r/fossdroid • • Jun 29 '26

Meta Should we switch to Lemmy?

89 Upvotes

And what instance should we use? Why or why not?

583 votes, Jul 01 '26
335 Yes
248 No

r/fossdroid • • Mar 18 '26

Other Keep Android Open

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286 Upvotes

r/fossdroid • • 8h ago

Application Request Reddit app recommendations?

16 Upvotes

I'm sorry for having to ask. However looking up "FOSS Reddit app" just gives general app recommendations that are FOSS, and looks them up on Reddit. Not actual FOSS apps that are Reddit.

I really like basic mobile Reddit. A lot if people prefer like classic Reddit, or some other front end. I'm used to mobile Reddit that has been patched with ReVanced. I've tried patching it again, but I can't seem to do it for some reason


r/fossdroid • • 1h ago

F-Droid Introducing AIPOS Password Manager

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• Upvotes

Its an open-source (Apache-2.0) app, strictly offline password manager and 2FA authenticator for Android, with Jetpack and Material Design 3 (Material You).

Why I built it?

Because I've been looking for a password manager that is fully offline and trusted, but I think the most trusted one is the one you built or developed that's why I created this AIPOS Password Manager and shared this to fdroid so you can try it out or use it as your password manager. Also you don't have to take my word that "it's offline" the app literally does not request the android.permission.INTERNET permission in its manifest.

Key Features:

  • 100% Offline (Zero Network Permissions): Your vault never leaves your device.
  • Dual Vault Architecture: Dedicated storage for standard Web/App Logins and Developer API Keys.
  • Hardened Cryptography:
    • AES-256-GCM encryption backed by the hardware Android Keystore
    • PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (120,000 iterations) for master password derivation.
  • Native Biometric Unlock (Fingerprint / Face) & System-wide Autofill Service.
  • Built-in 2FA Authenticator (TOTP): Scan QR codes offline via CameraX and generate 6-digit TOTP codes right inside the vault.
  • Offline Vault Health & Breach Check: Evaluates password strength, reused passwords, and common weak passwords completely offline using an internal dataset.
  • Material You (MD3) UI: Dynamic Android 12+ colors, dark mode, and smooth animations.
  • Easy Migration & Encrypted Backups: Import CSVs from Bitwarden, KeePass, or 1Password, and export PBKDF2-encrypted JSON backups.

Links

I'm also planning a lightweight cross-platform desktop companion app (Windows/Linux/macOS) in the future so you can unlock and manage your encrypted JSON backups on your PC as well.


r/fossdroid • • 4h ago

Application Request App with different album art and first song art?

1 Upvotes

Hello!

I own some albums where every song has its own art, but the album art is different from the first song's art. I either have to change the first song's art to the cover art or have the album art displayed as the first song's art.

Is there an app that lets me have separate art for the album and first song?

Thank you!


r/fossdroid • • 15h ago

Application Request Voice to text app that works best with the Italian punctuation and spelling

3 Upvotes

With all this "vibe-coded" apps popping up, is there an app that does "voice to text" well with the Italian language? Or simply a new app, not necessarily "vide-coded" that does this?

I've tried different FOSS "voice to text" apps but they either take too long to write down a message or mess up punctuation, spelling or capital letters.


r/fossdroid • • 1d ago

Other Which fork of Shizuku you guys use?

44 Upvotes

I use the Shizuku next fork from Rushi and works flawlessly.

Shizuku Next github page

edit:i accidently put the wrong name for the fork of shizuku app lol


r/fossdroid • • 1d ago

Application Release Harmony Music (v1.23.0 out now) - Ad-free music app for Android, Windows, and Linux

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29 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

For anyone who hasn't tried it yet, Harmony Music is a free, open-source music streaming app powered by YouTube Music. It gives you a clean, ad-free experience without needing to log into a Google account.

Since the original developer (anandnet) stopped updating the project, search and playback broke for a lot of people. I started maintaining this fork to keep the app working. My last release passed 2,000+ downloads, and I just put out v1.23.0 with a lot of fixes.

How Harmony Music compares to other FOSS music apps (like RiMusic, OuterTune, or Spotube):

- Works on Desktop and Mobile: Most open-source YouTube Music apps are Android-only. Harmony Music runs natively on Android, Windows, and Linux while staying lightweight on RAM and battery.

- No login or ban risk: You don't need to sign into your Google or Spotify account, so there is zero risk of your account getting flagged or banned.

- Offline downloads and caching: You can download songs for offline listening (including to an SD card on Android) or let the app automatically cache tracks as you stream to save mobile data.

What makes my fork different from other Harmony Music forks:

- 1-click in-app updates: You don't have to keep checking GitHub manually. The app tells you when a new update is out and lets you update in one click without installing a duplicate app or losing your data.

- Ready-to-install files for all OSes: You don't have to compile the code yourself on Linux or Windows. I set up automated builds for Android (.apk), Windows (.exe), and Linux (.AppImage, .deb, and .rpm).

- Fixed playback and endless radio: Playing a song from search or starting a radio station now properly loads upcoming tracks instead of stopping after 2 or 3 songs. I also fixed the YouTube streaming blocks that caused tracks not to load.

- Fixed Windows video search: The missing "Videos" tab when searching on the Windows version is back.

- Smoother UI and lyrics: Fixed the lag and screen flickering when synced lyrics are scrolling or when the mini-player updates.

Other features included in the app:

- Real-time synced lyrics and plain lyrics

- Android Auto support, sleep timer, built-in equalizer, and skip silence

- Audio quality selector (Low, Medium, High)

- Import playlists from Piped, or share links directly from the YouTube app into Harmony Music

- Local playlist backup/restore and CSV export

- Quick buttons to open any playing track directly in YouTube or YouTube Music

- Material You dynamic colors (matches the album art), gesture player mode, and desktop system tray support

Downloads and Links:

- GitHub Repo: https://github.com/NPP-exe/Harmony-Music

- Latest Release (v1.23.0): https://github.com/NPP-exe/Harmony-Music/releases/tag/v1.23.0

Note for Android users: If you are updating from the old broken version, back up your playlists in Settings first, uninstall the old app, and install this one. After that, all future updates will install directly inside the app.

Credits:

All credit for the original app design goes to anandnet. Also a big thanks to 'jaxenisr' and 'BandhanPramanik' for helping me set up the Linux packages (.AppImage, .deb, .rpm) and automated build workflows.

Let me know if you run into any bugs or have feature requests!


r/fossdroid • • 1d ago

Application Request Lyric Fonts for Android FLAC/MP3 Players

4 Upvotes

not sure if this is 100% the right place to ask but what font style do you all recommend or use for synced lyrics in your offline mp3/flac players? or even a foss lyric app? I'm looking for something unique but not so out there that I can bearly read what's being said.


r/fossdroid • • 2d ago

Application Support Open Implementation of iMessage Protocol in Kotlin

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64 Upvotes

I've spent the last few months reverse-engineering and reimplementing Apple's iMessage protocol as an open-source Kotlin library.

I was trying to develop an iMessage based tool for the Light Phone 3, but was hard blocked because all current implementations are closed source, licensed, or dead.

So I built a permissively-licensed implementation that a normal OSS project could actually build on.

If you want to help, please contribute to the project.


r/fossdroid • • 2d ago

Application Release HomeTiles: a big-tile launcher for small phones, with its own dialler, SMS and contacts

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I have a Unihertz Jelly 2 with a 3 inch screen and wanted a home screen with large tiles on it that stays usable, so I wrote HomeTiles. The first picture is my own setup, the second shows how small the phone is and the third has the home screen, messages and dialler from the emulator.

  • tiles for apps, contacts, shortcuts, widgets, folders and other pages, on a grid you size yourself
  • dialler, call screen, SMS and contacts in the same app and the same look
  • it can take the phone and SMS roles but also works without them
  • usable with a d-pad and number keys, so keypad Android phones should work (only tested with key events so far)
  • SOS tile that texts up to five people and then opens the keypad instead of calling
  • dark, light and high contrast themes, English, German, Spanish, French and Italian

Permissions are optional and only asked for when you use the feature that needs them. There's no INTERNET permission and no QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES. F-Droid builds it from source and the release build is reproducible.

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.kicker.hometiles/ Source: https://github.com/timkicker/hometiles

License: GPL-3.0-or-later


r/fossdroid • • 2d ago

Application Release SCANCORE: an app for anime, novels and comics.

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76 Upvotes

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I wanted one app for the things I read and watch, without a browser tab per site and without an account. So I built SCANCORE: a native app for reading manhwa, manga, webtoons and web novels and watching anime, with your library, history and downloads kept on your own device.

Works the moment you open it. The sources are built in, so there are no extension repositories to find or add. Comics, novels and anime share one library, one history and one search. Everything lives in a single SQLite file you can back up.

And the rest:

- Comics: search Asura Scans, Webtoon, MangaDex, Flame Comics and more at once. Vertical strip for webtoons, or page by page for manga (left-to-right or right-to-left).

- Novels: Royal Road discovery shelves plus the NovelFull family, with a tunable reader (serif, sans or grotesk type, line spacing, paper, sepia, dark and black themes). An optional extended pack on desktop adds about 130 more sites.

- Anime: AniList-powered trending, seasonal and top lists, a 7-day airing schedule, resume, auto-next and AniSkip for intros and endings.

- Library: background new-chapter checks with notifications, offline downloads for comic and novel chapters, history grouped by day, and a Ctrl+K command palette.

- Android: phone layout with bottom tabs, stacked details pages and touch controls.

- No account needed. An optional scancore.onl account only adds syncing with the website.

- Updates itself in the background on every platform (Android opens the system installer).

- MIT licensed. Light, dark and black themes, five accent colours, and a "Reduce motion" switch.

- Known limits: the macOS build is not notarised yet (right-click, then Open, the first time). Android is a sideloaded APK. Some brand-new or obscure anime episodes may not play yet, and the player says so instead of showing a broken video.

- SCANCORE only reads what sites show publicly. It doesn't bypass paywalls, logins or locked chapters, and it doesn't host any content. Not affiliated with any of the sites. Please support the creators of the series you enjoy.

Download: https://github.com/medium-gh/scancore/releases/latest

Source: https://github.com/medium-gh/scancore

Website: https://scancore.onl

I'm the sole developer and I'll keep maintaining it. Bug reports and feature requests are very welcome on GitHub Issues, and there's a Discord for questions and feedback: https://scancore.onl/discord


r/fossdroid • • 2d ago

Application Request Really configuring the notifications/sounds

1 Upvotes

Hey,

Is there an app where I can really manage the notifications and sounds how I like? For example:

I always want calls to be on loud

I want Facebook etc. to be quiet when I press like.

I want notifications from apps to be silent

I want messages to vibrate

Currently I haven't found a way to do it. Thank you very much for your help!


r/fossdroid • • 3d ago

Application Support Heliboard question

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8 Upvotes

Whenever I tap the circled button, my phone crashes, is there a reason wby?


r/fossdroid • • 3d ago

Application Release Allergy Radar: pollen levels for anywhere in Italy, plus a symptom diary

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44 Upvotes

License: MIT

I couldn't find any app in the stores that tracked allergy levels based on location, even an approximate one, so I built my own.

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It shows 15 types of pollen for wherever you are in Italy. Forecasts come from Open-Meteo (CAMS) and real measurements from ISPRA, and next to each value the app tells you which of the two it is, or if it's just an estimate.

There's a symptom diary that takes a few seconds a day. After a while it shows which pollens match your worst days, and you can export it as a PDF for your allergist. It also has alerts and a home screen widget.

No account, no ads, no trackers, and it doesn't need Google Play Services.

The app is only in Italian for now, since the data only covers Italy.

Development note: Used AI for heavy async/vision tasks and prompt handling, but the core architecture, state management, and main Kotlin code were written by hand.

APK: https://github.com/lorenzocaputodev/allergy_radar/releases/latest

Source: https://github.com/lorenzocaputodev/allergy_radar


r/fossdroid • • 2d ago

Application Release I built Luma, an open source Android gallery with a liquid glass floating bar

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0 Upvotes

Still early. I want honest feedback. Bugs, ideas, anything.

GitHub: https://github.com/nkosanamahungela-dev/Luma-

Discord: https://discord.gg/yWSXq6h7b


r/fossdroid • • 3d ago

Application Release Free Android app streams phone audio to Sonos over Wi-Fi

4 Upvotes

Tired of the Sonos app not supporting every app? My Play:1 lacks Bluetooth, AirPlay, and line-in, so I built Sunus to stream any phone audio losslessly to Sonos—no extra hardware or computer needed.

Two modes:

Standard: No setup, uses Android’s normal capture. Some apps (Netflix, Audible) block it.

All apps: Captures everything, including blocked apps. Requires one-time Wireless Debugging pairing (Android 12+), no root, no PC.

—ideal for music, not for video sync.

Free, open-source (MIT), no ads, no account. APK:

github.com/tomkainz/sunus

Built with AI help. Beta version, tested on Android 17 with Play:1 (S2). Feedback and bug reports welcome.


r/fossdroid • • 3d ago

Application Release Linkstow: Karakeep Client for android

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3 Upvotes

r/fossdroid • • 2d ago

Application Release Android gallery app with liquid glass, more coming soon

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0 Upvotes

the source license of the software is GPL


r/fossdroid • • 4d ago

Application Release [Open Source] I built SVA Launcher: a customizable Android TV launcher with IPTV, NES games, Google Photos, and more

80 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been working on SVA Launcher, a free and open-source launcher for Android TV, and wanted to share it with the community.

I wanted a TV home screen that was simple, customizable, and actually useful, without unnecessary clutter. I also wanted to bring together the things I regularly use on my TV instead of constantly switching between different apps.

So I started building SVA Launcher.

Features

  • Customizable home screen — Choose your favorite apps, arrange shortcuts, and use your own photos as backgrounds.
  • Live TV / IPTV — M3U/M3U8 playlists, XMLTV program guides, channel categories, and integrated playback with ExoPlayer.
  • Built-in NES emulator — Play your own NES games using the integrated Nestopia UE emulator, with remote and gamepad support.
  • Google Photos integration — Display photos from public shared albums as your TV wallpaper or screensaver.
  • Custom screensaver — Nine different visual styles, with optional clock, weather, and events.
  • Calendar and events — Connect a public Google Calendar feed and view upcoming events.
  • Weather — Current weather conditions and a three-day forecast.
  • Saved YouTube videos — Keep shortcuts to frequently watched videos and playlists.
  • Backup and restore — Export and import your launcher configuration.
  • Remote-friendly navigation — Designed for Android TV with D-pad navigation.

SVA Launcher supports Android TV 8.0 and newer.

How to install

The app is currently available through the Google Play testing program.

  1. Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/sva-launcher
  2. Join the testing program: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.sva.launcher
  3. Once enrolled, follow the Google Play link to install SVA Launcher on your Android TV.

Alternatively, you can install the APK directly from the GitHub.

Open source

The entire project is available under the GPLv3 license.

GitHub: https://github.com/clay-36/Sva-launcher

The project is still evolving, and I'm actively improving the experience. Bug reports, suggestions, and contributions are welcome on GitHub.

Thanks for checking it out!


r/fossdroid • • 3d ago

F-Droid Android gallery app with liquid glass

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0 Upvotes

Meet Luma. Android gallery reborn. 📸 The app is still in development

🫧 Liquid glass floating bar 🔒 Secure folder built in 🎨 Dynamic theming, your colours ☁️ Data and backup tools ⚡ Smooth native Compose

Free. Open source. No ads.

⭐ Star on GitHub: https://github.com/nkosanamahungela-dev/Luma-

💬 Join Discord. Test betas. Shape Luma: https://discord.gg/nRbvh87AHK


r/fossdroid • • 4d ago

Application Request CashBuddy : UPI expense tracker,no internet

4 Upvotes

i'm Indie Dev of cashBuddy a fully open source Android Expense tracker.

 https://github.com/l1khith/CashBuddy/tree/liki


r/fossdroid • • 5d ago

Application Request What's this widgets app.?

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17 Upvotes

r/fossdroid • • 5d ago

Application Request No good FOSS office suite available for android , please make one

5 Upvotes

Collabora office have outdated UI and they've moved development from git. Is there any forks with active development??


r/fossdroid • • 5d ago

Application Release My Tracking App: count cigarettes, IQOS or anything u want and cut down at your own pace

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7 Upvotes

License: MIT

You log every cigarette (or IQOS, vape, whatever you want to cut down on) and it keeps track of how many you had, what's left in the pack and how much you're spending. You can set up a reduction plan for each product, and there are goals and charts by day, week and month.

There's a home screen widget so logging is one tap, plus reminders, CSV export and backup.

It doesn't even have the internet permission, so nothing leaves your phone. English and Italian, it follows the phone's language.

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I built this app to help my girlfriend track how many Terea Turquoise sticks she smokes a day and support her in cutting down.

Development note: Used AI for heavy async/vision tasks and prompt handling, but the core architecture, state management, and main Kotlin code were written by hand.

APK: https://github.com/lorenzocaputodev/my_tracking_app/releases/latest

Source: https://github.com/lorenzocaputodev/my_tracking_app