The Best Plain App Alternatives in 2026

ReadYou helps users follow RSS feeds through an Android reader presented in the Material You visual style.

Twine helps users follow web feeds through a multiplatform RSS reader built with Kotlin.

With CapyReader, Android users can follow and read RSS feeds in a compact reader app.

Nunti brings RSS feeds and privacy-focused news reading to Android devices.

Contacts and SMS messaging are brought together in this Android application.

Users can self-host Hauk to share live location from a phone with chosen contacts.

SpamBlocker filters unwanted Android calls and SMS messages, providing controls for blocking communications.

BCR records phone calls on supported rooted Android systems as a basic call recording application.

Zenith helps users monitor and manage phone habits through a Material Design 3 digital wellbeing app for Android.

A handy phone call manager with phonebook, number blocking and multi-SIM support.

SMS-IE imports and exports text messages on Android, providing a simple utility for transferring SMS data.

VoiceGPT helps users select, start, and manage AI digital assistants through a mobile interface.

The Universal Android Debloater v2 is a cross-platform Rust GUI that uses ADB to manage removal of preinstalled Android packages.

ShizuCallRecorder uses Shizuku and ADB to record calls on Android 11 and later without requiring root access.

Logger lets users view and export Android call logs as CSV or JSON and analyze them on-device.

Trireme lets Android users manage a Deluge torrent client remotely through a thin client built with Flutter.

Aria2App lets users manage downloads handled by aria2, including on remote servers.

USB HID Client lets an Android phone act as a keyboard or mouse over USB HID, providing input device functions through the phone.

SensorServer streams data from a phone’s sensors, exposing measurements from an Android device to connected clients.

Codec2 Talkie turns an Android phone into an amateur radio digital voice transceiver with APRS support and wired or wireless connections.

Mousedroid turns an Android phone into a mouse and keyboard for another device.

AndroidMic turns an Android phone into a microphone for a computer and lists support for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

PhoneTrack connects to Nextcloud tracking sessions and displays phone location data through an Android client.

Blocker is a component controller for Android applications that currently supports using PackageManager and Intent Firewall to manage the state of components.