OpenKeychain: Easy PGP
OpenKeychain
4.0 ★
4K ratings
500,000+
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Free
With this encryption app, you can generate, store, and manage digital keys for secure messaging and signing. Includes key generation, key exchange, message encryption, and decryption features.
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AppRecs rating 3.9. Trustworthiness 85 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 22 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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5 star
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4 star
9%
3 star
9%
2 star
2%
1 star
18%
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85% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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71% positive sampled reviews
About OpenKeychain: Easy PGP
Modern encryption is based on digital “keys”. OpenKeychain stores and manages your keys, and those of the people you communicate with, on your Android smartphone. It also helps you find others’ keys online, and exchange keys. But its most frequent use is in using those keys to encrypt and decrypt messages.
★ Integration with other Apps:
• K-9 Mail
• Conversations
• and many more…
★ Open Source: OpenKeychain is designed to be trustworthy. It’s Free Software with no secrets; anyone can examine and validate every bit of it (Source code available at https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain)
★ Independent Security Audit: The auditing company Cure53 performed an intensive security audit of OpenKeychain. The security experts summarize their final result with "[...] none of the spotted issues were considered to be of a critical severity in terms of security implications. The latter is a significant and impressive result for an app of this complexity and relevance."
★ Permissions: Because OpenKeychain is Free Software, anyone can validate that the permissions are indeed only required for the listed features.
• In-app purchases: Donate to the developers
• Identity: Pre-fill name and email addresses
• Contacts: Connect keys to your contacts (only offline)
• Photos/Media/Files: Import/export keys from SD card
• Camera: Scan QR Codes to add other people's keys
• Others: Internet permission to retrieve keys, NFC permission to use YubiKeys
Starting with Android 6, permissions are requested when required in-app!
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Reviews for OpenKeychain: Easy PGP
Manish Bakhada
12/30/2025
longtime not updated
Y Y Z
12/29/2025
For an open source OpenPGP app on Android, I would say it's the best one out there. But seriously, no biometric unlock? Having to type a high entropy passphrase every time I want to sign/encrypt is such a pain... It only encourages users to choose a weaker password that is easy to type, thereby compromising security. If this feature is incorporated, I would certainly consider it a 5-star worthy app!