F-Droid is an awesome app repository for FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) android apps. From productivity apps to games, f-droid has (almost) everything you need. Hope you will discover useful FOSS apps to free your phone from Big Tech^^
This list includes apps from the official f-droid repo but also from IzzyOnDroid and some customs repositories which will be always linked so you can add them easily.
Privacy focused OS for everyone My privacy and user friendly setup
For more FOSS Android apps check : Beautiful Open Source Apps for Android
Adding custom repo might not be as secure as the official one so I'm not responsable if you encounter any problems with them ! I encourage you to do your own research about it !
Also while open source is great for privacy and security it is not perfect. So keep that in mind before downloading any apps. Most apps that I've listed are privacy friendly but some might be not be perfectly private and secure. I again encourage you to do your own research about them.
I am not a privacy and security expert. I'm also don't consider myself as a developper so I do not have any technical knowledge and so I didn't look into any source code of any apps in this list !
English is not my mother tongue ^^'
Plutus will help you to track all your investments in one place. We're not portfolio tracker, we won't show you daily ups and downs.
If you invest your money take a look at this one !
For real time stock market watcher :
Candle (cosmos)
CoinWatch is a cryptocurrency app providing real-time coin prices, price histories, and market data, built using the latest Android architecture components.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! IzzyOnDroid
To track your fav crypto project's prices
Enterprise-ready on-premise suite with advanced word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools, maximizing interoperability and file compatibility.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! Collabora official F-Droid repo
A FLOSS
Microsoft 365 Copilot alternative
LibreOffice is the best free office suite on the desktop, and is now available on Android as a native application. The software is backed by a dynamic community, represented by The Document Foundation, a not for profit entity based in Germany.
An app that let you view
LibreOffice files and some
Feeder is a fully free/libre feed reader. It supports all common feed formats, including JSONFeed. It doesn't track you. It doesn't require any setup. It doesn't even need you to create an account!
If you're tired of having to check a dozen websites and RSS feeds for your daily dose of news, then Thud is the app for you. Using a sleek, mosaic-like interface, Thud organizes all your news and feeds in one place so you can easily stay informed.
A beautiful RSS feed agregator
Adaptive offline RSS reader for Android with modern material design, privacy-first approach, theming, import/export, and resource-light operation. No data leaves device.
All-in-one Open-Source productivity app and AI assistant with Tasks, Notes, Calendar, Diary and Bookmarks.
All-in-one Calendar, notes, tasks, diary and bookmarks !
Open-source, self-hosted tool that extracts articles, offers offline mobile reading, powerful filters, migration from other services, and multiple download formats.
Wallabag allows you to save web content like articles. It's a FOSS privacy-friendly alternative to
Pocket and can be self-hosted.
The LibreOffice Impress Remote is an app to interact with your slideshow presentation from your Android device - including slide previews, speaker notes, and more.
OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.
The most user friendly !
Worth mentioning :
FlorisBoard (BETA)
The most nerd friendly !
Support gestures typing like
Gboard or
Microsoft SwiftKey. Not as good tho...
Block internet access (over Wi-Fi or Mobile Data) to any apps include system apps
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.
If you're a nerd go with Blokada (4), if you are a casual user or just want simplicity go with Blokada 5.
Worth mentioning :
DNS66
RethinkDNS I like this one
Orbot is a freely licensed open-source application developed for the Android platform. It acts as a front-end to the Tor binary application, and also provides an HTTP Proxy for connecting web browsers and other HTTP client applications into the Tor SOCKS interface.
Proxy app for android that root your traffic through the Tor network Can act like a VPN for whitelisted apps.
VPN are not as perfect as they often are claiming too. Almost every VPN provider is "lying" a way or another. It's called marketing and their is tons of sh*tty VPN on the https://alternativeto.net/software/android-market/ that are here to makes money on you and stealing your data. Keep in mind that using a VPN is basically giving all your internet traffic to another private company that often don't even owns their servers. Sometimes they are under several legislations.
DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH INSTEAD OF CHOOSING A VPN BASED ON THIS LIST ! I'VE JUST MENTION WHAT ARE IN MY OPINION (which is worthless) THE BEST VPNs AVAILABLE ON F-DROID !
OpenVPN Connect provides flexible VPN solutions to secure your data communications, whether it's for Internet privacy, remote access for employees, securing IoT, or for networking Cloud data centers.
You can use this as a FOSS VPN client to connect to your VPN provider. (If it support it, if not it is probably a bad provider)
WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN.
You can use this as a FOSS VPN client to connect to your VPN provider. (If it support it) It's a newer and faster VPN protocol
Swiss-based VPN that ensures online privacy with a high-speed network, advanced encryption, and no-logs policy, offering a free version. Supports multiple platforms and unblocks content worldwide.
ProtonVPN is brought to you by the team of scientists from CERN and MIT that developed
Proton Mail . Their 1'500+ servers are in 61 countries. Their marketing is not as misleading as others mainstream VPNs They are incorporated in Switzerland (pretty strong privacy laws) and claims to keep no logs of your online activity. They also have a free tier with limited functionalities and speed but does not track their users like many free VPNs. You can pay with
Bitcoin
Free the internet from data collection with Mullvad VPN – a service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private. Only €5/month.
I really like the marketing of this VPN as it is not misleading unlike to others that claims to gives you strong anonymity and perfect privacy in one click while protecting you from NSA and hackers. Their 750+ servers are in 38 countries.
They are privacy focused and not expensive. You don't even needs to give any personnal info to use their tool and you can pay by cash or with
Mozilla VPN is in fact
Mullvad VPN with Mozilla branding.
This one is also having a marketing similar to
Proton VPN but security and privacy is really strong !
Free VPN service offering anonymous IP, automatic setup, and no logging. Entirely open source with secure encryption and no DNS leaks.
A free VPN that root your traffic through Calyx Institute servers. It doesn't have incredible speeds and is not really competing against VPN providers as it does not have tons of servers in several countries. But hey it is free !
Worth mentioning :
RiseupVPN
If you want to learn more on how to buy, store and use crypto the right way to empower your sovereignty and/or privacy look at my other list Doing crypto the right way !
A modern bitcoin wallet hand forged to keep your transactions private your identity masked and your funds secured.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! Samourai Wallet F-Droid repo
Is probably the most secure and privacy friendly BTC wallet for Android (and any mobile OS, better than most desktop options too). Really strong privacy and anonymity out of the box. Be your own Swiss Bank as they says. You can CoinJoin so it mixes your coins using the Whirlpool and makes the outputs anonymous.
Monerujo is the first app for managing and using Monero wallets on Android. It is a lightwallet: it uses remote nodes for synchronizing to the Monero blockchain while keeping all your private data on your device.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! Official Monerujo F-Droid repo
Monero wallet really featureful, community driven and easy to use.
Is mention on the official Monero website !
A clean and simple cryptocurrency widget. Customizable refresh interval. Very light battery usage.
For the crypto price addicts ^^
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! Official SBP repo An open source app to easily accept
This little app let you see where ?itcoin is accepted, it also display ATM.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! IzzyOnDroid repo
Let you monitor the trackers and logger that are inside the apps that are installed on your phones in a beautiful way.
Worth mentioning :
Exodus Privacy (Which Warden rely on) less beautiful but has more complete informations ! (official repo)
ClassyShark3xodus Even more warnings and specs ! (official repo)
UntrackMe once set by default to open Twitter and YouTube links will transform them into Nitter and Invidious links and delegate the action to another app. It also supports Google Maps links to transform them into OpenStreetMap links or Geo URI.
Scrambled Exif (pronounced eggsif) helps you remove the metadata in your pictures before you share them.
Scrambled Exif (pronounced eggsif) helps you remove the metadata in your pictures before you share them. To remove the metadata from a picture, simply share it like you'd normally do and choose Scrambled Exif. A moment later, the share 'dialog' will reappear. Now just share with the app you intended to share with in the first place. Et voilà!
Worth mentioning :
Exif Eraser More modern IzzyOn Droid repo
ImagePipe
Shelter is a Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the “Work Profile” feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into.
Shelter lets you create a Work Profile to compartimentilize your apps so they can't access contacts or any other information in your Main Profile.
Supports advanced features. The PlayStore version is currently outdated and does not support Android 12+
Nebulo is a DNS changer which implements DNS-over-HTTPs and DNS-over-TLS to safely send your DNS requests to the target server.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! Nebulo official F-Droid repo
If you are using an old Android version and want to change to a custom DNS Nebulo is my go to. DNS recommendation : https://www.quad9.net/ (9.9.9.9)
An app that focuses on your privacy and alerts you when a third-party application uses your device camera or microphone and additionally you have:
THIS FEATURES IS IN ANDROID 12 AND CALYXOS !!!
Know when a third party app is using your microphone and/or camera !
🔔 Get the famous "Recording Indicators" feature of iOS14 to android. Get notified every time a third-party app or a service uses camera or microphone. - GitHub - NitishGadangi/Privacy-Indicator-App: 🔔 Get the famous "Recording...
THIS FEATURES IS IN ANDROID 12 AND CALYXOS !!!
Know when a third party app is using your microphone and/or camera !
A simple app to set your location to anywhere in the world, and improve general phone location privacy.
An app that allows you to fake/spoof your GPS location by mocking it.
Does not use any GoogleMaps API, code or whatever, really privacy friendly !
Worth mentioning :
Fake Traveler
Apple finally did an official app but this one is open source ! Protect yourself from being tracked 🌍 by AirTags 🏷 and Find My accessories
With AirGuard you get the anti-tracking protection you deserve! The app periodically scans your surroundings for potential tracking devices, like AirTags or other Find My devices. The AirTags and other Find My devices are simple, small and perfect to track Android users! Without tracking warnings, as integrated on iOS, anyone could try to track your behavior by placing an AirTag in your jacket, backpack or car.
HideDroid is an Android app that allows the per-app anonymization of collected personal data according to a privacy level chosen by the user.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! [IzzyOnDroid repo] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo
Randomize the data you generate to trick your apps
Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
Open-source password manager with AES-256 encryption and device sync. Store and access encrypted logins across platforms like iOS and Android.
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL REPO ! BitWarden F-Droid repo
The best cloud sync password manager overall. Freemium user friendly and can be selfhost !
KeePassDX is a material design KeePass client for managing keys and passwords in an encrypted database for your Android device.
The best KeePass client for Android. Local but can be self-hosted for cloud sync
Worth mentioning :
Keepass2Android with a simpler Cloud syncing integration.
LessPass is an open source password manager. Instead of syncing a database of passwords, it generates them locally every time you put in a domain name, login and master password. There is no central database for hackers to break into.
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Amazing. Can't believe I didn't find this list sooner. My F-Droid client of choice is Droid-ify.
F-Droid is operated by a censorship-prone megalomaniac. Freedom only for special people.
Might be worth adding this: raw.githubusercontent.com/efreak/auto-daily-fdroid/main/fdroid/repo Unofficial repo of Tachiyomi and known forks (SY, AZ, J2K, Neko; also Takoyomi, Sorayami, Aniyomi, Animiru), FastHub Revived, and Hacki (flutter HN client).
Hi, I love the concept of Echo, but it is not maintained, it's buggy and missing many features. Do you know about any alternative? Thanks
No I'm sorry, can't help you on that
Hey it's been a long time but maybe if you still are looking for such an app you could try
Alibi
I have a recommendation for the "Screen addiction" part.
TimeLimit.io can be set up to automatically block certain apps after you use them for a configured amount of time. It is highly customisable. If you don't trust yourself, you can autogenerate a password and give it to a friend or family member so you need to ask for it every time you want to change something.
You should add this app in "Social & communication PART VII - Twitter" section The app Is called harpy https://github.com/robertodoering/harpy
I know Harpy, but do you know if it's on a f-droid repository ? It's not on the official one or the IzzyOnDroid and I couldn't find any repo on their GitHub
You can find this app in one of my other list :
Unfortunately it is not on f-droid or izzyondroid . its only available through play store beta testing and you can download it from github also
I will make a request in their github page to add it to izzy's repo
The dev of harpy quoted this
"There are no plans to bring harpy to f-droid at the moment but if you want to avoid the play store you can download the latest apk here: https://github.com/robertodoering/harpy/releases"
A few more recommendations:
QuickTiles: Add a lot of useful Quick Settings tiles https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.asdoi.quicktiles/
Forkyz: Crossword puzzles - Guardian cryptic, WSJ, and more, plus support for local puzzle files in a variety of formats https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.crossword.yourealwaysbe.forkyz/
SimpleReminder: Quickly create reminders and get notified later https://f-droid.org/packages/felixwiemuth.simplereminder/
Easy Noise: Simple white noise app (full disclosure: I made this one) https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cliambrown.easynoise/
I'll take thoses in consideration, wanna add many many many more apps but since I have to add them to AlternativeTo it takes some times wich I don't have at the moment ^^'