# Discourse mobile app search engine
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-mobile-app-search-engine/59022
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 13, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-mobile-app-search-engine/59022 "2017-03-13T19:16:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@liberaltech](https://meta.discourse.org/u/liberaltech)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-mobile-app-search-engine/59022/1 "2017-03-13T19:16:56Z")
An easier way to search and find new Discourse made forums.
Has there been talk about adding a search feature to the mobile app?
I wanted to know if there was a search engine being developed for the mobile app version of discourse so that it would make it easier to find new forums or explore categories. Similar to what Gitter has on it’s app.
Possible Features:
- Searcheable forums
- Categories
- Most visited (with permission from forum if private)
- Number of people
I mainly would like to be able to search for new Discourse forums.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-mobile-app-search-engine/59022/2 "2017-03-13T19:19:55Z")
Yes, see:
> [@Discourse index](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-index/52759):
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> Hi, After working on the Discourse Notifier mobile app I realised, one killer feature for the app would be to improve discoverability. A shared index would help with this (and would also help when you know the forum but cant remember the URL). MVP app would have: a user facing form to register your site. The form would only have a URL field, and we would retrieve data automatically a GET /sites API endpoint with a q params to filter results and probably some pagination logic V2: implement c…