A folder with an index.html in it is all you need — no CMS, no plugin, no framework, no build step. Plain HTML has no Publish button, so we start by getting your files onto a free live URL in about 5 minutes, then wrap that URL into a signed Android APK in about 60 seconds.
Written by the Free App Maker team at My Mind Studio · Last verified 26 August 2026
Let's be precise, because most "HTML to APK" pages aren't: Free App Maker is a website to APK converter. It takes the live URL of your page and wraps it in a signed Android WebView app — the same Chromium-based engine that renders pages in Android's browser. Your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript run the same way they do in a mobile browser, in most cases; the APK gives them a home-screen icon, a full-screen window, and a real install experience.
That means one honest requirement: your HTML must be online. We do not accept a local index.html upload, and any tool that takes one still has to put your files on a device or server somewhere. The clean solution is a free static host — GitHub Pages, Netlify Drop, or Cloudflare Pages — which takes about 5 minutes and gives you an HTTPS URL you fully control. The section below walks through all three.
Once your page has a URL, the rest is the easy part. The same flow works for any link on the web — see our URL to APK guide for the general version — and because the app loads the live URL at runtime, edits you publish later show up in the installed app on its next open, subject to your host's caching.
Source: Android Developers — Build web apps in WebView, which states “WebView runs on a Chromium-based engine”, and Android Developers — WebView Beta program, which documents WebView being installed and updated through Google Play. Both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Your HTML page is powerful — but it lives in a browser tab. There is no Play Store listing to find, no real installer to hand someone, and no guaranteed home-screen presence once a browser tab is closed. That's a distribution gap for any serious project.
An Android APK closes it. Users install it once, tap the icon on their home screen, and the app opens straight to your page — no URL to remember, no browser chrome in the way. For an HTML5 game, a calculator, a portfolio, or a small business site, that difference is what makes it feel like a real app instead of a bookmark.
Distributing via APK also means you can reach users through direct download links, beta testing groups, or enterprise MDM systems — without waiting for Play Store approval. Share an APK link and people can install your page on their phone.
Free App Maker wraps a live URL, not a local file. Here are three well-known hosts with genuinely free tiers for static HTML — pick one, put your files up, copy the URL, and come back.
Drag the folder containing your index.html onto app.netlify.com/drop — Netlify's docs confirm you can drop a folder of HTML files, and if you drop it without even logging in, Netlify publishes the files as-is. Sign in with a free account to manage the site afterwards.
Netlify lists its entry plan as Free at $0 with no credit card required, as of August 2026. You get an HTTPS URL immediately — that's the URL you paste into Free App Maker.
Source: Netlify Docs — Create deploys and Netlify pricing, checked 26 Aug 2026.
GitHub Pages is included with a free GitHub account for public repositories. Create a public repo, upload your HTML files, then enable Pages in Settings → Pages.
Your site publishes at yourname.github.io/repo-name.
As of August 2026, GitHub documents that published sites may be no larger than 1 GB, with a soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month — far more than a typical HTML project needs.
Source: GitHub Docs — GitHub Pages limits and GitHub Docs — GitHub's plans, checked 26 Aug 2026.
In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to Workers & Pages → Create application and drag and drop your files — up to 1,000 files per drag-and-drop deploy, no Git repository required (note: a direct-upload project can't be switched to Git integration later). Your project is published on a pages.dev subdomain.
As of August 2026, Cloudflare documents 500 builds per month on the free plan, sites of up to 20,000 files, and a 25 MiB cap per file.
Source: Cloudflare Docs — Direct Upload and Cloudflare Docs — Pages limits, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Any of the three works — if you just want the fastest path from a file on your desktop to a URL, use Netlify Drop. Whichever you choose, open the URL on your phone's browser first to sanity-check it looks right on a small screen. Then continue below.
No Android Studio. No Gradle. No Java. Host your page, paste the URL, and your APK is ready in about a minute.
Use any of the free hosting options above — Netlify Drop is the quickest if your files are still local. If your page is already live anywhere on the web, you can skip straight ahead: all you need is the public HTTPS URL. Test it in a normal browser tab first; if it loads there, it will usually load in the app — the compatibility list below covers the exceptions.
Paste your URL into Free App Maker at freeappmaker.org. Enter a name for your Android app (this appears under the home screen icon) and your email address. Optionally upload a square 1024×1024 PNG icon — if you skip it, we generate a clean default icon automatically from your app name.
Free App Maker wraps your URL into a WebView APK, signs it, and delivers a secure download link within about 60 seconds. Open the link on an Android device, allow installs from that source, and tap Install — your HTML page then runs as a standalone app with its own home screen icon.
Your page already has a URL? You're one minute away from an APK.
Convert Free — Takes About 60 Seconds →"HTML to APK" searches come from four very different kinds of builders — the same honest flow works for all of them.
You built a Canvas or WebGL game and want players to install it like a real mobile game. Host the game folder, wrap the URL, and share the APK link in your community. Test performance on a mid-range phone before you announce it — and make sure the controls work with touch, not just keyboard and mouse.
Final-year projects, bootcamp capstones, and class assignments often earn extra credit as an installable app. Push your project to GitHub Pages — you likely have the repo already — and hand in an APK your examiner can install on a real phone. The hosting is free, and the whole path takes minutes, not weeks.
An AI assistant wrote you a complete tool — a calculator, tracker, or dashboard — as one self-contained HTML file. Drag that file's folder onto Netlify Drop, copy the URL, and it becomes an installable Android app without touching the code. This is one of the fastest idea-to-phone paths that exists today.
Your brochure site is plain HTML and CSS — no CMS, no framework. Wrap its live URL and give regular customers an icon on their home screen instead of a bookmark they'll forget. When you edit the site, the app shows the new version on next open, with no update to distribute.
Free App Maker uses a full Android WebView, so most modern web features behave much as they do in Chrome on Android. Here's a practical breakdown for plain HTML projects — including the honest limits of wrapping a live URL.
Not sure if your page is compatible? Run it through our free WebView Compatibility Checker before you build.
These are the tools people actually shortlist next to us when they search "html to apk". Every price below comes from the vendor's own published pricing page, checked on 26 August 2026 — prices and sale offers change, so verify before you buy.
HTML-to-APK options compared. All competitor figures are as of 26 August 2026. Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
| What you're comparing | Free App Maker ✓ | Median.co | WebViewGold | PWABuilder | AppsGeyser |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Hosted converter — paste a live URL, get a signed Android APK | App Studio that builds iOS and Android apps from your existing web content (formerly GoNative) | An Android Studio app template you configure and build yourself | Open-source Microsoft project (MIT licence) that packages a Trusted Web Activity using Bubblewrap | No-code builder that turns websites or HTML into Android apps |
| Price for an unbranded Android build as of 26 August 2026 |
Free to build and preview; a one-time unlock to download the signed APK — priced by country and always shown before checkout | Starter $229 one-time license activation fee, then $179/yr from month 12; Essential $590 + $399/yr; Plus $990 + $669/yr; Business from $7,200/yr | $109 one-time for Android — a Summer Sale price valid until 31 August 2026, listed at $154; done-for-you Full Service $349 | $0 — free and open source | Free APK build and download; an ad-free APK and custom branding are Premium features, on plans from $58/month |
| Free tier | ✓ Build and preview free, no account | ✓ Free plan, with a "Powered by Median.co" watermark shown in the app | ✗ Paid template; a free Cloud Builder trial is offered | ✓ Entirely free | ✓ Free, with ad-free output sold as Premium |
| Local toolchain to install | ✓ None | None — builds in the cloud | ✗ Android Studio required, or the separately sold Cloud Builder add-on | None to package | None |
| What your site has to be | Any public HTTPS URL — a single hand-written index.html counts |
Your existing web product or web content | Your website URL, or a local HTML folder copied into the template | "A valid PWA with a web manifest, published to the web and secured through HTTPS" | A website, or HTML code you paste in |
| Google Play route | Play requires an AAB — included in the Play Store Pack, with the graphics, privacy policy and form answers | Turnkey managed publishing on the Business plan; store compliance included on Personal plans | You publish it; Google Play approval guarantee or money back within 14 days | Built for Play — you still need a Google Play developer account ($25 one-time) | You publish it; a Full Publishing on Google Play service is sold separately |
Competitor pricing checked 26 August 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page: Median.co, WebViewGold, PWABuilder, AppsGeyser.
Non-price details: PWABuilder's Trusted Web Activity output, its Bubblewrap tooling and its PWA prerequisite come from the PWABuilder docs; its MIT licence and Microsoft stewardship from the PWABuilder repository. AppsGeyser's free build and Premium feature list come from appsgeyser.com. The $25 Google Play registration fee is from Google Play Console Help, and the App Bundle requirement ("From August 2021, new apps are required to publish with the Android App Bundle on Google Play") from Android Developers. All checked 26 Aug 2026.
Two honest points. First, PWABuilder is genuinely free and a better fit than us if your site is already an installable PWA — if it is not, adding a web manifest and service worker is more work than pasting a URL. Second, these tools wrap web content rather than rebuild it natively, and Free App Maker in particular loads your live URL at runtime — so the app needs a connection. If you need a fully offline app, bundle your assets with a native toolchain instead; a URL wrapper is the wrong tool.
Beyond the speed, there are real technical and strategic advantages to converting your HTML page with us.
Because the APK loads your live URL at runtime, edits you republish to your host appear in the Android app on its next open, subject to your host's caching. No app store review, no new build, no forced update prompt for users.
The APK you download is digitally signed, so Android will accept the install once you allow installs from that source on the device. Play Protect may still show a scan prompt for a sideloaded app. For a Google Play listing, see the FAQ below — Play needs an AAB, which comes in our Play Store Pack.
Hand-coded HTML has no bundler, no npm install, and no compile stage to wait on — and we do not add one. Free App Maker wraps the URL your files already sit at, so what your browser renders is what the app renders, and the build finishes in about 60 seconds rather than a Gradle cycle.
Android wants a launcher icon at every screen density it supports. Free App Maker generates those sizes from a single 1024×1024 PNG. No Figma, no Photoshop, no manual export needed. We generate a default icon if you don't have one.
We do not host or copy your files — the APK points at the URL you gave us, on the GitHub Pages, Netlify, or Cloudflare account you control. The APK itself belongs entirely to you: re-sign it with your own keystore, distribute it from your own site, or send it directly to clients. Move hosts later? Just rebuild against the new URL.
You don't need a paid custom domain first — the free subdomain your static host hands you is a perfectly good URL to wrap, and you can rebuild against a custom domain later. Our APKs run on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and above, and the WebView rendering engine is kept up to date through the Google Play Store on devices that have it.
Sources: Android's launcher-icon density buckets — Android Developers, Support different pixel densities. WebView being installed and updated through Google Play — Android Developers, WebView Beta program. Both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Everything you need to know about converting HTML to an Android APK — including the honest answers.
Sources for the answers above: the Android App Bundle requirement — “From August 2021, new apps are required to publish with the Android App Bundle on Google Play” — is from Android Developers, About Android App Bundles. Competitor prices in the comparison answer are from Median.co, WebViewGold, PWABuilder and AppsGeyser. All checked 26 Aug 2026.
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