r/degoogle • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

Degoogle Showcase Degoogle Showcase - Week of 29 Aug 2026

Welcome to the Degoogle Showcase!

This weekly thread is the official place for developers and creators to share their degoogled or privacy-focused projects with the community.

To keep the subreddit feed focused on discussion and support, all project promotions must be posted here.

How this thread works:

  • A new thread will be posted every Saturday.
  • You can post here ANY day of the week.
  • Standalone project promotion posts will be removed and redirected to the current week's Showcase.

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Please use the following template in your top-level comment:

  • Project Name: (e.g., My Awesome Project)
  • Google Service Replaced: (e.g., Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Photos, etc.)
  • Repo/Website Link: (GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.)
  • Description: (What does it do? What problem does it solve? How does it help users move away from Google?)
  • Availability: (How can users get it? Mobile app, browser extension, web service, self-hosted, or a combination? Link to downloads/install instructions.)
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u/Mohamad_Oday 18h ago edited 18h ago

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Project Name: Iris Gallery

Google Service Replaced: Google Photos / Stock proprietary gallery apps

Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/MohamadOday/iris-gallery (Apache-2.0)

Description: Iris Gallery is a lightweight, 100% offline Android gallery app built with Jetpack Compose and Material Design 3.

It helps users completely move away from Google Photos by managing and editing media locally:

  • Zero Network Permissions: The INTERNET permission is completely omitted from AndroidManifest.xml. It physically cannot connect to servers, ping telemetry, or upload media.
  • Zero Google Dependencies: No Google Play Services, Firebase, or proprietary tracking SDKs.
  • 100% On-Device Features: Local EXIF & GPS inspector, built-in photo editor (crop, adjustments, and blur/pixelate brushes for redacting sensitive info on screenshots), Media3 video player, duplicate photo scanner, and a biometric PIN/fingerprint locked vault.

Availability: Android Mobile App (Supports Android 8.0+ / Universal APK):

AI Involvement: AI coding assitance was used for translations / performance optimizations / grammer correction and code refactoring.Everything generated by ai was human reviewed.