Apps with 'No Root Required' feature

Obsidian is a note-taking app that lets you create a personal knowledge graph with ease. It is designed for non-linear thinking and allows you to easily link your notes together wiki-style.

An OpenSnitch-inspired firewall and network monitor + a pi-hole-inspired DNS over HTTPS client with blocklists.

Open-source Android launcher with customizable icons, layout, and integration of Google Feed, offering Pixel Launcher features without root access.

Canta is a software tool designed to facilitate the uninstallation of apps from your device, irrespective of whether root access is available or not. It provides a solution for removing any application, even those that might be deeply ingrained within the system.

Aptoide is a distributed marketplace for mobile applications which runs on the Android operating system. In Aptoide, unlike the default Google Play Store, there is not a unique and centralized store but each user manages their own store.

Enables direct access to Android system APIs for apps using adb or root privileges, operating through a Java process without needing a root shell for faster communication.

Podman is a daemon-less container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes.

Blokada is the popular ad blocker and privacy app for Android and iOS. It's being supported and actively developed by the amazing open source community.

NetGuard provides simple and advanced ways to block access to the internet - no root required.

TrackerControl allows users to monitor and control the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour ('tracking').

It lists activities, broadcast receivers, services, providers, permissions, signatures, shared libraries, etc. of any app

Garry's Mod is a Sandbox Game based around the idea of building. Unlike most other games there aren't any objectives - you can't lose and you definitely can't win. Doesn't work on MacOS 11.15 or higher.

SeedVault is only pre-built into Custom Android ROMS (CalyxOS & LineageOS 17.1+), uses the same internal APIs as adb backup and the Android to Android device transfer systems, therefore no root access is used.

Mountain Duck lets you mount server and cloud storage as a disk in Finder on macOS and the File Explorer on Windows. Open remote files with any application and work like on a local volume.

QtScrcpy connects to Android devices via USB (or via TCP/IP) for display and control. It does NOT require the root privileges.

Small Program for Android, which burns isos.

DNS66 blocks advertisements on Android by intercepting DNS requests using Android's VPN layer and blocking requests for blacklisted hosts.

Never should your phone or tablet become slower and battery hungrier after lots of apps installed. With Greenify, your device can run almost as smoothly and lastingly as it did the first day you had it!

Using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges from normal apps through a Java process started with app_process.

An implementation of the system-wide JamesDSP audio processing engine for non-rooted Android devices.

It doesn't use the Android builtin Equalizer and has a lot more functionalities.

Mobile Tracker Free is a free application for monitoring your phone. Track SMS/MMS, Call logs/recording, Location, Contact, Photos, Facebook, WhatsApp, Application tracker and more features.

Local Desktop helps you run a desktop Linux environment on your Android device.

Revoking Android permissions from apps often let apps crash or malfunction. XPrivacyLua solves this by feeding apps fake data instead of real data.

personalDNSfilter is a DNS filter proxy written in Java. It hooks into the domain name (DNS) resolution and returns the loopback address for filtered hosts.

Blocker is a component controller for Android applications that currently supports using PackageManager and Intent Firewall to manage the state of components. It can be seamlessly switched between these controllers, and for application rules, you can export and import them.