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List of free and open-source Android applications

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Most Android phones, like the Galaxy Nexus, allow installation of applications both from the Play Store or directly via APK files

This is an incomplete list of notable applications (apps) that run on the Android platform that meet the guidelines for free software or open-source software. For further apps, see the far more extensive lists in the External links section below.

Communication

Application name Description Website Apk Play Store Sources License API Note
APG Android Privacy Guard APG apk Yes svn Apache 2.0 1.5+
ConnectBot Android SSH and telnet client ConnectBot apk Yes git Apache 2.0 1.5+
Chromium Android version of the Chromium web browser [1] No
Firefox for Mobile Android version of the Firefox web browser Firefox Mobile Yes MPL
Funambol Android Sync client Funambol Client for Android apk Yes svn aGPLv3 2.0+
Orbot Android client for TorProject.org network Orbot apk Yes git BSD/GPL 1.6+
Sipdroid Free SIP/VoIP client for Android Sipdroid apk Yes svn GNU GPL v3 works on 1.5
Linphone Open source video SIP VOIP client for Linux, windows, mac, iphone, android Linphone apk Yes git GNU LGPL v2
CSipSimple SIP application for Android devices CSipSimple apk Yes svn GNU GPL v3

Emulators

Application name Description Website Apk Play Store Sources License API Note
Scummvm Android Port of ScummVM (emulates gaming platforms) ScummVM Yes 1.5+ now officially merged into the main release
RetroArch Android Port of RetroArch [2] Yes

Games

Application name Description Website Apk Play Store Sources License API Note
Fish Fillets NG Underwater puzzle game. Fish Fillets NG Yes tgz GPLv2 1.6+ Port of Fish Fillets NG
Freeciv A turn based strategy game similar to Sid Meier's Civilization Freeciv for Android apk Yes git GPLv2 2.0+
Frozen Bubble Knock the bubbles down by making clusters of three or more bubbles in the same color. Frozen Bubble Yes svn GPLv2 3.0 Port of Frozen Bubble
GLtron Lightcycle game. Android-gltron Wiki Yes git GPLv2 2.2+ Port of GLtron
Nethack Android NetHack homepage list Yes svn GPLv2 1.5+ Port of NetHack
robotfindskitten A "Zen Simulation" Website apk Yes Source Dir GPL 1.6+
Simon Tatham's Puzzles A great portable collection of puzzle games, ported to Android Android Puzzles apk Yes git MIT 1.5+
SkyRiot Free A 2d flying shooter physics based platform action game. Website Yes svn CC SA 2
Warmux A turn-based artillery game Website apk Yes svn GPLv2 2.0+

General

Application name Description Website Apk Play Store Sources License API Note
Android's Fortune Quotes and Fortune Cookie program Project Page apk Yes bzr GPLv3
Barcode Scanner Barcode reader ZXing Project latest Yes svn Apache 2.0
FBReader e-book reader site apk Yes git GPL 1.5+ (fbreader's port)
Google Authenticator Authentication Project page Yes git Apache 2.0 2.1+
MyTracks GPS tracking application site Yes git Apache 2.0 1.5+
OsmAnd Offline mapping program using OpenStreetMap data site Yes git GPL v3 1.6+
PressureNET Crowd-sourced barometer network Cumulonimbus Yes git MIT
Tomdroid Note taking application with online sync Tomdroid latest Yes bzr GPLv3 1.6+ a port of Tomboy to android
Wikipedia Access to Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation Yes github GPLv2

Multimedia

Application name Description Website Apk Nightly Play Store Sources License API Note
Rockbox Music player / jukebox [3] [4] [5] No svn GPLv2 officially "unusable", early development version
Subsonic Android Client Streaming Media Player Subsonic Yes svn GPLv3
VLC Media player [6] [7] [8] Yes git GPLv2+ 2.1+ beta
XBMC Media center [9] No GPL

Security

Application name Description Website Apk Play Store Sources License API Note
Prey (software) Android version of Prey (anti-theft software) Prey Project Yes git GPLv3
DroidSheep [10] No GPLv3

References

There are a number of third-party maintained lists of open sources Android applications, including: