Mobile
Apps and tools for Android and iOS.
54 tools, most recommended first
immich
immich-app/immich
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
“I self-host Immich, and run the iPhone app to back up my photos. I used this guide for the initial import.”
- Recommended by
- 7
- Stars
- 118k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
dittofeed
dittofeed/dittofeed
Open-source customer engagement. Automate transactional and marketing messages across email, SMS, mobile push, WhatsApp, Slack, and more 📨
“Likewise we use typebox for everything in our project (open source customer.io alternative).”
- Recommended by
- 4
- Stars
- 3.0k
- Licence
- MIT
scrcpy
Genymobile/scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
“Scrcpy v4.0 (373 points)”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 154k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
SmartTube
yuliskov/SmartTube
Browse media content with your own rules on Android TV
“Try SmartTube or PipePipe. They do a pretty good job of blocking Google's nonsense and just showing you the videos.”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 36k
- Licence
- MIT
raylib
raysan5/raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
“Raylib v6.0 (226 points)”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 36k
- Licence
- Zlib
openobserve
openobserve/openobserve
Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM (web, android, ios), Session replay, pipelines, SLO and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.
“OpenObserve: une alternative open source à Datadog, Splunk et Elasticsearch, qui centralise vos logs, metrics, traces et RUM dans une seule plateforme. Jusqu'à 140x moins cher en stockage grâce à Parquet sur S3. Un seul binaire en Rust, lancé avec Docker. ⬇️ https:// github.com/…”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 23k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
universal-android-debloater-next-generation
Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
“That is what I was alluding to, though I recommend people to use UAD-ng, since it explains what each package is and they are separated in safety-based categories. One note though: removal of system apps with adb is blocked in Android 17. You can only disable system apps on Androi…”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 9.7k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
tauri
tauri-apps/tauri
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
“IME Tauri performance sucks on Linux so thats something worth keeping in mind if you go that route”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 112k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
NewPipe
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
“Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working (124 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 40k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
UTM
utmapp/UTM
Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
“UTM is another great example of this, which is basically a GUI for QEMU. They have a Mac App store $9.99 version and the free open source version:”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 37k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
koreader
koreader/koreader
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
“I installed KOReader following these instructions: Wallabag plugin is built into KOReader. Launch KOReader by clicking the icon it puts in your Kobo library, then in the menus you will find Wallabag config. I added a…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 31k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
ente
ente/ente
💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.
“I currently use Ente.io as a secondary photo syncing service in addition to Google Photos. While I really like it — snappy and encrypted — I was surprised by how much the missing Ultra HDR implementation affects me. Photos are currently uploaded with brightness information but no…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 30k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
fyne
fyne-io/fyne
Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
“For Go, I've been using Wails and Fyne. The former uses a web view for the UI, the latter is Go only.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 29k
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
maui
dotnet/maui
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
“Have you looked into.NET MAUI yet? I'm cautiously optimistic, but haven't dug into it. Should be releasing Q2 this year.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 23k
- Licence
- MIT
nnn
jarun/nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
“nnn with dvtm - Even without dvtm you can have mutiple contexts. nnn is extremely fast with tons of features. Many plugins are available already and it's easy to add new ones.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 22k
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause
runtime
dotnet/runtime
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
“Here's the issue which gives an overview of the problems: Further discussion can be found here: Turning off destructors will not help even a little because the biggest pain points are suppo…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 18k
- Licence
- MIT
Anki-Android
ankidroid/Anki-Android
AnkiDroid: Anki flashcards on Android. Your secret trick to achieve superhuman information retention.
“I'm co-maintaining an open source Android app (primarily Kotlin, with Svelte & Rust). I'd be happy to mentor in 2026. Feel free to get in touch if you're interested:”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 12k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Unciv
yairm210/Unciv
Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V
“I've been enjoying Unciv on my phone recently. It's a FOSS port of Sid Maier's Civilization V.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 12k
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
popcorntime
popcorntime/popcorntime
Popcorn Time™ puts everything in one place. Your favorite platforms, your shows, your movies-ready when you are.
“Streaming doesn't break bittorrent that easily. It's not optimal for the health of a torrent cloud, but practice has shown that it's not a major issue. Plenty of torrent streaming apps, most notably Popcorn Time ( and source code at…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 11k
- Licence
- MIT
laptop
thoughtbot/laptop
A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.
“As a rails developer, I've used and recommended:)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 8.6k
- Licence
- MIT
NewsBlur
samuelclay/NewsBlur
NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.
“Yeah, Newsblur rocks. I also find it a great watching a single committed developer (Samuel Clay), build a small business with an Open Source code-base.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 7.7k
- Licence
- MIT
PipePipe
InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely.
“Try SmartTube or PipePipe. They do a pretty good job of blocking Google's nonsense and just showing you the videos.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 7.2k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
espeak-ng
espeak-ng/espeak-ng
eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
“I've had good luck with (for very specific non-english purposes, and I was willing to wrangle IPA)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 7.0k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
iSponsorBlockTV
dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients.
“This is how I use SponserBlock with YouTube on my Apple TV: >iSponsorBlockTV is a self-hosted application that connects to your YouTube TV app and automatically skips segments in YouTube videos using the SponsorBlock API.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 6.6k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
StreetComplete
streetcomplete/StreetComplete
Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android and iOS
“I would also mention Street Complete, as the companion app to contribute all that data.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 5.1k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
sill
Saffsanity/sill
Any window from your Mac, live on your iPhone or iPad. Touch, Apple Pencil, trackpad and keys. Free, open source, no servers.
“I set up frametop yesterday night, some bumps along the way for sure. Paired my kinesis360pro and had to set it through passthrough to get any of the frametop hotkeys to work (took me a bit to figure that out). I put a cheapo bluetooth mouse in my amazon cart so I'll be able to t…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 4.4k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Hacki
Livinglist/Hacki
A highly customizable, open-source Hacker News client.
“I use Hacki, it shows a red dot next to the profile button when there are replies I didn't read yet.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 1.6k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Harmonic-HN
SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN
Modern Android client for Hacker News
“Author here. First of all, thank you to the Harmonic app by Simon Halvdansson. I know many (most?) of you prefer to use the no frills layout of the hacker news wesite and I totally respect that. But I really enjoy using the Harm…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 1.0k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Heeler
ZingerLittleBee/Heeler
Native iOS agent console for herdr — watch and drive the coding agents on your machines over SSH, with a real libghostty terminal, QR pairing, and push notifications when an agent needs you
“I can highly recommend Heeler if you are are using Herdr and iOS: It's free/open-source and I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's replaced Blink Shell for me on my phone.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 729
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
NerdCalci
vishaltelangre/NerdCalci
Fully offline Android calculator app for power users with variable support, syntax highlighting, file-based sessions, and more.
“I absolutely love NerdCalci! It's simple and gives the same line by line file-based format. Also on windows I used to use SpeQ.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 229
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
twonly-app
twonlyapp/twonly-app
Open-source, end-to-end encrypted Snapchat alternative.
“If you're looking for an alternative: I'm currently developing an open-source alternative to Snapchat:)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 34
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Obtainium
ImranR98/Obtainium
Get Android app updates straight from the source.
“If you like the Obtanium user experience, I recommend you get involved and help them implement signature verification on F-Droid repos:”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 21k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Gallery
FossifyOrg/Gallery
Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery
“I've solved this long ago by disabling the app. Sadly, that means I can't view videos in the gallery, but I believe it's a fair compromise. I'd recommend taking a look at open source alternatives like Lavender Photos or Fossify Gallery…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 3.9k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
yattee
yattee/yattee
Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
“Get I've been watching youtube without ads on all Apple hardware for years. I use invidious as backend. Absolutely fabulous.”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 3.8k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
agent-beacon
Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon
The cross-harness, self-improving memory layer for AI agents. Join our community: https://discord.com/invite/zdNChS2fBu
“We've tackled the core problem of agent telemetry normalization with our open-source project Beacon! Beacon is a harness-agnostic, environment-agnostic framework for capturing, normalizing, and storing the full session history of AI…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 3.0k
- Licence
- MIT
ios
nextcloud/ios
📱 Nextcloud iOS App
“In my opinion it’s not a good alternative if you or your team members expect exactly the same quality of service. When you switch to Nextcloud you’ll have to expect more bugs, less reliability, less performance and obviously more maintenance (since it's typically self-hosted) com…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 2.5k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
SpamBlocker
aj3423/SpamBlocker
Android Call/SMS blocker.
“If you're on Android, I highly recommend:. It works so well, it gave me my phone back. It has all the granularity you wish texting and phone apps had. The only slight neg is all that flexibility can make first-time set up a bit tricky, just…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 1.9k
- Licence
- MIT
voyager
aeharding/voyager
Voyager — a beautiful app for Lemmy and Piefed
“There's several apps for the fediverse though? I always use Voyager for Lemmy (I don't really like the short-form Twitter style socials so I use Lemmy not Mastodon). This is in the google play store too: Though I get it from F-Droid obviously.…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 1.8k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
ovis
devswha/ovis
Ovis (formerly herdr web UI): free, open-source browser and phone client for herdr. Chat and live terminal for Claude Code, Codex and every agent pane, remote PCs over SSH, web push alerts
“Was looking for something like this but stumbled upon herdr-web-ui first. They seem to do the same thing, but herdr-web-ui is completely free and self hosted and sets up as a PWA with webpush support. Seems to work decently well and it’s under heavy development. Will have to…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 1.8k
- Licence
- MIT
yubioath-flutter
Yubico/yubioath-flutter
Yubico Authenticator for Desktop (Windows, macOS and Linux) and Android
“Usually AI is marked as co-author, so you can't find it in the commit list. I use the contributor graph to find where the AI made the commits and then I search using the date, I found 3 commits relative to a11y stuff.…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 1.4k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Materialious
Materialious/Materialious
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is available on Web, Desktop, Android, and Android TV.
“After trying all the alternatives in the end I settled on self hosting All the YouTube alternative frontends are so privacy focused that they do not even offer video history in your account. Having video history is a must for me as I m…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 1.2k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
roborazzi
takahirom/roborazzi
Make JVM Android integration test visible 🤖📸
“We use Roborazzi, which is an excellent screenshot library, but: * We target minSdk 24 * We're still using XML views * We target a large variety of form factors * We have a lot of screens, and these have a lot of configuration options. I really wish it was "point an agent at i…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 1.1k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
whoBIRD
woheller69/whoBIRD
Identify bird sounds in real time with this Android version of BirdNET. Bird sound recognition for more than 6,000 species worldwide.
“This is also a great app:”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 924
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
LavenderPhotos
kaii-lb/LavenderPhotos
A sweet looking photo app for android!
“I've solved this long ago by disabling the app. Sadly, that means I can't view videos in the gallery, but I believe it's a fair compromise. I'd recommend taking a look at open source alternatives like Lavender Photos or Fossify Gallery…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 694
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
MBCompass
CompassMB/MBCompass
Modern FOSS Compass and Navigation app without Ads, IAP or Tracking
“There are even some "Unknown problem" on IzzyOnDroid repo for app publishing, even ensuring reproducible build, izzy says >>Not necessarily "your fault" – baseline often has such issues: Seems like he is talking about the developer…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 612
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
react-native-godot
calico-games/react-native-godot
Bring Godot to React Native 🔮. Create immersive 3D experiences or interactive games directly within React Native.
“Calling Expo a paid tool with metered usage is just flat out misinformation. You can promote your preferred tech without lying about alternatives. Expo is a free open source framework that costs absolutely no money to use. You do not need to pay expo any money ever. Expo Applicat…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 582
- Licence
- MIT
Unwatched
fer0n/Unwatched
RSS feed based YouTube video player for iOS, macOS, tvOS
“Although not a direct equivalent, but check out Unwatched.”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 559
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
DictateKeyboard
DevEmperor/DictateKeyboard
A powerful AI keyboard for reliable speech transcription
“. I forked it to add more models (with Claude). I use openrouter models as well as the local ones”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 313
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
apple-browsers
duckduckgo/apple-browsers
DuckDuckGo iOS & macOS browsers
“> There is no open-source browser based on it that you could use as an alternative to Firefox. here you go:”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 270
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
alpimaps
Akylas/alpimaps
Offline map app iOS/Android
“If anyone is interested i develop a free and open source alternative to komoot. I am currently using it for a 6 months trip in Europe: The idea of it is to be able to do everything offline, from map browsing to route computing, elevation profil…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 195
- Licence
- MIT
karui
ronynn/karui
Karui (軽い) is a offline only aesthetically pleasing, sync supported google tasks alternative to do list app, inspired by system-24 theme and windows mobile design system. It's a 145kb apk that allows you to take notes from status bar and from other apps with support for homescreen widgets! Made with ❤️ and Vue
“I am working on a FOSS google tasks alternative for android with unix-like aesthetics and my desire to take some inspiration from the windows mobile app designs. It's just 84kb apk at the with reproducible build system and also downloadable from IzzyOnDroid fdroid repo:…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 152
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
bandcamp-player
eremef/bandcamp-player
The Unofficial multi-platform Bandcamp desktop player with mobile remote control/companion & standalone app
“Hey! Just wanted to showcase my AI-generated app. I made this unofficial player for Bandcamp mainly because I couldn't find any alternative with a mobile remote control. The idea was to make it as multi-platform as possible. It's fully open source. I used Google Antigravity - all…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 34
- Licence
- MIT
grup
gruprsvp/grup
📅 Event scheduling for groups 👥 made with Flutter and Supabase
“If anyone's looking for an open source alternative (and maybe wants to contribute to it) we're working on it here! We actually started before this was announced, and initially it was developed for a somewhat different use case (more focusing on "recurring invites"), but since…”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 27
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
open-bike-computer
seichris/open-bike-computer
Open Source Bike Computer + iPhone app + Apple Watch app
“An open source bike computer as alternative to closed-ecosystem Garmins. It runs on ESP32-S3 open source hardware, and connects to your Apple Workouts & Maps”
- Recommended by
- 1
- Stars
- 22
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
