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66 open-source privacy, ad-blocking and VPN apps

Open Source Privacy Apps for Android

The most popular open-source privacy, ad-blocking and VPN apps for Android on GitHub are Clash Meta For Android, sing-box and Outline. appsgit lists 66, 58 of them on F-Droid, each with its license, last commit and store links.

Updated Oct 8, 2026

Open Source Privacy Apps for Android

Showing the top 48 of 66 by GitHub stars. Every entry is listed in the sitemap and the JSON API.

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What are the best open-source privacy, ad-blocking and VPN apps?

By GitHub stars, Clash Meta For Android is the most popular (47,292 stars), followed by sing-box and Outline. Each page lists the license, the last commit and the F-Droid, Google Play or App Store link when the project publishes one.

Which of these apps work on iPhone?

9 of the 66 open-source privacy, ad-blocking and VPN apps listed here run on iOS, including Outline and Mullvad VPN, and 66 run on Android.

Are these apps on F-Droid?

58 of the 66 are on F-Droid, which builds them from source. 38 of those have no anti-features (such as ads, tracking or a non-free network service) flagged by F-Droid; each app page lists any that are.

How are these open-source privacy, ad-blocking and VPN apps chosen?

Apps come from the F-Droid index (apps whose source code is on GitHub), GitHub topics such as android-app, flutter-app, ios-app and jetpack-compose, and a short hand-checked list of official apps that are not on F-Droid. An app is listed only if its license is OSI-approved or FSF-free (F-Droid's license first, then GitHub's), the repository has a README and a commit in the last six months and is not archived, and it has 100+ GitHub stars (F-Droid apps) or 300+ stars (everything else). Libraries, SDKs, templates, samples and demo apps are left out. Source-available apps are never listed.