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Introduction

This is a list of THE BEST FOSS apps according to us. You can prove us wrong on the contributing page.

App Name :heart: = Someone's Personal Favourite

Why does it exist?

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Rules

• [x] Open Sourced
• [x] Free of charge (on F-Droid and source code repository releases)
• [x] Free as in Freedom
• [x] Ad-free
• [x] Installed and tested by me or by contributor
• [x] Privacy-friendly aware
• [x] Easy to use
• [x] Still in development or polished experience
• [x] Does not lack features compared to proprietary app
• [x] Does not need an account (the only exceptions are self-hosted apps)
• [x] Has dark theme

  More detailed explanation here.

AWESOME apps counter: 268 🎉

Contents

• 2FA
• Ads & Trackers
• AI
• Alarm
• Android Customization
• Anime & Manga
• App Backup
• Background Noise
• Barcode Scanner
• Browser
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Camera
• ChatGPT
• Chess
• Cocktails Making
• Contacts
• Decision-Making
• Device Synchronization
• Dialer
• Diary
• Discord
• Document Scanner
• Download Manager
• Drawing
• E-book Reader
• Email
• Emulation
• F-Droid
• File Manager
• File Synchronization
• Finance
• Firewall
• Flash Cards
• Flashlight
• Forgejo & Gitea
• Gallery
• Games
• GitHub Client
• Google Play
• Health
• Icon Pack
• IDE
• Image Processing
• Instant Messaging
• Keyboard
• Knowledge
• Language
• Launcher
• Lemmy
• Loyalty Card
• Maps
• Mastodon
• Matrix Client
• Meditation
• Music Downloader
• Music Player
• Music Scrobblers
• Notes
• OCR
• Office Suite
• Package Manager
• Password Manager
• PDF Viewer
• Plants
• Podcast
• Public Transport Assistant
• Reddit
• RNG
• RSS Reader
• Self Hosted
• Shazam
• SMS Messenger
• Spotify
• SSH client
• Stargazing
• Step Counting
• Streaming
• Survival
• System Cleaner
• Terminal Emulator
• Text Editor
• Timers
• To-Do List
• Torrenting
• Trackers
• Translator
• Twitch
• Unit Converter
• URL Cleaner
• Video Player
• VNC client
• VNC server
• Voice Recorder
• Wallet
• Weather
• Wikipedia
• Workout
• YouTube

Special Thanks

2FA

Aegis :heart:

<img alt="AegisIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis/master/app/src/main/res/drawable/ic_aegis_iconx.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

Stratum Auth

<img alt="StratumAuthIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stratumauth/app/refs/heads/master/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

Ente Auth

<img alt="EnteAuthIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ente-io/ente/refs/heads/main/mobile/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

Ads & Trackers

AdAway

<img alt="AdAwayIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdAway/AdAway/master/app/src/main/res/mipmap-mdpi/icon.png">

• [ ] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

DNS66

<img alt="DNS66Icon" height="64" src="https://f-droid.org/repo/icons-640/org.jak_linux.dns66.29.png">

• [ ] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

InviZible Pro

<img alt="InviZibleProIcon" height="64" src="https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/pan.alexander.tordnscrypt/en-US/icon.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

NetGuard

<img alt="NetGuardIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/M66B/NetGuard/master/app/src/main/res/mipmap-hdpi/ic_launcher.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

personalDNSfilter

<img alt="personalDNSfilterIcon" height="64" src="https://www.zenz-solutions.de/cms/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/vector_source_512.svg">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

RethinkDNS

<img alt="RethinkDNSIcon" height="64" src="https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/09-ilhXCKkL8cLZtEDBEhduNW9N88IgM8EW_ghtPakQNNzRY6r1PNTp79vlmq-xz8SA=w240-h480-rw">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

TrackerControl

<img alt="TrackerControlIcon" height="64" src="https://trackercontrol.org/images/logo.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

URLCheck

<img alt="URLCheckIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker/master/app/src/main/res/mipmap-hdpi/ic_launcher.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

Exodus

<img alt="ExodusIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Exodus-Privacy/exodus-android-app/master/app/src/main/ic_launcher-playstore.png">

• [x] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [x] Official page

AI

whoBIRD

Identify bird sounds in real time

<img alt="whoBIRDIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/woheller69/whoBIRD/master/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png">

• [ ] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [ ] Official page

TIDY

Text-to-Image Discovery

<img alt="TIDYIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slavabarkov/tidy/refs/heads/main/app/src/main/ic_launcher-playstore.png">

• [ ] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [ ] Official page

Alarm

Clock :heart:

<img alt="ClockIcon" height="64" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlackyHawky/Clock/main/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png">

• [ ] Google Play
• [x] F-Droid
• [x] GitHub
• [ ] Official page

Clock You :heart:

<img alt="ClockYouIcon" height="64" src="https://github.com/you-apps