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Vanillify

Remove preinstalled bloat and stop background data sharing. No root.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: ad and tracker blocking.

Some features rely on the Shizuku app.

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
  • “It works on any Android phone through Shizuku, which gives it the same rights as .” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Privacy settings: stop Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning while they are off, stop uploading your apps and Wi-Fi scans to Google, turn off crash reports, and choose an encrypted Private DNS that blocks ads and trackers in…” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-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: 9 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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