Who runs this
HTML to APK is built and operated by Faisal Nadeem, based in Pakistan. It started as an Android app for building other Android apps, and grew into the web builder and the tools you see here.
He has built 30+ Android and iOS applications on freelancer.com since 2019, with expertise in Laravel, React, Flutter and native Android and iOS development.
Why it exists
Turning a working website into an Android app is not conceptually hard — a WebView renders your pages and the shell does the rest. The difficulty is everything around it: a launcher icon in five sizes, a package name that Gradle accepts and Play has not already reserved, a version code that must increase forever, a keystore you must never lose, an App Bundle rather than an APK, a manifest that grants exactly the right permissions.
None of that is interesting work, and all of it fails a build or a store submission when it is wrong — usually after you have waited for the build to find out. So we automated the boring parts and wrote down the rest.
What we actually make
- The builder. Upload an HTML file, a ZIP of your site, or point at a live URL. Set a name, an icon and a package name. Get back a signed Android app. It runs the same Gradle build you would run locally, on our machines instead of yours.
- The Android app. The same builder, on a phone, where the Pro subscription is sold.
- Thirteen free tools. Icon sets, package names, version codes, splash screens, a WebView permission generator, an APK-readiness validator, a size calculator and the everyday encoders.
- Eleven guides. What we learned building all of the above, written down properly.
How we build it
Some choices here are deliberate and worth stating, because they are the ones that would be easy to compromise:
The tools never upload anything
Every tool on this site runs entirely in your browser. Images are resized with the Canvas API, ZIPs are packed locally, the encoders never touch the network. That is why they work offline once loaded — and why you can safely paste a config file or decode a token in one. Not a privacy promise we ask you to trust: open your network tab and watch.
The free tier is a real product
Free builds produce signed, installable APKs with no watermark, no expiry and no branding of ours inside your app. The paid tier exists for the things that genuinely cost more or are genuinely harder — App Bundles, your own signing key, the native chrome — not to cripple the free one.
We say what does not work
A WebView app cannot do background location, Bluetooth or a home-screen widget. A wrapped website can be rejected by Google Play if it adds nothing to a bookmark. Those limits are in the guides because finding them out after you have shipped is worse than reading about them first.
Who it is for
Small businesses that want their site on a phone's home screen. Agencies shipping a client app without a native project. Developers who need an APK for testing before the real app exists. Anyone who has a working website and wants it in an app store without learning Gradle first.
It is not for everyone: if you need a native-feeling social feed, heavy animation, or hardware access beyond camera and location, you want a native app, and the WebView vs native guide says so plainly.
Get in touch
Questions, bugs and feature requests all go to the same place: the contact page. Bug reports that name the device and Android version get fixed faster.