Alternatives to crDroid
LineageOS-based ROM with extensive built-in customisation. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
crDroid
LineageOS-based ROM with extensive built-in customisation.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as crDroid.
LineageOS
A community Android distribution for a wide range of phones and tablets, shipped without Google apps.
LineageOS is the plain base crDroid builds on, with fewer added features and less bug surface, monthly security updates and an official list of 739 devices.
Evolution X
Pixel-style Android ROM with extra customisation for other devices.
Evolution X offers a Pixel-style interface with extra theming and tweaks, but its device support depends on individual maintainers and it also requires an unlocked bootloader.
Paranoid Android
Custom Android ROM focused on a smooth, polished user experience.
Paranoid Android focuses on smooth performance and polish with features like hover notifications and Pocket Mode, but it is not open source and supports a limited set of devices.
PixelOS
AOSP-based ROM delivering a clean Pixel experience with monthly patches.
PixelOS stays close to a stock Pixel experience with monthly patches and deliberately fewer custom features, and it includes Google apps rather than shipping without them.
iodéOS
LineageOS-based ROM with a system-wide ad and tracker blocker.
iodéOS is also LineageOS-based but trades customisation for a system-wide ad and tracker blocker, with a narrower device support list than LineageOS.
CalyxOS
A privacy-focused Android operating system from the Calyx Institute with microG and a built-in firewall.
CalyxOS focuses on privacy with microG, a built-in firewall and Verified Boot with bootloader re-locking, but supports only selected Pixel, Fairphone, Motorola and SHIFT devices.
OmniROM
A long-running community custom Android ROM built on AOSP with added features.
OmniROM is a long-running AOSP-based community ROM with a few extra features, offering lighter customisation than crDroid on its own list of supported devices.
LineageOS for microG
Unofficial LineageOS builds with microG and F-Droid included, for Android without Google Apps.
LineageOS for microG gives plain LineageOS with microG and F-Droid preinstalled for Google service compatibility, as unofficial builds covering only LineageOS devices.
Also worth comparing
These listings name crDroid as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Project Elixir
An AOSP-based custom Android ROM with a clean, Pixel-inspired design, now based on Android 16.
crDroid is an open-source, LineageOS-based ROM with extensive built-in customisation and wide device support, though the extra features increase the surface for bugs.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Vector
Zygisk-based framework that runs Xposed-style modules on modern Android.
Shamiko
A module for rooted Android devices that hides root access from apps that check for it.
Android Open Source Project
Google's open source Android code base, which you can download, build and flash yourself.
Seedvault
An open-source encrypted backup application for Android, built into custom ROMs based on AOSP.
