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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Friday, 26 Jun 2026, Week 26

Community News

F-Droid, in its 16 years of existence, has often been a study subject as our openness and transparency make it easy for anyone to not only build a random app, but to recheck our hosted apps from today, from 10 years ago or all at once. On our forum, you can now read a preview of a new study that will be presented at 2026 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability next month, titled “Understanding Build Reproducibility in the F-Droid Ecosystem“. While the numbers, reproducible vs non-reproducible, won’t beat giants like Debian, they do show that our tooling and efforts over time to encourage developers to adopt reproducible builds are paying off.

The Bryant Review made two app lists for you to (re)discover, “Some of Android’s Most Interesting Games Aren’t Just on the Play Store” and “The Other Side of Android: My Favorite F-Droid Apps” covering both fun and practical apps. And yes, we’ve tooted at them to test F-Droid 2.0-alphas.

Adding an app to F-Droid might have its share of mysteries, but some developers dispel the fog, succeed and live to share the story. The developer of Rocinante, updated to 1.0.5 this week, writes in Spanish (Fennec/Firefox would just translate it), about the experience here.

Also the developer of whatIwatch, updated to 0.1.2 this week, found the time to muse about the inclusion process. Their app is written in Flutter, so if that sounds familiar to you, put a bookmark on the post for when your app is ready for the F-Droid release.

Talking about games, 99Managers Futsal Edition, A futsal management game with a 2D match engine and integrated editor, was just added with great timing, during an international soccer/football championship. While we have many Godot engine games, this one is a bit more special, as it’s a reproducible build app. Maybe this feat is based on its nature, a 2D type game, but the developer has contributed a recipe template so many more devs can try too for their own games.

Element Classic was updated to 1.6.58 and as the modern Element X did last week, fixes a security issue. If you still use this version, please update.

Find Family, Find Family is an end-to-end encrypted location sharing app, was archived as it was already replaced with Find Family, same name and same developer, updated this week to v2.5.5.

FluffyChat was updated to 2.7.2 with a huge change log, read down to 2.7.0 too. Given Matrix clients news above, and last week, it’s a safe bet to make sure you are updated.

Odysee was updated to 0.1.6-foss using the new native app codebase. The changes are extensive, so explore at will.

SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.5.6. One interesting piece of news we stumbled upon this week was a post by the Trail of Bits company (think security audits, think FLOSS friendly) about their partnership to find and fix bugs using AI. You can read the whole post here and you can see the proposed fixes for SimpleX here. Oh, btw, how would you feel about such an endeavour when it comes to F-Droid? Some think it’s easy to answer, some say it’s complicated.

@linsui translates in a QR code:

Mercurygram was updated to 12.8.1.1 adding offline translations, better Tor, better animations, better rich text editor and rendering and more. Android provides a Translation API since Android 12 but it can only use the OEM (generally non-foss) translation service and it seems custom Android distribution, like LineageOS, might not provide anything. By the way, Offline Translator, updated to 0.7.0 this week, could be a provider too, keeping your translations private on device.

tagdrop was updated to 2.1.0 after 11 years, with the help of… AI. Anyway, the concept is interesting, as a challenge of sorts, do try to cram as much as possible in a QR code, any interesting use case?

@shuvashish76 names a name:

GitHub Store is now named Komi Store and updated to 1.9.1, with browsing improvements, shortcuts and more.

Removed Apps

2 more apps were removed
  • Harmony Music: An Android App for streaming Music
  • SpMp: A YouTube Music client with a focus on language and metadata customisation

Newly Added Apps

72 more apps were newly added
  • Aerial: Lightweight radio player
  • aka Alarm: Wakes you within a 30-min window when you start stirring
  • Arcanum: Encrypted container manager compatible with VeraCrypt
  • BackgroundWorkAround: Help your other apps survive in the background
  • Battery Monitor: Monitor your device’s battery status in detail, in real-time
  • Bible Lock Screen: Daily Bible verse on your lock screen wallpaper
  • Bluetooth Remote: Universal serverless Bluetooth HID remote control
  • Bluke: Use your device as a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard, gamepad, and trackpad
  • Boky Fivavahana Anglikana: Madagascar’s Anglican common prayer book
  • Calendula: A modern Material 3 Expressive calendar for Android
  • CallScope: Local-first call log analytics
  • Calyx - Grow Tracker: Track indoor gardens, plant schedules, and hardware entirely offline
  • Camera by vayunmathur: The best Camera app
  • Controller for QLC+: Native 3rd party application for controlling QLC+ v4
  • Cube Run: Dodge, jump and slam through a neon 3-lane gauntlet. One-thumb 3D runner.
  • Curbox: App & Website Blocker: App blocker and screen time tracker. Block apps, websites, reels and shorts.
  • DuWave: Dynamic local music player
  • Ewoc: Indoor cycling workouts for FTMS smart trainers
  • FastLog: An opinionated, fast, native app for Logseq
  • Feltbok: Log bird sightings in the field and export them to Artsobservasjoner
  • Field Survey: Your field logbook, on your phone - build any survey, powered by your device.
  • FocusBuddy: A cute, privacy-first Pomodoro companion
  • FontStylr: Stylize your text with cool fonts - emo, goth, bolt, gl1tch3d
  • Formulus: Offline-first bespoke data collection from Open Data Ensemble
  • Gitling: Git client built with Jetpack Compose and Material 3 Expressive
  • Groce: Grocery, to-do, and packing lists, ordered by store aisle or category. No ads.
  • Hebrew Calendar: Hebrew date, holidays, zmanim and Omer count on your lockscreen
  • Internet Radio: Discover and listen to thousands of free internet radio stations worldwide
  • Latarka: Toggle flashlight with a shake gesture
  • LNCT Attendance: Track classes and view timetable statistics
  • LoanPro: Fast mortgage, auto, credit, and personal loan calculations
  • MainTask: Reminders for your recurring tasks: oil change, insurance, filters…
  • maripànaTokana: Weather app showing metric and imperial units side by side in 8 languages
  • Marlin: Identify marine species on the spot and keep a personal sightings life list
  • MetroVault: Air-gapped Bitcoin signer for offline cold storage. QR-only, no network.
  • MinimaList: Local-only outliner — no cloud, no ads, no tracking
  • Nebula: GPU-accelerated HDR nebula fly-through screensaver
  • Noty - Notes in Notification: Pin your notes to notifications — always visible, never forgotten
  • Oksigenia SOS: Smart safety and distress alerts with fall and inactivity detection
  • openCook: Recipe manager to scan cookbook photos, plan your week and share the list
  • openDSP-4x4: Open control for the t.racks DSP 4x4 Mini Pro over USB-OTG.
  • OPNsense Manager: Manage OPNsense firewall: monitor, configure rules, view logs & services
  • Passwords: A basic passwords app
  • PDF Unlocker: Unlock password-protected PDF files locally
  • Pinpoint: Map things/points of interest in your surroundings and across the globe
  • Pitak — Personal Library: Track your books, lending, and wishlist — fully offline, private by design.
  • Podcini.A - Extensible media instrument: Your premier podcast/media instrument, now extensible, capable of YouTubing
  • ProcrastiLearn: Block distracting apps until you review a spaced-repetition flashcard
  • Project Asteria: Daily space discoveries, interactive launch schedules from NASA, APOD, Astronomy, Space, SpaceX, NASA Launch and Space Discovery
  • Readwide: Local-first reader and file browser
  • RedTrigger: System-wide shoulder triggers for Nubia Red Magic phones
  • RPClient: Local-first AI role-playing chat client
  • ScenePeek - TMDB & Seerr: A TMDB & Seerr client to provide you with comprehensive information on movies and TV shows
  • scorecounter: A simple score counting app
  • Screen Off Timer: Clean sleep timer to stop media and lock screen
  • Secure QR Share: Share passwords and links securely via encrypted QR codes
  • SignalSense – Network Switch Alerts: Know the instant your network switches between 5G, 4G, 3G, or 2G
  • Slate: Minimal text-only home screen. No icons. No analytics. Zero network.
  • Solitaire: A solitaire game
  • SOS Alerter: Privacy-focused emergency app with SMS location tracking and silent recording
  • SSH Remote: Use your smartphone to control your computer or HTPC
  • Stack Tower 3D: Stack sliding blocks into the tallest tower you can. One-tap 3D arcade.
  • StudiPassau: Access to the Online Portal for Students at the University of Passau
  • Tessella: Create and explore polygon tessellations of the plane
  • Thirukkural Daily Widget: A beautiful, minimal daily Thirukkural flashcard widget
  • Trending AI: Global tech trends, fast-picked by AI.
  • UT.urn - YouTube facilitator for Podcini.A: A service app providing YouTube contents to Podcini.A
  • Water Reminder: Track your daily water intake and stay hydrated with reminders
  • Water Sort: Relaxing color-sorting puzzle. Infinite levels. Zero tracking. No ads.
  • Where It Went: You think you know. Then you see the numbers. Track where it really went.
  • yadaw: A basic DAW for sound effects and music production
  • Zenwell: Stop doomscrolling: Block distracting apps and reduce screen time

Updated Apps

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