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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Friday, 07 Aug 2026, Week 32

F-Droid core

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-rc0, you know the deal, changelog is short. If this is news to you and you didn’t update to any 2.0 development builds yet, hello and welcome, so many things have changed, you’ll just have to experience it. Navigate to the F-Droid or Basic app details page, check “Allow beta updates” in the top right three dot menu, and update.

In website news, our mirror sync permission issue should be fixed now. Do ping us if you see any package that refuses to install, after you’ve made sure you got the latest index update, of course.

Community News

FrOSCon 2026 Schedule, Programm App für die FrOSCon, was just added and make sure you install it to easily find our F-Droid contributors booth next week-end. If you already have Giggity installed, you can use it with the official schedule (https://programm.froscon.org/2026/schedule.xml) too.

Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN was updated to v0.5.5z which appears to be a bit unstable. Some users got some crashes so maybe avoid updating to this version for now. We’ll disable it in our repo while the developers figure stuff out.

Missed in passed weekly news, Session devs have written about “The Future of Session” and about the “Protocol v2 development”. Looks like this messenger might continue to live on…

Back in July we noticed that 萊姆輸入法 source changed some strings and autoupdate has not picked any updates… for the last 3 years. We are now up to date at 7.4.0 and we’re keeping an eye on logs for any other app that might need extra attention.

We’ve mentioned Snowflake Volunteer at inclusion time, but did you know how this app came into existence out of Orbot’s “Kindness Mode”? The folks at the Tor Project host a post that explains how tools and contributors helped.

Newly Added Apps

37 more apps were newly added

  • AnDraw: Trace images through paper with touch switched off
  • Anti-Vocale: Offline voice-message transcription, fully on-device
  • BinClockWidget: AMOLED-black monochrome binary-clock home-screen widget
  • Block Blast: A minimal, privacy-focused block puzzle game
  • Bote: Split shared group expenses and settle up with minimal transfers
  • BurnPony: Self-destructing encrypted notes. The recipient just opens a link.
  • Couchy Launcher: A fast, private one-screen launcher
  • DeBurrow: A modern Gopher protocol client.
  • FeedTV: TV, radio and RSS news. Supports custom M3U lists.
  • ForgetMeNot: A simple todo app with reminders and Obsidian integration
  • Heart Rate Monitor: Monitor heart rate via BLE devices with real-time display, history, and alerts
  • kiFOSSk: Lightweight FOSS kiosk browser for dashboards. Zero Google services.
  • Knit: Encrypted mesh chat over Wi-Fi Aware & Bluetooth — no internet, no servers.
  • LibreAAC: Private, offline AAC communication using open OBF and OBZ boards
  • MA Astronomy: An AR night sky viewer
  • Mahjong Solitaire: Classic tile-matching puzzles without interruptions, tracking, or ads.
  • MetroMusic: A music player in the Windows Phone 8 idiom, for the music on your phone.
  • Mihrab: Prayer times, adhan reminders, Quran reader and widgets. No trackers.
  • Minesweeper: Configurable offline Minesweeper.
  • Miroji: A fast, simple, private front-camera mirror
  • Neruppu: Offline-first physical security monitoring using device sensors
  • NetToggle: QS tile to force 5G/4G Only or preferred modes using Root or Shizuku
  • Nexus Command Center: One Life Score for finance, fitness, study, work and habits
  • Noir Gym: Log workouts, chase PRs, and grow your Fitness Score with every rep.
  • Nonogram: Picture logic puzzle game with no ads or tracking
  • PaperTerm: An e-ink-friendly SSH terminal
  • pcontacts: Sync Proton Mail contacts into the device system address book.
  • RPG NPC Generator: Generate random D&D-style NPCs for your tabletop RPG sessions.
  • SimpleDay: Minimalist Markdown diary with app lock and your-own-cloud WebDAV sync.
  • Snore Detector: Detects snoring during sleep and records snore events.
  • Tankblick: German fuel prices — data-frugal and without tracking
  • The Universe Decides: Can’t decide? Let the universe choose.
  • Tryst: Private, offline, encrypted tracker for your intimate life.
  • TV Remote: Web remote control for Android TV — no cloud, no account, LAN only
  • Wortmühle: Daily German word puzzle — 9 letters, one pangram, fully offline
  • xlog2: Peer-to-peer amateur-radio field logbook that syncs with the xlog2 desktop
  • Zipline: Manage your self-hosted Zipline V4 instance.

Updated Apps

339 more apps were updated

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