Gallica

4.0.5

BnF

3.80

759 reviews

100,000+
Downloads

Free

The digital library of the National Library of France (BnF) and its partners.

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About Gallica

Gallica was an education app developed by BnF. It was removed from Google Play Jun 2, 2026 and is no longer available for download.

Download Statistics

Gallica had been downloaded 180 thousand times before it became unavailable.

User Ratings

Gallica was rated 3.80 out of 5 stars, based on 760 ratings.

App Information

Gallica was free to download. The APK download size was 4.74 MB. The last available version was 4.0.5. The last update was on January 23, 2025.

Technical Requirements

Gallica required Android 5.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play January 2014.

Description

Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France (BnF) and its partners.

More data about Gallica

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	180 thousand
Rating	3.80 based on 760 ratings
Version	4.0.5
APK size	4.74 MB
Number of libraries	17
Designed for Android	5.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

Gallica has been downloaded 180 thousand times.

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Comments on Gallica for Android

★★★★★ Maurice Louis · Jun 1, 2026

Bnf Gallic is one of the best apps I have ever known! It's quite educational and ri ch in documents of all kinds dating back from pre-historical to modern age... It remains my best search engines at times of great needs.

★★★★★ A Google user · Jan 21, 2018

Instant access to medieval manuscripts that can be downloaded as PDF. I love it!

★★★★★ Zelalem Tilahun · May 15, 2023

It would be more preferable if you update the download option. It lags too and the download option does not work.

★★★★☆ Francisco José · Jan 18, 2017

Downloads of Pubs Please, add the feature to download EPUB files.

★★★★★ A Google User · Mar 7, 2015

Wonderful app Thank you BnF for this convenient app which allows me to easily research and download precious historical archives from my tablet. I hope that many National Libraries will try to emulate this app in the future.

★★☆☆☆ A Google user · Nov 1, 2015

Update it! This is probably one of the most unstable apps I have on my phone. Just a few bugs: It's so slow that can't even load a page from "Le Temps". (I do have a working net connection.) Also, why is it not possible to DL articles anymore? They are supposed to be free. I can't even view a set of photos, too. There's no way to b'mark a periodical, so you need to perform a search each time you need to access its articles. And the app doesn't run in the background. How smart is that?

★☆☆☆☆ A Google User · Aug 27, 2015

Virtually useless app that gives access to an equally useless French national resource that is very poorly organized. I am a fluent French speaker so that is not an issue. Rather it's the ludicrous organization of material. Searching for anything on WW2 resistance leader Jean Moulin brings up exactly nothing!! . After 35 mins. Trying different search words. It's like using the net in the early 1990s.clunky, slow frustrating. AVOID. Use english language sources instead

Technologies used by Gallica

Gallica is requesting 9 permissions and is using 17 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools

test access to protected storage

Network communication

view network connections, full network access

Storage

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

System tools

prevent phone from sleeping

Extra

android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, fr.gfi.gallica.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

None found

Development tools

Android Jetpack core

Android Architecture Components

Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable Android Jetpack Annotations Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Annotations Android Jetpack Widgets Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Widgets Firebase Android Library Icon

Firebase

Android Jetpack AppCompat AndroidX Activity Android Library Icon

AndroidX Activity Android Activity Saved State Android Library Icon

Android Activity Saved State Android Jetpack Media Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Media Kotlin Android Library Icon

Kotlin

AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core UI AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 Android Library Icon

AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 Glide Android Library Icon

Glide

Jetpack Navigation Android Data Binding Android Library Icon

Android Data Binding Simple XML Serialization Android Library Icon

Simple XML Serialization

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