mokshablr/gander
Take a gander at any file. Offline, zero-permission Android viewer for PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODT, RTF, ZIP, STL, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 5 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an offline, zero-permission Android app to view PDFs, Office documents, images, videos, audio, Markdown, code, and zip archives in one lightweight viewer.
- Ensures complete privacy and security by operating fully offline without requiring any permissions, internet access, ads, or tracking.
- Use for securely viewing sensitive documents on Android devices without risking data leakage or privacy breaches.
- Ideal for users needing a single app to open diverse file types including complex Office formats and multimedia without installing multiple viewers.
- Use for developers or privacy-conscious users who want an open source, minimal APK file viewer that respects user data and device security.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Take a gander at any file. A tiny, open source, fully offline file viewer for Android that opens PDF, Word (
.docx), Excel, PowerPoint (.pptx), photos, videos, audio, Markdown, text, code and.ziparchives in one app, with zero permissions, no ads, no tracking and no internet access at all.Join the mailing list for announcements, follow @ArjunManiyani on X, or grab the APK from Releases.
Every phone ships with a dozen half-viewers that bounce your documents to cloud services. Gander is the opposite: one small APK (about 5 MB) that renders everything on the device. It cannot phone home because it does not even hold the INTERNET permission.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
67+16
Open issues
7+0
Compared with peers in Android
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.3K | +839 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| DioxusLabs/dioxus | 39.5K | — | 54 | 12 days ago |
| MatsuriDayo/NekoBoxForAndroid | 23.3K | — | 24 | 262 days ago |
| 0x192/universal-android-debloater | 20.3K | — | 32 | — |
| mokshablr/gander | 1.3K | — | 40 | today |
| Category median | 23.3K | +805 | 45 | — |
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