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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Friday, 11 Sep 2026, Week 37

Community News

Our fight with categories has been long and fruitful, more were added, soon more will be removed, perfection needs shuffling apps around in the hopes users find it easier to locate good apps that fulfill their needs.

Thanks to @linsui for aggregating the metadata and taking time to hunt appropriate apps. The new categories are:

  • Emergency Action - for your device, for your person, for your friends and family
  • Medication - you need to take it, let’s make it as seamless and as easy as possible
  • Speech Recognizer - put those fingers to rest
  • Text Encryption - in a bottle, with a pigeon or via magic electric packets over the wire, they need to be private

CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2026.08.31-14-FDroid with some nice changes. One innovative new feature, that FLOSS maps users have been asking for year by now, is the integration of Mangrove user reviews for points of interest. For now they can only be seen, there’s work in progress to add edit options too. You can take a sneak peak on how many of these are in your area, using this page (zoom it). Also TIL: MapComplete has a way to view/edit reviews. The more the merrier!

Joplin was updated to a new major version, 3.7.8. The changelog looks enticing, so make sure both your server and app are updated in order to enjoy the enhancements. Of note, the server has an integrated MCP server that allows your notes to be processed by… you know what, if you wish so.

LocalSend Kotlin, An unofficial, lightweight Kotlin LocalSend client for older devices, is now in F-Droid. LocalSend is a great app for transfers between many devices, it’s written in Flutter and supports Android 7 and later. But at 46Mb it’s rather hefty, and maybe you need transfers to/from your older devices too. Here is where the new Kotlin app shines, it’s lightweight in size, 10 times smaller (no joke), but still allows fast & secure transfers, and it supports Android 5 and 6 too.

Monica F-Droid, Open-source password manager: local encryption, autofill, TOTP, Passkey, was just added. We have more than 60 apps in the Password & 2FA category, but while AIPOS Password Manager, updated to 1.2.2 this week, and PassVault could import Bitwarden data, this new app is the first one that can also sync that data (with self-hosted Vaultwarden instances) too.

OsmAnd~ was updated to 5.4.4 with a huge update. Just read the release post to get the full view on what’s new. My favorite fix: “Fixed navigation incorrectly ending after switching to another app and returning to OsmAnd”, wow, that was really annoying. For our Magyar users, it appears that your map issue has been fixed, do test! NOTE: The cleaning procedure for OSMAnd~ publishing is extensive, we don’t immediately push new updates to everyone, so brave users get a chance to drive it around and report any issues. If you want to install it now, you can go to the app page in F-Droid client, expand Versions and manually update or enable “Allow beta” in the upper right menu.

We know that OSMAnd~ while being feature full it’s also very heavy resource wise, we have more OpenStreetMap based maps apps, like CoMaps above and Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPS, updated to 2026.08.27-18-FDroid this week, and you might find them better for your use case/device.

SimpleX Chat was updated to 7.0.2 and missed last week was the announcement of the start of their crowdfunding campaign. Do read how to get a stake in SimpleX and a testimonial from an early investor. Also, don’t forget to bookmark the September 15 livestream event and the December 12 domains countdown.

Sky Map was updated to 2.0.3:Apollo with a full rewrite. Many things have changed and this opens the path for better development and nicer features.

If Sky Map seems too simple for your view of the Universe, Celestia was updated to 26.8.1 and brings you the full 3D experience of Space.

Taler Wallet was updated to 1.6.7 with important security fixes, so make sure you update soon.

Tsacdop - Podcast Player was updated to 1.0.2 after a five year pause, welcome back!

@shuvashish76 digs deep into the kernel:

AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.24.1 fixing some security issues and more, do update as soon as possible. If your friends use some other centralized store, make sure they update too, or if they can’t (update not available, or… app gone) then do guide them to get the app from F-Droid.

App Manager was updated to 4.1.1, adding an interesting feature “Revoke Internet Permission via eBPF”. You need to read the news about how that works and its limitations. Our Firewall category has more than twenty apps, yet not everyone can use their local VPN method, so any new tricks might help. As usual, keep in mind that apps might use other ways to get access to or info from the Internet, like using other apps (Google Services, UnifiedPush provider, etc) so don’t be surprised when this happens.

If we talk about centralized stores, Fedilab was updated to 3.43.3 with fixes. What’s more noteworthy is that F-Droid is now the only place for users to get the app, as the other store asked the dev to censorship competing services and more awful things. The backup and restore process to switch to F-Droid is easy, so get started and announce your Fedi friends too! Notifications worry you? We have plenty of UnifiedPush apps that will take care of that.

@sidhant947 leaves us puzzled:

Puzzle Games was updated to 2.0.1 summing more than 300 games over 6 cognitive domains. Solving puzzles appears to be a very healthy way not only to pass time, but also help maintain your brain at any age. And it beats doomscrolling any day!

Archived Apps

The last two Covid apps were archived

  • Contact Diary: Keep track of the people you have recently been with
  • Lucia App: Lucia allows you to anonymously check in at events using QR code based tracing.

Newly Added Apps

62 more apps were newly added

  • 0x54ask: Todo.txt manager. Offline, works with Syncthing. Fork of SimpleTask Cloudless
  • Adaptive Theme: Auto-switch dark theme & wallpapers using the ambient light sensor
  • AquarellNotes: Calm local notes and shopping lists with watercolor-inspired design
  • Assistive Menu Tool: Floating accessibility button with quick system actions
  • Aster Mail: Encrypted Email: Private email app with end-to-end encryption, aliases, and custom domains
  • AstroClock: Astronomically correct 24-hour clock: the Sun is the hand, the star sky turns
  • AudioLex: Hearing training for word recognition: listen, identify, repeat. Fully offline.
  • Balance: Private offline bank balance dashboard
  • BlowTorch 2: MUD client with triggers, aliases, timers, and Lua plugins
  • BookStash: A private, offline-first reader and library for web fiction and books.
  • Bubble Shooter: A modern 2D bubble shooter puzzle game
  • Car Coop: Self-hosted car sharing companion for bookings, trips, expenses, and messages.
  • Chogan: Offline game collection: tower defence, sudoku, minesweeper, dots.
  • Circadian Display: Adaptive screen warmth and dimming curves for better evening comfort and sleep.
  • Contextium: Configurable context menu helper
  • Crate: Catalogue your physical media collection — stored on your own Nextcloud.
  • CypherLeaf: Private, offline notes with folders, tags, and a lock for sensitive entries.
  • Dosezy: Simple medicine tracker & reminders. Enter details, we’ll handle the rest.
  • Duetto: A permanent voice and video channel for two people, on your own server.
  • EXIF Remove - Strip, Randomize & View Metadata: Remove or scramble photo metadata before sharing, with configurable templates
  • Flashbyte: A fast cross-platform file sharing app.
  • Flybook: Private offline flight logbook for aviation enthusiasts
  • Foggy Maps: A personal exploration map where fog dissipates where you have walked.
  • GymMane: Dark, offline gym log. Tap the muscle, log your sets, watch your numbers move.
  • Hazel: Download video and audio from over 1000 sites, powered by yt-dlp.
  • HostLookup: Explore DNS records and network information across public resolvers
  • Hue Sort: A color sorting puzzle game. Swap tiles to reconstruct the hidden gradient.
  • IMD - It’s My Device (supercharged fork of Geto): Settings manager/ hide settings from apps
  • Jotdown: Offline PDF reader with OCR and academic annotations.
  • Learn Math: A modern, fast, and tactile mental math training game
  • L×Box: VPN client: 12+ protocols, subscriptions, app routing, balancing, traffic stats
  • Markdown Reader — PilcrowMD: Read & edit Markdown beautifully.
  • Marmalade TTS: Fast, natural, private text-to-speech for your whole phone. Works offline.
  • Math Clock: Widget, which shows the time in German words based on fractions
  • Meron: Mail app that sparks joy
  • Messages: Simple, private SMS messaging. Offline-first, no ads, no tracking.
  • Night Light: Minimal OLED night light, flash or screen, settings, 26 languages.
  • Polished Recognition: Voice input for any keyboard — transcribe with your own API endpoints
  • RZR: Beautifully made mobile code and markdown reader.
  • Salmon: An open-source guitar tuner that just works
  • Salmon Tracker: Track official Alaska salmon counts and receive local update alerts
  • Schussel: Bluetooth-triggered checklists that remind you of what you forgot.
  • Screw Jam: Unscrew plates, match colors with active toolboxes
  • Slate: Minimal customisable launcher. A blank slate where your apps go anywhere.
  • SlimBook: Clean, ad-free Facebook feed with real-time content filtering
  • Slooop: Imageboard client
  • Tangram: Make or solve Tangram puzzles
  • Telegram X FOSS: An unofficial FOSS-friendly fork of Telegram X
  • textlog: A text-first mobile client for textlog.cc — no algorithm, no metrics, no ads
  • The Last Carrot: A cheerful tower defence game with no ads, no trackers and no permissions
  • Title Track: A recorder for music memos.
  • Tjoeke: Quick Dutch train departures for your daily route
  • Triple Match: A minimal, open-source 3D tile-matching puzzle game.
  • Tumblr Downloader: Download images and videos from Tumblr posts
  • Umihi Music: A simple Material YouTube Music player
  • UnscopeMyData: Sync protected folders to public storage using Shizuku.
  • Veto: Open source, native VirusTotal client. Scan files, links and apps in style.
  • Victoria Launcher: A minimal, list-based home screen and open source Niagara Launcher alternative
  • Yahora: One tap records that something happened. There is nothing else to fill in
  • Zelp: Amazfit pairing keys, GPS packs, firmware, and watch apps for Gadgetbridge
  • Étagère: Browse a Calibre library on your Nextcloud and download EPUBs
  • 曦码输入法: A Rime-based Chinese IME for Wubi and Pinyin input

Updated Apps

469 more apps were updated

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