c/privacy · by Star@sopuli.xyz · 2y

A good, privacy respecting and FOSS PDF viewer for Android?

Currently, I'm just using the default 'Drive PDF Viewer' on my Android devices, would love to switch to something FOSS and non-google. Any good recommendations?

If it's available on F-Droid, that would be preferable.

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xvlc@feddit.de · 21 pts · 2y

I am using Librera Reader. Make sure to install the F-Droid version (Librera FD) without Google Play services.

It is primarily an ebook reader that supports a variety of formats, but it is also an excellent PDF viewer. Significantly more feature-rich than any other FOSS PDF viewer for Android that I have found.

plague_sapiens@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (2 replies)

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer I'm using GrapehneOS and the integrated PDF viewer. Can't say of it works flawlessly on other Android OSes, but you could give it a try!

beta_tester@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Yeah, brutal take but the graphene pdf reader is absolute trash. Takes forever to render pages, if it ever does, is the definition of bare-bones, and I can't uninstall it. It's like the camera - yeah it's nice that it's included, now let me rid my system of it and replace it with something actually well fleshed-out and rich with features.

robber@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y

MuPDF Viewer works fine for me. Not very feature rich tho.

vicvinfroi@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Mupdf: lightweight, works great.

gianni@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y

MuPDF comes by default on CalyxOS, and is what I use.

sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch · 10 pts · 2y

MuPDF mini or Sav PDF viewer

Dehydrated@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

I recommend the GrapheneOS Secure PDF Viewer. Unfortunately it's not on F-Droid, but you can use Obtanium to pull the apk from their GitHub: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer

MuPDF is another option, it even is available on F-Droid.

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2y