Mobile app · AI chatbots & assistants

buddy-android

Android AI assistant in a floating bubble: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini (Antigravity CLI) or Grok use your phone for you — read the screen, tap, type. Runs on your own plan, open source, no root, no adb, no PC.

Completely free
Android
Open source
No account

Overview

buddy-android is an AI chat assistant, available on Android.

Features described in its GitHub repository: open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…).

Remote models are reached with your own API key; these providers generally charge for usage.

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

“Android AI assistant in a floating bubble: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini (Antigravity CLI) or Grok use your phone for you — read the screen, tap, type.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“No PC, no adb, no root, and no API key needed (you can add keys for other services, such as DeepSeek or OpenRouter, and use them with Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode).” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“No PC, no adb, no root, and no API key needed (you can add keys for other services, such as DeepSeek or OpenRouter, and use them with Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode).” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of buddy-android is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 10 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub ghorbelhamdi/buddy-android (Apache-2.0)

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