De-Googled Starter Stack
Essential apps, tested working on Lineage 22 without MicroG
- Mercurygram Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free.
- Tor Browser Tor Browser for Android is the only official mobile browser supported by the Tor Project, developers of the world’s strongest tool for privacy and freedom online. Tor Browser will ALWAYS be free, but donations make it possible. The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in the US. Please consider making a contribution today. Every gift makes a difference: https://donate.torproject.org. BLOCK TRACKERS Tor Browser isolates each website you visit so third-party trackers and ads can’t follow you. Any cookies automatically clear when you’re done browsing. DEFEND AGAINST SURVEILLANCE Tor Browser prevents someone watching your connection from knowing what websites you visit. All anyone monitoring your browsing habits can see is that you’re using Tor. RESIST FINGERPRINTING Tor aims to make all users look the same, making it difficult for you to be fingerprinted based on your browser and device information. MULTI-LAYERED ENCRYPTION When you use Tor Browser for Android, your traffic is relayed and encrypted three times as it passes over the Tor network. The network is comprised of thousands of volunteer-run servers known as Tor relays. BROWSE FREELY With Tor Browser for Android, you are free to access sites your local internet service provider may have blocked. THIS APP IS MADE POSSIBLE BY DONORS LIKE YOU Tor Browser is free and open source software developed by the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization. You can help keep Tor strong, secure, and independent by making a donation: https://donate.torproject.org/ Learn more about Tor Browser for Android: Need help? Visit https://tb-manual.torproject.org/mobile-tor/. Learn more about what’s happening at Tor: https://blog.torproject.org Follow the Tor Project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/torproject PRIVACY POLICY Tor Browser is designed to maximize your privacy. You can read our full privacy policy here: https://www.torproject.org/about/privacy_policy ABOUT THE TOR PROJECT The Tor Project, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) organization developing free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. The Tor Project’s mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, support their unrestricted availability and use, and further their scientific and popular understanding.
- Amber Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to keep their nsec segregated in a single, dedicated app. The goal of Amber is to have your smartphone act as a NIP-46 signing device without any need for servers or additional hardware. "Private keys should be exposed to as few systems as possible as each system adds to the attack surface," as the rationale of said NIP states.
- Organic Maps 🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for more than 6M travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!
- NewPipe *Read this document in other languages: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, हिन्दी, Italiano, 한국어, Português Brasil, Polski, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ , 日本語, Română, Soomaali, [Türkçe](doc/README.tr.
- Mostro A modern, secure mobile client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This is a fully-featured mobile application that enables secure, private, and decentralized Bitcoin trading over the Lightning Network using the Nostr protocol. Built with Flutter, it provides a native mobile experience for conducting peer-to-peer trades with advanced privacy features and modern UI/UX design. Key Features: Privacy-First Architecture: Advanced encryption with NIP-59 gift wrapping for all trade communications Hierarchical Key Management: BIP-32/BIP-39 compliant key derivation with unique keys per trade Multi-Language Support: Full internationalization in English, Spanish, and Italian Lightning Network Integration: Seamless Bitcoin Lightning payments and invoicing Real-Time Trading: Live order book updates and instant messaging with counterparts Modern UI/UX: Card-based interfaces, smooth animations, and intuitive navigation Secure Storage: Hardware-backed secure storage for cryptographic keys Decentralized: No central authority, operates entirely on Nostr relays
- Fountain Fountain connects a global community of fans with millions of podcasts and emerging music artists. WHY LISTENERS LOVE FOUNTAIN: • Support your favourite podcasts and music artists directly by sending a payment from the player • Top up in seconds with your credit card or transfer funds from apps like CashApp, Coinbase or Strike • Join in the conversation with podcast hosts, music artists and other fans in the comments • Share podcast clips with your followers or save them as videos to post on any social media app • Create playlists and explore curated collections on diverse topics and music genres • Follow your friends to see their latest activity in your feed and discover new music and podcasts • Get paid by other listeners when they like your clips, comments or playlists FLOWING WITH FEATURES: • Listen to any podcast and music live, offline or in the car with AndroidAuto • Automatically build a playback queue of your favourite shows synced across all devices • Navigate podcast chapters effortlessly and enjoy custom chapter artwork • Search accurate podcast transcripts for every episode in all languages • Enable or disable notifications to be the first to know when new episodes are released • Create custom filters for the podcasts you follow and personalise your library view • Choose your auto-downloads, auto queue and playback speed preferences for each podcast • Import your followed shows from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast and other podcast apps via OPML
- Amethyst A privacy-focused Nostr client for Android. Built-in TOR support, the most configurable relay system, encrypted messaging, zaps, marketplaces, live streams and complete data sovereignty.
- peach bitcoin Welcome to Peach, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace. Peach helps people connect directly to buy and sell Bitcoin without intermediaries. All payments and Bitcoin transfers occur directly between users using external wallets and payment methods. Peach is non-custodial: – The app never holds or controls your Bitcoin – The app never handles your payments – Trades happen directly between users Peach is not an exchange, broker, or wallet provider. It provides tools to discover offers, communicate securely, and coordinate peer-to-peer trades. Bitcoin involves risk. Users are responsible for complying with local laws and regulations.
- Proton Mail Proton Mail for Android ======================= Copyright (c) 2026 Proton Technologies AG
- Calculazor A sexy calculator that doesn't just forget everything.
- KDE Connect KDE Connect provides a set of features to integrate your workflow across devices: Transfer files between your devices. Access files on your phone from your computer, without wires. Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your devices. Get notifications for incoming calls and messages on your computer. Virtual touchpad: Use your phone screen as your computer's touchpad. Notifications sync: Access your phone notifications from your computer and reply to messages. Multimedia remote control: Use your phone as a remote for Linux media players. WiFi connection: no USB wire or bluetooth needed. End-to-end TLS encryption: your information is safe. Please note you will need to install KDE Connect on your computer for this app to work, and keep the desktop version up-to-date with the Android version for the latest features to work. KDE Connect never sends any information to KDE nor to any third party. KDE Connect sends data from one device to the other directly using the local network, never through the internet, and using end to end encryption. ── Repackage of the official F-Droid build (signed by F-Droid, reproducibly built from KDE source). Original by the KDE Community. Source: https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-android Website: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ License: GPL-3.0-only Republished on Zapstore by Kilombino (npub1qqqqqqzs0udz0dpa93ra5thgycmcmwsqw5qave53ltdrd75nrptqv5h62x).
- Signal Signal is a messaging app with privacy at its core. It is free and easy to use, with strong end-to-end encryption that keeps your communication completely private. • Send texts, voice messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and files for free. Signal uses your phone’s data connection, so you avoid SMS and MMS fees. • Call your friends with crystal-clear encrypted voice and video calls. Group calls supported for up to 50 people. • Stay connected with group chats up to 1,000 people. Control who can post and manage group members with admin permission settings. • Share image, text, and video Stories that disappear after 24 hours. Privacy settings keep you in charge of exactly who can see each Story. • Signal is built for your privacy. We know nothing about you or who you’re talking to. Our open source Signal Protocol means that we can’t read your messages or listen to your calls. Neither can anyone else. No back doors, no data collection, no compromises. • Signal is independent and not for profit; a different kind of tech from a different kind of organization. As a 501c3 nonprofit we are supported by your donations, not by advertisers or investors. • For support, questions, or more information please visit https://support.signal.org/ To check out our source code, visit https://github.com/signalapp Follow us on Twitter @signalapp and Instagram @signal_app
- AQUA Save in Bitcoin and transact with speed & flexibility on Lightning, Liquid, and Tether USDt. Easily swap across assets, buy Bitcoin, and access your local services. Why AQUA: AQUA is your global passport to financial inclusion, designed for Latin America and embraced by Bitcoiners everywhere. It’s built on top of Bitcoin and the principles of self-sovereignty and decentralization, enabling control over your spending and long term savings. Key Features: Self custody your Bitcoin and seamlessly transact in Lightning and Liquid assets, as well as stablecoins. Native Tether USDt support on Liquid, pay for network fees in USDt without the need for gas, AND transact fluidly across the most popular USDt blockchains. In-app access to a growing marketplace of curated local and global financial services and on-ramps to Bitcoin and traditional financial services. Leverage the security of the Liquid Network to easily swap between assets and move Bitcoin to Layer 2 for faster and cheaper transactions. AQUA Be Like Water: AQUA's intuitive design ensures a simple user experience, making it ideal for beginners, while its powerful capabilities meet the high expectations of Bitcoin enthusiasts worldwide. Download AQUA, the Bitcoin Superapp built for financial empowerment. Surf the waves of financial freedom!
- Electrum Licence: MIT Licence Author: Thomas Voegtlin Language: Python (>= 3.10) Homepage: https://electrum.org/
- Tailscale Securely connect people, workloads, and even AI agents to anything on the internet with Tailscale, the secure connectivity platform built on WireGuard®. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer so you can control access based on users, groups, tags, and devices instead of IP addresses, applying Zero Trust principles end-to-end across every environment. Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources. Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform. Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale. Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture. Tailscale works with 100+ technology integrations and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of operating system platforms, including Apple macOS, iOS, and tvOS, Windows, Linux, and Android. Securely connect from wherever you work.
- 0xchat A secure, open-source chat app built on the Nostr protocol.
- VLC Video and audio player that supports a wide range of formats, for both local and remote playback. Audio: Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC1, ATRAC3, ATRAC3Plus and ATRAC9) and PSX ADPCM Adobe SWF ADPCM and Nellymoser Asao ALAC AMR-NB, AMR-WB (a.k.a. G.722.2) DK ADPCM Audio 3/4, On2 AVC and iLBC DSS-SP DTS Coherent Acoustics (a.k.a. DTS or DCA), DTS Extended Surround (a.k.a. DTS-ES), DTS 96/24, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS Express (a.k.a. DTS-HD LBR), DTS-HD Master Audio, QDesign Music Codec 1 and 2 DVI4 audio codec Full Rate (GSM 06.10), AC-3 (Dolby Digital), Enhanced AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) and DTS Coherent Acoustics (a.k.a. DTS or DCA) iLBC, Opus and Comfort noise IMA ADPCM MLP / Dolby TrueHD MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC, HE-AAC, MPEG-4 ALS, G.711 µ-law, G.711 A-law, G.721 (a.k.a. G.726 32k), G.722, G.722.2 (a.k.a. AMR-WB), G.723 (a.k.a. G.726 24k and 40k), G.723.1, G.726, G.729, G.729D, IEC DV audio and Direct Stream Transfer QCELP-8 (a.k.a. SmartRate or IS-96C), QCELP-13 (a.k.a. PureVoice or IS-733) and Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC. a.k.a. IS-127) RealAudio v1 – v10 SMPTE 302M Speex, Vorbis, Opus and FLAC Truespeech TwinVQ Windows Media Audio (WMA1, WMA2, WMA Pro and WMA Lossless), XMA (XMA1 and XMA2), MS-GSM and MS-ADPCM Containers and muxers: 3GP (.3gp) AIFF (.asf, .wmv) ASF (.asf, .wmv) AU (.au) AVI (.avi) DivX (.divx) FLV (.flv) MOV (.mov) MP4 (.mp4) OGG (.ogm, .ogg) MKV (.mkv, .mka) MPEG-2 / TS (.ts, .mpg) MPEG-2 / ES, PS, PVA, MP3 (.mpg, .mp3, .mp2) NSC (.nsc) NSV (.nsv) Nut (.nut) Real (.ra, .ram, .rm, .rv , .rmbv) Raw (a52, dts, aac, flac, .dv, .vid) (.a52, .dts, .aac, .flac, .dv, .vid) True Audio Codec (.tta, .tac) Ty Tivo (.ty) Wav (.wav, .dts) WebM (.webm) Xa (.xa) Video: Animated GIF APNG ASUS V1/V2 codec ATI VCR1/VCR2 Autodesk Animator Studio Codec and FLIC Avid 1:1x, Avid Meridien, Avid DNxHD and DNxHR AVS video Cinepak (Apple Compact Video), ProRes, Sorenson 3 Codec, QuickTime Animation (Apple Animation), QuickTime Graphics (Apple Graphics), Apple Video, Apple Intermediate Codec and Pixlet Divx, DIV1, DIV2, DIV3, mp41, mp42, MPG4, MPG3 Duck TrueMotion 1, Duck TrueMotion 2, Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time, VP3, VP5, and animated WebP HQ, HQA, HQX and Lossless IBM UltiMotion Matrox Uncompressed SD (M101) / HD (M102) Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video 1, Cinepak, Indeo (v2, v3 and v5), Microsoft MPEG-4 v1, v2 and v3, Windows Media Video (WMV1, WMV2, WMV3/VC-1), WMV Screen and Mimic codec MPEG-1 Part 2, H.261 (Px64), (MPEG-H Part 2), Motion JPEG, IEC DV video and CD+G RealVideo Fractal Codec (a.k.a. Iterated Systems ClearVideo), 1, 2, 3 and 4 RTV 2.1 (Intel Indeo 2) Screen video, Screen video 2, Sorenson Spark and VP6 Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video, Silicon Graphics MVC1/2 Smacker video and Bink video SMPTE 314M (a.k.a. DVCAM and DVCPRO), SMPTE 370M (a.k.a. DVCPRO HD), VC-1 (a.k.a. WMV3), VC-2 (a.k.a. Dirac Pro), VC-3 (a.k.a. AVID DNxHD) SpeedHQ Theora TXD AV1
- Obsidian Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. It is a second brain, for you, forever. Now available on the go for Android! Features include: - Customizable toolbar - Pull down quick actions - Graph view - Share to and from Obsidian - Community plugins - Themes - Sidebar pinning for tablet
- BTC Map Easily find places to spend sats anywhere on the planet.
- App Manager A full-featured package manager and viewer for Android
- WhatsApp Web To Go [android] WhatsApp Web client for your phone/tablet with media support