Kagi Search for Everyone

Kagi is making its search engine easier to try: anyone can search at kagi.com for 50 searches without an account, with 100 additional searches after registering. Because the company does not advertise, it says it depends on community engagement and personal recommendations, and this change removes the account-creation barrier for prospective users. Kagi also objects to Google’s plan to disable Search alongside AI tools on school accounts from early 2027, arguing that schools should not have access to education tools dictated by a company’s commercial priorities. It urges schools to consider alternatives, including Kagi, and has issued an open letter on the issue.

The release also details updates across Kagi’s apps. The Android Search app has a redesigned home screen, improved voice search with language selection, image search by pasting, widgets, a browser setup guide, and clearer access to free-search limits. Assistant now handles shared threads more directly in its app, supports pasting images and files, and makes temporary conversations easier to identify. Kagi News received a Google Play editorial feature and improvements to duplicate-story handling and settings. Translate adds live proofreading corrections, more reliable recovery of completed translations, improved Kurdish and other language support, and clearer AI-allowance information. Small Web adds topics and remembers users’ topic preferences. The changelog also lists many fixes across search, translation, and the apps, alongside a warning that logged-out users may see a limited discovery experience rather than their paid plan.