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:iphone: Curated list of THE BEST FOSS Android apps to maximize your freedom & privacy!

ApplicationCategory: Mobile Apps · App stores · Security & passwords · Tools & terminalsOpen sourcedata checked Oct 15, 2026
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Overview

  • alternatives
  • android
  • android-app
  • apk
  • apps
  • awesome
  • degoogle
  • flutter
  • foss
  • kotlin

Installation

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Compatibility

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PlatformStatusArchitectureEvidenceConfidence
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iOSUnknown———

Releases

checked Oct 29, 2026
v250.0.0LatestMay 7, 2024Official source ↗

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Quality profile

algorithm quality-v1.0 · assessed Oct 15, 2026
Quality Score82
Risk Score0
Confidence 1.00
Quality Score and Risk Score are different measures. A high score does not guarantee safety.

Score components

Maintenance · 2020
last activity 16 days ago
Documentation · 1515
README 114295 chars, description present
Ready to use · 156
install instructions: no; releases: yes
Metadata · 1010
4/4 of description, homepage, license, topics
Releases · 106
10 release(s), latest 891 days ago
Category confidence · 107
classifier confidence 0.65
Adoption · 109
3115 stars (log-dampened, 10k = max)
License clarity · 55
SPDX CC-BY-4.0
Community · 55
issues enabled, 77 forks

License

CC-BY-4.0
Known licensefrom the repository host

This is the catalog policy status, not legal advice.

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github.com/Psyhackological/AAAPrimary★ 3,115 starslast activity Sep 29, 2026Primary repository · Confidence 1.00

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README

From Psyhackological/AAA · license CC-BY-4.0 · fetched Oct 29, 2026

Introduction

This is a list of THE BEST FOSS apps according to us. You can prove us wrong on the contributing page.

App Name :heart: = Someone's Personal Favourite

Why does it exist?

Please use Home button to go to the top.

Rules

  • Open Sourced
  • Free of charge (on F-Droid and source code repository releases)
  • Free as in Freedom
  • Ad-free
  • Installed and tested by me or by contributor
  • Privacy-friendly aware
  • Easy to use
  • Still in development or polished experience
  • Does not lack features compared to proprietary app
  • Does not need an account (the only exceptions are self-hosted apps)
  • Has dark theme

    More detailed explanation here.

AWESOME apps counter: 275 🎉

Contents

  • 2FA
  • Ads & Trackers
  • AI
  • Alarm
  • Android Customization
  • Anime & Manga
  • App Backup
  • Background Noise
  • Barcode Scanner
  • Browser
  • Calculator
  • Calendar
  • Camera
  • ChatGPT
  • Chess
  • Cocktails Making
  • Contacts
  • Decision-Making
  • Device Synchronization
  • Dialer
  • Diary
  • Discord
  • Document Scanner
  • Download Manager
  • Drawing
  • E-book Reader
  • Email
  • Emulation
  • F-Droid
  • File Manager
  • File Synchronization
  • Finance
  • Firewall
  • Flash Cards
  • Flashlight
  • Forgejo & Gitea
  • Gallery
  • Games
  • GitHub Client
  • Google Play
  • Health
  • Icon Pack
  • IDE
  • Image Processing
  • Instant Messaging
  • Keyboard
  • Knowledge
  • Language
  • Launcher
  • Lemmy
  • Loyalty Card
  • Maps
  • Mastodon
  • Matrix Client
  • Meditation
  • Music Downloader
  • Music Player
  • Music Scrobblers
  • Notes
  • OCR
  • Office Suite
  • Package Manager
  • Password Manager
  • PDF Viewer
  • Plants
  • Podcast
  • Public Transport Assistant
  • Reddit
  • RNG
  • RSS Reader
  • Self Hosted
  • Shazam
  • SMS Messenger
  • Spotify
  • SSH client
  • Stargazing
  • Step Counting
  • Streaming
  • Survival
  • System Cleaner
  • Terminal Emulator
  • Text Editor
  • Timers
  • To-Do List
  • Torrenting
  • Trackers
  • Translator
  • Twitch
  • Unit Converter
  • URL Cleaner
  • Video Player
  • VNC client
  • VNC server
  • Voice Recorder
  • Wallet
  • Weather
  • Wikipedia
  • Workout
  • YouTube

Special Thanks

2FA

Aegis :heart:

Stratum Auth

Ente Auth

Ads & Trackers

AdAway

DNS66

InviZible Pro

NetGuard

personalDNSfilter

RethinkDNS

TrackerControl

URLCheck

Exodus

AI

Off Grid

On-device AI suite — run LLMs, vision models, and Stable Diffusion on your phone. Fully offline, no API keys, no data leaving your device.

whoBIRD

Identify bird sounds in real time

TIDY

Text-to-Image Discovery

Alarm

Clock :heart:

Clock You :heart:

Fossify Clock

Chrono

Android Customization

Magisk️

Warden

SmartPack-Kernel Manager

Amarok

Anime & Manga

Aniyomi :heart:

TachiyomiAZ

TachiyomiSY

  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
  • Official page

Kotatsu-Redo

  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
  • Official page

IReader

App Backup

Neo Backup

Background Noise

Noice

Barcode Scanner

Binary Eye

QR Scanner (PFA)

SecScanQR

Simple QR

Browser

Cromite :heart:

IronFox

Brave

Iceraven

  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
  • Official page

Calculator

Calculator++ :heart:

(Google Play's version differs from F-Droid's one, and it violates the rules.)

Calculator-inator

yetCalc

OpenCalc

CuteCalc

Calendar

Fossify Calendar

Etar

KashCal

Offline-first calendar with iCloud/CalDAV sync, full-text search, recurring events, contact birthdays, and home screen widget.

Camera

OpenCamera

Secure Camera by GrapheneOS

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Android

  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
  • Official page

Chess

Lichess :heart:

Coctails Making

Drinkable

Contacts

Fossify Contacts :heart:

Decision-Making

Decisions

Device Synchronization

KDE Connect :heart:

LocalSend

Dialer

Koler

Fossify Phone :heart:

Diary

Easy Diary

Diary

Download Manager

Download Navi

AB Download Manager

Discord

Aliucord

(Aliucord doesn't make Discord open source, it is still proprietary software but with FOSS patches and modifications without Discord Tracking)

  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
  • Official page

Revenge

A client modification for Discord mobile, a continuation of Bunny.

  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
  • Official page

Document Scanner

OSS Document Scanner

Drawing

Pocket Paint

E-book Reader

Librera Reader

KOReader

Myne :heart:

Email

FairEmail

K-9 Mail

Proton Mail

Encrypted email provider

SimpleLogin

Aliases management

Emulation

Lemuroid

F-Droid

F-Droid

Droid-ify :heart:

Neo Store

Florid

File Manager

Material Files :heart:

Amaze File Manager

Fossify File Manager

File Synchronization

Syncthing

Syncthing-Fork

PairDrop

Finance

Currencies :heart:

MoneyWallet

My Expenses

Sushi

Firewall

AFWall+

Flash Cards

AnkiDroid

Flash Deck

Yokatta

Flashlight

Flashy

Forgejo & Gitea

GitNex :heart:

Gallery

Fossify Gallery :heart:

Aves

Gallery

Games

Mindustry

Parlera

Shattered Pixel Dungeon :heart:

Simon Tatham's Puzzles

Sudoku (Privacy Friendly)

Zoysii

Quinb

UnCiv

Box Stacker

Everest

Minetest

GitHub Client

OctoDroid

DioHub

Google Play

Aurora Store :heart:

Obtainium

Accrescent

A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability

Health

Did I Take My Meds?

Medic Log

MediLog

MedTimer

Icon Pack

Arcticons :heart:

Ameixa

Delta

IDE

Cosmic IDE

Image Processing

FFShare

Imagepipe

Image Toolbox :heart:

Instant Messaging

Signal :heart:

Molly :heart:

Session

Nekogram X

OwlGram

  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
  • Official page

Delta Chat

Keyboard

HeliBoard :heart:

Fcitx5 for Android :heart:

Supports input for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more

FlorisBoard

Thumb-Key :heart:

A privacy-conscious Android keyboard made for your thumbs

Unexpected Keyboard

Lightweight and privacy-conscious keyboard, originally designed for Termux

Knowledge

Atomic

Periodic Table

Linux Command Library

Language

Kakugo

Launcher

Kvaesitso :heart:

Lawnchair Launcher :heart:

Neo Launcher

Currently being reworked as Neo Launcher.

KISS Launcher :heart:

Lunar Launcher

Lemmy

Jerboa

A native android app for Lemmy

Thunder :heart:

Loyalty Card

Catima :heart:

Maps

Organic Maps :heart:

CoMaps

OsmAnd

Mastodon

Tusky :heart:

Matrix Client

Element

Fluffy Chat

Meditation

Medito :heart:

Buddha Quotes

Meditation Assistant

Music Downloader

SpotiFlyer

Music Player

Metro :heart:

Auxio

Music Player GO :heart:

Vinyl

Howl

Levyra

Open-source music player with streaming, smart discovery, synced lyrics, offline M4A downloads, and private on-device listening insights.

Noad Player

Mucke

Fossify Music Player

Tiny Music Player

KuruBeats

Free, open-source Android music player for local files and YouTube Music — synced lyrics, no ads, no account.

Music Scrobbler

Pano Scrobbler :heart:

Simple Scrobbler

Notes

Notally

Joplin

Safe Notes

Markor

Fossify Notes

OCR

OCR (Tesseract)

Office Suite

Collabora Office

Package Manager

App Manager :heart:

Package Manager

Password Manager

Bitwarden :heart:

Keepass2Android

KeePassDX :heart:

PDF Viewer

MJ PDF

Secure PDF Viewer by GrapheneOS

Plants

Florae

free application that will allow you to keep track of the care of your plants while respecting your freedom and privacy.

Public Transport Assistant

Transportr :heart:

Öffi

Podcast

AntennaPod

Reddit

Infinity :heart:

Stealth️

RNG

Randomix

RSS Reader

Feeder

ReadYou

Nunti

Capy Reader

A smallish RSS reader

SMS Messenger

Fossify Messages :heart:

QUIK SMS

The most beautiful SMS messenger for Android - Revived

Self Hosted

Jellyfin

Findroid

Shazam

Audile

Spotify

Blade Player :heart:

SSH client

ConnectBot :heart:

Stargazing

Sky Map

Step Counting

Paseo :heart:

Streaming

CloudStream

Burning-Series

Survival

Survival Manual

Trail Sense

Compass

System Cleaner

SD Maid 2/SE

Terminal Emulator

Termux :heart:

Text Editor

Acode

Xed Editor

Timers

Goodtime :heart:

Pomodoro Timer

Cofi

Coffee Timer

Smart EggTimer

Cuppa

Tea Timer

To-Do List

Tasks️

PocketPlan

ToDark

Doable

1List

Torrenting

LibreTorrent :heart:

Trackers

BetterCounter

Multi-purpose Tracker

Birday :heart:

Birthday Tracker

GreenStash️ :heart:

Savings Tracker

Koduko

Habit Tracker

Loop :heart:

Habit Tracker

Habo

Habit Tracker

Table Habit

Habit Tracker

Openreads

Books Tracker

Showly :heart:

TV Shows Tracker

Simple Time Tracker :heart:

Activity Tracker

Sobriety

Addiction Tracker

Vacation Days

Days Off Tracker

drip

Menstrual Cycle Tracker

Plees Tracker

Sleep Tracker

Trackbook :heart:

Movement Tracker

Screen Time

Screen Timer tracker

Translator

Arna Translate

DeepL

SimplyTranslate Mobile :heart:

Twitch

Twire

Xtra

Frosty

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