# Gander (open-source video player)

> Gander is a free, open-source video player for Android. Take a gander at any file. Offline, zero-permission Android viewer for PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODT, RTF, ZIP, STL, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code. It has 1,174 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from Google Play.

Take a gander at any file. A tiny, open source, fully offline file viewer for Android that opens PDF, Word (.docx), Excel, PowerPoint (.pptx), photos, videos, audio, Markdown, text, code and .zip archives in one app, with zero permissions, no ads, no tracking and no internet access at all.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/mokshablr/gander |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Other |
| GitHub stars | 1,174 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| F-Droid | not listed |
| F-Droid anti-features | n/a |
| Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arjun.gander |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://arjun.maniyani.com/gander |
| Official | no |
| Category | Video players |
| Latest release | v2.2 (Oct 5, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 7, 2026 |

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