PhoneRig
Turn a spare Android phone into a real self-hosted web server: full Ubuntu without root, a website builder, shared photo albums, one-tap WordPress, Gitea, code-server, Filebrowser and Syncthing, published over HTTPS through a secure tunnel. Free core, one-time upgrades, no subscription.
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Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
Git Support- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- Automatic Backup
- Ad-free
- Encrypted Backup
- Shared Folders
- No Coding Required
- Live Preview
- Command line interface
- Dark Mode
- File Sync
- SSH
PhoneRig News & Activities
Recent activities
- Mr-Kristowyn added PhoneRig
Mr-Kristowyn added PhoneRig as alternative to KSWEB, Termux, InfinityFree and Google Photos
PhoneRig information
Developed by
Kristowyn Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
11 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Amharic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Burmese
- Chinese
- French
- Kazakh
- Khmer
- Kirghiz, Kyrgyz
- Lao
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Persian
- Portuguese
- Panjabi, Punjabi
- Romansh
- Romanian
- Sinhala, Sinhalese
- Spanish
- Zulu
- Afar
- German
- Norwegian
- Albanian
- Greek
- Arabic
- Gujarati
- Polish
- Belarusian
- Haitian; Haitian Creole
- Bengali
- Hebrew
- Bulgarian
- Hindi
- Russian
- Catalan; Valencian
- Hungarian
- Serbian
- Icelandic
- Slovak
- Croatian
- Indonesian
- Slovene
- Czech
- Irish
- Danish
- Italian
- Swahili
- Dutch
- Japanese
- Swedish
- Kannada
- Tamil
- Estonian
- Korean
- Telugu
- Tagalog
- Latvian
- Thai
- Finnish
- Lithuanian
- Turkish
- Macedonian
- Ukrainian
- Galician
- Maltese
- Urdu
- Georgian
- Vietnamese
- Marathi
- Welsh
AlternativeTo Categories
Development, Backup & Sync, File Sharing, Social & Communications, OS & Utilities, Online Services
What is PhoneRig?
PhoneRig turns a spare arm64 Android phone into a real self-hosted web server. It installs a full Ubuntu system inside the app (no root, the phone stays stock), serves your site with the built-in Caddy web server, and publishes it over HTTPS through an outbound Cloudflare tunnel: no port forwarding, no static IP, and carrier NAT does not matter. You get a free yourname.phonerig.app subdomain or connect your own domain.
One tap installs WordPress (PHP plus the official SQLite database integration, so no MySQL daemon), Gitea, code-server, Filebrowser or Syncthing. There is a built-in website builder, shared photo albums (guests need one link and a short passcode, no app and no account, and the photos stay on your phone), SSH and a web terminal, automatic backups, and monitoring alerts. A free travel proxy lets you browse through your own home connection while away, so foreign networks stop breaking logins that expect you at home; sites see your home IP, so it is a convenience feature, not an anonymity tool.
Honest limits: no Docker or containers (unprivileged userspace), no systemd, and it is a phone, so it suits personal and small-business workloads rather than heavy traffic.
The core app is free (server, subdomain, site builder, albums, SSH). Optional one-time unlocks add app presets, backups and monitoring; there is no subscription. Requires a 64-bit arm64 phone on Android 8 or newer with about 3 GB of RAM.
