Neeva

Ad-free, anti-tracking “all-in-one search engine and browser” app from the startup founded by former Google executives: a fork of Firefox for iOS on iPhone, and an Android browser written from scratch on Chromium via the WebLayer API (Darin Fisher's team); shut down in 2023 after its acquisition by Snowflake.

Facts

Developer

Neeva Inc. (Sridhar Ramaswamy, Vivek Raghunathan)

Website

web.archive.org

Engines

WebKitBlink

Derived from

Firefox for iOS (iOS); Chromium (Android)

Platforms

iOSAndroid

Details

iOS; Android version launched in August 2022; extensions for other browsers

Popularity

54/100 — More than 600,000 Neeva users across all products (Oct. 2022, TechCrunch)

Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeva
2. https://github.com/j-f1/forked-neeva-ios
3. https://www.producthunt.com/stories/building-a-new-mobile-browser-for-android
4. https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/05/neeva-brings-its-ad-free-search-engine-to-europe/
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20221001232100/https://neeva.com/
6. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/31/23428862/arc-browser-web-company-darin-fisher