The top 20 popular Free Communication Apps for Android in Germany

Google Play has 42,563 Communication apps, the 16th largest app category. 4,778 of them have at least 50,000 installs. 1% are paid, and the average rating is 3.9. Ranked by popularity in Germany. Together these 20 apps got 5.9M installs in the last 30 days. Opera: Private Web Browser got the most installs in the last 30 days: 3.4M. Install counts come from Google Play. Last updated on 2026-11-15.

App

Installs, 30 days

vs 30 days before

Last 12 weeks

Total installs

Rating

On Play

FRITZ!App Wi-Fi

FRITZ! GmbH · Communication

34K

−12%

7.8M

4.1

13 years

GMX - Mail & Cloud

GMX · Communication

100K

−5%

24M

4.5

16 years

FairEmail, privacy aware email

Marcel Bokhorst, FairCode BV · Communication

9.2K

−25%

1.3M

4.7

7 years

FolderSync

Tacit Dynamics · Communication

21K

−9%

1.8M

4.2

15 years

Ecosia: Search to plant trees

Ecosia · Communication

280K

−46%

29M

4.0

13 years

OpenKeychain: Easy PGP

OpenKeychain · Communication

1.3K

−36%

920K

4.0

13 years

Vivaldi Browser: Fast, Private

Vivaldi Technologies · Communication

86K

−5%

9.3M

4.6

7 years

Tor Browser (Alpha)

The Tor Project · Communication

15K

−11%

6.9M

4.2

8 years

Brave Beta

Brave Software · Communication

39K

−8%

2.5M

4.5

6 years

Session - Private Messenger

Session Foundation · Communication

150K

−17%

6.8M

4.7

6 years

Orbot: Tor for Android

The Tor Project · Communication

79K

−20%

47M

4.0

16 years

ACR Phone

NLL APPS · Communication

48K

−10%

6.5M

4.2

7 years

Proton Mail: Encrypted Email

Proton AG · Communication

380K

−7%

15M

4.5

10 years

Portable WiFi - Mobile Hotspot

DOSA Apps · Communication

560K

−41%

18M

4.4

5 years

Plus Messenger

rafalense · Communication

560K

−18%

98M

3.9

11 years

OrNET Browser

Stronger Apps · Communication

24K

−9%

1.7M

4.5

4 years

MyLebara

Lebara Limited · Communication

86K

−27%

8.3M

4.7

9 years

Opera: Private Web Browser

Opera · Communication

3.4M

−35%

560M

4.8

16 years

Waterfox: Private Web Browser

BrowserWorks · Communication

9.5K

−19%

360K

3.5

2 years

Comet: AI Browser & Assistant

PerplexityAI · Communication

37K

−17%

3.3M

4.2

12 months

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