# Can we use Elasticsearch on mobile device for offline search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elasticsearch-on-mobile-device-for-offline-search/27189>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 11, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elasticsearch-on-mobile-device-for-offline-search/27189 "2015-08-11T12:48:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![RohanKumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohankumbhar/32/23649_2.png) [@RohanKumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RohanKumbhar)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elasticsearch-on-mobile-device-for-offline-search/27189/1 "2015-08-11T12:48:37Z")

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Hi ,

Can i install elasticsearch on mobile devices and use it to index the docs available on mobile...offline?

If yes, could you please provide me the steps? else any pointers for alternate mobile search tool or mobile based crawler?

Thanks,  
Rohan

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**Author:** ![jpountz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpountz/32/45836_2.png) [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elasticsearch-on-mobile-device-for-offline-search/27189/2 "2015-08-11T18:03:13Z")

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Elasticsearch is not tested on mobiles devices, and I suspect it would be a bit heavy. So it might be an interesting thing to play with, but probably not something you should look into for an actual application that you want to enable offline search for.

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**Author:** ![RohanKumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohankumbhar/32/23649_2.png) [@RohanKumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RohanKumbhar)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elasticsearch-on-mobile-device-for-offline-search/27189/3 "2015-08-12T06:34:09Z")

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Thanks Adrien,

Found this tool Elasticlunr which is meant for offline mobile search (for your reference)  
[http://elasticlunr.com/](http://elasticlunr.com/)  
[http://weixsong.github.io/assets/elasticlunr/docs/index.html](http://weixsong.github.io/assets/elasticlunr/docs/index.html)

Regards,  
Rohan

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elasticsearch-on-mobile-device-for-offline-search/27189/4 "2017-07-05T23:56:17Z")

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