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Android is a mostly free operating system developed mainly by Google. Unfortunately, the drivers for most devices and most applications from the "market" are not free (as in free speech, not as in no cost). They frequently work against the interest of the users, spy on them, and sometimes cannot even be removed. We urge all Android users to switch to a free Replicant as soon as possible.'
Here is a list of popular free software applications that run on Android — along with the proprietary applications they replace. If you are still a Android user, you can take a first step towards free software by installing these applications.
When we say these application programs are free software, we're talking about freedom, not price. It means that you are free to use these programs constructively, either alone or in a community, while respecting the freedom of others. The source code is available, so that you can study the software, adapt it to your needs, fix bugs, and release versions with new features. You can also convince or pay others to do these things for you. You are also free to give away and free to sell copies, under the terms of the applicable free software license. These programs are free software because you have freedom in using them. Free software develops under the control of its users.
Using free software on Android (or any nonfree operating system) is the first step towards freedom, but it does not get you all the way there. You're still under Google power as long as you use Android.
However, on this page we're concerned with the first step.
Contents
- 1 Free programs
- 2 Android-only free software
- 2.1 1list
- 2.2 Aegis Authenticator
- 2.3 Alovoa
- 2.4 Android Torrent Client
- 2.5 AntennaPod
- 2.6 AnySoftKeyboard
- 2.7 Aria2App
- 2.8 Audio recorder
- 2.9 AudioAnchor
- 2.10 Candle (cosmos)
- 2.11 Clima
- 2.12 Conversations
- 2.13 CuprumPDF
- 2.14 Currencies
- 2.15 DAVx5
- 2.16 Debitum
- 2.17 Download Navi
- 2.18 Easy Watermark
- 2.19 Escapepod
- 2.20 Etar
- 2.21 FairEmail
- 2.22 Floral
- 2.23 FlorisBoard
- 2.24 Fokus
- 2.25 Forecastie
- 2.26 Hacker's keyboard
- 2.27 ImagePipe
- 2.28 Just a clock
- 2.29 KISS launcher
- 2.30 KeePassDX
- 2.31 KeePassDroid
- 2.32 Kinoko
- 2.33 Koler
- 2.34 LLCrop
- 2.35 LeafPic Revived
- 2.36 LibreTorrent
- 2.37 Librera Reader
- 2.38 MemeTastic
- 2.39 MoneyWallet
- 2.40 Notally
- 2.41 Nova Video Player
- 2.42 OpenKeychain
- 2.43 Organic maps
- 2.44 Osmand
- 2.45 Pdf Viewer Plus
- 2.46 Photok
- 2.47 Plutus - Investment Tracker
- 2.48 Pocket Paint
- 2.49 Podverse
- 2.50 QKSMS
- 2.51 QuickNovel
- 2.52 Quillnote
- 2.53 Revolution IRC
- 2.54 Scarled notes FD
- 2.55 Secure camera
- 2.56 Secure photo viewer
- 2.57 Shosetsu
- 2.58 Simple Money Tracker
- 2.59 Simple SMS messenger
- 2.60 Simple calculator
- 2.61 Simple calendar
- 2.62 Simple camera
- 2.63 Simple clock
- 2.64 Simple dialer
- 2.65 Simple dialer
- 2.66 Simple flashlight
- 2.67 Simple gallery
- 2.68 Simple keyboard
- 2.69 Simple music player
- 2.70 Simple voice recorder
- 2.71 SplitBills
- 2.72 Stingle Photos
- 2.73 Syphon
- 2.74 Tachiyomi
- 2.75 Tasks.org
- 2.76 Transdroid
- 2.77 Transistor - Simple Radio App
- 2.78 Tremotesf
- 2.79 Tsacdop
- 2.80 Urecord
- 2.81 Voice
- 2.82 WalletCount
- 2.83 WeeklyBudget
- 2.84 Xscreensaver
- 2.85 andOTP
- 2.86 p!n
- 3 See also
- 4 External links
Free programs
Type | Free program | Replacement for |
---|---|---|
App launcher | KISS launcher | NOVA launcher |
App locker | AppLock | Photon App Lock |
Audiobook | AudioAnchor Voice |
Listen Audiobook Player Smart AudioBook Player |
BitTorrent client | LibreTorrent Android Torrent Client Transdroid Tremotesf |
BitTorrent µTorrent Flud Vuze |
Calculator | Simple calculator | Google Calculator |
Calendar | Simple calendar Etar DAVx5 EteSync |
Google Calendar Microsoft Mail and Calendar fruux Proton Calendar |
Camera and video camera (2 in 1) | Open Camera Simple camera Secure camera |
Google Camera |
Clock | Simple clock (stopwatch, alarm) Just a clock |
Google Clock Alarm Clock Xtreme |
Dating | Alovoa | Tinder |
Dialer | Simple dialer Koler |
Google Phone Drupe |
Document viewer | MuPDF CuprumPDF Pdf Viewer Plus |
Adobe Acrobat Reader Foxit Reader Xodo |
Download Manager | Aria2App Download Navi |
Free Download Manager Loader Droid |
Email client | k9-mail FairEmail |
Microsoft outlook Gmail |
Encryption | OpenKeychain Cryptomator |
Tresorit Boxcryptor |
Finance | MoneyWallet Simple Money Tracker Debitum WalletCount WeeklyBudget Currencies SplitBills Plutus - Investment Tracker Candle (cosmos) |
You Need A Budget Mint.com Buxfer Splitwise Wallet App Toshl Money Lover Money Manager Zenmoney |
Firewall | NetGuard Blokada DNS66 RethinkDNS |
Mobiwol AdProtect NoRoot Firewall Blok: Simple Fast Firewall |
Flashlight | simple flashlight | |
Gallery | simple gallery LeafPic Revived Photok Secure photo viewer Floral Piwigo Stingle Photos |
Google Photos Flickr Photobucket F-Stop Media Gallery Piktures ShoeBox Picmix |
Image Manipulation & Painting | Pocket Paint Krita ImagePipe LLCrop Easy Watermark MemeTastic |
MediBang Paint Clip Studio Paint ibis Paint X Tayasui Sketches Artrage Adobe Photoshop Sketch |
Instant messaging client | Element.io - Matrix Syphon - Matrix Conversations - XMPP/Jabber Revolution IRC Wire |
Slack Google hangouts Viber |
Keyboard | hacker's keyboard simple keyboard OpenBoard FlorisBoard AnySoftKeyboard |
Gboard Microsoft SwiftKey Multiling O Keyboard Fleksy Grammarly Keyboard |
Maps | Osmand organic maps |
google maps Google Earth |
Media player | VLC media player Mpv Nova Video Player |
MX Player KMPlayer GOM Player |
Music player | simple music player Funkwhale |
foobar2000 Spotify |
News agreggator | Feeder NewsBlur |
Feedly Google news |
Notes | Standard notes joplin Notally scarled notes FD Carnet Quillnote Markor p!n |
Obsidian NoteLedge Notion Microsoft OneNote Google Keep Evernote Roam Research Zoho Notebook |
Office | Collabora Office LibreOffice Viewer |
Microsoft Office Suite WPS Office |
Password manager | KeePassDX KeePassDroid |
1Password LastPass |
Podcast | AntennaPod Escapepod Podverse Tsacdop |
Google Podcasts Pocket Casts Podcast Addict Overcast |
Radio | Transistor - Simple Radio App RadioDroid |
di.fm |
Reader | Librera Reader KOReader Tachiyomi Kinoko QuickNovel Shosetsu |
FBReader Amazon Kindle Moon+ Reader ReadEra |
Repository client | F-droid | Google play |
screensaver | xscreensaver | |
SMS messenger | QKSMS simple SMS messenger Silence |
Google Messages Pulse SMS |
TODOs | Tasks.org 1list fokus |
Google Tasks Todoist Taskade |
Two Factors Authentification (2FA TOTP) | Aegis Authenticator andOTP |
Authy Google Authenticator Microsoft Authenticator |
Unit converter | Units | Wolfram Alpha |
Voice recorder | simple voice recorder Audio recorder Urecord Rehearsal Assistant |
Easy Voice Recorder Hi-Q MP3 Voice Recorder Samsung Voice Recorder |
Weather | Forecastie Clima |
Windy AccuWeather |
VPN | OpenVPN Bitmask |
Tailscale TunnelBear |
Web browser | Bromite IceCatMobile |
Fennec Google chrome |
Android-only free software
1list
Simple app to manage several lists from only one screen
Aegis Authenticator
Free, secure and open source 2FA app to manage tokens for your online services
Alovoa
Open-source online dating application
Android Torrent Client
AntennaPod
Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player
AnySoftKeyboard
Aria2App
An advanced download manager and aria2 client for your pocket.
Audio recorder
Audio recorder with custom recording folder, nice recording volume indicator, recording notification, recording lock screen activity.
AudioAnchor
Audio player that tracks the listening process of your audio books and podcasts
Candle (cosmos)
Real-time stock market watcher.
Clima
Beautiful, minimal, and fast weather app
Conversations
An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
CuprumPDF
View PDF files
Currencies
An exchange rates currency converter for Android
DAVx5
Debitum
keep track of lent money and items.
Download Navi is a free and Open Source download manager for Android 4.4+
Easy Watermark
Securely, easily add a watermark to your sensitive photos.
Escapepod
Escapepod is a simple and lightweight app for listening to podcasts.
Etar
Etar is a material designed open source calendar, for everyone!
FairEmail
Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly.
Floral
FlorisBoard
An open-source keyboard which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.
Fokus
Forecastie
A simple, copylefted libre software weather app for Android.
Hacker's keyboard
Four- or five-row soft-keyboard
ImagePipe
removes exif data and modifies images to reduce size before sharing.
Just a clock
KISS launcher
Blazingly fast launcher focused on search
KeePassDX
Secure and open source password manager compatible with KeePass files.
KeePassDroid
KeePass-compatible password safe
Kinoko
Manga reader
Koler
uniquely stylized phone app with customizable features
LLCrop
Loss Less Cropping and Rotation: Remove unwanted parts of jpg photo without qual
LeafPic Revived
A full-featured gallery app
LibreTorrent
Copylefted libre software torrent client.
Librera Reader
Book and PDF reader
MemeTastic
Meme Creator - Simple and Ad-Free
MoneyWallet
Expense manager
Notally
minimalistic note taking app with a beautiful material design and powerful features.
Nova Video Player
Video player for local/network content with subtitle/metadata download support
OpenKeychain
OpenKeychain helps you communicate more privately and securely. It uses encryption to ensure that your messages can be read only by the people you send them to, others can send you messages that only you can read, and these messages can be digitally signed so the people getting them are sure who sent them. OpenKeychain is based on the well established OpenPGP standard making encryption compatible across your devices and systems. For a list of compatible software for Windows, Mac OS, and other operating systems consult http://openpgp.org/software/.
Organic maps
Open-source, community-driven maps for travelers, tourists, cyclists & hikers
Osmand
OsmAnd (OSM Automated Navigation Directions) is a map and navigation application with access to the free, worldwide, and high-quality OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.
Pdf Viewer Plus
Photok
Plutus - Investment Tracker
Pocket Paint
Podverse
QKSMS
QuickNovel
Quillnote
Revolution IRC
Scarled notes FD
Secure camera
Secure photo viewer
Shosetsu
Simple Money Tracker
Simple SMS messenger
Simple calculator
Simple calendar
Simple camera
Simple clock
Simple dialer
Simple dialer
Simple flashlight
Simple gallery
Simple keyboard
Simple music player
Simple voice recorder
SplitBills
Stingle Photos
Syphon
Tachiyomi
Tasks.org
Transdroid
Transistor - Simple Radio App
Tremotesf
Tsacdop
Urecord
Voice
WalletCount
WeeklyBudget
Xscreensaver
andOTP
p!n
Libre Torrent
See also
External links
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