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gander

Take a gander at any file. Offline, zero-permission Android viewer for PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODT, RTF, ZIP, STL, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: Markdown support and spreadsheets.

File formats mentioned: PDF, ODT, RTF, ZIP, STL, DOCX and PPTX.

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
  • “Gander opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code on Android.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Gander is the opposite: one small app that opens PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, slides, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code entirely on the device.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

gander is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) 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 Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub mokshablr/gander (MIT)

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