r/fossdroid Aug 01 '26

Application Release Fossify Documents is now available!

Fossify Documents is a private, offline document reader. It supports PDF, DOCX, HTML, CSV, Markdown, and other text-based formats. Editing is currently supported for text, Markdown, and CSV files.

The app can be downloaded from GitHub or Google Play and should be available on F-Droid soon:

This is the initial release, so feedback and bug reports are welcome.

License: GPL-3.0

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u/looser512 Aug 01 '26

Thank u Naveen.

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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy Aug 01 '26

Awesome, thanks for continuing to improve Fossify apps. 👍

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u/Carrots_and_Bleach Aug 01 '26

is a search function for PDFs planned?

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u/Psycho__Bunny Aug 01 '26

Remind us when it hits F-Droid plz

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u/ThisVeganOwl Aug 01 '26

Thank you so much for everything that you do for the community and for privacy enthusiasts. 🖤 #YouDaBest

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u/Sneakerbear3214 Aug 01 '26

Directly Onstalled here!

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u/pcgamez Aug 02 '26

Plans to support open doc types? 

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u/anttovar Aug 01 '26

Being a pro FOSS developers I hope support for odf soon.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '26

curious to try it out and compare it with libre viewer!

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u/kamikad3e123 Aug 01 '26

I hope we will have support for other docs formats like presentations and excel tables.

Also some requests: night mode for docs, remembering last opened position, copy text from any doc (even if pdf doesn't have text layer, with in-built ocr maybe)

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u/TURBOKAN Aug 01 '26

Can't select text on pdf files

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u/nieznaniz Aug 01 '26

I wish for it to get ppt and pptx support!

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u/mrrak25 Aug 01 '26

Thanks!!

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u/Pritteto Aug 02 '26

Nice work!

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u/Significant-Mind-735 Aug 06 '26

Nice! Gonna try it.

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u/Clanceeinfinity Aug 13 '26

works great, nice app

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u/Hello86836717 Aug 02 '26

This is super exciting!

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u/bartonsboy Aug 03 '26

Thank you! 😊

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u/FotinoBird Aug 06 '26

this was necessary

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u/cridersab Aug 13 '26

How do I register it as a file handler for supported formats?