Best Free Open-Source Apps for Your iPhone

Firefox Focus : Browse privately with a light-weight browser, Firefox Focus. It blocks online trackers, forgets your history immediately, and keeps your browsing data off the record. Apple indicates that Firefox Focus provides a handy and straightforward way to browse the web, focused on privacy. It blocks a variety of online trackers automatically, including those from social media and ads.

Proton Mail : Be safe with Proton Mail. It is an open-source encrypted email app for those privacy-minded directors wanting something on their iPhone. The entire inbox, including messages and attachments, is secured with end-to-end and Zero-access encryption, meaning only you can read your emails. 

Signal : Signal is a private messaging app with actual end-to-end encryption, the most well-known feature of this open-source messaging service for iOS. Signal's emphasis on end-to-end is appreciated, and this is the best benefit of the application: your messages and calls are kept private, as they should be! The app is free to use, and it has disappearing messages, group calls, and other features.

Nextcloud : Manage your files, notes, and media online without relying on Big Tech. Nextcloud is an open-source cloud solution that self-hosts on your devices and is an alternative to iCloud and Google Drive. Nextcloud provides a powerful, self-managed alternative to commercial cloud storage platforms like iCloud and Google Drive.

VLC Media Player : Play your movies, your music, and your streams in almost any condition. VLC is free, open-source, and one of the best media players. VLC gives you the option for local file playback, and you get streaming options for many supported protocols: SMB, FTP, UPnP/DLNA. You can also customize advanced subtitles with sizing and colors, playback speed, multi-track audio rendering, and casting with Chromecast.

Standard Notes : With Standard Notes, you can keep your notes encrypted and synced between devices in an open-source alternative to standard Apple Notes. All your notes, tags, and data inside Standard Notes uses XChaCha20-Poly1305 (an industry-leading encryption standard). All your data is encrypted by you, on your machine, and then synced, so only you have access to your data.

K-9 Mail : K-9 Mail is a perfect example of an advanced open-source email client for power users who require flexibility in managing their emails. While Thunderbird provides a solid solution for desktop email management, it will not be able to access your emails on your iPhone. Instead, you may want to use other email clients or set up mail forwarding services.

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