/Android-Apps-List

About A list of privacy preserving Android apps for the GrapheneOS community.

🛍️ Apps

YouTube/Music Streaming

  • Grayjay - Media app that allows you to follow creators, not platforms.
  • LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.
  • NewPipe - Lightweight YouTube frontend.
  • RiMusic - Seamlessly stream music from YouTube Music.
  • InnerTune - A Material 3 YouTube Music client for Android
  • Spotube - 🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!

Photo/Video Gallery

  • Fossify Gallery - Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery.
  • Aves Gallery - Aves is a gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.
  • Gallery - Light-weight Media Gallery app for Android made with Jetpack Compose

Notes

  • Notally - A beautiful notes app.
  • Fossify Notes - A simple textfield for adding quick notes without ads.
  • Notesnook - A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
  • BeauTyXT - A beautiful, private, secure, and minimalistic Text, Markdown, and Typst editor.

Calendar

  • Fossify Calendar - A simple calendar with events, customizable widgets and no ads.
  • Proton Calendar - Private calendar: Reminders, schedule planner, calendar widget, time-management.

Secure Messaging/Calling

  • Molly - Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal for Android.
  • SimpleX Chat - The first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design!

App Stores

  • Google Play Store - Despite misinformation, the Play Store remains the easiest and safest way for most users to download apps. GrapheneOS includes a mirror in their app repository for users to obtain safely.
  • Accrescent - A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.
  • Obtainium - Obtainium allows direct Android app updates from the source. For verifying app signatures, consider using AppVerifier.

Maps & Navigation

  • Organic Maps - Open-source, community-driven maps for travelers, tourists, cyclists & hikers.
  • GMaps WV - This is a restricted WebView wrapper for accessing the web version of Google Maps. Intended for use when OpenStreetMap isn't enough.

Weather

  • Rain - Weather app.
  • Breezy Weather - A Material Design Weather Application.
  • Bura - Modern weather app with graphs and thoughtful data visualization

Keyboard

  • HeliBoard - Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard.
  • FUTO Keyboard - The goal is to make a good keyboard that doesn't spy on users. This is a fork of LatinIME (the Android Open-Source Keyboard). Currently in alpha.
  • FlorisBoard - An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.
  • Transcribro - Private and on-device speech recognition keyboard and service for Android.

VPN

  • Rethink DNS - DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, WireGuard proxifier, firewall, and connection tracker for Android.
  • WireGuard - Official WireGuard Android app.

Misc. Apps

  • VLC Media Player - The best video and music player. Fast and “just works”, plays any file (link compatible with Obtainium).
  • Auxio - A simple, rational music player for Android.
  • Seal - 🦭 Video/audio downloader for Android (YT-DLP), designed with Material You.
  • KeePassDX - Secure and open source password manager compatible with KeePass files.
  • Bitwarden - Secure your digital life and protect against data breaches by generating and saving unique, strong passwords for every account. Maintain everything in an end-to-end encrypted password vault that only you can access.
  • Catima - Catima, a Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android.
  • Feeder - Android RSS reader app.

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