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PaperPhoneLite

Encrypted messaging through self-hosted Tor onion services.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

PaperPhoneLite is a messaging mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: self-hosting on your own server, Tor network support, group chats and calls, attachments.

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
  • “Encrypted messaging through self-hosted Tor onion services” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Encrypted messaging through self-hosted Tor onion services” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “PaperPhoneLite is a private messaging client for self-hosted PaperPhoneLite onion services.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “It bundles Tor and supports private and group chats, attachments, offline data, disappearing messages, signed messages and group keys, offline-password identity verification, safety numbers, optional text-appearance…” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “It bundles Tor and supports private and group chats, attachments, offline data, disappearing messages, signed messages and group keys, offline-password identity verification, safety numbers, optional text-appearance…” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of PaperPhoneLite 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

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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