Fossify Gallery

Fossify Gallery is an open-source gallery for photos and videos. It comes from Fossify, a group of privacy-focused, ad-free open-source apps that began in late 2023 as a fork of Simple Mobile Tools, after that project’s apps were sold. Naveen Singh, a long-time contributor to Simple Mobile Tools, leads it. The gallery’s code carries on from Simple Gallery, but under a package name of its own, so it installs as a separate app rather than as an update to Simple Gallery.

What it does

From the project’s feature list and changelog:

• Formats: JPEG, PNG, JPEG XL, AVIF, SVG, GIF and camera RAW files, plus common video formats, and Ultra HDR photos on Android 14 and later.
• Editing: crop, resize, rotate, flip, draw on a picture and apply filters.
• EXIF removal: strip details such as GPS location and camera model before you share.
• Locking: put chosen photos, videos or the whole app behind a PIN, pattern or fingerprint.
• A recycle bin: deleted files can be restored for 30 days, after which they are deleted for good.
• Hidden folders: hide a folder from every gallery app, or only exclude it from this one.
• Your way: themes, custom fonts, and a choice between the built-in video player and your default one.

It doesn’t display panoramas or 360° photos. That relied on a proprietary Google library, which Fossify removed.

Offline, and why it asks for file access

• The APK doesn’t request internet access, and Fossify’s privacy policy says the app shows no ads and doesn’t track you. Photos leave the phone only when you share them, or through a storage or sync app you have set up yourself.
• It works with access to media files only, but then can’t handle hidden files. For those, and for more reliable file operations, it asks for access to all files, and on Android 11 and later to be your media management app.

Good to know

• Version 1.13.1, from February 2026, is still the latest release.
• Editing an AVIF or HEIC picture currently saves it as JPEG data under the original file name, a bug the project has confirmed.

About this file

• This is Fossify’s own build, delivered through IzzyOnDroid: byte for byte the APK on the project’s GitHub release and the file F-Droid distributes, signed by Naveen Singh for Fossify. IzzyOnDroid and an independent builder both rebuilt it from the source code and got the same file.
• Fossify says its Google Play and F-Droid releases share a package name and signing key. The Play version is built slightly differently: this one doesn’t ask for Fossify’s paid Thank You app before colour customisation and widgets, and it leaves out Google-related links.
• The 38.6 MB file has native code for ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit, runs on Android 8.0 and later, and declares 13 permissions.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).