clean Material interface. It emphasizes privacy by keeping data on-device and using permissions solely to enhance local searching. The app has strong traction with 100,000+ total installs and 3.3K in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
All-in-one, on-device search across apps, contacts, files, and web suggestions
Strong privacy: data stays on device with no data shared
Highly customizable: icon theming, shortcuts, and multi-engine support
Free to use with no data leakage and local storage maintained
Relies on multiple permissions to unlock full capabilities, which may raise privacy concerns for some users
Not ranked in any top app lists, indicating limited visibility in external listings
About Pixel Search: Universal Search
Pixel Search: Universal Search is a tools app developed by Rushikesh Kamewar.
Download Statistics
Pixel Search: Universal Search has been downloaded 270 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 3.3 thousand times.
User Ratings
Pixel Search: Universal Search is rated 4.82 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 4 thousand ratings.
App Information
Pixel Search: Universal Search is FREE to download. The APK download size is 11.57 MB. The latest version available is 2.4. The last update was on February 14, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Pixel Search: Universal Search requires Android 8.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2023.
Description
Pixel Search is the ultimate search app that allows you to find anything on your phone with ease. You can quickly search through your apps, contacts, web suggestions, and files without having to open multiple apps.
Pixel Search is designed with a clean and intuitive interface that makes it easy for anyone to use. Whether you're looking for a specific app, a contact's phone number, or a file you recently downloaded, Pixel Search can help you find it in just a few taps.
Features: - Beautiful Interface - Search in apps, shortcuts, contacts, files and web suggestions. - Icon pack theming. - Ability to manage and add custom app shortcuts using shortcut maker. - Supports custom installed search engines - Beautiful material you widget - Light/Dark Theme
Permission details: 1. Internet permission: Only used to get web suggestions
2. Contacts (READ_CONTACTS): Only used to search through contacts (Completely optional)
3. Phone (CALL_PHONE): Only used for phone call as per user's request (Completely optional).
4. Files (MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE): To search through device files (On Device). App’s core purpose is to search through files and folders across the device’s external storage.
5. QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES: To get list of installed apps and shortcuts
6. READ_CALENDAR: To get list of upcoming events. All events are accessed on device in real-time, nothing is stored in the app.
All permissions are used only for searching purposes. No data is shared; everything is stored on device and is completely deleted when app is uninstalled.
Recent changes: Pixel Search v2.4 🔍
• General bug fixes and stability improvements. • Fading edge effect for search result. • Compact search engines style (default; can be changed from settings). • Calendar Events search added (enable from app settings > search results > calendar events).
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Comments on Pixel Search: Universal Search for Android
★★★★☆Oscar Klarqvist· Mar 15, 2026
Great app! Definitely feels like a step up from the deprecated Sesame and love the more modern design options. Would love to see more customization options like fine-tuning size and placements of icons, in particular I miss the option to completely hide the leftmost search-logo like you can the other icons, have no need for that and can't see a reason why it would have to be there. Can see this be a five-star with a few updates.
★★★★☆Raman Singh· Mar 12, 2026
Hi dev, I really like your app and since google killed the M3E style pixel search bar on Android 16, I've been using this app as the default search provider on pixel launcher. However, I noticed that the app uses PNG for widget icons instead of XML drawables. I hope you can switch the icons to vectors, so they look less pixelated. Great app btw ❤️
★☆☆☆☆Sharandeep Singh· Feb 28, 2026
Has so much potential but fails most of the time. The app list it shows is stale too often with broken links and duplicates. I have given this app too many tries from time to time hoping it would improve even on different phones, it still messes up basic things.
★★☆☆☆Perspective· Feb 7, 2026
It's still very slow, I am using app searcher, and it's very fast on launching apps, if you going to solve that issue + create your own search query (pre-build like yt music, yt videos) then I can switch to this otherwise app searcher is still very reliable and fast
Google Play Rankings for Pixel Search: Universal Search
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Technologies used by Pixel Search: Universal Search
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Trust & Safety: Privacy-focused: permissions are used solely to enable local search features (e.g., internet for web suggestions, contacts/calendar for optional local search). All data stays on-device and is deleted when the app is uninstalled; no data is shared externally.
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.
