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This collection is maintained by the Free software replacement project team.

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.

Free programs

Please sort all entries alphabetically in the "Free program" and in the "Replacement for" columns.

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 VSCO Photoshop 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 WhatsApp 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

AntennaPod

Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player

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

Debitum

keep track of lent money and items.

Download Navi

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.

FlorisBoard

An open-source keyboard which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

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.

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.

See also

• FSD: Antifeatures
• Collection:Replicant

External links

• Adobe's Software is Malware
• Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware
• Google's Software is Malware
• Microsoft's Software is Malware