Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all
A tiny, open source, fully offline file viewer for Android that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photos, videos, audio, Markdown, text and code in one app, with zero permissions, no ads, no tracking and no internet access at all. Every phone ships with a dozen half-viewers that bounce your documents to cloud services. Gander is the opposite: one small APK (about 15 MB) that renders everything on the device.
- ▪A tiny, open source, fully offline file viewer for Android that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photos, videos, audio, Markdown, text and code in one app, with zero permissions, no ads, no tracking and no internet access at all.
- ▪Every phone ships with a dozen half-viewers that bounce your documents to cloud services.
- ▪Gander is the opposite: one small APK (about 15 MB) that renders everything on the device.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/mokshablr/gander |
| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:45:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-31T08:02:33.931Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-31T08:02:33.931Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | cwkuBIbo3f6H · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Gander 🪿 Take a gander at any file. A tiny, open source, fully offline file viewer for Android that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photos, videos, audio, Markdown, text and code in one app, with zero permissions, no ads, no tracking and no internet access at all. Every phone ships with a dozen half-viewers that bounce your documents to cloud services. Gander is the opposite: one small APK (about 15 MB) that renders everything on the device. It cannot phone home because it does not even hold the INTERNET permission.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.