Features overview
-This is an overview of the current set of features differentiating GrapheneOS from - the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). This page does not currently cover any of our - historical features that are either not yet reimplemented or which became obsolete due - to improvements in AOSP. Each major release of AOSP brings substantial privacy and - security improvements, some of which have been based on our research and development - work.
+GrapheneOS is a private and secure mobile operating system with great functionality + and usability. It starts from the strong baseline of the Android Open Source Project + and takes great care to avoid increasing attack surface or hurting the strong security + model. GrapheneOS makes substantial improvements to both privacy and security through + many carefully designed features built to function against real adversaries.
-GrapheneOS is based on the Android 11 release of the Android Open Source Project - which provides a strong baseline for privacy and security. GrapheneOS takes great care - to preserve the baseline privacy and security, including taking full advantage of all - of the standard hardware features. The privacy and security features inherited from - AOSP and the hardware are not covered here. Documentation on that will be gradually - added elsewhere on our site.
+GrapheneOS is focused on substance rather than branding and marketing. It doesn't + take the typical approach of piling on a bunch of insecure features depending on the + adversaries not knowing about them and regressing actual privacy/security. It's a very + technical project building privacy and security into the OS rather than including + assorted unhelpful frills or bundling subjective third party apps choices.
+ +The project cares a lot about usability and app compatibility so those are taken + into account for all of our features. GrapheneOS is also hard at work on filling in + gaps from not bundling Google apps and services into the OS. We aren't against users + using Google services but it doesn't belong integrated into the OS in an invasive way. + GrapheneOS won't take the shortcut of simply bundling a very incomplete and poorly + secured third party reimplementation of Google services into the OS. That wouldn't + ever be something users could rely upon. It will also always be chasing a moving + target while offering poorer security than the real thing if the focus is on simply + getting things working without great care for doing it robustly and securely.
+ +This page provides an overview of currently implemented features differentiating + GrapheneOS from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). It doesn't document our many + historical features that are not no longer included for one reason or another. Many of + our features were implemented in AOSP, Linux, LLVM and other projects GrapheneOS is + based on so those aren't listed here despite us often having involvement in making the + implementations for those projects.