Phylax
Phylax is a free, open-source utility app for Android. Viewer for Frigate NVR with smart URL switching and notifications. It has 114 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
- Android
- Kotlin
- Utilities
- Actively maintained
About Phylax
Phylax is an Android viewer for the self-hosted Frigate NVR. Unofficial and not affiliated with the Frigate project. * Auto URL switching between internal (LAN) and external Frigate based on Wi-Fi SSID. * Background notifications with snapshot thumbnails. Alerts open the Review timeline; detections open the Explore view. * Per-camera, per-zone and severity filters. One notification per tracked event. * CPU and GPU badges in the top bar. Tap for RAM, uptime, per-detector inference and per-camera FPS. * Connection status dialog with a live latency graph. * mTLS client certificate support. * Two-way talk on doorbell and intercom cameras. * Clip and snapshot downloads.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Phylax from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
Screenshots
Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.
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What is Phylax?
Phylax is a free, open-source utility app for Android. Viewer for Frigate NVR with smart URL switching and notifications. It has 114 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
Is Phylax free and open source?
Yes. Phylax's source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install Phylax?
You can install Phylax from F-Droid (package com.asksakis.freegate); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v2.13).
Is Phylax still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Sep 9, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Sep 12, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.