This is a list of notable applications (apps) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software.
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | ||
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Aptoide | Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
AdAway | Ad blocker | No | No | Yes[1] | GNU GPLv3 | L16 / 4.1+ | |
Adblock Plus | Ad blocker | Yes | Yes |
No | GNU GPLv3 | L7 / 2.1+ |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | ||
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Aptoide | F-Droid | Google Play | |||||
Brave | Chromium-based web browser with emphasis on tracking prevention, and reforming ad-blocking[1] | Yes | No[2] | Yes | MPL | 4.1+ | Has in-built ad blocker |
Chromium | Primary code-base of Chrome; uses Blink and V8 engines | No | No | No | BSD | 4.4+ | |
DuckDuckGo | Chromium-based; focuses on privacy & tracking protection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apache 2.0 | 5.0+ | [3] |
Fennec F-Droid | Rebadged fork of Firefox; aims to remove proprietary components | No | Yes [2] | No | MPL | 4.1+ | Same with Firefox for Android, but some proprietary code removed. |
Firefox for Android | Customizable with add-ons; uses Gecko engine | Yes | No[4] | Yes |
MPL | 4.1+ | Removed from F-Droid |
Firefox Focus/Klar | Privacy centered browser; uses Gecko engine (GeckoView) | Yes | No | Yes | MPL | 5.0+ | |
GNU IceCat | GNU Project version of Firefox | No | Yes [3] | No | MPL 2.0 | 4.0.3+ | IceCat contains features not found in mainline Firefox release and eschews all usage of proprietary components. |
Tor Browser | Mozilla-based browser enhanced for use on Tor anonymity network | Yes[4] | Yes[5] | Yes | MPL | 4.0.3+ | Available in F-Droid by activating the extra Guardian Project repository[6] |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
Collabora Online | Office suite with Microsoft Office compatible word processor, spreadsheet and presentation | Yes | Yes [5] | MPLv2 | 5.0+ | An enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice |
ownCloud | Client for synchronization server | Yes | Yes [6] | GPLv2 | 4.0+ | |
Nextcloud | Client for synchronization server | Yes | Yes [7] | GPLv2 | 4.0+ |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
ConnectBot | SSH, telnet, and terminal emulator | Yes | Yes [8] | Apache 2.0 | 1.5+ | |
CSipSimple | SIP & VoIP client | Yes |
Yes |
GPLv3 | 1.6+ | |
Jitsi | Videoconferencing and instant messenger | Yes | Yes | LGPLv2.1 | ? | |
K-9 Mail | Advanced email client | Yes |
Yes [9] |
Apache 2.0 | 2.2+ | Supports OpenPGP integration with OpenKeychain |
Linphone | Video SIP/VoIP client | Yes |
Yes [10] | GPLv2 | 2.2+ | |
Element | Federated instant messaging and group chat client using the Matrix protocol. | Yes | Yes [11] | Apache 2.0 | 4.1+ | |
Sipdroid | SIP/VoIP client | Yes |
Yes [12] | GPLv3 | 2.0+ | works on 1.5 |
WordPress | Official WordPress client | Yes | No | GPLv2 | 2.3+ | |
Zulip | groupware and chat | Yes | No | Apache 2.0[7] | 5.0+ | Also available for iOS |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
APG | OpenPGP and key management | Yes |
Yes |
Apache 2.0 | 1.5+ | OpenKeychain available as more up-to-date alternative |
Briar | Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums | Yes | Yes[8] | GPLv3 | 4.0+ | |
Element (formerly Riot) | Decentralised, encrypted chat & collaboration powered by Matrix | ? | ? | Apache 2.0 | 5.0+ | |
I2P | Anonymizing network layer | Yes | Yes [13] | Apache 2.0 | 2.3+ | I2P also maintain their own F-Droid repo.[9] |
IVPN | Privacy-focused VPN service | Yes | Yes [14] | GPLv3 | ? | Open source apps on all platforms (Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS) and undergo an independent security audit.[10][11] |
Jami | Softphone and messenger utilizing DHT and strong cryptography | Yes[12] | Yes[13] | GPLv3 | ? | |
Lantern | Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention | Yes | No | Apache 2.0 | ||
Mullvad | Privacy-focused VPN service | Yes | Yes [15] | GPLv3 | ? | Open source apps on all platforms (Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS). |
OpenKeychain | OpenPGP and key management | Yes |
Yes [16] | GPLv3 | Integrates with K-9 Mail. | |
Orbot | Client and proxy for Tor anonymity network | Yes | Yes |
BSD/GPL | 1.6+ | |
Psiphon | Client for internet censorship circumvention system | Yes | No | GPLv3 | ? | |
ProtonMail | Client end-to-end encrypted email service | Yes | No | GPLv3 | ? | Open source apps on WEB app, Android, IOS, Bridge app. |
ProtonVPN | Privacy-focused VPN service | Yes | Yes [17] | GPLv3 | ? | Open source apps on all platforms (Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS) and undergo an independent security audit.[14] |
Signal | Encrypted instant messaging, voice and video calling | Yes | No | GPLv3 | 2.3+ | Also available for iOS. The Android client is a merger of the former TextSecure and RedPhone apps.[15] |
Surespot | Encrypted instant messaging | Yes | Yes [18] | GPLv3+ | Also available for iOS. F-Droid build is based on forked repo. | |
Telegram | Client for cloud-based messaging platform | Yes | Yes [19] | GPLv2 | 2.2+ | Also available for iOS. F-Droid build is based on forked repo.[16] Server uses closed source software. |
Tox | peer-to-peer instant-messaging | Yes | Yes [20] | GPLv3+ | 4.0+ | Alpha release |
Tutanota | Client for end-to-end encrypted email service | Yes | Yes [21] | GPLv3[17] | ? | |
Wire | Encrypted instant messaging, voice and video calling | Yes | No | GPLv3 | Also available for iOS, Windows and OS X. Server uses closed source software. |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
Dolphin | Nintendo GameCube and Wii | Yes |
Yes |
GPLv2+ | 5.0+ | Requires device with support for arm64-v8a ABI and OpenGL ES 3 or above |
Mupen64Plus | Nintendo 64 emulator | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | 2.0+ | Unofficial port as Mupen64 Plus AE. |
openMSX | MSX | Yes | Yes | GPLv2+ | ||
PPSSPP | PlayStation Portable | Yes |
Yes | GPLv2+ | 2.3+ | |
RetroArch | Emulates multiple platforms | Yes | Removed | GPLv3[18] | 2.3+ | |
ScummVM | Emulates multiple gaming engines | Yes |
Yes |
GPLv2 | 1.5+ | |
VICE | Commodore systems emulator | Yes |
Yes | GPLv2 | ||
Citra | Nintendo 3DS | Yes | No | GPLv2 |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
2048 | Mathematics sliding block puzzle | Yes [22] | Yes[23] | MIT | 2.2+ | Port of 2048 |
Angband | Text-based roguelike | Yes | Yes | GPLv2 | ? | |
Battle for Wesnoth | Turn-based strategy in a fantasy setting | Partial | Yes [24] | GPLv2 | 2.3+ | Ported to Android with SDL |
Brogue | Roguelike | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | ? | |
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup | Roguelike | Yes |
No[25] | GPLv2+ | ? | Text-based version also available |
Fish Fillets NG | Underwater puzzle game. | Yes | No[26] | GPLv2 | 1.6+ | Port of Fish Fillets NG |
Freeciv | Turn-based strategy game similar to Sid Meier's Civilization | Yes | No[27] | GPLv2 | 2.0+ | |
Frozen Bubble | Tile-matching puzzle game | Yes |
Yes [28] |
GPLv2 | 1.6+ | Port of Frozen Bubble |
GLtron | Lightcycle racing game | Yes |
Yes |
GPLv2 | 2.2+ | Port of GLtron |
H-Craft Championship | SciFi 3D racing game | Yes | No [29] |
zlib | 3.2+ | Media is proprietary, but free for personal use. |
OpenArena | First person shooter similar to Quake 3 (see: id Tech 3) | Yes | No[30] | GPLv2 | 1.6+ | Unofficial port by "pelya" using SDL 1.2[19] |
OpenTTD | Business simulation game similar to Transport Tycoon Deluxe | Yes | No[31] | GPLv2 | 1.6+ | pelya SDL port[19] |
Pixel Dungeon[20] | Roguelike with pixel art graphics | Yes | ? | GPLv3 | ? | Also available for Linux, iOS, Windows 10, Mac OS X |
OpenTyrian | Vertical shoot 'em up | Yes | No[32] | GPLv2 | 1.6+ | pelya SDL port[19] |
robotfindskitten | A "Zen Simulation" | Yes |
Yes |
GPL | 1.6+ | |
Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection | Collection of puzzle games | Yes |
Yes |
MIT | 2.1+ | |
Ur-Quan Masters | Source-port of 3DO version of Star Control II | ? | No[33] | GPLv2+, CC by 2.0, CC by-nc-sa 2.5[21] |
? | Game engine is free, but Star Control art assets are released under a Creative Commons non-commercial license.[22][21] pelya SDL port[19] |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
Dasher | Accessible text-input method | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | ? | Also available for iOS |
FetLife | Social network catering to the BDSM, fetish, and kink communities | No | No | MIT [23] | 5.0 | Also available for iOS [24] |
Google IO | App for Google IO conference | Yes | Yes | Apache 2.0 | 4.0 | |
OpenLP | Worship presentation software | Yes | Yes [34] | GPLv3 | ? | |
The White House | The official White House app | Yes | Yes | MIT | 2.2+ |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
COVID Alert | Canadian digital contact tracing app | Yes | No | Apache 2.0 | ? | Also available for iOS [25] |
DP-3T | Protocol and reference implementation of decentralized European contact tracing app | ? | No | MPL 2.0[26] | ? | Also available for iOS |
PEPP-PT | Protocol and reference implementation of centralized European digital contact tracing app | ? | No | MPL 2.0[27] | ? | |
TraceTogether | Singaporean contact tracing app | ? | No | GPLv3 | ? | Available for iOS[28] Data collected is available to police, and may be used in criminal or other types of investigations[29] |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
AntennaPod | Podcatcher | Yes | Yes [35] | MIT | 2.3.3+ | |
Butter Project | Media player utilising the BitTorrent protocol | ? | ? | AGPLv3 | ? | |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Media player and center | Yes | Yes [36] | GPLv2+ | Multi | |
NewPipe | YouTube and SoundCloud Client | No | Yes [37] | GPLv3+ | ? | |
Popcorn Time | Media player utilizing BitTorrent protocol | No | No | GPLv3+ (AGPL exception)[30] |
? | In Nov. of 2015 PopcornTime.io ceased operations after court order from the MPAA issued in Canada.[31] |
Ringdroid | Ringtone maker | Yes |
Yes |
Apache 2.0 | 4.1+ | |
Rockbox | Media player | ? | ? | GPLv2+ | ? | |
Tribler | Decentralized video sharing | Yes | Yes | LGPL v2.1+ | 3.0+ | |
Tux Paint | Simple drawing program for children | Non-free | Yes | GPLv2 | ? | Version on Google Play is published by a 3rd-party & contains proprietary ad libraries in violation of upstream developers' license |
VLC | Media player | Yes |
Yes [38] | GPLv2+ | 4.2+ | |
Wikimedia Commons | Client for free media repository | Yes | Yes [39] | Apache 2.0 | 4.4+ | Old CommonsLab app no longer maintained. Current app is community-developed.[32] |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | ||
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Google Play | F-Droid | ||||||
Avare | GPS aviation application | Yes |
Yes | Apache 2.0 | 2.2+ | ||
MAPS.ME | Offline mapping using OpenStreetMap data | Yes | Yes [40] | Apache 2.0 | ? | F-Droid version is an unofficial fork, with extra features and removed proprietary binaries. | |
Mozilla Stumbler | Data gathering for Mozilla Location Service | Yes | Yes | MPL2 | 2.3.3+ | ||
OsmAnd | Offline mapping using OpenStreetMap data | Yes | Yes [41] | GPLv3 | 2.3+ | Only parts of the software are available at no cost, this cause the software to get a few arbitrary limitation as limited portion maps of openstreetmap may be loaded. There is an unlimited paid version. The unlimited version is also available for free on F-Droid, |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
FBReader | e-book reader | Yes |
Yes |
GPL | 1.5+ | |
iFixit | Official iFixit reader | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | 2.2+ | |
Kiwix | Offline Wikipedia reader | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | 4.0+ | |
MuPDF | PDF and XPS viewer | Yes | Yes | AGPL | 2.2+ | |
Wikipedia | Access to Wikipedia | Yes | Yes [42] | GPLv2 | 2.2+ | |
Wiktionary | Client for crowd-sourced dictionary | Yes | Yes | GPLv2 | 2.2+ | |
XOWA | Offline Wikipedia reader | Yes | Yes | AGPLv3 | 4.4+ | |
Tedegraph | Incremental Wikipedia reader | Yes | No | MIT | 5.0+ |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
BOINC | Participate in distributed grid computing initiatives | Yes | No | LGPL/GPLv3+[33] | 2.3+ | |
Galaxy Zoo | Classify galaxies in crowdsourced astronomy project | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | 3.0+ | |
GCompris | Educational activity suite for children aged 2–10 | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | ? | Member project of KDE |
GNU Octave | Scientific programming language syntax with built-in plotting and visualization tools | ? | No | GPLv3 | ? | [34][35] |
micro:bit | Interact with a micro:bit device via Bluetooth | Yes[36] | No[37] | Apache 2.0[38] | ? | Developed by Samsung.[39] Depends on proprietary Google frameworks.[37] |
PressureNET | Crowd-sourced barometer network | Discontinued | Discontinued | GPLv3 | Multi | Service and software discontinued |
SageMath | Client for mathematical software | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | 2.0+ | |
Sky Map | Planetarium software developed by Google, and Carnegie Mellon | Yes | ? | Apache 2.0 | ? | Tracks user telemetry data via Google Analytics[40] |
Stellarium | Planetarium software | Yes | ? | GPLv2 | ? | |
Sugar environment | One Laptop per Child learning platform | Yes | Yes | Apache 2.0 | 2.3.3+ | Ported as Sugarizer. |
AnkiDroid | Flashcard spaced repetition for memorization | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | ? |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
Bitwarden | Password manager | Yes |
Yes |
GPLv3 | 4.4+ | |
Haven | Monitoring system to protect against evil maid attacks | Yes | Yes[41] | GPLv3 | 4.1+ | Developed by Edward Snowden under the auspices of The Guardian Project, and Freedom of the Press Foundation[42] |
Kali NetHunter | Digital forensics and mobile penetration testing platform ROM overlay | No | No | Various | 5.1+ | Developed by Offensive Security |
KeePassDroid | Password manager | Yes | Yes [43] | GPLv3 | 1.5+ | Port of KeePass |
PasswdSafe | Password manager | Yes |
Yes |
Artistic License 2.0 | 1.6+ | |
Prey | Anti-theft and monitoring | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | 4.0+ |
Application name | Description | Availability | License | API[a] | Note | |
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Google Play | F-Droid | |||||
Barcode Scanner | Barcode and QR Code reader | Yes | Yes [44] | Apache 2.0 | 4.0.3+ | |
F-Droid | Graphical package manager for app repositories | No | Yes | GPLv3+ | 4.0+ | F-Droid team also maintain an application repository |
Impress Remote | Presentation remote control for LibreOffice | Yes [45] | Yes | MPL2[43] | 2.3+ | |
Intra | Experimental DNS over HTTPS client | Yes | ? | Apache 2.0[44] | 4.0.3+ | |
microG | Replacement for proprietary Google Play Services | No | ? | Apache 2.0 | ? | |
Mycroft | Voice assistant companion | ? | ? | GPLv3[45] | ? | |
TWRP | Custom recovery image and boot manager | ? | ? | GPLv3[46] | ? | |
TalkBack | Accessibility services for blind and low-vision users | discontinued | Yes | Apache 2.0 | ? | Integrated into Android and provided by other proprietary Google components |
UserLAnd | Compatibility layer | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | 5.0+ |
There are a number of third-party maintained lists of open-source Android applications, including:
By: Wikipedia.org
Edited: 2021-06-18 15:09:23
Source: Wikipedia.org