App Recommendations

In advance, this list assumes that you use GrapheneOS.

• App Stores
  • Accrescent
  • Play Store / Aurora Store
  • Neo Store
    • Settings
  • Obtainium
• Browser
  • Vanadium
    • Notifications
    • Settings
  • Brave
    • Settings
  • Tor Browser for Android
• Messenger
  • Signal
    • Notifications
    • Settings
  • Nextcloud Talk
• Feed Reader
  • Feeder
    • Settings
  • Read You
  • News
• Authentification
  • Aegis
    • Settings
  • KeePassDX
• Gallery
  • Aves
  • Gallery
• Photo Tools
  • ExifEraser
  • Image Toolbox (Resizer)
  • Watermarking
• Media
  • Auxio
  • InnerTune
  • Just Player
  • LibreTube
  • NewPipe
  • URL Radio
  • Seal
  • ViMusic
  • VLC
  • Zapp
• Office / Documents
  • Collabora Office
  • PDF Doc Scan
• File-Sharing
  • Nextcloud
  • QRServ
• Calendar
  • Fossify Calendar
  • ICSx⁵
  • DAVx⁵
• Notes, Tasks and Reminders
  • Doable
• Maps
  • Organic Maps
    • Settings
• Utils
  • BeauTyXT
  • FlashDim
  • Flashlight Tiramisu
  • Flashy
  • Kompass
  • Randomix - Decision Maker
  • Record You
  • Sayboard
• Nerd utils
  • Alga
  • apps_Packages Info - Updated ApplicationsInfos (²
  • Exodus
  • PCAPdroid
  • WiFiAnalyzer
• Calculator
  • Calculator-inator
  • Mint Calculator
  • Unitto

App Stores

Accrescent

Accrescent

• App-ID: app.accrescent.client
• URL: https://accrescent.app/
• Available in: Accrescent (Initial sideload from Website)

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Install unknown apps

Play Store / Aurora Store

If you use Sandboxed Play Services and link your G-account, use the Play Store. Otherwise you can use the Aurora Store.

Aurora Store

• App-ID: com.aurora.store
• URL: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Install unknown apps with obb access Enable Storage Scopes Open links

Neo Store

Neo Store

• App-ID: com.machiav3lli.fdroid
• URL: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store
• Available in: Obtainium, IzzyOnDroid

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Install unknown apps Open links

Settings

• Package sources:
  • F-Droid
    • I recommend against using Apps distributed via F-Droid, see https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/. This source is used to discover apps. You can then install them with Obtainium.
  • IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repo
  • NewPipe upstream repository
  • Collabora Office F-Droid Repo

Obtainium

Obtainium

• App-ID: dev.imranr.obtainium
• URL: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
• Available in: Obtainium, IzzyOnDroid

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Install unknown apps

Browser

Vanadium

Vanadium

• App-ID:
• URL:
• Available in: Preinstalled in GrapheneOS

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
	Nearby Devices

Notifications

• Disable Ingocnito notification

Settings

• You can disable auto-complete if you don’t need it.
  • Privacy and Security > Search and URL completion: Off
• You can enable app preview in the recently used apps view.
  chrome://flags/#incognito-screenshot: Enabled

Brave

Brave

• App-ID: com.brave.browser
• URL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
• Available in: Obtainium, FFUpdater

Settings

Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Tracker & Werbung blockieren: aggresiv Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Verbindungen auf HTTPS upgraden: Alle Verbindungen müssen HTTPS verwenden (streng) Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Skripte blockieren: An Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Fingerprinting blockieren: streng Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Fingerprinting über die Spracheinstellungen verhindern: Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Vergiss mich, wenn ich diese Seite schließe: An Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Daten beim Beenden löschen: An Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Social Media Blocking: Alles Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > YouTube: Alles An Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > WebRTC-IP-Nutzungsrichtlinien: Nicht-proxisiertes UDP deaktivieren Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Websites die Abfrage gespeicherter Zahlungsinformationen erlauben: Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Unaufhaltsame Domains: Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Ethereum Name Service: Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Solana Name Service: Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > IPFS-Gateway: Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Cookie-Einwilligungshinweise blockieren: An Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Registerkarten beim Beenden schließen: An Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Ping der täglichen Nutzung automatisch an Brave senden: Aus Brave Schutz & Datenschutz > Wichtigste Websites in Autovervollständigung anzeigen: Aus Brave Wallet > Web3-Benachrichtigungen anzeigen: Aus Startseite: Aus Downloads > Benachrichtigung über den Download-Fortschritt anzeigen: An Downloads > Wenn möglich automatisch öffnen: Aus Hintergrundwiedergabe: An Darstellung > Brave-Belohnungen-Symbol in der Adressleite anzeigen: Aus Alle standard verknüpfungen auf der Neuer-Tab-Seite löschen Neuer-Tab-Seite > Hintergrundbildanzeigen: Aus Neuer-Tab-Seite > Gesponsorte Bilder anzeigen: Aus Neuer-Tab-Seite > Die führenden Seiten anzeigen: Aus Zahlungsmethoden > Zahlungsmethoden speichern und ausfüllen: Aus Adressen > Adressen speichern und ausfüllen: Aus

While brave has good defaults for privacy, it frequently fails in security on basic things like 64bit builds, Site Isolation or disabling Javascript-JIT. Site Isolation can be tweaked to match vanadiums settings

• chrome://flags/#enable-site-pre-process
• chrome://flags/#strict-origin-isolation

Tor Browser for Android

Tor Browser for Android

• App-ID: org.torproject.torbrowser
• URL: https://www.torproject.org/download/#android
• Available in: Obtainium (HTML), FFUpdater

Second URL (maybe better for Obtainium): https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/

Messenger

Signal

Signal

• App-ID: org.thoughtcrime.securesms
• URL: https://signal.org/android/apk/
• Available in: Website (self-updating apk)

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Media files Microphone Camera Install unkonw apps Battery usage: Unrestricted	WLAN control

Notifications

• Disable Background-connections notification
• Enable Bubbles if you want

Settings

• If you saved your PIN in a password-manager, you can disable PIN notifications.
• Enable Registration Lock
• Enable Message Backup

Nextcloud Talk

Talk

• App-ID: com.nextcloud.talk2
• URL: https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-android
• Available in: Obtainium

Feed Reader

Feeder

Feeder

• App-ID: com.nononsenseapps.feeder
• URL: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
• Available in: Obtainium

Settings

• Newslimit: 500

Read You

Read You

• App-ID: me.ash.reader
• URL: https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou
• Available in: Obtainium

News

News

• App-ID: co.appreactor.news
• URL: https://github.com/bubelov/news
• Available in: Obtainium

Authentification

Aegis

Aegis

• App-ID: com.beemdevelopment.aegis
• URL: https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis
• Available in: Obtainium

Settings

• Appearance > Theme: System default (AMOLED)
• Behaviour > Highlight token when tapped: On
• Behaviour > Freeze tokens when tapped: On
• Security > Tap to reveal: On
• Backups > Automatically back up vault: On
• Backups > Participate in Adnroid’s backup system: On

KeePassDX

KeePassDX

• App-ID: com.kunzisoft.keepass.free OR com.kunzisoft.keepass.libre
• URL: https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX
• Available in: Obtainium

Gallery

Aves

Aves

• App-ID:
• URL: https://accrescent.app/app/deckers.thibault.aves
• Available in: Accrescent, Obtainium, IzzyOnDroid

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Photos and Videos Sensors

Gallery

Gallery

• App-ID: com.dot.gallery
• URL: https://github.com/IacobIonut01/Gallery
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Photos and Videos Enable Storage Scope

Photo Tools

ExifEraser

ExifEraser

• App-ID: com.none.tom.exiferaser
• URL: https://accrescent.app/app/com.none.tom.exiferaser
• Available in: Accrescent, Obtainium, IzzyOnDroid

Image Toolbox (Resizer)

Image Toolbox (Resizer)

• App-ID: ru.tech.imageresizershrinker
• URL: https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageResizer
• Available in: Obtainium

• Settings > About the App > Check for Updates: Off

Watermarking

Watermarking

• App-ID: io.github.freewatermark.mobileapp
• URL: https://github.com/free-watermark/mobile-app
• Available in: Obtainium

Media

Auxio

Auxio isn’t prefect like the Android Media API isn’t either. However it’s still one of the better FOSS Audio player I know.

Auxio

• App-ID:
• URL: https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Music and Audio

InnerTune

InnerTune

• App-ID: com.zionhuang.music
• URL: https://github.com/z-huang/InnerTune
• Available in: Obtainium

Just Player

Just Player

• App-ID: com.brouken.player
• URL: https://github.com/moneytoo/Player
• Available in: Obtainium

LibreTube

LibreTube

• App-ID: com.github.libretube
• URL: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Open links

NewPipe

NewPipe

• App-ID:
• URL: https://newpipe.net/#download
• Available in: NewPipe upstream repository

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Open links

URL Radio

URL Radio

• App-ID: com.jamal2367.urlradio
• URL: https://github.com/jamal2362/URL-Radio
• Available in: Obtainium

Seal

Seal

• App-ID:
• URL: https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
• Available in:

• Settings > About > Automatic updates: Off

ViMusic

ViMusic

• App-ID: it.vfsfitvnm.vimusic
• URL: https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic
• Available in: Obtainium

VLC

VLC

• App-ID: org.videolan.vlc
• URL: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
• Available in: Obtainium (VLC)

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Enable Storage Scope

Zapp

Zapp

• App-ID: de.christinecoenen.code.zapp
• URL: https://github.com/mediathekview/zapp
• Available in: Obtainium

Office / Documents

Collabora Office

Collabora Office

• App-ID: com.collabora.libreoffice
• URL: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-office-android-ios/
• Available in: Collabora Office F-Droid Repo

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Enable Storage Scope

PDF Doc Scan

PDF Doc Scan

• App-ID: com.littletrickster.scanner
• URL: https://github.com/LittleTrickster/PDF-Doc-Scan
• Available in: Obtainium

File-Sharing

Nextcloud

Nextcloud

• App-ID: com.nextcloud.client
• URL: https://github.com/nextcloud/android
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Enable Storage Scope

QRServ

QRServ

• App-ID: dev.uint.qrserv
• URL: https://github.com/uintdev/qrserv
• Available in: Obtainium

Calendar

Fossify Calendar

Calendar

• App-ID: org.fossify.calendar
• URL: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Calendar
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Calendar

ICSx⁵

ICSx⁵

• App-ID: at.bitfire.icsdroid
• URL: https://github.com/bitfireAT/icsx5
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Calendar

DAVx⁵

DAVx⁵

• App-ID: at.bitfire.davdroid
• URL: https://github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Calendar

Notes, Tasks and Reminders

There are hundreds with different features, usage, UI, …

Doable

Doable

• App-ID: at.flobii.doable
• URL: https://codeberg.org/florian-obernberger/flutter-doable
• Available in: Obtainium

Maps

Organic Maps

Organic Maps

• App-ID: app.organicmaps
• URL: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Location

Settings

• Show on lockscreen: Off

Utils

BeauTyXT

BeauTyXT

• App-ID: dev.soupslurpr.beautyxt
• URL: https://beautyxt.soupslurpr.dev/
• Available in: Accrescent, Obtainium

FlashDim

FlashDim

• App-ID: com.cyb3rko.flashdim
• URL: https://github.com/cyb3rko/flashdim
• Available in: Obtainium

Flashlight Tiramisu

Flashlight Tiramisu

• App-ID: com.pdb82.flashlighttiramisu
• URL: https://github.com/polodarb/Flashlight-Tiramisu
• Available in: Obtainium

Flashy

Flashy

• App-ID: rocks.poopjournal.flashy
• URL: https://github.com/Crazy-Marvin/Flashy
• Available in: Obtainium

Kompass

Kompass

• App-ID: com.bobek.compass
• URL: https://github.com/Kr0oked/Compass
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Sensors

Randomix - Decision Maker

Randomix - Decision Maker

• App-ID: com.minar.randomix
• URL: https://github.com/m-i-n-a-r/randomix
• Available in: Obtainium

Record You

Record You

• App-ID: com.bnyro.recorder
• URL: https://github.com/Bnyro/RecordYou
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Microphone

Sayboard

Sayboard

• App-ID: com.elishaazaria.sayboard
• URL: https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Microphone

Nerd utils

Alga

Alga

• App-ID: tech.laihz.alga.arm64
• URL: https://github.com/laiiihz/alga
• Available in: Obtainium

apps_Packages Info - Updated ApplicationsInfos (²

apps_Packages Info - Updated ApplicationsInfos (²

• App-ID: com.oF2pks.applicationsinfo
• URL: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.oF2pks.applicationsinfo/
• Available in: F-Droid

Exodus

Exodus

• App-ID: org.eu.exodus_privacy.exodusprivacy
• URL: https://github.com/Exodus-Privacy/exodus-android-app
• Available in:

PCAPdroid

PCAPdroid

• App-ID: com.emanuelef.remote_capture
• URL: https://github.com/emanuele-f/PCAPdroid
• Available in: Obtainium

WiFiAnalyzer

WiFiAnalyzer

• App-ID: com.vrem.wifianalyzer
• URL: https://github.com/VREMSoftwareDevelopment/WifiAnalyzer
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
Location

Calculator

The calculator app that comes with GrapheneOS is fine unless you need a more fancy looking one or one that can convert units.

Calculator-inator

Calculator-inator

• App-ID: com.inator.calculator
• URL: https://github.com/prathameshmm02/calculator-inator
• Available in: Obtainium

Permissions

Grant	Revoke
	Network

Mint Calculator

Mint Calculator

• App-ID: bored.codebyk.mintcalc
• URL: https://github.com/boredcodebyk/mintcalc
• Available in: Obtainium

Unitto

Unitto

• App-ID: com.sadellie.unitto
• URL: https://github.com/sadellie/unitto
• Available in: Obtainium

Last update: 2024-01-06