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DeBurrow

Felipe Debene

A modern Gopher protocol client for Android.

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About DeBurrow

DeBurrow is a modern, native Android client for the Gopher protocol — the pre-web,

text-first way to browse "Gopherspace". Built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

Features:

* Browse Gopher menus, read text files, and view images

* ANSI-color and word-wrapping text viewer — colored .ansi art renders in color, with a

one-tap toggle to no-wrap for fixed-width maps and tables

* Veronica / type-7 search with a query prompt and tappable results

* Address-bar navigation, bookmarks, browse history, and search history

* Downloads for binary items, response caching, and TLS (gophers://)

* Opens gopher:// and gophers:// links from other apps, even while running

* Material 3 theming and an adaptive (and Android 13 themed) launcher icon

No accounts, no trackers, no ads. Free and open source (MIT).

DeBurrow is a modern evolution of "Pocket Gopher", a 2010 J2ME client by Felix Pleșoianu,

with parsing code and ideas by Nuno J. Silva.

What's new in 2.0.4

Readable ANSI art on the light theme. ANSI pages now render on a black backdrop, the background the xterm palette they use was drawn against. Previously the light end of that palette (grey and white text) was painted onto the light Material surface and was near-invisible.

How to install DeBurrow

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open DeBurrow from your app drawer.

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