Mobile app · Development
ADB Captain
Run ADB commands on your phone. No root, no PC — via Shizuku.
- Completely free
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Features described in its F-Droid listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: code completion, debugging, themes and dark mode.
Some features rely on the Shizuku app.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “ADB Captain — ADB toolkit for Android powered by Shizuku.” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “Autocomplete pulls from your command history, history is grouped by how recent it is, and you can pin the commands you use most.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “An ADB shell terminal, logcat viewer, package manager and debugger that run on your phone.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
- “Material 3 Expressive, with light or dark theme, five accent palettes, or follow the system colors with Material You.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of ADB Captain is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.
Its licence (AGPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
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