This is the shortest guide in the set, and deliberately so: HTML support in FoldRender is a small, sharply bounded feature, and padding it out would mean inventing capabilities. It opens a .html file from the file tree in a fenced-in viewer. Here is exactly what that viewer does — and, more usefully, what it will not do, because that is the part that decides whether it is any use to you.
FoldRender is on the Play Store as FoldRender: Git Repo Reader, package id dev.foldrender.app, free and distributed worldwide. Install it the ordinary way — no allow installs from this source prompt to approve, and updates arrive on their own. The app declares minSdk 30, so it needs Android 11 or newer; Play will tell you if a device is below that rather than letting you install a build that cannot run.
From a workspace: tap the row in the Files tab — HTML files are badged HTML. From outside the app: choose Render in the “Open with” list, since FoldRender registers for text/html, application/xhtml+xml and the .html extension. Detection also falls back to content, so a file whose first non-whitespace bytes are <!doctype html> or <html> routes here even without the extension.
The page renders in a WebView with JavaScript disabled, file access disabled and content access disabled. Pinch-zoom controls are enabled without the on-screen zoom buttons, so you can scale a page laid out for a desktop width.
Every navigation attempt is intercepted and handed back to the app rather than followed in place. This is a viewer for one file, not a browser you can click around inside.
This is the one WebView in the app that shows your content, and it is fenced in on purpose: no JavaScript, no file access, no content access, and every link handed back to the shell. FoldRender is a document reader, and a general-purpose browser is a different product with a different threat model.
Self-contained HTML — an exported report, a coverage summary, a single-file documentation page, or an export FoldRender itself produced with everything inlined — opens from the repository tree without leaving the app.
It is one of eleven renderers, chosen by score over name, MIME type and magic bytes. Markdown, source, PDF and notebooks are the formats verified on a clean device; HTML is described here from the shipped implementation.
The honest list — shipped-but-unverified behaviour included, so you can tell before installing whether this build does the thing you came for.
style.css, a script.js or an img/ directory will render as unstyled markup. Self-contained files are what this viewer is for.Four apps people actually reach for, and the one axis that separates them: whether the repository ends up on the phone, and whether anything renders it once it is there.
| Tool | Download price | Where you get it | Clones to the device | Renders PDF / notebook / Markdown | Editor or shell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FoldRender 0.8.2 | US$0 | Google Play, worldwide | Yes — HTTPS, anonymous for public repos | Yes — native Compose renderers | No, deliberately: a reader, not an IDE |
| GitHub Mobile | US$0 | Google Play and the App Store | No — it reads repositories hosted on GitHub | Only what GitHub itself renders, online | Edits files inside a pull request |
| Termux + git | US$0 | F-Droid or GitHub | Yes — the real git CLI | No — terminal text only | Yes, a full shell and any CLI editor |
| MGit 1.7.0 (2023) | US$0 | F-Droid only | Yes — clone, pull, push, HTTPS or SSH keys | No | No — its own listing says it ships no text editor |
Prices are for the download. GitHub Mobile’s capabilities follow your GitHub plan; Termux and MGit are both free software. MGit’s version and date are from its F-Droid listing.
Every figure here is read out of the shipping build or off a primary source listed at the foot of this page — nothing is rounded up for effect.
0.8.2, build 16, last reviewed on 27 August 2026.minSdk 30 — the API level Android 11 shipped with in 2020 — compiled and targeted against API 36.The primary documents behind the figures above, so you can confirm any of them without taking our word for it.
git-clone reference — the operation the app's clone button performs, in the words of the project that defines itminSdk names as its floorPage last reviewed 2026-08-27, against FoldRender 0.8.2.