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Currently, I'm just using the default 'Drive PDF Viewer' on my Android devices, would love to switch to something FOSS and non-google. Any good recommendations?

If it's available on F-Droid, that would be preferable.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

I am using Librera Reader. Make sure to install the F-Droid version (Librera FD) without Google Play services.

It is primarily an ebook reader that supports a variety of formats, but it is also an excellent PDF viewer. Significantly more feature-rich than any other FOSS PDF viewer for Android that I have found.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

MuPDF Viewer works fine for me. Not very feature rich tho.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer I'm using GrapehneOS and the integrated PDF viewer. Can't say of it works flawlessly on other Android OSes, but you could give it a try!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It works, you can view pdfs but compared to mupdf or mj pdf it's still behind. It may be a tiny bit more secure, so if you are a target who needs to open a pdf from an untrusted source, you may prefer gospdf, everyone else can use something else

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, brutal take but the graphene pdf reader is absolute trash. Takes forever to render pages, if it ever does, is the definition of bare-bones, and I can't uninstall it. It's like the camera - yeah it's nice that it's included, now let me rid my system of it and replace it with something actually well fleshed-out and rich with features.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Mupdf: lightweight, works great.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

MuPDF mini or Sav PDF viewer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

MuPDF comes by default on CalyxOS, and is what I use.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I recommend the GrapheneOS Secure PDF Viewer. Unfortunately it's not on F-Droid, but you can use Obtanium to pull the apk from their GitHub: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer

MuPDF is another option, it even is available on F-Droid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Mupdf or fossify file manager has a pdf reader built in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I use MuPDF but there is also the GrapheneOS PDF viewer available on their GitHub

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer

You can install it using Obtainium or jus grab it from the GitHub page.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I normally use muPDF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

KOreader is great, but use muPDF if you don't want to learn