Orgro

Aaron Madlon-Kay

About this app

Orgro is an Org Mode file viewer and editor with lots of features for comfortable reading on the go:

- Reflowed text for easy viewing on mobile screens

- Math in LaTeX markup rendered in both inline and block forms

- Syntax highlighting that faithfully recreates the appearance in Emacs, in both light and dark modes

- Reader mode for hiding extraneous markup and showing only what's important

- Narrow your view to just a single section, just like in Emacs

- Beautiful tables with guaranteed correct spacing, even with non-ASCII characters

- Open external links in your web browser, and section links in narrowed views

- Follow relative links between Org Mode files

- Expand or collapse sections, blocks, and drawers just like in Emacs

Ratings and reviews

As others have said, it's not an editor, just a reader. But boy what a reader! It renders org files beautifully, and the ui is simple, intuitive, and well thought-out. If you use org to take notes, and want to view them on mobile, this is the best option I've found (and I've tried a lot of things). Semi-hacky workaround for the lack of editing capability: if you sync notes via dropbox or something, keep a text or markdown file in there and edit it with a plaintext editor app, then move it over to an org file later when you're back at the laptop. Not a robust solution but works well for capturing a stray thought while you're away from the desk.

I pulled a table off a remote site and tried reading it with this app. The table had a date notes and interval column in it and this app couldn't read the table correctly to the bottom stripping out most entries in the first date column and only starting to read the interval column well down the table so context was thoroughly trashed. Maybe another app will work better. No mention was made of tables now I think of it and it's for that reason I'm surprised the app worked as well as it did.

Out of all the org mode Android apps, I think Orgro provides the best way of viewing my org files on the go. Works great with a sync solution like syncthing.

What's new

- Tap timestamps to edit with date/time picker