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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Tuesday, 01 Sep 2026, Week 36

F-Droid core

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-rc1 with a fixes focused changelog. After our last TWIF we’ve sneakily promoted 2.0-rc0 as suggested for Basic updating all its users to our latest code. This made users happy to experience our improved app and made us happy to receive more crashes and issues reports. Having more people to test the UX and more devices/Android combinations to run the app help F-Droid get better.

Search has been one area that was greatly improved, with a better UX, better filtering and great results that pull info from categories and app data. So imagine our surprise when the user feedback was “search results make no sense” or worse “I get no results at all”.

We’ve posted a few days ago two test queries to exemplify how search should look. If you’ve updated to latest 2.0-rc1 and you don’t see any results, we are tracking this issue here. We’ve rarely seen random or unrelated search results in our testing before, and a fix was deployed for such cases, a database cleaning procedure that should run by itself daily, if necessary. The challenge for us now is to find out why some Android devices don’t run the fix, and we are gathering info in this issue. If you encounter any of these or any other problem, make sure you add your device info (model and Android version) to the existing open issues or to new ones. If Gitlab is grumpy and you can’t, you can still ping us on Fedi, Forum or anywhere else.

As part of our NLnet-funded GNU Taler project, we’ve completed a deliverable: exploring and implementing Taler support in the F-Droid client. App developers can try this now by getting an account for receiving Taler-based donations and publishing their Taler donation link in app metadata.

Community News

Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.45.0 (F-Droid) and its dev, TheLastProject, wanted to add some news:

Catima 2.45.0 was released with Wear OS support (and switched to Reproducible Build on F-Droid). This marks the first time a Wear OS application is released to F-Droid. Although Wear OS is a proprietary platform with no FOSS custom ROMs like Lineage and the likes available for it, it is based on Android and therefore you can basically write apps for it the same way you do for Android. While there is no F-Droid client which supports Wear OS at this point, you can install the Wear OS Catima companion app from F-Droid (v1.0.0 Wear OS), enjoying the same general F-Droid confirmation that the app really is FOSS. Alternatively, if you have a smartphone that’s supported by Gadgetbridge, you can use Gadgetbridge support in Catima, which has existed since 2013 and is much more private than Wear OS is: Loyalty cards / passes. For those curious about writing Wear OS apps without proprietary Google libraries, see our documentation. Do you use Wear OS and how do you currently find FOSS apps for it and how do you install them? Let us know!

NOTE: Based on the lower versionCode of the Wear app, it will end up in the Archive repo at some point

Daniel Gultsch, the developer of Conversations has posted a 15 minute piece that’s worth a read, about digital independence and what 25 years of XMPP brings us. While we can hear echoes that very much define F-Droid too, like self-hosting, decentralization and federation, we have yet to dream of an IETF standard for “app distribution”. But if that time comes, will we have your vote?

GPSTest was updated to 3.10.6 after more than one and a half years. The changes are meant to maintain the app running in tip top shape.

Status - Chat, Wallet, Browser, Privacy super app with messenger, crypto wallet, browser, communities & more, was just added. Does the name seem familiar? It should, this is the brand new version of the app, a total rewrite as a separate app. You can read the introduction and migration post, and yes, you saw that date right, we’ve been collaborating with the developer since January to bring this app to F-Droid, and built reproducible! Since the old version a lot has changed, more than we could cover here, so do a deep-dive in past posts to get yourself up to date.

@ROllerozxa jumps on voxels to bring us the news:

Luanti was updated to 5.17.0 and users are advised to update immediately as it fixes security vulnerabilities affecting both the client and server. You can read the change-log here. Also please make sure your friends and game peers also update, specially users that have the app installed from other centralized stores, as we heard rumors not only that the update is not available there but that the app was outright removed on baseless accusations. Did anyone mumble “keep android open“?

Archived Apps

2 apps were archived

  • My Brain: Productivity app for Tasks, Notes, Calendar, Diary, Bookmarks and more (App will include proprietary libs)
  • NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks: A simple and minimalistic open source notes app (Developer wants to find and fix crashes, will come back soon)

Newly Added Apps

104 more apps were newly added

Being busy with daily updates, fixes, reports, upstream feedback, client 2.0 development and more, did slow down our rate of new apps inclusion. Yes, the backlog is huge, but we thank the contributors helping to review and the developers for having patience with us.

  • 500 - Multiplayer card game: Play 500, the Australian trick-taking card game — bots or friends online.
  • 5G Proxy Pro: Share your phone’s 5G/4G over Wi-Fi via SOCKS5 proxy. No root, TCP/UDP, LAN-only
  • Adiresy: Find, share and navigate to Madagascar’s community address codes
  • Ambio: Focus Timer & Sounds: Blend up to 3 of 12 ambient sounds into a focus soundscape you build yourself
  • Argus: Natural-language automation compiled by an LLM, run by a deterministic engine.
  • auth’s RNG: roll for rarities, sell them, buy upgrades. an incremental RNG game.
  • AutoPie: Swiss Army Knife For Linux on Android Automation.
  • Backgammon Clock: A flexible two-player backgammon match clock and scorekeeper.
  • Baly Groceries Tracker: monitor stock levels, and never worry about running out
  • Bati — Fitness RPG: Turn workouts into quests, boss fights and a village built by your training.
  • BayesianBahn: Empirical arrival-time distributions for Deutsche Bahn trains
  • Bike Radar: Overlay and audio alerts for BLE bike radars. Offline, no account, no cloud.
  • Boardgame Pal: Dice, score counter, starting-player draw & more – 100% free and ad-free!
  • Bubble Penetration: Fast arcade action: collect colors, chain combos, beat the highscore.
  • Bugbane Beta: Beta channel of Bugbane, a guided forensic self-triage tool
  • Cairn: Health Aggregator: Aggregate your health data into open files in your own Nextcloud
  • Chat Room: Real-time messaging client with text and file sharing.
  • Clear SMS: Privacy-first SMS app with smart inbox, finance dashboard and bill reminders
  • Croustillapp: Access menus, addresses, and contact info for nearly 1,000 CROUS restaurants.
  • DAVY - Daika Anime Viewer because YOLO: Lightweight, open-source anime player for Android TV.
  • Debate Timer: A minimalist timer, so you can focus on speaking.
  • Denaro: Private, offline personal finance with accounts, categories and insights.
  • Diadem: Connect to any Diadem Map
  • Einstein’s Riddle: Einstein’s Riddle (also known as the Zebra Puzzle)
  • ekklesia — Direct Democracy: Anonymous civic participation for Greek citizens
  • Emborg: Org-mode viewer and task manager
  • Enclavd: Personality Social Network
  • Esca Agnellis: Local food-pyramid tracking with backup, PDF and an optional companion
  • Fechtkarte: Warm-up drill card generator using notation credited to Joachim Meyer
  • FediDay 2026: A timetable app for Berlin FediDay
  • FilmFlip: Film negative photo recovery app
  • Fortune Telling: Offline Western astrology, I Ching divination, and Chinese daily almanac
  • Fossify Documents Beta: Read PDF, DOCX, text, Markdown, CSV and HTML files privately and offline.
  • Fractals by Girino FOSS: Explore Mandelbrot and related fractals offline
  • FreeView: Read Medium articles for free through your choice of reader service
  • Gravel: A de-googled, hardened fork of the Pebble companion app for de-googled phones
  • Ham Test: Prepare for and pass all three US Amateur Radio license exams
  • Huda: Prayer times, Quran, Qibla, Tasbih, Adhkar and more — your Islamic companion
  • Håck mas Castle 2026 Fahrplan: Eine Fahrplan-App für Håck ma’s Castle 2026
  • I Keep Having This Dream: Build a path of tiles to escape each cycle of a dangerous recurring dream
  • IM2SMS: A simple app to import IM chat histories into your device SMS storage.
  • Infra Arcana: Infra Arcana - a Lovecraftian horror roguelike
  • InselChaos 2026: A timetable app for the InselChaos conference
  • Iris Gallery: Fast, private, 100% offline gallery with photo editor and EXIF inspector
  • Iris Keyboard: Advanced FOSS keyboard with AI Copilot, translation, and key sound synthesis
  • just open links in a browser: Sends links to your real browser instead of an app’s built-in one
  • Kinetica: Two-thumb keyboard: both thumbs swipe and tap at once. No network access.
  • Kiosk: A Hacker News reader
  • Lavender Photos: A no non-sense, stylish, and performant gallery app
  • Levyra: Native music streaming, playback, lyrics, downloads, and private insights
  • Libre Contacts Backup: Offline and encrypted contact backups
  • LibreNotes: Private, self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted note-taking.
  • LimeLog: Track your lifts and beat your personal records
  • Luteal: Private, offline-first cycle tracker separating facts from estimates
  • Matrix Puzzle: A minimal, open-source matrix puzzle game also known as floor puzzle
  • Meditate: Meditation timer with session log, stats, and Nextcloud sync
  • Megrim: Migraine Log: Private, offline migraine log with automatic on-device pattern insights.
  • Mercurygram Tor Plugin: Tor companion plugin that routes Mercurygram traffic through the Tor network
  • MinkLauncher OpenSource: A minimal, keyboard-first home-screen launcher
  • Mirror: Multiprotocol backup application (NFS, SMB, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV)
  • MJ PDF: A simple PDF viewer
  • mqvpn: Multipath VPN combining Wi-Fi and cellular for bonding and failover
  • Navic: A modern Navidrome client
  • Night Drop: Anonymous, end-to-end encrypted 1:1 chat over Tor
  • Ordunte: Karrantza weather: Weather at your location and four hyperlocal Karrantza/Ordunte sections
  • Pause: A short, timed pause before chosen apps open, so opening is deliberate.
  • PocketTracker: Tracker-style music maker for handhelds and phones — sampler, SF2, 8 tracks
  • Point Forecast: NWS point forecasts with maps, tides, and weather hazards
  • Privacy Kit Lite: Configure local privacy-related runtime hooks for LSPosed
  • Privacy QR And Barcode Scanner: Fast, offline QR code and barcode scanner - no tracking, no ads
  • Pulse: Garmin watch companion — your data stays on your phone
  • Quits: Quits is a privacy-preserving expense splitting application
  • RapidSplit: Split trip costs fairly: per leg, not flat. Offline, no account needed.
  • Relatrix: An active knowledge-management and multi-modal note-taking platform.
  • Renkin: Make your own icon pack, on your phone
  • Reverb: Rolling audio recorder
  • Ring-R: Create custom ringtones from your favorite Youtube videos
  • Roue Libre: Bike sharing: offline map and journeys, with no tracker.
  • scrcpy: Mirror a second device over wireless ADB. No root required.
  • Sehat: Sehat (Urdu for health): Track steps, heart rate, and meditation, all privately.
  • Shopping List Calculator: Plan grocery trips and track the total as you shop.
  • SideDeck: Free DJ app. Mix on your phone. No subscriptions.
  • Skylib: An alternative Bluesky frontend
  • Smart Radio Telescope: Control an Az/El/polarization radio telescope mount over your local WiFi
  • SMSecure: Privacy-focused SMS app with encrypted conversations
  • Solid Share: Files, contacts and passes on your own Solid pod, shared on your terms
  • Stopptanz: Freeze Dance & Musical Chairs music timer, fully offline
  • Sudoku You: Offline Sudoku with logical hints, advanced notes and flexible import/export
  • SyncRecord: Create synchronised ad-hoc microphone arrays using multiple smartphones.
  • T2DECODE: Offline interactive learning platform for IT, Cybersecurity, and Networking.
  • Tickdroid: Daily habit tracker for Nextcloud
  • Tine: Fast local-first Logseq-compatible outliner
  • Tuisku: A simple and lightweight encrypted notes app
  • Tuner: A simple and precise tuner
  • Unmark: Remove watermarks and unwanted objects from photos, entirely on-device
  • Vadhod APK Extractor: Offline, privacy-first APK extractor with proper split-APK support.
  • Vault Explorer: Encrypted container explorer: VeraCrypt, LUKS, BitLocker, and more.
  • Vibe - Music Player: Fast, minimalist local music player, 100% offline.
  • Vibecheck: Private Mood Tracker: Private, local-first mood and symptom tracker. No account, no cloud.
  • Void Player: Modern, high-performance music player with dynamic UI
  • Work Profile VPN Switcher: Automatically manage work profile when VPN connects or disconnects
  • ylih - your life in headphones: Track how many hours each pair of headphones lasts. Offline, forever, private
  • Yumi Co. Radio: Future Funk, City Pop and more, live 24/7 with chat and Android Auto.
  • 随机姓名: 随机中文姓名生成器

Updated Apps

630 more apps were updated

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