Who runs this
HTML to APK is built and operated by Faisal Nadeem, based in Sialkot, Pakistan. It grew out of an Android app for building other Android apps, and became this web builder, the tools and the guides.
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.
The idea
A great deal of what people want on a phone is already written in HTML: a quiz, a calculator, a course, a catalogue, a game, a portfolio. Rewriting it in Kotlin to get an icon on the home screen is months of work to arrive at a copy of something that already runs. Bundling the HTML inside a WebView shell gets the same result in minutes, and on Android the result is a real app — signed, installable, publishable, and working with no connection because the files are inside it.
The hard parts are not the WebView. They are the four lines the head needs, the paths that must be relative, the module script that will not load from a bundle, the icon in five sizes, the package name you can never change, the key you must never lose, the App Bundle Play insists on, and the privacy policy Play asks for even when there is nothing to disclose. This site automates the ones that can be automated and writes down the rest.
What we make
- The builder. Drop an HTML file or a ZIP — or paste a URL — set a name, an icon and a colour, and get back a signed Android app. It runs the same Gradle build you would run locally, on our machines.
- The Android app. The same builder on a phone, where the Pro subscription is sold through Google Play.
- Ten free tools. Built around the file — a starter, a merger, an image embedder, an offline checker, a minifier — and around what Play asks for after the build: a keystore command, a privacy policy, the Data safety answers.
- Twelve guides. What we know about turning HTML into apps, each answering its question in the first paragraph.
Three things we will not compromise
The tools upload nothing
Every tool runs in your browser. Files are read with FileReader, images are drawn on a canvas, scans are pattern matches on the text you paste. Open the network tab and watch: no request carries your data. That is why they work offline once loaded.
Free is a product, not a funnel
A free build is a signed, installable APK with no watermark and no expiry. Pro exists for things that are genuinely different — Google Play's format, your own key, native chrome, push, bigger bundles — not to make free worse.
The limits are written down
A bundled app cannot load module scripts, fetch local files or run in the background. Anyone can unzip an APK and read your code. Google Play rejects a wrapper that adds nothing and requires a policy even for an app that collects nothing. All of that is in the guides, because finding it out after shipping is worse than reading it first.
Who it is for
Students with a class project. Teachers with a lesson that needs to work without Wi-Fi. HTML5 game makers. Freelancers shipping a brochure or kiosk app. Teams with an internal checklist. Web developers who need an APK today and do not want to learn Gradle.
It is not for everyone. If the app needs Bluetooth, background work, widgets or a native-feeling feed, you want a native build or Capacitor, and the comparison says so.
Get in touch
Questions, bugs and feature requests go to the contact page. Bug reports that name the device and Android version get fixed faster.