Recommended Apps from F-Droid
Visit this list after installing DivestOS or F-Droid to your device.
Please note that these are merely the recommend apps for a given task and we don't necessarily recommend/endorse any such task. eg. There is a Facebook client listed below, but we do not recommend you use Facebook.
On Messaging Apps
Please see the messaging tables page here
On Keyboard Apps
Do not ever use any keyboard apps that are proprietary and/or require network permission. It doesn't matter how great that auto-complete is, it's very bad if it's sending everything you type to a server somewhere just to be data mined. It doesn't even matter if it has a "good" privacy policy or if you trust the creator, sending it away incurs the chance of being intercepted by a less trusted party.
On Web Browsers
Please see the browser tables page here
Key
- ☠️ No longer maintained (in some cases upstream may be alive)
- ⚠️ High risk OR has not been formally audited
- 🌐 No Network Permission
- ⛅ Data Friendly (Uses minimal data, provides limits, offers offline support, or respects Data Saver)
- 🥸 Proxy Support (eg. Tor, HTTP, SOCKS)
- ☔ Proxy Support, but is not recommended due to potential leaks (eg. location, real IP)
- 🔀 Not in official F-Droid repository
Customization
- Icons: Articons🌐, Ameixa🌐
- Keyboard: AnySoftKeyboard🌐, FlorisBoard🌐, Unexpected Keyboard🌐, Heliboard🌐
- Launcher: KISS🌐
- Wallpaper: Muzei, Mysplash☠️, WPGen🌐☠️, Dark Mode Live Wallpaper🌐, Doodle🌐, Wave Lines🌐, XScreenSaver
Development
- Bugzilla: BoogDroid☠️
- Gitea: GitNex
- GitHub: OctoDroid
- GitLab: LabCoat☠️
Documents
- General Viewer: Librera🌐
- Markdown: Markor
- Office: LibreOffice Viewer🌐
- PDF Editor: PDF Converter🌐
- PDF Viewer: Secure PDF Viewer🌐🔀
- Printing (Pre Android 8.1): CUPS Print☠️
- Scanning: Open Note Scanner☠️
Files
- Encryption: DroidFS⚠️🌐, Cryptomator, EDS Lite⚠️🌐☠️
- Explorer: Material Files
- Hosted: Nextcloud⛅
- Synced: Syncthing⛅☔
- Transfer: Warpinator, croc, Destiny, OnionShare🥸
- Torrent Client: LibreTorrent
- Torrent Client Manager: Transdroid
Games
- Addictive: Tower Jumper🌐☠️
- Board: Checkers🌐, Mill🌐
- Cards: Simple Solitaire🌐☠️
- Emulator: Lemuroid, Dolphin, PPSSPP
- Platformer: AAAAXY🌐, Cow’s Revenge🌐☠️, Lato🌐, Replica Island☠️
- Puzzle: 1010! Klooni🌐☠️, Simon Tatham’s Puzzles🌐
- Quest: Andor’s Trail🌐, Xeonjia🌐
- Racing: SuperTuxKart, Pixel Wheels🌐
- Roguelike: Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Sandbox: Minetest
- Strategy: Anuto🌐, Mindustry, Tanks of Freedom☠️, UnCiv
- Trivia: LibreTrivia⛅☠️
- Word: Lexica🌐
Games (Specific)
- 2048: 2048🌐, 2048 Open Fun Game🌐
- Air Hockey: Pocket Broomball🌐
- Breakout: Retro Breaker🌐☠️
- Chess: DroidFish, lichess, Chess🌐
- Pinball: Vector Pinball🌐
- Minesweeper: Minesweeper🌐
- Sudoku: LibreSudoku🌐, Sudoku🌐
- Tetris: Blockinger🌐☠️
- Tic-Tac-Toe: Dooz🌐
Health
- Activity Tracker: AAT, OpenTracks
- Fitness Tracker: FitoTrack
- Pedometer: Paseo
- Workout: Feeel, openWorkout☠️
Information
- Astronomy: Suntimes🌐, Sky Map
- Conversion: Unit Converter Ultimate⛅
- Survival: Trail Sense🌐, Survival Manual🌐☠️
- Weather: Breezy Weather⛅
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia⛅, Kiwix⛅☠️
Location
- Navigation: OsmAnd⛅☔, Organic Maps⛅
- Traffic: Qz☠️, RoadEagle
- Transit: Offi, Transportr
Media
- BiliBili: PipePipe⛅
- Camera (modern): Secure Camera🌐🔀
- Camera (legacy): Open Camera🌐
- Jellyfin: Jellyfin
- Libresonic: UltraSonic⛅
- MPD: M.A.L.P.
- Music: Auxio🌐, Vanilla🌐, Music Player GO🌐
- Peertube: Thorium☠️, TubeLab☠️
- Pictures: Fossify Gallery🌐
- Podcasts: AntennaPod⛅🥸
- Radio: RadioDroid☔, Transistor
- Twitch: Twire
- Universal: VLC
- YouTube: NewPipe⛅, PipePipe⛅, SkyTube⛅
- YouTube Music: RiMusic
Miscellaneous
- AirTag/Tracker Detector: AirGuard
- Barcode Scanner: Binary Eye
- Battery Monitoring: BatteryBot🌐☠️
- Browser Updater: FFUpdater
- Call Blocker: Silence🌐☠️
- Character Map: UnicodePad
- Clipboard History: Clip Stack🌐☠️
- Contacts Sync: DAVx5☔, EteSync🥸
- EXIF Remover: Scrambled Exif🌐
- File Server: primitive ftpd
- Find My Device: Find My Device
- Flashlight: FlashDim🌐
- GPS Tester: GPSTest
- OBD2 Reader: AndrOBD
- RSS: Nunti⛅, Flym⛅☠️, spaRSS⛅🥸☠️
- Ruler: GuessIron🌐
- Screen Sharing: Screen Stream
- Speech to Text: Sayboard⛅
- Smartwatch: Gadgetbridge
- Terminal: Termux
- Text to Speech: RHVoice⛅, eSpeakNG🌐
- URL Inspector: URLCheck
- Wi-Fi Analyzer: WiFiAnalyzer🌐
Network
- Filtering: RethinkDNS, NetGuard, personalDNSfilter
- Monitor: PCAPdroid
- Proxies: Orbot🔀, I2P
- VPN (proper): WireGuard🔀, OpenVPN, Tinc
- VPN (paid): Mullvad
- VPN (free): Riseup (donate)
Organization
- Birthday Reminder: Birday🌐
- Budget: My Expenses
- Calender: Etar🌐
- Calender Widget: MinCal🌐
- Habits: Loop Habit Tracker🌐
- Journal: Diary
- Notes: Notes🌐, SealNote⚠️🌐☠️
- Orgmode: Orgzly☠️
- Time Tracker Simple Time Tracker🌐
- To Do: Tasks🌐☠️, Tasks.org
Payments
- Bitcoin: Bitcoin Wallet
- Cryptocurrency Tracker: Simple Crypto Widget
- Loyalty Cards: Catima🌐
Reading
- E-Books: Librera🌐, Book Reader🌐☠️
- Religious Texts: The Light🌐, The Life🌐, AndBible
Security
- App Isolation: Shelter🌐
- OpenPGP: OpenKeychain☔☠️
- Passwords: KeePassDX🌐, Password Generator⚠️🌐
- Steganography: Pixel Knot🌐☠️
- Two Factor Authenticaton: Aegis🌐, YubiKey🌐
- Universal E2E Chat: Oversec⚠️🌐☠️, KryptEY⚠️🌐☠️
Servers
- Knocker: Knock on Ports☠️, Fwknop2☠️
- Port Scanner: Port Authority☠️
- SSH: ConnectBot
- Status: Nock Nock☠️
Social
- Email: FairEmail, K-9 Mail
- Email Chat: Delta Chat
- IRC: Revolution IRC
- Matrix: Element
- Mumble: Mumla🥸
- Other: Briar🥸
- SIP: Linphone
- SMS/MMS: Silence⚠️☠️
- Telegram: Telegram FOSS Fork
- XMPP: Conversations⛅🥸, Cheogram⛅🥸
Social Forums
- Hacker News: Materialistic⛅☠️
- Reddit: RedReader⛅🥸
Social Networks
- Facebook: Face Slim⛅🥸☠️
- Mastodon: Mastodon
- Twitter: Squawker⛅