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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

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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