DeBurrow (Gopher client for Android) Review

Stars: 2.5 of 5

A really basic Gopher client for Android. Features bookmarks and 
history, and not much else. I'm not sure there's even a way to 
change the home page. The UI is cramped, and my URL bar usually 
looks like "gopher://go". It does use icons to distinguish 
different link types, though it doesn't distinguish local from 
remote links. Search is supported, and it will download files that 
it can't display.

I keep getting tripped up by the system back button not being 
mapped to the app back functionality, and going back to the 
launcher instead. Also by the lack of a pull-to-refresh gesture.

Lagrange is *much* more usable (and more functional), plus of 
course it supports other small-net protocols too.

DeBurrow appears to be a vibe-coded update of Pocket Gopher (the 
Java ME app, not the Android app with the same name).

--Kelson Vibber, 2026-09-17

DeBurrow on F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.debene.gopher/

DeBurrow and its sibling Gopher clients for older macOSes
https://debene.dev/posts/one-frozen-gopher-api/

Pocket Gopher:
https://felix.plesoianu.ro/mobile/pocket-gopher/