Mobile app · Audio & music
PlainApp: Phone Web Portal
Manage your phone on the web! Access files, contacts, videos, music & more.
- Completely free
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Features described in its F-Droid listing: self-hosting on your own server, web interface and end-to-end encryption.
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
- “PlainApp is a free, open-source Android app that turns your phone into a self-hosted management hub accessible from any web browser on the same network - no accounts, no cloud, no subscriptions.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “PlainApp is a free, open-source Android app that turns your phone into a self-hosted management hub accessible from any web browser on the same network - no accounts, no cloud, no subscriptions.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “End-to-end encrypted - every connection is secured with TLS + XChaCha20-Poly1305” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Markdown Notes - Write and organize notes with a clean editor” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Video & Audio Player - Full-featured media player with playlist support” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “TV Cast - Cast media to any DLNA/Chromecast-compatible TV” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Peer-to-Peer Chat & File Sharing - Share files and messages directly between devices without a server” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of PlainApp: Phone Web Portal 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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