Introduction
This is a list of THE BEST FOSS apps
according to us.You can prove us wrong on the contributing page.
App Name ❤️ = Someone's Personal Favourite
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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
AWESOME apps counter: 224 🎉
Contents
- 2FA
- Ad Blocking
- Alarm
- Anime & Manga
- Android Customization
- App Backup
- Background Noise
- Barcode Scanner
- Browser
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Camera
- ChatGPT
- Chess
- Cleaner
- Cocktails Making
- Contacts
- Decision-Making
- Device Synchronization
- Dialer
- Diary
- Discord
- Download Manager
- Drawing
- E-book Reader
- Emulation
- F-Droid
- File Manager
- File Synchronization
- Finance
- Firewall
- Flash Cards
- Flashlight
- Gallery
- Games
- GitHub Client
- Google Play
- Health
- Icon Pack
- Image Processing
- Instant Messaging
- Keyboard
- Knowledge
- Language
- Launcher
- Loyalty Card
- Maps
- Matrix Client
- Meditation
- Music Downloader
- Music Player
- Music Scrobblers
- Notes
- OCR
- Office Suite
- Package Manager
- Password Manager
- PDF Viewer
- Podcast
- Public Transport Assistant
- RNG
- RSS Reader
- SMS Messenger
- Self Hosted
- Spotify
- Stargazing
- Step Counting
- Streaming
- Survival
- Terminal Emulator
- Text Editor
- Timers
- To-Do List
- Torrenting
- Trackers
- Translator
- Twitch
- Unit Converter
- Video Player
- Voice Recorder
- Weather
- Wikipedia
- Workout
- YouTube
Special Thanks
2FA
Aegis ❤️
Authenticator Pro
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Ad Blocking
AdAway
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
DNS66
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
InviZible Pro
NetGuard
personalDNSfilter
RethinkDNS
TrackerControl
Alarm
Alarmio
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Clock ❤️
F-Droid version is outdated compared to GitHub's.
Anime & Manga
Aniyomi ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Saikou
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Tachiyomi️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
TachiyomiSY
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Kotatsu
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Android Customization
Magisk️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Warden
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitLab
- Official page
SmartPack-Kernel Manager
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
App Backup
Neo Backup (Root required)
Background Noise
Noice
Barcode Scanner
Binary Eye
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
QR Scanner (PFA)
SecScanQR
Simple QR
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Browser
Bromite ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Mull
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Brave
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Calculator
Calculator++ ❤️
(Google Play's version differs from F-Droid's one, and it violates the rules.)
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Google Play - F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Calculator-inator
OpenCalc
Simple Calculator ❤️
Calendar
Simple Calendar
Etar
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Camera
OpenCamera
Secure Camera by GrapheneOS
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
ChatGPT
ChatGPT Android
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Chess
Lichess ❤️
Cleaner
LTE Cleaner
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Coctails Making
Drinkable
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Contacts
Simple Contacts ❤️
Decision-Making
Decisions
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Device Synchronization
KDE Connect ❤️
Dialer
Koler
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Simple Dialer ❤️
Diary
Easy Diary
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Diary
Download Manager
Download Navi
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
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
Drawing
Simple Draw
Pocket Paint
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
PixaPencil
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
E-book Reader
Librera Reader
KOReader
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
FairEmail
K-9 Mail
SimpleLogin
Aliases management
Emulation
Lemuroid
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
F-Droid
F-Droid
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Aurora Droid
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Droid-ify ❤️
Neo Store
File Manager
Material Files ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Amaze File Manager
Simple File Manager
File Synchronization
Syncthing
Syncthing-Fork
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Snapdrop
Finance
Currencies ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
MoneyWallet
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
My Expenses
Sushi
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Firewall
AFWall+
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Flash Cards
AnkiDroid
Flash Deck
Yokatta
Flashlight
Simple Flashlight
Flashy
Gallery
Simple Gallery ❤️
LeafPic Revived
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Aves
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Games
Mindustry
Parlera
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Simon Tatham's Puzzles
Sudoku (Privacy Friendly)
Zoysii
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Quinb
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
UnCiv
GitHub Client
OpenHub
OctoDroid
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
DioHub
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Google Play
Aurora Store ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Health
Did I Take My Meds?
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Medic Log
Plees Tracker
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
MediLog
Because the dev have decided to make repo private, I am crossing out this app from the list for now.
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Google Play -
F-Droid -
GitLab -
Official page
Icon Pack
Arcticons ❤️
Ameixa
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- F-Droid (Monochrome)
- GitLab
- Official page
Delta
Image Processing
FFShare
Imagepipe
Instant Messaging
Signal ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Molly ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Session
Nekogram X
OwlGram
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Delta Chat
Keyboard
Openboard ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Simple Keyboard
FlorisBoard
Knowledge
Atomic
Periodic Table
Linux Command Library
Language
Kakugo
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Launcher
Kvaesitso ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- IzzyOnDroid (feature completeness)
- GitHub
- Official page
Lawnchair Launcher ❤️
Neo Launcher
Currently being reworked as Neo Launcher.
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
KISS Launcher ❤️
Lunar Launcher
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Loyalty Card
Catima ❤️
Maps
Organic Maps ❤️
OsmAnd
MarkDown
Markor
Matrix Client
Element
Fluffy Chat
Meditation
Medito ❤️
Meditation Assistant
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitTea
- Official page
Music Downloader
SpotiFlyer
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Music Player
Metro ❤️
BlackHole
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Auxio
Music Player GO ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Simple Music Player
Vinyl
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Howl
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Noad Player
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Mucke
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Tiny Music Player
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Music Scrobbler
Pano Scrobbler ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Simple Scrobbler
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Notes
Notally
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Simple Notes
Notedge
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Joplin
Safe Notes
OCR
OCR (Tesseract)
Office Suite
Collabora Office
Package Manager
App Manager ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Package Manager
Password Manager
Bitwarden ❤️
Keepass2Android
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid (Offline-only)
- GitHub
- Official page
KeePassDX ❤️
PDF Viewer
MJ PDF
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitLab
- Official page
Pdf Viewer Plus
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Secure PDF Viewer by GrapheneOS
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Public Transport Assistant
Transportr ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Öffi
Podcast
AntennaPod
Infinity ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Stealth️
RNG
Randomix
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
RSS Reader
Feeder
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
ReadYou
Nunti
SMS Messenger
Simple SMS Messenger ❤️
QKSMS
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Self Hosted
Jellyfin
Findroid
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Spotify
Blade Player ❤️
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Stargazing
Sky Map
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Step Counting
Paseo ❤️
Streaming
CloudStream
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Burning-Series
Survival
Survival Manual
Trail Sense
Terminal Emulator
Termux ❤️
Text Editor
Acode
Timers
Goodtime ❤️
Pomodoro Timer
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Cofi
Coffee Timer
Smart EggTimer
Cuppa
Tea Timer
To-Do List
Tasks️
PocketPlan
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
ToDark
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Torrenting
LibreTorrent ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Trackers
BetterCounter
Multi-purpose Tracker
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Birday ❤️
Birthday Tracker
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
GreenStash️
Savings Tracker
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Koduko
Habit Tracker
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Loop ❤️
Habit Tracker
Openreads
Books Tracker
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Showly ❤️
TV Shows Tracker
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Simple Time Tracker ❤️
Activity Tracker
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Sobriety
Addiction Tracker
Vacation Days
Days Off Tracker
Translator
Arna Translate
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
DeepL
SimplyTranslate Mobile ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Twitch
Twire
Xtra
Fritter ❤️
Unit Converter
Converter NOW
Video Player
VLC ❤️
Just (Video) Player
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
mpv ❤️
Voice Recorder
Simple Voice Recorder ❤️
Audio Recorder
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Weather
Geometric Weather
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Pluvia Weather
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Clima
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Forecastie
Veterondo
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
Rain
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Kiwix
Workout
Feeel - home workouts
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitLab
- Official page
Just Another Workout Timer
Massive
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitTea
- Official page
YouTube
NewPipe ❤️
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
NewPipe x SponsorBlock x Return YouTube Dislike ❤️
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
SkyTube
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
LibreTube
- Google Play
- F-Droid
- GitHub
- Official page
SongTube
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page
ViMusic
- Google Play
- IzzyOnDroid
- GitHub
- Official page