diff --git a/components/settings/index/searchFilter.test.ts b/components/settings/index/searchFilter.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7dc42f3c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/settings/index/searchFilter.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { matchesQuery, normalize } from "./searchFilter";
+
+test("normalize strips accents and lowercases", () => {
+  expect(normalize("Légèreté")).toBe("legerete");
+  expect(normalize("  AUDIO ")).toBe("audio");
+});
+
+test("matchesQuery matches title case/accent-insensitively", () => {
+  expect(matchesQuery({ title: "Apparence", keywords: [] }, "appar")).toBe(
+    true,
+  );
+  expect(
+    matchesQuery({ title: "Audio", keywords: ["sous-titres"] }, "SOUS"),
+  ).toBe(true);
+  expect(matchesQuery({ title: "Music", keywords: [] }, "xyz")).toBe(false);
+});
+
+test("matchesQuery returns true for empty query", () => {
+  expect(matchesQuery({ title: "Anything" }, "")).toBe(true);
+  expect(matchesQuery({ title: "Anything" }, "   ")).toBe(true);
+});
diff --git a/components/settings/index/searchFilter.ts b/components/settings/index/searchFilter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b9f8ef92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/settings/index/searchFilter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+export const normalize = (s: string): string =>
+  s.normalize("NFD").replace(/[̀-ͯ]/g, "").toLowerCase().trim();
+
+export interface Searchable {
+  title: string;
+  keywords?: string[];
+}
+
+export const matchesQuery = (item: Searchable, query: string): boolean => {
+  const q = normalize(query);
+  if (!q) return true;
+  const hay = normalize([item.title, ...(item.keywords ?? [])].join(" "));
+  return hay.includes(q);
+};
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 69354e8d0..d0e3d11b5 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
     "node_modules",
     "babel.config.js",
     "metro.config.js",
-    "utils/jellyseerr/**/*"
+    "utils/jellyseerr/**/*",
+    "**/*.test.ts",
+    "**/*.test.tsx"
   ]
 }