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OK, so GrapheneOS. I’ve used it for almost three years now. I’ve very much enjoyed taking a bit more control over my privacy. Maybe you will too.

Links for the wicked!

From GrapheneOS directly (on their website or social media): 

GrapheneOS home page: https://grapheneos.org/  
GrapheneOS donate page: https://grapheneos.org/donate  
GrapheneOS supported devices: https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices  
GrapheneOS Attestation Compatibility Guide: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide  
Reddit comment from GrapheneOS about OEMs: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o32gpg/comment/nivsx0k/  
Regarding GrapheneOS on social media, here's one post they copy/pasted multiple times in a short window, behavior I find a little unsettling: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116092140167973707  
Another recent comment from GrapheneOS in reply to someone who was just mentioning a competitor: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116076269968876054

App stores that aren’t Google: 

Accrescent home page (an app store GrapheneOS has made available in stock GrapheneOS): https://accrescent.app/  
Obtanium home page (downloading apps directly from Git or other sources): https://obtainium.imranr.dev/  
F-Droid, you probably already know about them by now: https://f-droid.org/

About specific apps which might be helpful: 

Signal APK download: https://signal.org/android/apk/  
Terence Eden's awesome blog post about Contactless Payments in Europe using Curve with GrapheneOS: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/  
Organic Maps works pretty well as a general maps app: https://organicmaps.app/  
Unified Push homepage (great resource for notifications without Google Play): https://unifiedpush.org/

Also, thank you OpenMoji for the judge lady (CC BY-SA-4.0): https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F469-200D-2696-FE0F/

Chapters:
0:00 It’s like a dumbphone…
2:01 …but it’s not a dumbphone.
4:32 But… Pixel? Isn’t that a Google thing?
6:26 Installing apps on GrapheneOS
8:40 Messaging with GrapheneOS
10:06 What we leave behind on GrapheneOS
12:12 Taking back my privacy and my attention with GrapheneOS
14:22 Fine… yeah there’s some drama with GrapheneOS
16:29 GrapheneOS is still awesome

#android #privacy #grapheneOS