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35 independent forum listings the big search engines bury.

• Materialistic Nouveau

  fdroid · Free · by Andrew Rowson

  Material design Hacker News client for Android

• Summit for Lemmy and PieFed

  fdroid · Free

  A fast and easy to use app for Lemmy and PieFed

• KnowledgeBase

  github · Free · by Doomsekkar-hub

  Build a personal knowledge base that turns raw notes into structured wiki pages, with Q&A, health checks, and export tools

• meith

  github · Free · by meith-dev

  An open-source, self-hosted forum software for conversations worth keeping. Give your community a place of its own - on your domain, on your infrastructure, with your data under your control.

• Voyager for Lemmy

  fdroid · Free

  Join the discussion

• Reddinator

  fdroid · Free · by Wallace IT

  Reddit Widget

• Overchan (fork)

  fdroid · Free

  Browse multiple imageboards

• la/u/ncher

  fdroid · Free · by Niles Rogoff

  The official app for danger/u/, dangeru.us

• Stealth

  fdroid · Free · by CosmosApps

  Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client.

• Bangumi

  fdroid · Free · by Chan

  A third-party client for Bangumi

• Jerboa for Lemmy

  fdroid · Free

  An app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative.

• Hacki for Hacker News

  fdroid · Free · by Jiaqi Feng

  An open-source Hacker News client.

• Archlinux Forums

  fdroid · Free · by Kanedias

  Satellite application for bbs.archlinux.org forums

• Holywarsoo

  fdroid · Free · by Kanedias

  Lightweight Holywarsoo forum browsing app

• Discuz Hub

  fdroid · Free · by Kido Zhang

  Lightweight Discuz! Android app

• Raccoon for Lemmy

  fdroid · Free · by LiveFast EatTrash

  Mobile client for Lemmy, a federated aggregation and discussion platform.

• HN

  fdroid · Free · by Manuel Maly

  Read and comment on tech news

• pOT-Droid

  fdroid · Free

  Companion app for mods.de forum

• Dashchan

  fdroid · Free · by Fukurou Mishiranu

  Client for imageboards

• zSMTH

  fdroid · Free · by Zhengfa Dang

  Client for SMTH BBS

• OPEN NGA

  fdroid · Free · by mlzzen

  Third-party client for bbs.nga.cn

• Eternity

  fdroid · Free

  An Lemmy client for Android, forked from the Infinity for Reddit project.

• Geddit

  fdroid · Free

  An open-source, Reddit client for Android without using their API

• NGA客户端开源版

  fdroid · Free · by Yihang Yang

  NGA client

• V2EX

  fdroid · Free · by Fan

• V2compose

  fdroid · Free · by Cooaer

  A Material You style V2ex client!

• Nora

  fdroid · Free

  SNS browser. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Threads, X and more in a single app.

• 天使动漫

  fdroid · Free · by realth000

  Official client for tsdm39.com forum

• Glider for Hacker News

  fdroid · Free · by Mosc

  Glider is an opinionated Hacker News client. Ad-free, open-source, no-nonsense.

• Bienvenido a Internet

  fdroid · Free

  Bienvenido a Internet text/image board browser

• RedReader

  fdroid · Free

  Client for reddit.com

• ForPDA

  fdroid · Free · by slartus

  Client for 4pda.ru

• Blorp

  fdroid · Free

  A Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed

• discourse-saver

  github · Free · by Shadowsomatic798

  Save posts and comments from any Discourse forum to Obsidian, Notion, or Feishu with one click, supporting offline and multi-format export.

• jetonomy

  github · Free · by vapvarun

  Next-gen discussion platform for WordPress — forums, Q&A, ideas, voting, trust levels, 61+ REST API endpoints. Free forever.