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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Monday, 02 Nov 2026, Week 45

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Dejavu, Your tabs, right where you left them. Workspaces, containers and split view, is a browser built on top of the Firefox components with a different design. Have a try and maybe you’ll feel the déjà vu!

@linsui notes some big updates:

Finamp published 1.0 after 4 years of development with lots of new feathers. But this version on F-Droid is broken, so just skip it for now, we will keep you posted!

i2pd is updated to 3.0.0, a version rewritten from scratch on top of i2pd 3.0.0. It has a new interface, editors for router settings and tunnels, built-in torrents, and full management of the router’s data. The router now runs in a separate process, managed by a foreground service. See more in the changelog.

@shuvashish76 brings more updates:

ShizuCallRecorder is updated to 2.0.0 with a full refactoring.

DetoxDroid: Digital Detox by Default is updated to 3.0.0, bringing lots of new features.

@sidhant947 introduces their set of games on F-Droid:

Degoogling Casual Gaming

Anyone who has tried to play a simple puzzle game on a modern smartphone knows the pain. You download a basic 50MB logic game just to kill ten minutes, and suddenly it wants network permissions, location access, and show you advertising. Worse, you spend 15 seconds playing a level and 45 seconds watching unskippable video ads for sketchy casinos, or hitting paywalls asking you to buy ‘gems’ ‘coins’ ‘diamonds’ just to keep playing.

When I committed to deGoogling my life and reclaiming my digital privacy, the biggest gap I noticed in the FOSS ecosystem was casual gaming. Leaving the centralized store ecosystem shouldn’t mean giving up the games you love to play while waiting for the train or winding down at night or just resting.

That frustration is what pushed me to start building and porting clean, lightweight, open-source games for the F-Droid community. No trackers, no telemetry, no dark pattern, no micro-transactions, and zero ads—ever. Just pure offline gameplay that respects your device and your privacy.

All Games Made yet

Balancing Research Coursework and Bug Squashing

I’m currently juggling these project alongside my academic research coursework, so my schedule gets pretty packed sometime. Even so, keeping these games smooth and bug-free is a massive priority for me.

Whenever someone opens an issue on any of my repositories—whether it’s a UI glitch on a specific screen size, a logic edge case, or a feature request—I actively track it and push fixes as soon as I get a breather between my research deadlines, many issues get stretched due to this which is a weak point currently. Seeing people actually play and enjoy software that doesn’t spy on them makes the late-night debugging sessions completely worth it.

Want a Game Ported to FOSS? Hit Me Up!

My goal is simple: if there is a classic mobile game genre that is currently gate-kept behind proprietary store services, spyware SDKs, and relentless ad networks, I want an open-source version of it on F-Droid for everyone. Sometimes I lack the actual resources to bring a proper port which is why games like Echo Tiles and Jigsaw work when you load your own images and music. I’m working on a drawing game for kids this week, should be fun for them.

If you stumble across a bug, want to contribute translations or code, or have a favorite game you wish had a clean, privacy-respecting port, reach out to me anytime! Drop an issue on my GitHub or email me. Tell me what you want to play next, and let’s keep building a better, ad-free gaming ecosystem together.

Removed Apps

1 apps were removed

  • DeepLAndroid: Unofficial Android App for DeepL Translator (Naming things can be hard even when not touching trademarked ones. We wish for a speedy comeback)

Newly Added Apps

68 apps were newly added

  • Alarm Plus: An app all about alarms
  • Anchor: Connect Android and Linux for messages, files, notifications, camera, and more.
  • Auto Profiles: Lightweight utility for LineageOS that switches System Profiles automatically
  • Blankee: Ambient sound mixer for android inspired by blanket
  • Blazify: Stream millions of songs with synced lyrics, an equalizer and offline downloads
  • BombVault: Watch and open the BombVault backup servers you run yourself.
  • CalibRaw: Non-destructive RAW photo editing with GPU acceleration and local AI masks
  • CarrierPony: Private PGP messenger. End-to-end encrypted chat and file transfer, no account.
  • CastBay: AirPlay and DLNA receiver for Android TVs, TV boxes, car displays and tablets
  • Clean Your TV: Switch off TV bloat and get a calm home screen, from a phone over Wi-Fi
  • Datum: Offline topo, satellite and public land maps. No account, no ads, no tracking.
  • DavNotes: Simple notes synced with your own CalDAV server, such as Radicale
  • Dejavu: Your tabs, right where you left them. Workspaces, containers and split view.
  • DozeOff: Fix delayed notifications. Stop Android Doze from holding back your alerts.
  • Elite Memo Pro: Write, organize, and draw notes with labels, checklists, and reminders.
  • FastTrack: Track what your body is doing while fasting
  • FIfFKon 2026 Schedule: Schedule for the FIfFKon conference at Theater im Delphi Berlin
  • FilmLab: Edit photos on your device with film-inspired looks
  • Firehose Remote: fire TV remote over your own Wi-Fi. No account, no cloud.
  • FocusFeed: Offline Pomodoro with app blocking and earned social breaks
  • Forkray: A V2Ray client for Android, forked from v2rayNG and built from source
  • Homelab: Modern native all-in-one dashboard for self-hosted services and homelabs
  • Immich Wear: Browse your self-hosted Immich photos from your wrist
  • JustQuran: Free, ad-free Quran reader with IndoPak Arabic, English and Urdu translations.
  • Keycard Pal: Sign Ethereum and Bitcoin by QR code with a Keycard NFC smart card
  • Kinetic Kids: Local-first encrypted family tasks and notes with optional WebDAV sync
  • KOOK SESSION: Surf and wingfoil session logbook, stored in your own Nextcloud
  • LibreSpan: XMPP messenger with OMEMO, calls and protected local storage.
  • Life RPG: Gamify your life: complete quests, level up, build streaks.
  • Live Wallpaper for Heroes 3: Animated Heroes 3 maps as your wallpaper
  • MidnightBeam: Screen dimmer and warm filter for Android TV, with phone remote and schedule
  • MultiBooter: Create bootable USB media and boot PCs directly from Android.
  • NPM Mobile: Native Android client for Nginx Proxy Manager: hosts, SSL, access lists, users
  • Nudge: Counts your scrolls across all apps and nudges you toward mindful phone use
  • Osmium: Privacy-first offline TOTP/HOTP authenticator
  • Oxu: Read PDFs and translate any text you select, instantly
  • Parvaz: Farsi-first browser tunnel through a self-hosted Apps Script relay
  • PDF Docket: Keep PDF tickets and passes at hand and show their barcodes in fullscreen
  • PdfCraft: Read, comment, fill, sign and edit PDFs on your phone, all on the device
  • PixelComfort: Turns Comfort View off in the camera and Photos, then restores it
  • QuickWord: Select a word anywhere, get its definition as a notification. Offline.
  • Rando GPX: Record your hikes and export them as GPX, no Google Play Services required.
  • Sceau: Reads and verifies the chip of passports and ID cards, fully offline
  • Seca Contacts: Private contacts: coloured profiles, duplicate merging, no Internet access
  • ShareDing: Save shared links to linkding, even when your server is offline
  • SMS Tech: Private SMS / MMS app with voice messages, encrypted vault, biometric unlock.
  • Space Trader Classic: Trade, fight and explore the galaxy in the classic Space Trader, fully offline
  • SubRead: Line an audiobook up with its ebook: subtitles and video, made on your device.
  • Suivi compteurs: Read your meters and forecast your consumption, weather-adjusted.
  • Switchboard: A LibreChat Mobile App: Native LibreChat client: multi-account, offline reading, dictation
  • TailSocks: Unofficial Tailscale client: local SOCKS5/HTTP proxy, optional VPN, root mode
  • TEA Autonomia: Offline routines, crisis communication and regulation tools for autistic adults
  • TEA Kids: Visual routines, emotion check-ins and calming activities
  • ThothTerm • ThothDock: Docker on your phone, in a Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) terminal. No root.
  • TLgemma: Offline translator based on TranslateGemma
  • Trackhop: Sync playlists across music services, on your phone, with no ads or account
  • TRIK Gamepad: Wireless gamepad for controlling TRIK robots
  • Underfoot: Track walking pad sessions to Health Connect. No account, no analytics.
  • USB Debug Guard: Turn the screen off during long USB debugging sessions while keeping ADB alive
  • Vento RealVNC backend: RealVNC plugin for the Vento remote desktop client
  • Vento RustDesk backend: RustDesk plugin for the Vento remote desktop client
  • Voyage: Matrix client for Android, based on Element Classic
  • wa_logger mobile: Keeps an encrypted log of your WhatsApp messages, including deleted ones
  • Weave: Decentralized social networking with custom profiles, groups and moderation.
  • WeeWX Weather App: Live weather, forecasts and alerts from your own WeeWX weather station
  • Wiki-Say-It!: Record word pronunciations and contribute them to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata
  • YiGame Tabletop Companion: Party game guides, private role cards, random tools and virtual scorekeeping
  • Z2M Dash: A Zigbee2MQTT dashboard that talks directly to your own MQTT broker

Updated Apps

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