Android FOSS

A list of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Android – saving Freedom and Privacy.

Table of Contents

• App Store
• Apps
  • Internet
  • Calculator
  • Calendar
  • Camera
  • Clock & Time
  • Contacts
  • Dialer
  • Document / PDF Viewer
  • Drawing
  • File Manager
  • Firewall
  • Flashlight
  • Image Viewer & Gallery
  • Keyboard
  • Launcher & Desktop
  • Mail
  • Maps & Navigation
  • Media Frontends
  • Messaging
  • Music Player
  • Notes & Todo Lists
  • SMS
  • Synchronisation
  • System
  • Weather
• Rooting and Recovery
• Tutorials and Guides
• Getting more …

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– App Store –

• F-Droid - Preferred way to install and update apps.
  • G-Droid - Alternative Client App for F-Droid.
  • Fossdroid - Attractive, web based client for F-Droid.

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– Apps –

• Internet

• Firefox
• Firefox Klar ^[F-Droid]
• FFUpdater ^[F-Droid]
• Chromium SWE Updater ^[F-Droid]
• Lightning ^[F-Droid]

• Calculator

• Calculator ^[F-Droid]
• Simple Calculator ^[F-Droid]
• Clean Calculator ^[F-Droid]

• Calendar

• Etar ^[F-Droid]
• Simple Calendar ^[F-Droid]
• Offline Calendar ^[F-Droid]

• Camera

• Open Camera ^[F-Droid]
• Simple Camera ^[F-Droid]

• Clock & Time

• Clock+ ^[F-Droid]
• Talalarmo ^[F-Droid]

• Contacts

• Simple Contacts ^[F-Droid]

• Dialer

• Emerald Dialer ^[F-Droid]

• Document / PDF Viewer

• MuPDF ^[F-Droid]
• CuprumPDF ^[F-Droid]
• PDFreader4Android ^[F-Droid]
• Document Viewer ^[F-Droid]
• Book Reader ^[F-Droid]

• Drawing

• Simple Draw ^[F-Droid]

• File Manager

• Amaze ^[F-Droid]
• Simple File Manager ^[F-Droid]
• Dir ^[F-Droid]
• AnExplorer Pro ^[F-Droid]

• Firewall

• AFWall+ ^[F-Droid]
• NetGuard ^[F-Droid]

• Flashlight

• Simple Flashlight ^[F-Droid]
• Privacy Friendly Torchlight ^[F-Droid]

• Image Viewer & Gallery

• LeafPic ^[F-Droid]
• Simple Gallery ^[F-Droid]
• Camera Roll ^[F-Droid]

• Keyboard

• AnySoftKeyboard ^[F-Droid]
  • French Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • German Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • Danish Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • Italian Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • Norwegian Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • Spanish Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • Swedish Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • Russian Language Pack ^[F-Droid]
  • ...
• Hacker's Keyboard ^[F-Droid]
• BeHe Keyboard ^[F-Droid]

• Launcher & Desktop

• OpenLauncher ^[F-Droid]
• Lawnchair ^[F-Droid]
• ZimLX ^[F-Droid]
• Hayai ^[F-Droid]
• KISS ^[F-Droid]
• Search Based Launcher ^[F-Droid]
• Silverfish ^[F-Droid]
• Simple App Launcher ^[F-Droid]
• LaunchTime ^[F-Droid]
• PaperLaunch ^[F-Droid]
• Emerald Launcher ^[F-Droid]
• Essential Launcher ^[F-Droid]

• Mail

• K-9 Mail ^[F-Droid]
• K9 Material (unofficial) ^[F-Droid]
• FairEmail ^[F-Droid]

• Maps & Navigation

• OsmAnd~ ^[F-Droid]
  • Contour Lines and Hillshade ^[F-Droid]
  • Parking Spot ^[F-Droid]
• Maps.ME

• Media Frontends

• NewPipe ^[F-Droid]
• SkyTube ^[F-Droid]

• Messaging

• Conversations ^[F-Droid]
• Silence ^[F-Droid]
• Ring ^[F-Droid]
• Kontalk ^[F-Droid]
• Pix-Art Messenger ^[F-Droid]

• Music & Audio Player

• Odyssey ^[F-Droid]
• Vanilla Music ^[F-Droid]
  • Cover Fetcher ^[F-Droid]
  • Lyric Search ^[F-Droid]
  • Tag Editor ^[F-Droid]
  • Headphone Detector ^[F-Droid]
• Simple Music Player ^[F-Droid]
• Phonograph ^[F-Droid]
• Music-Player
• MaterialAudiobookPlayer ^[F-Droid]
• Transistor ^[F-Droid]
• Vinyl Music Player ^[F-Droid]
• Audio Anchor ^[F-Droid]

• Notes & Todo Lists

• Minimal-Todo ^[F-Droid]
• Memento ^[F-Droid]
• Omni-Notes ^[F-Droid]
• SealNote ^[F-Droid]
• Privacy Friendly Notes ^[F-Droid]
• Simple Notes ^[F-Droid]
• Notification Notes ^[F-Droid]
• Swiftnotes ^[F-Droid]
• uNote ^[F-Droid]
• NoteCrypt ^[F-Droid]
• NoteBuddy ^[F-Droid]
• Material Notes ^[F-Droid]

• SMS

• QKSMS ^[F-Droid]

• Synchronisation

• aCalDAV ^[F-Droid]
• DAVdroid ^[F-Droid]
• EteSync ^[F-Droid]
• Syncthing ^[F-Droid]
• ownCloud ^[F-Droid]
• Seafile ^[F-Droid]
• Syncopoli ^[F-Droid]

• System

• OS Monitor ^[F-Droid]
• BackgroundRestrictor ^[F-Droid]
• Privacy Friendly Net Monitor ^[F-Droid]

• Weather

• Privacy Friendly Weather ^[F-Droid]

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– Rooting and Recovery –

• Magisk
• TWRP

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– Tutorials and Guides –

• OTA on Rooted Device

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– Getting more … –

• F-Droid
• Fossdroid
• CellularPrivacy – Recommendations
• List of free and open-source Android applications