Qmamu is an Ahmedabad-built search engine marketed on privacy, built by Qmamu Technology Pvt. Ltd. in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Founded by CEO Dhanani Nishith, it launched on Republic Day 2021 with the mission of giving Indian users a search engine that doesn't track their activity. The platform includes a web search engine, image search, video search, news aggregation, and a companion Android browser app with 100K+ downloads. Qmamu's key differentiator is its privacy-first approach combined with Indian language support. The search engine supports 12 languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, and Punjabi — with morphological analysis for Indian language queries. The browser app automatically blocks third-party trackers, enforces HTTPS encryption, and includes voice search so users can speak queries in their native language instead of typing. Qmamu is completely free with no premium tier. The search engine is accessible via qmamu.com on any browser, and the companion Qmamu Browser app is available on Google Play. The company is small (2-10 employees) and bootstrapped, which means development moves slowly compared to Google or DuckDuckGo. Qmamu is best suited for privacy-conscious Indian users who want a Made-in-India alternative to Google, and for users who prefer searching in regional languages. However, search result quality and index depth are significantly behind Google — users searching for niche topics or expecting Google-level accuracy will be disappointed. The app and search engine work, but feel like an early-stage product compared to established alternatives.
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Qmamu Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
4.6/5 on Google Play Store (5,841 ratings) · Last verified 2026-09-17
Yes, on ownership — Qmamu is run by Qmamu Technology Pvt. Ltd., incorporated in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 19 January 2021 (CIN U72900GJ2021PTC119605), with promoters holding 92.83% and no external or foreign funding, per MCA filings cited in our 20 August 2026 review of Indian browsers and search engines. Both directors are Indian and the team is small (around seven people), based entirely in India. On company ownership, Qmamu is one of the most straightforwardly Indian products we cover. But "Indian company" and "Indian search index" are two different claims — see the next question.
It uses Google's. Qmamu markets itself as an independent search engine, but as of 17 September 2026 its own search page still ships CSS explicitly targeting Google's Custom Search Element classes, scoped to `#QmamuAll .gsc-*` (we found `.gsc-control-cse`, `.gsc-results`, `.gsc-adBlock`, and `.gsc-search-box` by fetching qmamu.com/search directly). This matches what our 20 August 2026 investigation documented via live network capture: Qmamu loads `cse.google.com/cse.js` with custom search ID `cx=2af86af473cd541d4` and sends the user's query to Google's Custom Search Element API, autocomplete requests to `suggestqueries.google.com`, and ad requests to Google AdSense for Search (`syndicatedsearch.goog`), which is also how the free product is monetized. Qmamu also publishes no robots.txt (checked again 17 September 2026: qmamu.com/robots.txt returns HTTP 404), no crawler user-agent, and no index-size figure anywhere on its site — there is no evidence it runs its own web crawler at all.
It's completely free with no paid tier (checked 17 September 2026). But its privacy claims don't match its own architecture. Qmamu's privacy policy states "We don't track you," "No Search Query Tracking," "No IP Logging," and promises never to share search activity with third parties or data brokers (as quoted in our 20 August 2026 review). Yet, per that same network capture, every search sends the query to Google's Custom Search API, to Google Analytics as a `search_term` parameter, to Google's ad network, and to a third-party ad network called Siteplug. Monetization runs through Google AdSense for Search. The gap between the "we don't track you" marketing and what a search actually triggers is not disclosed anywhere on the site.
Not if your reason for switching is to get your queries away from Google — they reach Google's servers by a different route regardless. As a layer on top, Qmamu does offer real things Google's own homepage doesn't bundle: search in 12 Indian languages with voice input, and a companion Android browser that blocks third-party trackers and forces HTTPS. But underneath, it's a Google Custom Search front-end, so result quality and coverage track whatever Google Programmable Search returns for a small-site configuration — not an independent competing index. Treat it as a regional-language search UI with light privacy features layered on Google, not as a genuine alternative to Google.
The website is: qmamu.com returned HTTP 200 and loaded normally when checked 17 September 2026. The companion Android app is a different story — its Google Play listing still shows "Updated on Mar 18, 2023" as of 17 September 2026, meaning it hasn't been touched in three and a half years. There is no iOS app at all (confirmed 17 September 2026 via Apple's iTunes lookup API, which returns zero results for Qmamu / com.qmamu.browser). The app has 100K+ downloads and a 4.6-star rating from roughly 5,850 reviews (checked 17 September 2026) — but ratings are lifetime averages and don't reflect how stale a build is.
They're not really in the same category. Ulaa, JioSphere and Epic are browsers — installing one doesn't change your search engine unless you also switch the default inside it. Qmamu is the only one of the four marketed as a search engine itself. On the maintenance test that matters most for anything handling your browsing — when was it last updated — Qmamu comes out worst: its Android app hasn't shipped an update since March 2023, versus Ulaa (updated 19 August 2026) and JioSphere (updated 14 August 2026), which are both actively developed; Epic is also stale (last Android update July 2025, iOS update 2020). On company ownership specifically, Qmamu is fully Indian-owned with no foreign investment, which is cleaner than JioSphere, part-owned by Google and Meta — but ownership and product quality are separate questions, and Qmamu trails badly on the second.
Yes — this is a genuine feature, not just marketing. Qmamu supports search in 12 Indian languages (including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese, Odia and Punjabi) with morphological analysis for regional-language queries, plus voice search so you can speak a query instead of typing it. This language layer sits on top of the Google-powered results discussed above — the language handling is Qmamu's own, but the results underneath are Google's.
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