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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 Jan 2026, Week 5 F-Droid core F-Droid Basic was updated to 2.0-alpha1 fixing little things: Show issue for apps we had installed with different signer Manual repo update icon now is ‘Sync’ Fix some changelog logic, pick better Don’t show issues for apps with incompatible signer installed by other stores Show signer of installed version and version code to tech details, make them all selectable Fix a start issue for those upgrading from version 1.x We are seeing your feedback (yes, even those that say: “the old one was better”) and we’ll polish the client more as going forward. Fun fact: our last major Client UX overhaul was almost 10 years ago, and was met with the same reactions at its introduction. That being said, we will take a break, between January 30 and February 4, as we’ll be traveling and attending FOSDEM. Did you look up and bookmark our presentations? Do plan to reach our booth(s)! Community News Snikket was updated to 2.19.8r2+free. This Conversations fork is tailored for your Snikket instance with a fancy color theme. This update brings almost 2 years of missed features and improves not only the looks. We can excuse the team as they are few and have a lot of work to do on their multiplatform SDK, server and beyond. @kitswas announces their “F-Droid App Badges” that tracks monthly download and search statistics based on F-Droid metrics. This feature was asked for a long time, as the privacy veil of F-Droid might leave developers in the dark about how well are their apps are received and how many people are enjoying them. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed Cfait: Powerful, fast and elegant TODO / task manager. (CalDAV and local) Taler Cashier: Take cash and give out electronic cash (The app is not intended for mainstream usage, most people will withdraw digital cash via wire transfer or bank integration. It can also confuse people who are looking for the wallet or PoS applications. If you need it you can still get it from the Taler Nightly repo) Updated Apps 145 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AAAAXY was updated to 1.6.338+20260127.3956.3f4e8fdb Amber was updated to 4.1.1 ANeko Reborn was updated to 1.5.1 Anx Reader was updated to 1.11.0 Apollo was updated to 1.7.3 App Lock was updated to 2.2.1 baresip was updated to 76.3.1 baresip+ was updated to 64.1.1 Bim! was updated to 14 Bimba was updated to 3.12.0-beta.1 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.10.5 Butterfly was updated to 2.4.3 Calibre-Web-Companion was updated to 1.8.4 Capy Reader was updated to 2026.01.1188 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.41.6 CClauncher was updated to v10.5.2 Ciyue was updated to 1.21.0 CleverKeys was updated to 1.2.8 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2026.01.24-5-FDroid Conversations was updated to 2.19.9+free Cuscon was updated to 4.0.8.5 DobbyVPN was updated to 1.1.6 Einstein Launcher was updated to 0.3.9-alpha Findroid was updated to 1.0.2 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.8.6 Flux News was updated to 1.11.2 Forkgram was updated to 12.3.2.0 FOSDEM 2026 Schedule was updated to 1.74.2-FOSDEM-Edition Fulguris Web Browser was updated to 2.0.8 Geo Share was updated to 5.13.0 GeoWeather was updated to 1.1.3 geteduroam was updated to 2.1.7(2680) getgovroam was updated to 2.1.7(2680) Goals Tracker 24/7 - timeto.me was updated to 2026.01.27 Goguma was updated to 0.9.1 GraphHopper Maps was updated to 2.6.0 Gurgle was updated to 1.34 Hammer was updated to 2.1.3 Harp was updated to 1.3.5 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.1.2 HFUT-Schedule was updated to 4.19.3.2 hwloc lstopo was updated to 2.13.0rc1-1-1.6.1 Immich was updated to 2.5.1 Immich Uploader was updated to 2.0.3 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to build106.5.0 Jami was updated to 20260123-01 Jass board was updated to 4.2.1 Jiyi was updated to 1.0.1 Just Delete Me was updated to 0.4 KashCal was updated to 21.1.6 Knock on Ports was updated to 2.0.15-beta01 Komelia was updated to 0.18.4 Kvaesitso was updated to 1.39.3-fdroid Launch - Minimalist Launcher was updated to 5.3 Librera Reader was updated to 9.3.35-fdroid Linux Command Library was updated to 3.5.3 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.3 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.8.8 Litube was updated to 2.0.2 LogFox was updated to 2.1.0 MakeACopy was updated to 2.5.0 MateDroid was updated to 0.12.3 Medical Calendarlog was updated to 2.0.2 MedTimer was updated to 1.21.11 Memories: Photo Management for Nextcloud was updated to 1.15 Messages was updated to 1.0.7 Middor was updated to 0.1.6 MIFARE Classic Tool was updated to 4.3.1 Mill was updated to 7.2.4 Nextcloud was updated to 3.35.2 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20260128 Nextcloud News was updated to 0.9.9.94 Nextcloud Notes was updated to 4.5.3 NextTraceroute was updated to 0.1.6 NFC Radio was updated to 0.11.2-fdroid Nora was updated to 0.5.7 nospeak was updated to v0.10.2 NotiFilter was updated to 3.4.0 Nunti was updated to v2.9.0 Oblivion was updated to 1.0.4 Oinkoin was updated to 1.3.0 Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPS was updated to 2026.01.26-11-FDroid Orgro was updated to 2.0.7 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.51.4 Parcel - Pickup code was updated to 1.0.47 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.45 Persian Calendar was updated to 10.1.1 personalDNSfilter was updated to 1.50.59.0 PipePipe was updated to 4.7.8 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 10.8.0 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.32 Privacy Flip was updated to 2.1.2 QRAlarm was updated to 2.7.7 Quicksy was updated to 2.19.9+free Quotes.app was updated to 4.1 Read You was updated to 0.16.0 Really Basic Vocab was updated to 3.4.9 Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.19.5 Repertoire was updated to 4.6.0 Ricevapp Documento Commerciale was updated to 1.4.2 Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to 2.9.1 Ruffle was updated to 0.260126 Rush - Lyrics App was updated to 5.5.2 Schulrechner was updated to 1.14.0 Screen Time was updated to 1.3.0 SFTP-SAF was updated to 0.2.12 Share to folder was updated to 0.1.3 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 3.3.4 ShikiApp was updated to alpha-0.4.8 SicMu Neo was updated to 2.4.4 Simple Keyboard was updated to 6.3 Simple Notes Sync was updated to 1.7.0 SimpleXray was updated to 1.10.12 SimpMusic was updated to 1.0.2 SiYuan was updated to 3.5.4 Sound Toggle was updated to 1.3.0 Super Productivity was updated to 17.0.6 SwatchIt was updated to 0.6.0 Taler Point-of-Sale Terminal was updated to 1.3.1 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.9 Termux Hub was updated to 2.1.1 The Battle for Wesnoth was updated to 1.19.20+dev The Light was updated to 3.99 Thumb-Key was updated to 5.1.0 Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 16.0b4 tmtLauncher was updated to 1.2.1 ToLoShare was updated to 1.0.9 Tomato was updated to 1.8.3 Track & Graph was updated to 9.0.1 Traffic Light was updated to 2.9 trale was updated to 0.15.0 Tranquil Stopwatch was updated to 1.11.0 Tuner was updated to 1.57 Twili Recipes was updated to 0.2.9 Unciv was updated to 4.19.9 Urik Keyboard was updated to 0.16.0-beta Urn was updated to 1.5.4 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.26.0 WHPH • Work Hard Play Hard was updated to 0.20.4 Wiki Fronted was updated to r/50565-r-2026-01-12 Wikipedia was updated to r/50565-r-2026-01-12 Working Time Account was updated to 2.11.009 XiVPN was updated to 1.8.0 Xtra was updated to 2.53.3 Zulip was updated to 30.0.270 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Over the past year, we have been busy to modernize our app. The work supported by the NGI Mobifree has progressed nicely and we are now at a point where we are releasing the first alpha version and ask the community for feedback and testing. Note that for now this release is only for F-Droid Basic as the full version isn’t ready, yet. While iteratively rewriting the app and incorporating constant feedback from our developer community, the new app turned out a bit different than the old one. Major changes call for a major version change and therefore, this will be F-Droid 2.0. Highlights of this release include: UI rewritten from scratch with Kotlin compose improved search, also searching in descriptions and translations easier to discover new apps, also highlighting the most downloaded ones installation approval before downloading multiple updates/downloads at the same time notifying user of issues with apps (e.g. signing key changed) optional Material You color theme improved filtering of lists Before you jump to upgrade right away, note that there are also some features still missing. If you use any of the following features and would miss them dearly, you may want to hold off with the update and please also let us know about it: IPFS gateways prevent screenshots prefer foreign mirrors DNS cache installation history Furthermore, there are some known issues we want you to know about, in case they are a deal-breaker for you: installation for some apps needs to be confirmed before and after they are downloaded tapping update notification sometimes doesn’t show ‘My Apps’ screen on some few phones the “Installing apps” notification doesn’t go away We’ve been testing the app internally for some time and other than the above, it is quite stable and we consider it ready for daily use for adventurous users. Please let us know what you think of the new app and if you ran into any issues. If the app is crashing for you, please send us the report. Note that if you are already using F-Droid Basic, you won’t receive this update automatically. You need to navigate to the app inside F-Droid and “Allow beta updates” in top right three dot menu.

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 23 Jan 2026, Week 4 F-Droid core Back in March 2024 we announced our switch to Debian version 12 (named Bookworm) and today we are announcing our upgrade to version 13 nicknamed Debian Trixie. We have been testing this internally for months and as of today we’ve had several cycles that already built apps with the new version. What does this mean? For you as a user, nothing at all, apps are included, updated and archived as usual. For you as a developer, Trixie uses Java 21 by default so we’d need to evaluate how your app or app recipe can be best updated now. If your app already used 21 there’s nothing to do. If it uses 17 or older, we’d need to adapt the build recipes to either install the older version or adapt the source code to build with 21 but produce Java 17 byte-code or, better yet, ping you to see if an upgrade to Java 21 can be done easily. We are processing apps as they come so you’ll hear from us if there’s any need for help. Community News The old Matrix client got a new name, Element Classic, and was updated to 1.6.48, while the newer one, Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 26.01.1. Are you coming to FOSDEM 2026 next week? If you are, make sure FOSDEM 2026 Schedule and/or FOSDEM Companion are installed, they both got an update this week, and keep the schedule up to date. Also, bookmark our presentations and find our booth to say ‘hi’. Launch - Minimalist Launcher was archived as it got an application ID change. If you’ve installed it before this week, make sure to jump ship to the new Launch - Minimalist Launcher, A clean, efficient, and minimalist launcher. Luanti was updated to 5.15.0 with a plethora of changes. Tusky was updated to 32 beta 01, but not yet suggested (install manually or toggle Betas in the menu). The big change lies in the new timeline code that was rewritten in a modern framework, meaning all things “post” are now better. Newly Added Apps 16 apps were newly added aShell You: A material you designed app for your ADB needs Conceal Authenticator: Secure 2FA authenticator with blockchain backup and encryption Dragon Launcher: Fast and efficient launcher based on gestures and minimalism Flauth: Privacy-first, open-source TOTP authenticator for 2FA token management KashCal: Privacy-focused calendar with iCloud sync. Offline-first. No tracking Min Time: A minimalistic countdown app to help structure your talks and presentations NFC Radio: Simple NFC audio player to start playback with NFC tags Panoramicon: View 360° spherical panoramas using your device’s motion sensors Rhythm: Your Music, Your Rhythm - Privacy-first player with Material 3 design Rue:barbe -- modal split counter: Manually count passing bike, pedestrian and cars and calculate the modal split Share to folder: Share data from other apps to a folder Simple Notes Sync: Notes & checklists with WebDAV sync to your own server Simply Scored: Track your game scores easily Slauncher: I use this launcher Termux Hub: A lightweight app that indexes Termux tools from GitHub metadata Updated Apps 170 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Activity Manager was updated to 5.4.16 addy.io was updated to v5.9.1 AF Weather Widget was updated to 3.2 Aisleron Shopping List was updated to 2026.1.0 Alertly was updated to 1.2.0 ANeko Reborn was updated to 1.5.0 AnLinux was updated to 6.70 Stable ArchiveKeep was updated to 0.5.0 Aria for Misskey was updated to 1.4.1 baresip was updated to 76.3.0 baresip+ was updated to 64.1.0 Battleship Game (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 2.0.0 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.10.1 Blorp was updated to 1.10.2 Break.Down.Timer was updated to 1.4.1 Breakout 71 was updated to 29467455 Calculator was updated to Slimy green Calisthenics Memory was updated to 1.16.1 Capy Reader was updated to 2026.01.1187 Carburoid was updated to 1.3.3 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 27.4 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.41.5 CClauncher was updated to v10.4.2 Cfait was updated to 408 CineLog was updated to 3.0.0-beta3 Citrine was updated to 1.0.2 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.21.Meta ComfyChair was updated to v0.8.11 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.8.3 Daily You was updated to 2.17.1 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.5.8-ose Deepr was updated to 1.0.22 Der Die Das was updated to 3.0.0 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.4.5 DobbyVPN was updated to 1.1.4 Droid Pad was updated to 3.7.0 Droid-ify was updated to 0.6.8 Einstein Launcher was updated to 0.3.8-alpha Exclave was updated to 0.17.10 FairEmail was updated to 1.2310 FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 1.11.0 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 1.9.0 Flip 2 DND was updated to 9.0.3 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.8.5 FluffyChat was updated to 2.4.0 Flux News was updated to 1.11.1 Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to 3.4.2 Forkgram was updated to 12.3.1.0 FossWallet was updated to 0.38.0 Fulguris Web Browser was updated to 2.0.6 G8 Invoicing was updated to 1.5.2 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.41.0 GameMaster Dice was updated to 1.2-3-g973297a Gauguin was updated to 0.47.0 GeoWeather was updated to 1.0.9 GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea was updated to 12.0.0 Goals Tracker 24/7 - timeto.me was updated to 2026.01.21 Goguma was updated to 0.9.0 Gurgle was updated to 1.33 Hammer was updated to 2.1.2 Harp was updated to 1.3.2 HexViewer was updated to 1.59.4 Home Medkit was updated to 1.9.2 Immich Uploader was updated to 2.0.2 Inventory was updated to 1.0.13 IR Blaster Remote was updated to 2.0.10 Jami was updated to 20260114-01 Joplin was updated to 3.5.9 Kai was updated to 1.3.3 KeePassDX Passkey Vault was updated to 4.3.2 Keyboard Switcher was updated to 4.2 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 2.0.2 Knock on Ports was updated to 2.0.13 Komelia was updated to 0.18.2 Koofr Vault was updated to 0.1.22 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.20 Librera Reader was updated to 9.3.10-fdroid LinkHub was updated to 2.0.4 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.4.13 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.8.6 Little Relay was updated to 1.0.0 Mages was updated to 2.3.2 MateDroid was updated to 0.11.3 Materialious was updated to 1.13.3 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.36.4 Medic Log was updated to 1.3.1 MedTimer was updated to 1.21.10 Middor was updated to 0.1.5 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.67 MovieFlix was updated to 1.4 Mumla was updated to 3.7.1 Muse - Text to Speech was updated to 0.2.0 My Quran - قرآني was updated to 1.4.3 NeoStumbler was updated to 2.3.0 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.6.0d News Provider was updated to 1.11.2 Nextcloud was updated to 3.35.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20260121 NextPush was updated to 2.3.5 nospeak was updated to v0.10.0 NotiFilter was updated to 3.3.0 NymVPN – Private VPN was updated to v2.7.0 Oblivion was updated to 1.0.3 Obtainium was updated to 1.3.2 Onloc was updated to 1.1.4 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.25.0irreproducible Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPS was updated to 2026.01.16-8-FDroid Orgro was updated to 2.0.6 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.96.1 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.51.1 Pagan was updated to 1.7.22 PassVault was updated to 1.7.1 Passwords was updated to 0.6.0 Peristyle was updated to v9.5.1 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.11.4 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.71 PocketCheck was updated to 1.5.2 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 10.6.1 Privacy Flip was updated to 2.1.1 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.15.5.2 Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.19.4 Ricevapp Documento Commerciale was updated to 1.4.0 Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to 2.8.5 Roboyard was updated to 30 Ruffle was updated to 0.260119 Saber was updated to 1.29.5 Sapio was updated to 1.12.1 ScanBridge was updated to 1.6.2 Sensor Server was updated to 7.1.0 ServerBox was updated to 1.0.1297 SexyTopo was updated to 1.10.0 SimpleXray was updated to 1.10.11 Sky Map was updated to 1.10.10 Mercury SMASH — Smart Mobile App for Surveyor’s Happiness was updated to 1.10.5 SMS2Email was updated to 1.1.5 SocksTun was updated to 7.0 Souvenirs was updated to 2.10.0 Spell4Wiki was updated to 3.3 Squealer was updated to 0.1.1 Squeeze Client was updated to 2.3 Street­Complete was updated to 62.2 SudoQ was updated to 2.1.2 Sunup was updated to 1.2.3 SuperX Video Downloader was updated to 0.8.6 Table Habit was updated to 1.23.6 Taler Point-of-Sale Terminal was updated to 1.3.0 Taler Wallet was updated to 1.3.0 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.8.5 tiefprompt was updated to 0.10.0 Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to v3.0 Todo List (PFA) was updated to 3.4.0 ToLoShare was updated to 1.0.7 Tomato was updated to 1.8.2 Traffic Light was updated to 2.8.2 Trail Sense was updated to 7.5.1 Trailence was updated to 1.3.5 TransektCount was updated to 5.0.1 Tremotesf was updated to 2.13.1 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.264 Trudido was updated to 1.2.6 Unciv was updated to 4.19.8 Urik Keyboard was updated to 0.15.0-beta Urn was updated to 1.5.1 WAFRN was updated to 1.9.13 Weather: Cool and Hot was updated to 0.15 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.25.8 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.10.0 WHPH • Work Hard Play Hard was updated to 0.20.1 WordleSolver was updated to 1.11 µLauncher was updated to 0.2.9 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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2025 was a big year for F-Droid. Not only did we celebrate 15 years of securely distributing FOSS apps to users around the world, we onboarded new maintainers, board members and project collaborators, invested in infrastructure upgrades, and played an active role in independent app store and FOSS developer advocacy. Community, Contributions, and Shared Impact F-Droid’s impact in 2025 was the result of many different kinds of contributions. Developers publishing and maintaining free and open source apps, contributors maintaining build infrastructure, reviewing app submissions, improving tooling, and writing documentation, translators expanding access across languages and regions, researchers and advocates translating technical work in policy contexts, and donors whose support keeps F-Droid independent and accountable to its community. Together, this work enables an app distribution ecosystem that is transparent, privacy respecting, and governed in the open. Impact in Numbers This year was another big year in terms of apps added, updated, built and distributed. Here are some quick stats at the end of December 2025. Total number of apps on the main repo: We currently have 4,061 apps on the main repo, an increase of 547 apps since last year, ~21% are built reproducibly, signed by the developers, further expanding the variety of open-source apps available to users. App Updates: Each of them were updated by the developer approximately three times, making the number of updates 13,489, keeping the app catalogue fresh and secure. Cumulative App Updates and Downloads: In 2025 F-Droid users cumulatively updated and downloaded apps over 18 million times. This number is extrapolated since the infrastructure we have is meant to protect user privacy. We will be publishing an F-Droid downloads post in the near future to further expand on this topic. Archived Apps: We parted with 1554 apps as tech moves on and devs do too. Strengthening our Foundations in 2025 A large portion of our work this year focused on strengthening F-Droid’s foundations. F-Droid Client In 2025, we began a major overhaul of the F-Droid client to make finding, understanding, and managing apps easier without compromising privacy or user control. To start, we completed work to move towards Material Design, adopting updated visuals, edge-to-edge layout and refined UI elements. In addition to the Material Design upgrade, the official F-Droid client is being overhauled using modern Android tooling, with a focus on reducing technical debt and making future development more approachable for contributors. Key improvements include a complete UI rewrite using Kotlin Compose, improved search that includes descriptions and translations, better discovery of new and updated apps, installation approval before downloads begin, support for multiple simultaneous downloads and updates, clear notifications when app issues arise, such as signing key changes, and optional Material You theming. Alongside these user facing changes, we completed internal refactoring, modernized libraries, improved testing workflows, and simplified maintenance. This work directly supports contributor onboarding, reduces long term risk, and makes it easier to respond to future platform changes. Build Infrastructure and Maintenance Behind the scenes, we continued improving the infrastructure that builds, verifies, and publishes apps for the main F-Droid repository. This included ongoing work on Buildbot, reproducible builds, repository tooling, metadata cleanup, translation automation, library maintenance, and compatibility testing with upcoming Android versions. We also continued modernization efforts working on Nearby app sharing, migrating Gradle build scripts from Groovy to Kotlin DSL, and adapting upstream changes in Maven Central. This kind of infrastructure work is rarely visible, but it is essential to maintaining trust at scale. Core Server Upgrade One of the most tangible improvements in 2025 was the replacement of F-Droid’s core build and publishing server. The previous system’s hardware was over a decade old and it had been running continuously for years. While it served the project well, it had become a bottleneck and an increasing maintenance burden. Thanks entirely to community donations, we were able to replace this critical piece of infrastructure. The new server significantly improves build performance, allowing us to run the full repository pipeline more frequently and reduce the delay between developer updates and user availability. We were deliberate about how this server is hosted. It is physically controlled in a data center by a long time contributor with a proven security track record. We know exactly where it is, who has access, and how it is managed. This level of transparency is rare in infrastructure, but it aligns with our values and threat model. This upgrade exists because of community support and it strengthens the entire ecosystem. Grant Funded Work in Service of Sustainability and Decentralization While donations remain central to F-Droid’s independence, grants in 2025 allowed us to dedicate focused time to work that benefits both F-Droid and the broader free software ecosystem. OTF FOSS Sustainability Grant The Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability grant supports projects that provide critical digital infrastructure and need time and space to strengthen internal sustainability. For F-Droid, this grant enabled work that is difficult to fund through feature driven development alone. In 2025, we completed three major objectives under this grant including a substantial refactor of the Android client to improve development and testing workflows, modernization of internal tooling and libraries, and concrete progress on governance, establishing policies and legal strategies to make F-Droid more resilient. This work is ongoing as the landscape evolves and it is necessary to respond to new challenges. Beyond these deliverables, we continued work on additional objectives focused on understanding how FOSS projects manage donations, how communities perceive funding practices, and what sustainable, value aligned funding can look like in practice. This research is not only inward facing. We published an extensive blog series detailing our legal resilience research and we are preparing to share our FOSS donations campaigns findings openly with other projects via blog articles and hosting a workshop at FOSDEM 2026. If you are planning on attending FOSDEM, we look forward to seeing you there! Mobifree: Decentralized App Distribution in Practice Mobifree is an EU funded research and development project focused on giving European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centered and ethical mobile software. The project supports independence from gatekeeper platforms, closed-source software and harvesting user data. The core idea behind Mobifree is that competition, user choice, and digital sovereignty require real alternatives that work within existing developer workflows while offering users meaningful freedom. F-Droid played a central role in Mobifree, contributing across research, software development, and ecosystem building, specifically in the area of FOSS app distribution. Our work included improving Repomaker, a tool that allows users and organizations to create and share their own app repositories, building and expanding Appiverse, a catalogue of known F-Droid compatible repositories designed to improve interoperability between app stores, creating an API that allows alternative distributors to discover, verify, and reuse repositories, expanding Fastlane tooling so developers can integrate F-Droid distribution into their existing release workflows and integrating results from user research directly into our software design updates. We worked closely with partners including Waag, BioSense, University of Amsterdam, Murena, and e Foundation, supporting in the user testing and workshops and have already begun analysing and mapping out how to implement the user feedback. In 2025, we presented our work to the European Commission during the Mobifree 18 month review. This was an important moment to demonstrate that decentralized, privacy respecting app distribution is not theoretical. It is already being built, tested, and improved in the open. In 2026, we will continue Mobifree work by implementing user test feedback across the F-Droid website, client, Appiverse and Repomaker, further improving usability and clarity. Policy Engagement and Legal Resilience As F-Droid entered its 15th year, policy and legal work became increasingly important. In 2025, we published an extensive research driven blog series addressing issues many FOSS projects quietly struggle with, including how to handle legal takedown requests, how to respond when authorities request user or project information, jurisdiction, liability, and legal entity considerations and how regulatory frameworks like the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, Online Safety Act, and Google’s developer verification requirements affect independent app distribution. Our work on Google’s developer verification requirements highlighted how policy and platform changes can create new barriers for developers and app stores. We engaged publicly and constructively on this issue, helping surface concerns around access, proportionality, and unintended consequences. We will continue to address this issue during a main track presentation at FOSDEM in 2026. We also participated in DMA related workshops and events, contributing the perspective of a long running, community governed app distribution platform. Our goal is not simply compliance, but ensuring regulation does not reinforce gatekeeping or undermine independent, privacy respecting alternatives. This work matters because policy decisions made today shape the ecosystem for years to come. FLOSS Fund Recognition and Community Sustainability In 2025, F-Droid was honoured to be selected as a FLOSS/fund recipient. FLOSS/fund recognizes that much of the modern technological landscape and even the internet itself is built by individuals and communities in the form of free and open source software. They do this not only by pledging $1 million a year to FOSS projects, but by creating a donation registry called funding.json where FOSS projects can easily communicate their projects and financial needs, making it easier for donors to find the projects they love and show support. We will be using the funds we received to embed the funding.json into the F-Droid app submission process, so new apps will have the option to be featured in the FLOSS Fund directory. Funding will also be used to improve our donation campaign and fundraising efforts in general, making F-Droid more financially sustainable long term. Looking Ahead to 2026 Plans include participating in FOSDEM in Brussels, hosting a booth there to engage with participants, co-organizing the FOSS on Mobile developer room, presenting at the Funding FOSS developer room and presenting our main track presentation on Google’s developer verification requirements, We will continue to contribute to the Mobifree project, move our deliverables outlined in the OTF FOSS sustainability fund forward, and continue improving the client, website, server and other core infrastructure, working to make F-Droid better and easier to onboard new users. To everyone who has donated to F-Droid over the years, and especially to those who supported us in 2025: thank you. Your support keeps F-Droid independent, privacy respecting, and accountable to its community. F-Droid has shown for 15 years that app distribution can be transparent, privacy respecting, and accountable. In 2025, we strengthened that foundation. In 2026, we will continue to build for the future of FOSS.

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 Jan 2026, Week 3 F-Droid core The F-Droid website has not been refreshed since January 5th due to some infrastructure issues, hence new apps and new updates were delayed to be listed. If you can read this it means we fixed it. Meanwhile, as usual, we recommend the usage of F-Droid client or F-Droid Basic to get info on new apps and timely app updates as expected. This also means our last week post was not published, so this week… it’s a big longer. Community News We are always glad to hear people use F-Droid, but if you see our app installed on some device you weren’t expecting to feature it, please do ping us. Imagine our surprise when we found out that “a home control panel” (or whatever this gadget is?) ships with F-Droid Client as the company writes in “F-Droid New Features Bring Unlimited Possibilities！Your NSPanel Pro, More Than Just a Control Panel.” And we have so many questions like: Is that the plain client or a fork? Which repositories are active? Was it easy to integrate? Any pain points? Any feedback? Aurora Store was updated to 4.8.0, as Beta for now, so you either update manually or enable Betas from the app page menu. Android 6 is now the minimum supported, it also adds Material Design Expressive theme and brings filters back. BasicCashFlow was updated to 2.0 but also brings a signing key change. Unfortunately there’s no way to export data so if you decide to uninstall and then install the update, you’ll need to add your data again from scratch. Cfait was updated to 407 but it also had an application ID change. You’ll get this info in the app the next time you open it. The new one, named the same, was just included, so make sure you take the jump to Cfait, Powerful, fast and elegant TODO / task manager (CalDAV and local). FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 1.10.0 adding a feature you might want your favorite developer to include: scanning from other apps. It basically means some other app, say your messaging app, might detect that you have FairScan installed (or even ask for it) and offer a button to “Scan as PDF”. How that came to be can be read in this post, but their blog has more app development insights posts that make for a good read. Fennec F-Droid was updated to 147.0.0 and the changelog looks uneventful. Yet we see a bit of new design around the start page and the new added tab bar, so something is being worked on. Psst, you are still here? So, the thing is that the design changes are way more deeper that those two features above and are all hidden in the secret menu. No joke, that’s its name. So, make sure no one is looking first. Ready? Go to Fennec Settings, scroll down to About, touch the Fennec icon 5 times and do a pirouette. Now go back to settings, and scroll down to the new Secret Settings (!!). There are many things listed here, we’ll just toggle the ones we know are safe and fun: “Composable Toolbar” (main one), “Toolbar Customisation” (setting for one button) and “Tab Manager enhancements” (new tabs view). Litube was updated to 2.0.1 after a 5 month absence. It brings a native Android player, Picture-in-Picture support, improved performance, a Download Manager, a better live chat UI and more. Meshtastic was updated to 2.7.10 (29319661) fdroid. We recently saw a nice description of how its whole ecosystem is working in a, yes Youtube, video. If you wondered if it fits your decentralized workflow, now you might find out. Microphone was updated to 0.9 after ten years! Neo Store was updated to 1.2.1, and besides the usual fixes we noticed a change that we salute: “Update: Enable mirror-rotation by default for F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid”. F-Droid Client has supported mirror rotation for years, making downloads faster and relieving the pressure on main servers, and while NeoStore supported mirrors for a while now, users needed to know about this feature and toggle it to ON by themselves in Settings. NewPipe was updated to 0.28.1 with a long list of changes and the crash fixes are welcomed. Oblivion, Remote lock and wipe triggers for compromised or unattended devices, had an application ID change. If you’ve installed it before yesterday make sure to uninstall it and install the new Oblivion app. Syncthing-Fork was updated to 2.0.13.0 and it’s mostly fixes. If you’ve followed the fork drama in the last months maybe take a look at what has changed and decide to update. Traffic Light was updated to 2.8 with a new signing key. You’ve installed this is the past? Better uninstall and install the new update. Small sneak peek here, in the next major client update these type of issues, and more, will be highlighted for you to see and action as needed. WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser was updated to 0.9.30 with the codebase of Firefox 146.0.1. The changes are numerous but two caught our eye as major pain points in our own Fennec, first: “Added encrypted profile backup and restore system with password protection” and second: “Added bookmark import/export functionality”. The full changelog is here. @ByteHamster counts sheep: AntennaPod was updated to 3.11.0 featuring one of the most requested features: in addition to stopping the sleep timer after X minutes, you can now configure it to stop after X episodes. Also, more users now get the modern bottom navigation interface and more. @shuvashish76 presses the shutter button: Libre Camera got a new release 2.0.1 after a pause of two years. What’s new? Too much to convey here: now using CameraX API (better device support), more settings, HEIC support, performance improvements, better translations and more. Removed Apps 5 more apps were removed Aster Launcher: minimalist productivity launcher Identify Dog Breeds Pro: Identify dog breeds with your smartphone Kmtemplate: Organize tasks effortlessly across all your devices with Kmtemplate (We have a lot of notes apps, this one still needs to provide what it promises) SmartScan: Search images and videos offline using text or by reverse image search (Upstream archived the source, but they’ve reached out to us and we hope it will make a comeback) ZipXtract FD: ZipXtract can extract and create archive Newly Added Apps 38 more apps were newly added Before you read the list, huge thanks to @linsui for taking the time over the holidays to review so many new apps waiting for inclusion. Due to the website issue, some of these already even got updates. AI Hub: All your AI tools together in one simple app Biometric Bypass: Xposed module to fast-forward face unlock Blidraughts: Play draughts games over Bluetooth BoutScoring: App for Scoring Combat Sports Bouts Brownian Particles Live Wallpaper: Live Wallpaper simulating the brownian motion of particles in laser light Calendar: The only fully-functional open-source calendar app with Material You CleanShare: Xposed module that removes Direct Share suggestions from Android’s Share Sheet DuckRun: A game about a duck Escape Launcher: Minimalist home screen with features to help reduce phone distraction G8 Invoicing: Create invoices, delivery notes and credit notes easily GeoWeather: A Weather App that is still WIP (Work In Progress) IR Blaster: Turn your Android into an IR remote: hex/raw/Flipper Zero .ir + Signal Tester La et Le: Train French noun genders using spaced repetition Latin Defense: Expand your own Roman Empire! Little Relay: Bidirectional data bridge between BLE and an MQTT broker Mako Launcher: Privacy-first launcher designed for focus, speed, and simplicity MateDroid: View Tesla vehicle data from your self-hosted Teslamate instance Middor: Mirror applications for HUD display with horizontal flip Mission: Daily habit tracker, as simple as possible MsgGo: Lightweight, and modern bulk SMS tool nospeak: A modern Nostr chat client Noteshop: A versatile app for managing notes, shopping lists, and recipes OnePlus Laser Tool: Professional laser rangefinder for OnePlus devices with Laser AF hardware Onloc: Self-hosted real-time device tracker Prayer Time Muter: Automatically silence your phone during prayer times Prediktor: Prediktor is a simple app for your everyday prediction needs Ricevapp Documento Commerciale: Third-party app for quick access, not affiliated with Agenzia delle Entrate SFTP-SAF: Browse SFTP server in your file manager SMS2Email: Forwards SMS messages to SMTP (Email) server SmsReply: Automatic SMS replies with customizable templates Squealer: Explore SQLite databases TKWeek: A date and calendaring tool ToLoShare: Location Share via Tox Urik Keyboard: Privacy-first keyboard Variometer: Inertial vertical speed indicator ViewCarousel: Circular carousel of user configurable views Whatsap Status: View, save, and share WhatsApp statuses easily YTDLnis: Video/Audio Downloader app using yt-dlp Updated Apps 291 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Due to the website issue, some of these already got multiple updates, but we’ve only listed the latest one. 39C3 Schedule was updated to 1.74.1 addy.io was updated to v5.9.0 Ad-silence was updated to v0.8.0-prod aFreeRDP was updated to 3.20.0 AF Weather Widget was updated to 3.1 Aisleron Shopping List was updated to 2025.11.2 Amber was updated to 4.0.7 ANeko Reborn was updated to 1.4.0 AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.23.3 Apollo was updated to 1.7.2 ArcaneChat was updated to 2.36.0 aShell was updated to v0.24 aTalk was updated to 5.1.0 Athena: Firewall DNS AdBlocker was updated to 1.80 Audile was updated to 1.13.2 Authnkey was updated to 1.1.1 Bahn-Vorhersage was updated to 0.6.1 baresip+ was updated to 63.0.0 baresip was updated to 76.0.0 Binary Eye was updated to 1.67.1 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.9.1 BLE Radar was updated to 0.32.1-beta Blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble2.4.1 Bluetooth Remote was updated to 1.9.1 Bold Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 2.1.11 Break.Down.Timer was updated to 1.4.0 Breakout 71 was updated to 29453095 Brethap was updated to 1.8.5 BusTO was updated to 2.4.8 BVD was updated to 2.3.0.foss Calibre-Web-Companion was updated to 1.8.3 Call Limiter was updated to 0.3.5 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.4.2 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 27.3 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.41.4 CClauncher was updated to v10.3.4 Celestia was updated to 1.9.3 Chaka Book Reader was updated to 1.24.9a.19 Chess was updated to 9.10.9 Chooser was updated to 1.4.10 CineLog was updated to 3.0.0-beta2 CircleToSearch App was updated to 0.4 Citrine was updated to 1.0.0 CleverKeys was updated to 1.2.5 Clock was updated to 2.28 ColorBlendr was updated to v2.1.1 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2026.01.08-11-FDroid ComfyChair was updated to v0.8.9 Contacts was updated to 1.5.1 Conversations was updated to 2.19.8+free Cuscon was updated to 4.0.8.2 CuteCalc was updated to 3.6.5 CuteMusic was updated to 3.1.5 Dahdidahdit — The Morse Trainer was updated to 1.17.0 Daily You was updated to 2.16.1 Deepr was updated to 1.0.21 Delta Chat was updated to 2.35.0 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 2.11.0 Die Simulator was updated to 1.2 DNSNet was updated to 1.3.6 DobbyVPN was updated to 1.0.28 drip period & cycle tracker was updated to 1.2601.11 Droid Pad was updated to 3.5.4 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.261.0 DuressKeyboard was updated to 4.6 eduVPN was updated to 3.5.2 EinkBro was updated to 15.5.0 Einstein Launcher was updated to 0.3.5-alpha EnforceDoze was updated to 1.10.0 Ente Auth - 2FA Authenticator was updated to 4.4.15 Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.3.0 EP Mobile was updated to 2.39.0 Everyday Tasks was updated to 1.8.0 Exclave was updated to 0.17.9 Findroid was updated to 1.0.1 Flash Deck was updated to 1.7.8 Flicky was updated to 4.0.1 Flip 2 DND was updated to 9.0.1 folder launcher was updated to 0.3.6hotfix Forkyz was updated to 77 FossWallet was updated to 0.37.0 Fulguris Web Browser was updated to 2.0.4 Futon was updated to 9.6.10 FW-Wettkampf Funk-Trainer was updated to 2.4 geteduroam was updated to 2.1.7(2679) getgovroam was updated to 2.1.7(2679) Github Store was updated to 1.5.1 GitNote was updated to 26.01.1 Gizz Tapes was updated to IceV Goals Tracker 24/7 - timeto.me was updated to 2026.01.09 GPTMobile was updated to 0.7.1 Graph 89 was updated to 1.2.0 Gridle was updated to 1.21 Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management was updated to 3.8.3 Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 3.7.2 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.43 HACS was updated to 2.25.0 Hail was updated to 1.10.0 Hammer was updated to 2.1.0 Harp was updated to 1.3.1 Headwind MDM Agent was updated to 6.30 Hoplite Polytonic Greek Keyboard was updated to 1.7.2 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 4.1.0 HypoStats: Log Your Hypos was updated to 0.5.8 Imagepipe was updated to 0.76 Image Toolbox was updated to 3.5.2 Infomaniak Euria was updated to 1.2.1 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.11.7 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.23.1 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to build106.4.5 Inventory was updated to 1.0.12 Jami was updated to 20260109-01 Joplin was updated to 3.5.8 Just Delete Me was updated to 0.3 K-9 Mail was updated to 15.0 Kakugo was updated to 1.40.1 Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.2.0 Kazumi was updated to 1.9.4 KeePassDX Passkey Vault was updated to 4.3.1 Keyboard Switcher was updated to 4.1 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 2.0.1 Knock on Ports was updated to 2.0.12 Komelia was updated to 0.18.1 Kreate was updated to 1.9.2-fdroid Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.19 Libre Memory Game was updated to 1.2.0 Librera Reader was updated to 9.3.1-fdroid LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 2.1.6 LinkHub was updated to 2.0.3 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.5.0-beta.0 Linwood Flow Nightly was updated to 0.5.2 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.8.5 Lux Alarm was updated to 1.1.0 Mages was updated to 2.3.1 Mancala was updated to 1.2 MakeACopy was updated to 2.4.1 Materialious was updated to 1.13.1 Medical Calendarlog was updated to 2.0.1 MedTimer was updated to 1.21.8 Mempal was updated to 2.0 Mental Math was updated to 19 Messages was updated to 1.0.6 Migraine Log was updated to 0.14.2 Minis companion was updated to 1.5.2 MoasdaWiki was updated to 3.9.7.0 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.65 Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen was updated to 1.11.3 Mumla was updated to 3.7.0 MusicSearch was updated to 1.86.0 Musify was updated to 9.7.5 My Brain was updated to 3.0.1 My Price Log was updated to 0.2 NATINFo+ was updated to 1.1.1 Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.16 Nextcloud was updated to 3.35.0 RC4 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20260115 Nextcloud News was updated to 0.9.9.93 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 22.1.0 Nope Remote was updated to 2.2 Nora was updated to 0.5.5 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.6.1 NotiFilter was updated to 3.2.0 ntfy - PUT/POST to your phone was updated to 1.21.1 ntodotxt was updated to 0.16.1 Offi was updated to 13.0.23 Oinkoin was updated to 1.2.1 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.6.1 OpenDocument Reader - view ODT was updated to 4.3 OpenFoodFacts was updated to 4.23.0 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.19.1-beta OpenMoneyBox was updated to 3.5.1.7 OpenPaperView was updated to 1.3.7 OpenPhotoFrame was updated to 1.6.0 openScale was updated to 3.0.2 OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to 1.26.2 OpenTune was updated to 2.0.11 OpenVPN for Android was updated to 0.7.63 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2026.01.14-6-FDroid Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.16.0 oxproxion was updated to 2.1.32 Party UP! was updated to 1.9.0 Paseo was updated to 1.6.6 PassVault was updated to 1.7.0 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.51.0 PeerTube was updated to 2.0.2 Persian Calendar was updated to 10.1.0 Personal Stuff was updated to 1.3.1 Petals was updated to 3.38.0 Photok was updated to 2.4.2 Pinyin Web & EPUB and topolects was updated to 2.12.63 Pixiv-MultiPlatform was updated to 1.8.3 Počasí v krajích was updated to 2.1.1 PocketCheck was updated to 1.4.3 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.5.6 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 10.4.4 Polaris was updated to 0.10.3 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.31 Privacy Flip was updated to 2.1.0 ProseReader was updated to 1.7.3 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.36.4 QuickNotes was updated to 1.0.7 Quicksy was updated to 2.19.8+free Quitter was updated to 1.1.3 Quotes.app was updated to 4.0 Remember My Sort was updated to 2.0.0 Ricochlime was updated to 1.12.4 Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to 2.8.4 RSAF was updated to 3.27 Ruffle was updated to 0.260112 Running Services Monitor was updated to 1.0.20 RustDesk was updated to 1.4.5 Saber was updated to 1.29.4 Safe Space was updated to 2.3.5 SambaLite was updated to 1.3.2 Sapio was updated to 1.11.0 ScreenStream was updated to 4.3.0 searxist was updated to 2026.01.10 Sensor Spot was updated to 1.10.0 ServerBox was updated to 1.0.1291 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.30.3 Share via HTTP was updated to 2.17 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 3.3.3 Simple Keyboard was updated to 6.2 SimpleXray was updated to 1.10.10 sing-box was updated to 1.12.16 SiYuan was updated to 3.5.3 SkyTube was updated to 2.997 SkyTube Legacy was updated to 2.997 SleepTimer was updated to 0.9.9 SMS Import / Export was updated to 2.8.0-standard Sound Toggle was updated to 1.2.1 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 5.2 Squeezelite was updated to 0.8.0 SudoQ was updated to 2.1.1 Super Productivity was updated to 16.9.4 SuperX Video Downloader was updated to 0.8.4.0 SwatchIt was updated to 0.5.3 Table Habit was updated to 1.23.3 Taler Wallet was updated to 1.2.0 Text Tools was updated to 2.1.4 Thumb-Key was updated to 5.0.14 Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox was updated to 15.0 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.2025.12.1 Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to v2.95 tmtLauncher was updated to 1.2.0 To Don’t was updated to 4.2.0 Tomato was updated to 1.8.1 Torrents Digger was updated to 1.1.7 Torrent Search was updated to 0.4.6 TourCount was updated to 3.7.0 Traditional T9 was updated to 59.0 Trailence was updated to 1.3.3 Trail Sense was updated to 7.5.0 trale was updated to 0.14.0 TransektCount was updated to 5.0.0 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.21.7 Trime was updated to 3.3.8 Trudido was updated to 1.2.5 Tuta Calendar was updated to 319.260107.1 Tuta Mail was updated to 319.260107.1 Unblock Jam was updated to 1.1 Unciv was updated to 4.19.7 UnderEat was updated to 1.0.27 URnetwork was updated to 2026.1.7 Valetudo Companion was updated to 2025.08.0 Vector Pinball was updated to 1.15.2 venera was updated to 1.6.2 Vespucci - an OSM Editor was updated to 21.2.2.0 VirtualGamePad Mobile was updated to 0.4.1 VolumeLockr was updated to 1.7.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.43.2 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 2.7.8 WAFRN was updated to 1.9.12 Waterfly III was updated to 1.1.10 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.25.7 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.9.5 WHPH - Work Hard Play Hard was updated to 0.19.3 WiFiAnalyzer was updated to 3.2.2 WiFi Exporter was updated to 0.3.2 Wiki Fronted was updated to r/50564-r-2025-12-15 Wikipedia was updated to r/50564-r-2025-12-15 Windscribe was updated to 3.97 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.18.0 WordleSolver was updated to 1.10 Word Maker was updated to 1.4 Xed-Editor was updated to 3.2.6 Xtra was updated to 2.53.0 YacGuide was updated to 0.9.3 YtAlarm was updated to 0.1.15 zSMTH was updated to 25.11.22 聚在工大 was updated to 4.19.2.2 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Back in 2020, “OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android” has been announced on F-Droid at its beginning, and in 2022 the UnifiedPush team posted on F-Droid their guide entitled “UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol” that inspired a lot of developers. But did you know how UP came to be? Now you can. This is a repost from the author blog. It has already been 5 years since UnifiedPush started! It also means I don’t have any Play Services, the official or microG reimplementation, for 5 years now. It is a good moment to do a recap, and think about what can be UnifiedPush in 5 years. It turns out I don’t remember in details how all started, I need to read some historical pull requests and chats. Why do I need push notifications? I think I’ve installed my first alternative ROM, LineageOS, around 2013, and never went back to stock ROMs since then. At this time, I didn’t really care about the apps I was installing, it was mainly to take control of my devices and get rid of the bloatwares. I understood that I needed the Play Services, or a reimplementation, for some applications to properly work, and I was vaguely knowing why. So, every time I updated my phone, I had to boot into the custom recovery (TWRP), to flash a zip, to get microG. It was, well .. not the best user experience. Then, I tried to stay without the Play Services, it was even worse, messages weren’t reliable, the battery drained and there were many foreground notifications, which I understood were required to keep a service running. So I decided to go with a fork of LineageOS that includes microG by default, and distributed by microG team: LineageOS for microG. Even after using this new system, the experience was nearly the same. Why? Because most of my apps were from F-Droid. Push notifications with Google (via microG) require the use of a proprietary library *, which comes with telemetry, unless explicitly configured to exclude them. F-Droid deny this library, which is fair given that their purpose is to promote free software. * That’s actually possible to use FCM (Google notifs) without Google lib, but I didn’t know that at this moment. Cf. UnifiedPush blog post about push notifications for decentralized applications, or Molly issue regarding FOSS FCM implementation. Gotify (2020) So, we’re in 2020, and I finally want to look why I can’t use microG with Fedilab and Element from F-Droid, and if we can replace microG with another notification app. It turns out among others notification applications, F-Droid distributes Gotify. It isn’t able to forward notifications to other apps, but there is an issue opened for that feature, and jmattheis, the developer seems open to the idea. I didn’t touch any Android dev at this moment, but I tried to hack something. Fortunately, jmattheis review helped a lot to make things less hacky. So here came gotify-connector. It looks like from the pull request history that “connector” comes from jmattheis, for which I added “distributor” later. At this moment, the feature has picked the interest of some persons, including sorunome, karmanyaahm and sparchatus. Sorunome, contributor to FluffyChat, told me that the feature may interest people in OpenPush Matrix room. First UnifiedPush version (2020) Late 2020, looking at some p2p projects, I thought it would be cool having a p2p based solution too. So came the questions about ecosystem lock-in of a Gotify only solution, adoption, and fragmentation. If we have multiple applications able to provide push notifications, we should have a library that is compatible with all of them. When a new application providing push notifications is published, then all existing applications supporting the thing would be directly compatible. Going that way, we needed to specify how it should work first. I shared the idea in OpenPush room, and it picked the interest of someone in particular, sparchatus, who helped me to write the specifications. We discussed many edge cases to see how things could be. I published a first version of the specifications, a library, and a fork of Gotify until the support was merged *. Sorunome was interested in implementing the support in Fluffychat. It required a flutter lib, karmanyaahm wrote a lib porting the already published library to the framework. We also needed something to translate Matrix push protocol, and make Gotify server compatible: karmanyaahm wrote common-proxies for this. * Which actually never happened 🤷 FluffyChat, Fedilab, and more (2021) Early 2021, FluffyChat was supporting UnifiedPush. And soon came Fedilab too, as the dev, Thomas, was directly interested. Starting with these 2 applications was a chance for the project: we had support for Matrix, and many other chats using Matrix bridges, and for the Fediverse. This covered enough applications for some FOSS enthusiasts. Retrospectively, UnifiedPush may never have started without these 2 applications. After that, some applications started to implement the feature, such as a Tox application, or FMD, a FOSS solution to find your device. Mid 2021, I implemented UnifiedPush support for Element, which was soon merged by SchildiChat, a fork. I think the experience from SchildiChat helped for it being merged into Element mid 2022. UnifiedPush for Linux (mid 2021) At this moment, vurpo came to UnifiedPush Matrix room to talk about push notifications for Linux devices. So we had UnifiedPush for Linux by mirroring the specifications for Android to D-Bus IPC. ntfy, NextPush (2021) During 2021, a new project appeared on the Internet: ntfy. A project like Gotify, that can work without any account, with a public server. The app is extremely easy to use, as you have nothing to set up. And the developer, binwiederhier, was directly interested in supporting UnifiedPush, to make ntfy a distributor. Merged early 2022, it was an important step for UnifiedPush: we have a distributor to recommend by default. I have also implemented NextPush at the same period, giving an easy opportunity to self-host a push server, if you already host a Nextcloud server In the same time, Gotify developer informed us that they finally prefer not to merge the support, as they don’t use it and prefer to avoid adding maintenance to their project, which is perfectly understandable. With this new position, the official support of UnifiedPush by ntfy, and the new NextPush app, I preferred to discontinued Gotify forks as well. KUnifiedPush (mid 2022) Mid 2022, the KDE team, and particularly vkrause, published KUnifiedPush: a distributor for Linux, compatible with different push server, like ntfy or NextPush. Until then, we only had POC implementations of distributors for Linux. KUnifiedPush also provide libraries for KDE applications. This allowed Linux applications to finally support the protocol. Full-time on UnifiedPush (2024 - 2025) At the end of 2023, we have more than 20 applications supporting UnifiedPush, and another distributor: Conversations. Element being probably the one with the larger user base at this moment. Someone advised me to apply for a grant with NLnet, as it would boost development of the project. During the application process with NLnet, COVESA reached me because they wanted to support the project, but needed a few features that weren’t present, to get a more robust authorization mechanism and avoid registration spamming. UnifiedPush has always been compatible with web push (RFC8030 and RFC8291 but RFC8292, aka VAPID, wasn’t). Embracing the standard to require web push was a potential step to take. The specifications needed to be updated in that direction, to require encryption (RFC8291) and to handle authorizations with VAPID (RFC8292). Relying on standard will hopefully help for the adoption, as the server side implementation may be used for web applications in the same time. At the end of 2024, I’ve started working full-time on UnifiedPush. Working with COVESA also allowed to get Sunup, a distributor using Mozilla’s push server, autopush, and to add a self-hostable backend for autopush. This feature is currently being merged. NLnet gave the opportunity to polish many things that were pending, to add a migration feature to the protocol, which can be used to get a fallback service when your self-hosted server is down, to implement the actual web push specifications on Mastodon, and to add web push/UnifiedPush to some applications. It includes Fennec/IronFox, forks of Firefox, so we can now get push notifications with web applications. It also includes SimpleX (being merged), Nextcloud (being merged), DeltaChat (TODO), and flatline (TODO), a self-hostable version of Signal server, hopefully upstreamed to Signal servers. The idea is to increase the network effect: the more applications support UnifiedPush, the more UnifiedPush can be relevant for users, and the more users will use UnifiedPush. If the number of UnifiedPush users increases, it pushes applications’ developers to support the protocol. At the end, we can use our phone with the push service we want, to get an expected user experience even without the Play Services. Retrospective It was by chance that I started UnifiedPush and the project would never have existed without other projects like F-Droid, Gotify, Matrix, Fluffychat or Fedilab, and many more, without the help of many people. I think it shows how the FOSS ecosystem can be beneficial for everyone. I develop Sunup, but often contribute to ntfy. The projects could be seen as “concurrent”, but aren’t: the applications answer different needs. We don’t have anything to win or lose if a user chose one app over the other. But we all win if a user chose to use one, no matter which, as it increases the network effect. If UnifiedPush wasn’t started 5 years ago, I’m sure an equivalent project would have started since then. This is something that was awaited in the mobile FOSS community, and there were already some research work on the subject. I wasn’t aware how many things were implied with push notifications. It is understandable that giving a single entity the capacity to provide such an important feature give them incredible power. This is concerning when their solution doesn’t follow least-privilege policies, come with system rights, has access to the full system, and with “features” we don’t want, such as advertisement and telemetry. I now understand why push servers may be a tool for mass surveillance and how an open solution is important for resilience. Some networks exist outside the Internet, some regions in the world suffer from services block, some users may be banned from these services. When a service is controlled by a single entity, nothing can be done when they consider your device too old to be supported. Offering an open alternative is a response to all these problems. The idea is not to move everyone to an open solution, but to give the freedom to. Supporting these alternatives also reduces risks of power abuse from Google. If you develop an application, ask yourself how fast could you recover from being banned by Google? Working full-time on UnifiedPush is incredible. I’m extremely happy a foundation like NLnet exists. I hope my work is beneficial for the project and for most of the users. When it all started, I didn’t imagine a second I could work on this, I just wanted my Matrix and Mastodon notifications without the Play Services. I would love to continue working daily on UnifiedPush, and there are probably tons of things to do, specially for Linux devices, and many apps to port the feature to. But NLnet funds aren’t unlimited, our main goals are reached - improving the protocol, improving the existing code and documentation, boosting the network effect on Android -, and I don’t want to take the potential place of another project. Among other things, we still need to improve libraries for UnifiedPush on Linux, and it’d be great to have a UI for KUnifiedPush to publish it on Flatpak. There are some important applications, such as Mozilla sync service, that use an allow-list of authorized push servers, defeating the purpose of self-hosting: it would be great implementing a better anti-SSRF mechanism. We will probably have to build these blocks and others together. If you want to contribute, do not hesitate to PM on Mastodon or join UnifiedPush matrix room. UnifiedPush in 5 years The best thing that could happen to UnifiedPush on Android in 5 years would be for it to no longer exist. If Android gives us a system API to let the user define their push service we wouldn’t need UnifedPush anymore. Passkeys (API to login without passwords), used to be provided by the Play Services only. Today, probably to increase the adoption, Android has migrated to a system API (Credential Provider), to allow any password manager to provide the service. With a Push Service API, UnifiedPush would have kind of been integrated into the OS. The applications would receive push endpoints like we do, and they would send web push requests, following standards, like web applications does, like UnifiedPush does. Migration from UnifiedPush would be minimal. If we manage to have such a Push Service API, we can expect many more apps supporting the feature. And we will finally be able to choose the services we want to trust. Hopefully, working on UnifiedPush can push in that direction by increasing the demand, and highlighting the need. On Linux, I think the adoption depends a lot on how the mobile Linux ecosystem evolves. I personally think and wishes that it goes in the right direction. And I think a lot of things can happen in 5 years on the matter.

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 02 Jan 2026, Week 1 Community News Arcticons, Arcticons Black, Arcticons Day & Night and Arcticons Material You were all updated to 14.0.0. We skipped a version while fighting reproducibility bugs, but now the latest one is here with more than 14000 icons in total. Einstein Launcher was updated to 0.3.3-alpha. Which launcher? Eblan launcher, got renamed, the rest is still the same. We just added Futon, Manga reader with online catalogues, as a Kotatsu fork. Since Kotatsu has stopped development, it will be archived soon so maybe test this new app and switch. LabNex for GitLab was updated to 7.0.0, adding some useful features and many fixes. It still misses one of two must haves for us, but do start testing it out for your GitLab developer mobile workflow. SmartScan was updated to 1.1.9 as the last version we will provide. The app source repo was archived hence we will archive the app too, in about two days. CodeDoctor left us a gift under the server: Butterfly and Linwood Butterfly Nightly were updated to 2.4.2: 🚀 Performance optimizations 🌍 RTL layout fixes 🎨 UI improvements 🐛 Numerous bug fixes 🇮🇩 Indonesian translations Read more here. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed Adblock Plus: Ad blocker (Just get any other firewall app that can block hosts) DNS66: Block ads/hosts via DNS (DNSNet was updated to 1.3.5, and it’s a continuation of the app) Newly Added Apps 7 more apps were newly added Alarmetrics: Track your snoozes ComfyChair: Native Android client for ComfyUI - generate AI images and videos on mobile HRLY: A minimalist hourly chime. Nope Remote: IR remote control with customizable automation macros Remember My Sort: LSPosed module that persists Android file picker sort order Total Recall: Privacy-focused memory helper app. Photo, text, location. All locally stored. Tutto Counter: A simple score counter for the dice game “Tutto” Updated Apps 180 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 39C3 Schedule was updated to 1.74.0 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.9 AAAAXY was updated to 1.6.332+20251230.3950.055fab57 Aisleron Shopping List was updated to 2025.11.1 AliasVault was updated to 0.25.3 Amaze File Manager was updated to 3.11.2 AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.23.2 APM was updated to 4.2.0 Apollo was updated to 1.7.0 aTalk was updated to 5.0.0 Authnkey was updated to 1.1.0 Automation was updated to 1.8.4 baresip was updated to 74.2.0 baresip+ was updated to 62.2.0 Bluetooth Remote was updated to 1.9.0 Bold Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 2.1.6 Bouncing Logo was updated to 1.3.3 Breakout 71 was updated to 29452887 BusTO was updated to 2.4.7 c3nav was updated to 4.7.0 Calibre-Web-Companion was updated to 1.8.0 Calisthenics Memory was updated to 1.15.0 CalSync - Notification Calendar Sync was updated to 0.1.7-foss Capy Reader was updated to 2025.12.1183 Carburoid was updated to 1.3.2 Cardabase was updated to 1.7.0 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 26.5 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.41.1 CClauncher was updated to v10.0.3 Cfait was updated to 400 Chaldea was updated to 2.5.25 Chess was updated to 9.10.7 CleverKeys was updated to 1.1.79 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2025.12.28-2-FDroid Commons was updated to 6.2.1 Contacts was updated to 1.4 Daily You was updated to 2.15.0 DayExam was updated to 1.1.2 DobbyVPN was updated to 1.0.25 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.18.1 DSub2000 was updated to 5.7.0 DuressKeyboard was updated to 4.4 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.340.202512250 EnforceDoze was updated to 1.8.1 Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.2.31 Etar - OpenSource Calendar was updated to 1.0.52 EVMap - EV chargers was updated to 2.1.0 Exclave was updated to 0.17.8 FairEmail was updated to 1.2308 File Navigator was updated to 0.3.2 Find Family was updated to v1.12 Flang was updated to 1.19 FlickBoard was updated to 0.3.1 Flicky was updated to 3.8.2 Fluffy was updated to 3.6.2 folder launcher was updated to 0.3.6 Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to 3.4.1 Fossify Keyboard Beta was updated to 1.8.0 FossWallet was updated to 0.35.3 Geo Share was updated to 5.12.0 Glosdalen was updated to 2.5.0 Gridle was updated to 1.20 Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 3.7.0 Gurgle was updated to 1.32 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.42 Hammer was updated to 1.13.1 Home Medkit was updated to 1.9.0 HypoStats was updated to 0.5.7 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan70lindaiyu Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to build106.4.3 Inventory was updated to 1.0.10 Jami was updated to 20251215-02 Jass board was updated to 4.2.0 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.19.6 JMP SIM Manager was updated to jmp-v1.5.1 Joplin was updated to 3.5.6 Json List was updated to 1.9 Kai was updated to 1.3.1 Keep Screen On was updated to 1.28.0 KeePassDX Passkey Vault was updated to 4.3.0 Kvaesitso was updated to 1.39.2-fdroid Librera Reader was updated to 9.2.21-fdroid LinkHub was updated to 1.6.7 Look4Sat: Satellite tracker was updated to 3.2.3 Mages was updated to 1.1.3 MakeACopy was updated to 2.4.0 Mastodon was updated to 2.11.9 Medical Calendarlog was updated to 1.3.5 Minis companion was updated to 1.5.1 monocles chat was updated to 2.0.18 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.63 mpv-android was updated to 2025-12-27-release Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen was updated to 1.11.3 build 2 MusicSearch was updated to 1.84.1 Musify was updated to 9.7.4 My Location was updated to v1.08-foss My Quran - قرآني was updated to 1.3.0 NATINFo+ was updated to 1.1.0 Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.15 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.6.0c Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20260101 Nextcloud News was updated to 0.9.9.92 Nextcloud Passwords was updated to 1.0.12 NotePad was updated to 1.5.1 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.3.12 NotiFilter was updated to 2.1.0 NouTube was updated to 0.4.8 ntfy - PUT/POST to your phone was updated to 1.19.4 Oinkoin was updated to 1.1.6 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.5.10 OpenPhotoFrame was updated to 1.4.1 OpenTune was updated to 2.0.10 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.96.0 OSS-Dict was updated to 1.1.3 OwnTracks was updated to 2.5.5 oxproxion was updated to 2.1.28 P2Play - Peertube client was updated to 0.10.0 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 3.3.0 PaperLaunch: Side launcher was updated to 2.1.1 Parcel - Pickup code was updated to 1.0.42 PDF was updated to 1.1 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.44 Peristyle was updated to v9.5.0 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.11.3 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.70 Pineapple Lock Screen (OSS) was updated to 2.1.3-oss Play Maker was updated to 1.15.1 PocketCheck was updated to 1.4.2 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 10.2.4 QRAlarm was updated to 2.7.6 Quitter was updated to 1.1.2 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.18 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.14 Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to 2.8.2 Saber was updated to 1.29.3 Safe Space was updated to 2.3.4 SDK Monitor was updated to 2.0.2 Seafile was updated to 3.0.21 searxist was updated to 2025.12.25 Shopping List was updated to 1.2.4 Shopt was updated to 2.1.0 Simple Keyboard was updated to 6.1 Simple Time Tracker was updated to 1.54 SimpMusic was updated to 1.0.1-hf sing-box was updated to 1.12.14 SiYuan was updated to 3.5.2 Smart Dock was updated to 1.14.2 SmsLoc was updated to 1.4.0 Solar was updated to 1.0.5 solXpect was updated to 2.9 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 5.1 Squeezelite was updated to 0.7.1 Stendhal Game was updated to 1.49 Stream Player was updated to 1.2.4 Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) was updated to 1.6.0 Suntimes was updated to 0.16.12 SuperX was updated to 0.7.1 SwatchIt was updated to 0.5.2 T CrB Detector was updated to 3.0 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.8.4 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.21 The Light was updated to 3.98 TheXTech was updated to 1.3.7.2 tmtLauncher was updated to 1.1.0 To Do was updated to 1.4.3 Torrents Digger was updated to 1.1.6 TourCount was updated to 3.6.9 traced it was updated to 1.6.0 Trailence was updated to 1.3.1 Tremotesf was updated to 2.13.0 Trudido was updated to 1.2.4 TTRSS-Reader was updated to 1.98.1 Unciv was updated to 4.19.4-patch1 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.46.4 URnetwork was updated to 2025.12.30 Warpinator for Android (unofficial) was updated to 1.9 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.25.5 WHPH - 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Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donations from our incredible community, F-Droid has replaced one of its most critical pieces of infrastructure, our core server hardware. It was overdue for a refresh, and now we are happy to give you an update on the new server and how it impacts the project. This upgrade touches a core part of the infrastructure that builds and publishes apps for the main F-Droid repository. If the server is slow, everything downstream gets slower too. If it is healthy, the entire ecosystem benefits. Why did we wait? This server replacement took a bit longer than we would have liked. The biggest reason is that sourcing reliable parts right now is genuinely hard. Ongoing global trade tensions have made supply chains unpredictable, and that hit the specific components we needed. We had to wait for quotes, review, replan, and wait again when quotes turned out to have unexpected long waits, before we finally managed to receive hardware that met our requirements. Even with the delays, the priority never changed. We were looking for the right server set up for F-Droid, built to last for the long haul. A note about the host Another important part of this story is where the server lives and how it is managed. F-Droid is not hosted in just any data center where commodity hardware is managed by some unknown staff. We worked out a special arrangement so that this server is physically held by a long time contributor with a proven track record of securely hosting services. We can control it remotely, we know exactly where it is, and we know who has access. That level of transparency and trust is not common in infrastructure, but it is central to how we think about resilience and stewardship. This was not the easiest path, and it required careful coordination and negotiation. But we are glad we did it this way. It fits our values and our threat model, and it keeps the project grounded in real people rather than anonymous systems. Old hardware, new momentum The previous server was 12 year old hardware and had been running for about five years. In infrastructure terms, that is a lifetime. It served F-Droid well, but it was reaching the point where speed and maintenance overhead were becoming a daily burden. The new system is already showing a huge improvement. Stats of the running cycles from the last two months suggest it can handle the full build and publish actions much faster than before. E.g. this year, between January and September, we published updates once every 3 or 4 days, that got down to once every 2 days in October, to every day in November and it’s reaching twice a day in December. (You can see this in the frequency of index publishing after October 18, 2025 in our f-droid.org transparency log). That extra capacity gives us more breathing room and helps shorten the gap between when apps are updated and when those updates reach users. We can now build all the auto-updated apps in the (UTC) morning in one cycle, and all the newly included apps, fixed apps and manually updated apps, through the day, in the evening cycle. We are being careful here, because real world infrastructure always comes with surprises. But the performance gains are real, and they are exciting. What donations make possible This upgrade exists because of community support, pooled over time, turned into real infrastructure, benefiting everyone who relies on F-Droid. A faster server does not just make our lives easier. It helps developers get timely builds. It reduces maintenance risk. It strengthens the health of the entire repository. So thank you. Every donation, whether large or small, is part of how this project stays reliable, independent, and aligned with free software values.

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 26 Dec 2025, Week 52 Community News AFWall+ was updated to 4.0.1. We missed a minor fixes version last year, hence this update comes after a two year pause in development. This classic app has now Material Design, new rules management, logging, more security, latest Android support, arm64 support and more. The AFWall+ proposition is harder and harder to use, as devices are hard to unlock and gain root control. If you don’t have root access, and most of you don’t, try our other VPN-based, no-root firewalls. FadCam was updated to 3.0.1, now with annotations, remote control during live streaming, fragmented MP4, custom watermarks, performance improvements (45-50% less CPU, 28-33% better battery, 30% less memory), a cleaner interface, better settings, improved audio, video corruption fixes, fixed memory leaks, better stability and more. While reading device reviews we usually look at performance scores to find out if we want to upgrade our old devices. The test apps are (mostly?) proprietary, which make them either unwanted on our devices or harder to get. We’ve just included Finalbenchmark 2 - CPU Test, Comprehensive open source CPU benchmark and performance test, so hopefully we have an easier way to test. What’s next? Ask reviewers to start using it too, easy, right? kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 2.0.0 adding compatibility with Tandoor v2, overhauled design using Material 3 Expressive, a new Social Media Import function to import Instagram and TikTok posts and much more. LaundryNotes was updated to 2.0 but now it has a new key, as sometimes these things happens. Did you install it in the past? Make sure you backup, uninstall and reinstall the new one. Li-Ri was updated to 3.1.6 adding experimental TV and controller support. Use the holidays to test? NWS Weather Alerts Widget was updated to 2.2.3 and brings an app almost entirely rewritten in Kotlin, targeting modern Android, Modern Design, updates for the widget, new way to connect to the NWS services and more Shots Studio was updated to 1.9.52 as we had to skip several versions until reproducible builds were fixed. A lot has changed in the last 4 months: Material Design was added, better on-boarding, fonts, more models support, Settings UI was revamped, more languages, smoother animations and zoom, easier collections creation and plenty of fixes and polish. Stocks Widget was updated to 4.0.035 and it’s back with a FLOSS version. Newly Added Apps 11 more apps were newly added Caff: Quick settings tile providing caffeine mode functionality (keep display on) Cfait: Powerful, fast and elegant CalDAV task / TODO manager CleverKeys: Open-source gesture keyboard with Termux support Medical Calendarlog: Privacy-focused medical event tracking using your device’s calendar system My Price Log: Track and compare prices at local shops, offline NotiFilter: Silence annoying notifications OpenPhotoFrame: Turn your old Android tablet into a beautiful digital photo frame PocketCheck: A working memory app - “Anything to put in your pocket?” Rebooter: Reboot device on schedule or variety of conditions Trudido: Privacy-friendly, open-source to-do list app. No ads, no tracking. Word Maker: A fun word puzzle game, completely private and offline Updated Apps 173 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 39C3 Schedule was updated to 1.73.3 addy.io was updated to v5.8.0 AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated to 2.7.1 Amber was updated to 4.0.6 AntennaPod was updated to 3.10.3 AudioAnchor was updated to 2.4.0 Authnkey was updated to 1.0.3 Aves Libre was updated to 1.13.12 baresip was updated to 73.0.3 baresip+ was updated to 61.0.2 Better Stundenplan was updated to 1.3.1 Bibledit was updated to 5.1.027 BlockDrop was updated to 1.0.13 Bold Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 2.1.2 Breakout 71 was updated to 29441323 Calculator was updated to Slimy green Calibre-Web-Companion was updated to 1.7.3 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.12.1182 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 25.1 Cheogram was updated to 2.19.0-4+free Chess was updated to 9.10.6 Chronal was updated to 1.0.0 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2025.12.19-11-FDroid Commons was updated to 6.2.0 Contacts was updated to 1.2 CrossWords was updated to 4.4.207 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to 2.10.2 CuteMusic was updated to 3.1.4 DayExam was updated to 1.1.1 Deku SMS was updated to 0.69.0 Dhaaga (Lite) was updated to v0.19.1 Dispensa was updated to 0.0.8-fdroid Disroot app was updated to 2.1.2 DobbyVPN was updated to 1.0.22 Droid Pad was updated to 3.5.2 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.18.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.260.3 DuressKeyboard was updated to 4.1 E6B Flight Computer was updated to 2.0 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.3.0-alpha Enthusiast Tea Timer was updated to 1.6.2 Exclave was updated to 0.17.6 FaFa Runner was updated to 2.6.1 FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 1.9.0 FastTrack was updated to 4.2.0 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 146.0.1 FitBook was updated to 2.0.35 Flare was updated to 1.1.5 Flexify was updated to 2.1.48 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.8.3 Forkgram was updated to 12.2.7.0 Fossify Clock Beta was updated to 1.5.0 Fossify Keyboard Beta was updated to 1.7.0 FossWallet was updated to 0.35.1 Fulguris Web Browser was updated to 2.0.2 Geo Share was updated to 5.11.0 Github Store was updated to 1.4.2 Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 3.6.9 Hammer was updated to 1.11.1 HappyTaxes was updated to 1.0.9 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.1 Human Benchmark was updated to 1.1.1 Imagepipe was updated to 0.75 Immich was updated to 2.4.1 Jamu was updated to 0.1.2 Janus was updated to 0.1.4 Joplin was updated to 3.5.4 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.15.00.ose Kai was updated to 1.3.0 Knock on Ports was updated to 2.0.11 Kvaesitso was updated to 1.39.0-fdroid Linphone - open source SIP client was updated to 6.0.21 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.2-rc.4 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.8.0 Logseq was updated to 0.10.15 Loud Bang was updated to 0.53 Mages was updated to 1.0.2 MakeACopy was updated to 2.3.1 Mastodon was updated to 2.11.8 Materialious was updated to 1.12.8 MediLog (Non-reproducible build) was updated to 3.5.1 MediLog (Reproducible build) was updated to 3.5.1 MedTimer was updated to 1.21.5 mensen was updated to 1.5.1 Messages was updated to 1.0.4 Mill was updated to 7.1.1 Mindustry was updated to 8-fdroid-154.3 MMRL was updated to v34265-release MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.61 MOROway App was updated to 10.3.10 Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen was updated to 1.11.2 build 8 MusicSearch was updated to 1.84.0 Musify was updated to 9.7.2 My Quran - قرآني was updated to 1.2.5 Network Survey was updated to 1.47 Nextcloud was updated to 3.35.0 RC3 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251223 Nora was updated to 0.4.13 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.6.0 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.3.11 NouTube was updated to 0.4.7 Nov Open Reader was updated to 1.3.1 NymVPN: Private Mixnet was updated to v2.6.0 Offi was updated to 13.0.22 Oinkoin was updated to 1.1.5 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.24.2irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.24.2 Orgro was updated to 1.68.2 Otic was updated to 1.0.1 OuterTune was updated to 0.10.1 oxproxion was updated to 2.1.25 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.50.4 Padland was updated to 3.4 PAIesque was updated to 34 Pausing Healthily (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.4.4 PeerTube was updated to 2.0.1 Phocid was updated to 20251206 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.23.9 Pinyin Web & EPUB and topolects was updated to 2.12.62 PipePipe was updated to 4.7.7 PiPixiv was updated to 1.4.0 Pixel Wheels was updated to 1.0.1 PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated to 2.1.22 Play Maker was updated to 1.15.0 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 9.9.0 Privacy Cell was updated to 1.12 Privacy Flip was updated to 2.0.9 Qalculate! was updated to 0.2.1 Quillpad was updated to 1.5.8 Quitter was updated to 1.0.102 Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.19.3 Repertoire was updated to 4.5.0 Resticopia was updated to 0.8.1 Rsync Server was updated to 0.9.10 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.5.7-rc0 Sensors2OSC was updated to 0.15.1 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.30.2 ShowCase was updated to 4.4.2 SimpleTextEditor was updated to 1.29.0 SiYuan was updated to 3.5.1 SmartScan was updated to 1.1.8 SnapSaver was updated to 0.9.1 Street­Complete was updated to 62.1 Super Productivity was updated to 16.7.3 TaskerHA was updated to 1.1.0 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.20 The Battle for Wesnoth was updated to 1.19.19 Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 16.0b3 Todo was updated to 1.5.9 ToFShare was updated to 1.0.9 Tomato was updated to 1.8.0 Torrents Digger - Dig Torrents From Internet was updated to 1.1.4 Tower Collector was updated to 2.17.1 TrackerControl was updated to 2025.12.18-fdroid Transport You was updated to 3.1 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.263 Tuta Calendar was updated to 317.251217.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 317.251217.0 UnderEat was updated to 1.0.25 URLCheck was updated to 3.4.1 Voice Audiobook Player was updated to 25.12.1 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.42.0 WAFRN was updated to 1.9.10 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.25.4 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.9.4 WHPH - Work Hard Play Hard was updated to 0.19.0 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.17.2 Working Time Account was updated to 2.11.008 XDYou was updated to 1.5.6 Xtra was updated to 2.52.2 Yivi was updated to 7.12.1 Zulip was updated to 30.0.269 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, Week 51 Community News Tech Policy Press has a series of posts titled “Symposium on Digital Markets Act (DMA) Enforcement” that you might find interesting, since you read this. The latest one, “Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly”, touches upon the hardship we at F-Droid, and FLOSS devs everywhere, encounter when trying to thrive in a monopoly ruled world. The full series covers more topics like users’ data in the AI age, tech experts and what DMA achieved so far and what’s next, so make sure to read them all. Authnkey, Passkey credential provider for hardware security keys, makes your security keys (Yubi, Solo, Nitro, etc) usable without proprietary components. Billionaire device companies run marketing campaigns for new devices focused on an app that takes a screenshot of the screen? That can’t be true, right? I mean “circle to search” can’t be the technical innovation that sells new devices in 2025. I refuse to accept such a thing, and a FLOSS dev did the same as we’ve just included their CircleToSearch App, with multi search engine support, that allows you to do that magic on your current device, without buying anything. PeerTube was updated to 2.0.0 adding the much sought “creator mode”. QUIK SMS, Open source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android. A revival of QKSMS had its signing key changed and now has a new appid. At the same time, Messages (a fork of QUIK) was updated to 1.0.3. If you’re still running the old app (now archived, see below), test these two and switch to one of them now. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed Canta: Uninstall any(*) app without root (Switch to the newer app, named exactly the same: Canta) QUIK SMS: Open source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android. A revival of QKSMS. (Key change, appid change, see News above) Newly Added Apps 19 more apps were newly added CalSync - Notification Calendar Sync: Sync notification time info to calendar automatically Chess: An open-source chess app DobbyVPN: VPN client-side toolset FindMyBus: View public transport vehicle positions in real time Github Store: App store for GitHub releases - discover and install apps with one click Infomaniak Euria: Euria, your sovereign AI assistant that respects your privacy and the planet Jamu: An app to help learn Japanese Kai: Powerful Conversational AI LCTerm: Crypto point of sale for merchants Mages: Experimental Matrix client using Compose Multiplatform (and Rust) My Quran - قرآني: A lightweight, offline Quran reading app PDF: A simple, open-source PDF viewing app searxist: Search with SearXNG natively SicMu Neo: Simple, full-featured, file-based music player Sossoldi: Sossoldi is a wealth management and tracking app Streak: Lightweight & Minimal daily streak tracker, built in C TaskerHA: A Tasker plugin to fully integrate Home Assistant into your workflow TaskMate - Minimal Productive Task Manager: A simple, clean, distraction-free task manager for daily focus Unblock Jam: Classic game “Rush Hour” - private & open source Updated Apps 160 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 39C3 Schedule was updated to 1.73.2 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.8f Ad-silence was updated to v0.7.1-prod AF Weather Widget was updated to 3.0 Alovoa was updated to 2.3.1 Amber was updated to 4.0.5 AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.23.1 ArcaneChat was updated to 2.34.0 Athena: Firewall & Adblocker was updated to 1.5 Bangle.js Gadgetbridge was updated to 0.88.0-banglejs baresip was updated to 73.0.2 baresip+ was updated to 61.0.1 BatteryTemperatureDisplay was updated to 1.3 BetterCounter was updated to 6.0.0 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.7 Blorp was updated to 1.10.1 Bluemoon was updated to 1.2.0 Briar was updated to 1.5.15 Calisthenics Memory was updated to 1.14.1 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 25.0 Chess was updated to 9.10.4 Chitralaya CloudGallery App was updated to 0.5 ciphernotes was updated to 3.3 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2025.12.11-2-FDroid Cuscon was updated to 4.0.7.8 Daily You was updated to 2.14.4 Dart Checker was updated to 0.8.4 De1984 was updated to 2.6.2 Delta Chat was updated to 2.34.0 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.4.4 Doors of Doom was updated to 0.0.9 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.259.2 DuressKeyboard was updated to 3.8 E6B Flight Computer was updated to 1.8 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.2.7-alpha Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.12.0 Encointer Wallet was updated to 1.18.7 Escapepod - Podcast Player was updated to 1.6.3 FairEmail was updated to 1.2307 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 1.8.0 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 146.0.0 Flexify was updated to 2.1.47 Fluffy was updated to 3.5.1 Force Stop Helper was updated to 0.10.1 FOSS Browser was updated to 22.2 FOSS Warn was updated to 1.0.1 (now with split ABI for smaller per arch packages) Fossify Calculator Beta was updated to 1.3.0 Fossify Calendar was updated to 1.9.0 Fossify Contacts was updated to 1.5.0 Fossify File Manager was updated to 1.5.0 Fossify Gallery was updated to 1.10.0 Fossify Launcher Beta was updated to 1.7.0 Fossify Messages was updated to 1.7.0 Fossify Music Player was updated to 1.7.0 Fossify Paint Beta was updated to 1.3.0 Fossify Phone was updated to 1.10.0 Fossify Voice Recorder Beta was updated to 1.6.0 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.40.1 Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64.2b4 GreenStash: Track Your Savings was updated to 4.2.1 Headwind MDM Agent was updated to 6.29 HypoStats was updated to 0.5.5 ICSx⁵ was updated to 2.4.3 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.11.4 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.22.2 Inventory was updated to 1.0.9 Janus was updated to 0.1.3 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.19.5 Joplin was updated to 3.5.3 Just (Video) Player was updated to 0.201 Kakugo was updated to 1.39.5 Kazumi was updated to 1.9.3 Keep it up was updated to 1.9.2 Keyboard Switcher was updated to 4.0 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 2.0.0-beta.14 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.4.12 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.2-rc.3 Loud Bang was updated to 0.52 Materialious was updated to 1.12.5 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.35.0 MedTimer was updated to 1.21.3 Mill was updated to 7.0.1 Mondstern Acrylic Icons was updated to 20.0 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.60 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.27.0a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.27.0a Musify was updated to 9.7.1 My Expenses was updated to 4.0.5.3 Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to 4.7.1 Neo Store was updated to 1.2.0-rc08 NeoStumbler was updated to 2.2.1 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.6.0b Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251217 Nora was updated to 0.4.12 NouTube was updated to 0.4.6 NWS Weather Alerts Widget was updated to 2.1 Offi was updated to 13.0.20 OnionShare was updated to 0.2.3-beta Open Sudoku was updated to 4.5.9 OpenDocument Reader - view ODT was updated to 4.2 OpenStop was updated to 0.8.5 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.24.1irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.24.1 Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPS was updated to 2025.12.16-16-FDroid oxproxion was updated to 2.1.22 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.50.2 PAIesque was updated to 32 PassVault was updated to 1.2.1 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.43 Peristyle was updated to v9.4.1 PipePipe was updated to 4.7.6 PiPixiv was updated to 1.3.3 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 9.8.8 Poker Payout was updated to 1.1.12 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.30 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.01-86-fdroid Primitive FTPd was updated to 7.5 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.36.3 Qalculate! was updated to 0.2.0 QRAlarm was updated to 2.7.5 Quitter was updated to 1.0.101 RailTrip was updated to 1.6.3 Repertoire was updated to 4.2.0 Resticopia was updated to 0.7.9 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.13 RomanDigital was updated to 2.2.2 Running Services Monitor was updated to 1.0.14 Saber was updated to 1.29.1 Shader Editor was updated to 2.36.1 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 3.3.1 ShowCase was updated to 4.4.1 Simple Keyboard was updated to 6.0 Simple Time Tracker was updated to 1.52 sing-box was updated to 1.12.13 SiYuan was updated to 3.5.0 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 5.0 Super Productivity was updated to 16.6.1 SwatchIt was updated to 0.4.0 Table Habit was updated to 1.22.6 Tailscale was updated to 1.92.3-ta17f36b9b-gcd08e8fed Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.18 The Light was updated to 3.97 Thumb-Key was updated to 5.0.12 Torrents Digger - Dig Torrents From Internet was updated to 1.1.3 Traffic Light was updated to 2.7 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.21.5 Unciv was updated to 4.19.1 UnderEat was updated to 1.0.23 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.46.3 URnetwork was updated to 2025.12.13 Vespucci was updated to 21.2.1.0 WAFRN was updated to 1.9.8 Wave Lines Live Wallpaper was updated to 1.13.6 WebLibre: Private Browser was updated to 0.9.29 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.46 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.9.3 Wiki Fronted was updated to r/50563-r-2025-12-11 Wikipedia was updated to r/50563-r-2025-12-11 Xed-Editor was updated to 3.2.5 聚在工大 was updated to 4.19.1.1 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50 F-Droid core We had great reach with our “F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree” post and its sequel, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading”, to raise awareness about the future of Android. But we hope we broke out of our tech-savvy bubble, so everyone hears about what the proposed changes entail, and how F-Droid’s goal, of freedom for all users, is truly the way forward. But if you didn’t read those yet, or you want an audio/video to go along, our own board member and writer, Marc Prud’hommeaux, recently had an 1 hour interview that covers it. While the interview is one month old by now, and Google announced some initial modifications to how this will presumably work, we still believe these are not enough and device owners need full control and freedom. The keepandroidopen.org site has all the info, a call to action and resources so you can make your voice heard. Community News Which apps make your top trio? In this 5 minutes post, in French, we get a glimpse of one Luxembourg sysadmins preferences. 39C3: Power Cycles, the 39th Chaos Communication Congress will take place between 27-30 December in CCH Hamburg. The 39C3 Schedule app was updated to 1.73.0 so make sure to have it ready. ArcaneChat was updated to 2.33.0 to add some fixes and polish. But hidden there in plain site, there’s a boring change “New experimental feature: several addresses per profile” which sounds rather bland, what are profiles anyway? Well… this new option allows one to change the relay (read it as server) used to send and receive messages. This is a nice feature and you might need to read the guide to get the gist on how to switch them. Delta Chat will get updated soon too. FOSS Warn was updated to 1.0.1 and some issues were fixed for UnifiedPush integration, hence Conversations and forks like Cheogram or monocles chat can be used as distributors again. MediLog was updated to 3.5.0 and we also added MediLog (Reproducible build) signed by the developer. Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 16.0b2 and the devs posted their monthly report with the bonus 40+ mins video. Shock news: Material/You is not good enough and will be dropped! Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added LinxShare: Share images on your device with others through your self-hosted linx server LiveGalGame: An amazing app that lets you chat with girls like a GalGame Lux Alarm: Wake up with light! This alarm can only be turned off when your room is bright Messages: A fast messaging app designed to make conversations simple and effortless (A fork of QUIK SMS; description and app info will get fixed in the next version) PlayHex: Play Hex board game online Poker Payout: Professional poker tournament management with payouts and timers Running Services Monitor: Monitor running services on your Android device with Shizuku integration Tensy: Select numbers that sum to ten Downgraded Apps 1 apps were downgraded Clock was downgraded from 2.27 to 2.26 as we picked up an unstable version. Updated Apps 154 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Ad-silence was updated to v0.7.0-prod Amber was updated to 4.0.3 AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.23.0 ANOTHERpass was updated to 2.2.5 Anx Reader was updated to 1.10.1 Audile was updated to 1.13.1 baresip was updated to 73.0.1 baresip+ was updated to 61.0.0 BetterCounter was updated to 5.2.0 Bim! was updated to 13 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.6 Blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble2.4.0 Caffeinate was updated to 2.2.0 Calisthenics Memory was updated to 1.11.0 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.4.1 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 24.8 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.40.0 CClauncher was updated to v9.10.9 Chess was updated to 9.10.1 Contacts was updated to 1.1 Conversations was updated to 2.19.7+free Daily You was updated to 2.14.3 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.5.7.1-ose DayExam was updated to 1.1.0 De1984 was updated to 2.6.0 Deku SMS was updated to 0.68.0 Dnd Toggle was updated to 1.9 DuressKeyboard was updated to 3.5 EasySync was updated to 1.22 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.2.4-alpha Emotic was updated to 0.1.11 Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.2.28 Exclave was updated to 0.17.4 FaFa Runner was updated to 2.6.0 File Navigator was updated to 0.3.1-fdroid FitBook was updated to 2.0.34 Flare was updated to 1.1.3 Flexify was updated to 2.1.44 Flip 2 DND was updated to 9.0.0 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.8.2 Fluffy was updated to 3.4.1 Forecastie was updated to 1.23 Forkgram was updated to 12.2.6.0 FossWallet was updated to 0.33.0 Fread was updated to 1.7.30 Geo Share was updated to 5.10.0 Giggity was updated to 2.1.5 GitNote was updated to 25.12 GPSLogger was updated to 135 Gridle was updated to 1.19 Grit was updated to 5.5.2 HappyTaxes was updated to 1.0.6 Harmony Music was updated to 1.12.2 Helio was updated to 3.17 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 4.0.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.11.3 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.22.0 Kahon was updated to 0.19.5 Kakugo was updated to 1.39.3 Kazumi was updated to 1.9.2 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 2.0.0-beta.13 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.17 Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud was updated to 2.10.5 Library App VideLibri was updated to 2.953 Librera Reader was updated to 9.1.35-fdroid Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.2-rc.2 Materialious was updated to 1.12.3 MedTimer was updated to 1.21.0 Mental Math was updated to 18 Minis companion was updated to 1.5.0 MMRL was updated to v34242-release MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.59 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2025.11 MusicSearch was updated to 1.83.0 My Expenses was updated to 4.0.5 NATINFo+ was updated to 1.0.0 Nextcloud was updated to 3.35.0 RC2 Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to 0.26.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251210 NouTube was updated to 0.4.5 ntfy - PUT/POST to your phone was updated to 1.18.0 Nunti was updated to v2.8.1 Obtainium was updated to 1.2.9 OctoDroid was updated to 4.6.15 OMGSoundboard was updated to 21.0 OpenAssistant was updated to 1.2 OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to 1.25 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.24.0irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.24.0 OsmAnd~ was updated to 5.2.13 oxproxion was updated to 2.1.15 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 3.2.4 PAIesque was updated to 28 Parcel - Pickup code was updated to 1.0.40 PassVault was updated to 1.1.0 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.42 Peristyle was updated to v9.4.0 Photok was updated to 2.3.1 PicGuard was updated to 5.1.0 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 9.8.0 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.29 Privacy Flip was updated to 2.0.8 QRshare was updated to 1.0.22 Quicksy was updated to 2.19.7+free Quitter was updated to 1.0.100 Resticopia was updated to 0.7.8 RomanDigital was updated to 2.2.1 Roto was updated to 1.0.7 Ruam Mij was updated to 1.2.1 Sapio was updated to 1.10.0 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.5.6-rc0 Sensa Gram was updated to 1.5.2 Sensor Server was updated to 7.0.0 Sensor Spot was updated to 1.9.0 Sensors2OSC was updated to 0.15.0 ServerBox was updated to 1.0.1276 Shader Editor was updated to 2.35.3 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 3.3.0 SherpaTTS was updated to 2.9 Simple Keyboard was updated to 6.0-beta3 SimpleXray was updated to 1.10.9 Sound Toggle was updated to 1.2.0 Squeezer was updated to 2.4.0 Standard Notes was updated to 3.201.4 Stepsy: Step Counter was updated to 1.5.8 Super Productivity was updated to 16.5.5 SwatchIt was updated to 0.3.0 Table Habit was updated to 1.22.2 Tailscale was updated to 1.92.1-tfb55d3905-g925ac2f42 Taison was updated to 1.2.0 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.16 Threema Libre was updated to 6.3.0l TLSFragment was updated to 4.1.0 Tomato was updated to 1.7.1 Torrent Search was updated to 0.4.4 Tournant was updated to 2.10.4 Traditional T9 was updated to 58.0 Traffic Light was updated to 2.6 Tuta Calendar was updated to 315.251204.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 315.251204.0 Twili Recipes was updated to 0.2.7 Unciv was updated to 4.18.19 Unitto — calculator and unit converter was updated to Titanium yellow Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.46.2 URnetwork was updated to 2025.12.4 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.42 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.9.2 whoBIRD was updated to 5.0 Wiki Fronted was updated to r/50562-r-2025-12-08 Wikipedia was updated to r/50562-r-2025-12-08 Xray was updated to 12.0.0 Xtra was updated to 2.52.0 YacGuide Dev was updated to 20251204 聚在工大 was updated to 4.19.0.1 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 05 Dec 2025, Week 49 F-Droid core Since F-Droid is an Android “package manager”, we advise users to “use the F-Droid client to get timely updates and info on new apps” as, foremost, we want to provide the best experience on the device itself. The website is for convenience only and as the obvious entry point to install the mentioned client. As such, our focus was much more on having a good feature-full client after the user used the website. We’ve developed our website at a slower pace than our other projects, first of all because it was already working relatively fine, limiting our improvements only to stream line it (remember the sidebar issues?) or applying fixes, but also because we didn’t have contributors specialized in Ruby and Jekyll to know all their gotchas. In the last year several F-Droid fans stepped up and helped close some of our older pain points. Recently @ray2c fixed our 404 error pages not respecting selected locale and fixed Fediverse post previews mixups. Reproducible builds got a bit of love back in May but users wanted for a long time to see at a glance if the packages are signed by the upstream developer or by F-Droid, and now they can. The website generation uses the older index-v1 repository format and has the advantage of extra processing power and time to create the pages, while the client switched to the newer index-v2 format for the last 3 years and needs to run on device as fast and as slim as possible. There’s work in progress to update the website to the newer format and also bring this information to the client in your hands. Community News On November 15, Dr. Lucas Lasota of FSFE, presented a talk about the impact of the EU Digital Market Act on Free Software. So get a cold/hot beverage, set aside 40+ mins and click here. Dib2Qm was updated to 0.24.30 but the app is depreciated and the developer advises users to jump to other maintained solutions like DeltaChat or Simplex. Jami was updated to 20251126-01 and the developers wrote a post about what free software means, how it started and how it is necessary today and in the future. Spend 5 minutes reading here. NWS Weather Alerts Widget was updated to 1.2.1-fdroid1 to add a warning about the depreciated API. The developer is working on a fix. In the mean time, feel free to peruse our Weather category. Session F-Droid was updated to 1.30.1. The team has announced that they are already working on the future Session Protocol V2. What is that? It’s the next version of the underlying communication protocol of the app that promises to fix some of the missing bits the community asked for: Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS), Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Linked Devices and more. See the 15 minutes post here. Stocks Widget was updated to 4.0.028 as the last FLOSS version. Updates are disabled as we are no longer able to build the app. Unitto — calculator and unit converter is back after almost two years, updated to version Titanium yellow. What did we miss besides bug fixes? AMOLED, Expressive design, updated widgets, and a lot more. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed Clean Status Bar: Tidy up your status bar before taking screenshots (This project no longer works on recent versions of Android. Use Android’s build-in Demo mode instead) Sumire Japanese Keyboard: A privacy-first offline Japanese keyboard for simple, fast typing (We have a lot of keyboard apps, see our older post or just browse the category) Newly Added Apps 10 apps were newly added Assistral: WebView wrapper for Mistral Le Chat with URL blocking and privacy features BlockDrop: Free and open source block-stacking puzzle game. Arrange falling shapes to clear DayExam: Exam question bank management and learning tool DuressKeyboard: Keyboard that reacts to triggers and performs security actions Harp: Private Health Record Application Is it Prime: Prime number check Otic: Minimal app to stream microphone input to the local network Parcel - Pickup code: Extract the address and pickup code from SMS automatically Roto: Offline rota and shift viewer with today/tomorrow focus, widget, zero tracking SoftPlus Options: Offline-first, privacy-focused options payoff and volatility surface simulator Updated Apps 212 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AAAAXY was updated to 1.6.321+20251126.3939.5cbbed8a AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated to 2.7.0 Aisleron Shopping List was updated to 2025.10.0 Al-Quran - Simple was updated to 1.0.1 AliasVault was updated to 0.25.1 Alligator Bytes was updated to 0.30 Alovoa was updated to 2.3.0 Amarok was updated to 0.10.0 Amaze was updated to 3.11.1 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.902 AnLinux was updated to 6.69 Stable Another notes app was updated to 1.6.2 AntennaPod was updated to 3.10.2 Audile was updated to 1.13.0 baresip was updated to 72.0.0 baresip+ was updated to 60.0.1 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.5 Blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble2.3.1 Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to 2.4.6 BOINC was updated to 8.2.8 Breakout 71 was updated to 29405279 Calisthenics Memory was updated to 1.9.0 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.12.1180 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 24.6 Chitralaya CloudGallery App was updated to 0.4 Clipeus was updated to 1.1.1 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2025.11.25-4-FDroid Conversations was updated to 2.19.6+free croc was updated to 10.3.1 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.7.6 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.5.6.1-ose De1984 was updated to 2.5.1 Deku SMS was updated to 0.66.0 Derandom was updated to 2.6 Dhaaga (Lite) was updated to 0.17.2 Dhizuku was updated to 2.11.1 Dib2Calc was updated to 0.24.30 Dnd Toggle was updated to 1.8 Doors of Doom was updated to 0.0.8 Droid Pad was updated to 3.5.0 Droid_SCEP was updated to 1.4 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.17.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.258.0 Easter Eggs was updated to 4.3.1 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.2.3-alpha EinkBro was updated to 15.4.0 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.11.3 Encointer Wallet was updated to 1.18.0 EnigmaDroid was updated to 1.6.0 Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.2.23 Exclave was updated to 0.17.2 Exercise Reminders was updated to 1.7.3 FairEmail was updated to 1.2306 FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 1.7.0 FitBook was updated to 2.0.33 Fitness Calendar was updated to 2025.11.2 Flash Deck was updated to 1.7.7 Flexify was updated to 2.1.43 Flicky was updated to 3.7.2 FlorisBoard was updated to 0.5.2 Fluffy was updated to 3.3.5 Flying Carpet was updated to 9.0.8 Force Stop Helper was updated to 0.10.0 Fossify Gallery was updated to 1.9.1 Fossify Launcher Beta was updated to 1.6.0 Gauguin was updated to 0.46.1 Geo Share was updated to 5.9.0 Geotag video camera was updated to 2.2.1 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 5.1.3 GreenStash: Track Your Savings was updated to 4.1.1 Grit was updated to 5.5.0 Gurgle was updated to 1.31 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.39 HeliBoard was updated to 3.6 HexViewer was updated to 1.59.3 Home Assistant was updated to 2025.11.4-minimal HypoStats was updated to 0.5.4 Image Toolbox was updated to 3.4.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.11.2 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.21.4 Janus was updated to 0.0.7 JRBP Survey was updated to 1.9.0 Kakugo was updated to 1.39.1 Kazumi was updated to 1.9.1 KISS Launcher was updated to 3.24.1 Language Dex was updated to 0.29.6 LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader | ODF was updated to 4.1 Librera Reader was updated to 9.1.29-fdroid LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 2.1.5 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.2-rc.1 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.7.13 Lumo was updated to 1.2.11-nogms Magisk was updated to 30.6 Materialious was updated to 1.11.10 MedTimer was updated to 1.20.3 Mental Math was updated to 17 Meshtastic was updated to 2.7.8 (29319501) fdroid MoeMemos was updated to 0.8.7 Money Manager Ex was updated to 5.4.13 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.57 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.26.12a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.26.12a Musekit was updated to 2.6.2 MusicSearch was updated to 1.82.0 Musify was updated to 9.7.0 NATINFo+ was updated to 0.14.0 NeoStumbler was updated to 2.2.0 NerdSteam was updated to 1.0.5 Next Player was updated to 0.14.1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251204 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 22.0.3 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.5.18 Nora was updated to 0.4.11 Nunti was updated to v2.8.0 Offi was updated to 13.0.18 Olauncher was updated to v5.3.4 Open Passkey Authenticator was updated to 1.5.0 openScale was updated to 3.0 Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPS was updated to 2025.11.26-5-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.68.0 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.14.0 OsmAnd~ was updated to 5.2.12 Outline was updated to 1.18.0-rc.1 oxproxion was updated to 2.1.8 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.49.4 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 3.2.2 PAIesque was updated to 24 PassVault was updated to 0.9.1 Password Store was updated to 1.15.4 Passwords was updated to 0.5.2 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.41 Persian Calendar was updated to 10.0.6 Petals was updated to 3.37.3 Phocid was updated to 20251130 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.11.2 Photok was updated to 2.3.0 PhotoSwooper was updated to 2025.11.5 Picard Barcode Scanner was updated to 1.7 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.5.5 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 9.5.1 Polaris was updated to 0.10.3 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.28 Prayer Book was updated to 0.10.3 Presence Publisher was updated to 2.7.0 Privacy Flip was updated to 2.0.5 ProseReader was updated to 1.7.0 Proton Authenticator was updated to 1.3.5 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.36.0 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.14.76.0 Qadaa was updated to 1.6.01 Quicksy was updated to 2.19.6+free Quitter was updated to 1.0.98 Quotes.app was updated to 3.4 Quran Revision Companion was updated to 1.7.3 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.17 Repertoire was updated to 4.1.0 Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to 2.8.0 RSAF was updated to 3.26 rust-keylock-android was updated to 0.17.1 Saracroche was updated to 2.5.0 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.16.0 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.5.5-rc0 Sensor Spot was updated to 1.7.1 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.4.2 ShowCase was updated to 4.3 Silence was updated to 1.13.1 Simple Keyboard was updated to 6.0-beta2 SimpleReminder was updated to 0.9.15 SimpleXray was updated to 1.10.8 SiYuan was updated to 3.4.2 Sleep Timer was updated to 1.3.3 Squawker was updated to 3.8.5 Super Productivity was updated to 16.4.3 SuperX was updated to 0.6.6 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 2.0.12.1 Table Habit was updated to 1.22.1 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.15 The Light was updated to 3.96 The One App was updated to 5.1.3 Thumb-Key was updated to 5.0.11 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.2025.11 TLSFragment was updated to 3.4.1 ToFShare was updated to 1.0.8 Track & Graph was updated to 8.1.2 Traditional T9 was updated to 57.0 Traffic Light was updated to 2.5 Trailence was updated to 1.2.3 Transportr - Public Transit was updated to 2.2.7 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.262 Tuta Calendar was updated to 315.251201.1 Tuta Mail was updated to 315.251202.0 Unchained was updated to 1.5.1 Unciv was updated to 4.18.18-patch1 UnderEat was updated to 1.0.22 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.46.1 URnetwork was updated to 2025.12.1 venera was updated to 1.6.1 Vespucci was updated to 21.2.0.0 Vibe was updated to 1.2.0 VolumeLockr was updated to 1.6.4 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.41.0 WAFRN was updated to 1.9.2 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.40 WhatsApp Web To Go - Mobile Client for WhatsApp We was updated to 1.7.5 Wiki Fronted was updated to r/50561-r-2025-12-03 Wikipedia was updated to r/50561-r-2025-12-03 Windscribe was updated to 3.95 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.17.0 WorkTimer was updated to 1.5-alpha2 Xtra was updated to 2.51.6 天使动漫 was updated to 1.13.0 聚在工大 was updated to 4.19 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, Week 48 F-Droid core In the process of doing all this development work, we ran mass rebuilds of the whole collection of apps, killing two birds with one stone. First, it served to test our new build automation with the existing apps, and second, it showed us which apps are reproducible. For the apps that were not reproducible, we have looked into fixes in our stack, in upstream build tools, and in the apps themselves. We mapped out all the issues we have encountered caused by running builds in VMs versus containers. There are two classes: Builds needing privileged calls that containers normally do not support in production setups (e.g. direct writes to sysctl or /sys/devices/system/cpu/) The methods of presenting CPU and RAM limits are implemented differently between virtualization (e.g. libvirt) and containerization (e.g. Podman), and are not interchangeable. This can lead to build differences and we currently know of no workaround or fix for this. There is no final statistic as apps builds change with each cycle, but currently we see about 68% reproducible builds. NOTE: Our verification server shows if apps packages were reproducible against our published APKs on f-droid.org, when the F-Droid buildserver is used as the build environment. We don’t yet surface information if an app is reproducible against the upstream developer builds, but one can see this in each app’s web page by following the “Build Metadata” link, and search if there’s a field named AllowedAPKSigningKeys present near the end. Community News Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.2.20 and Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.3.9. Following our mention on a Tuta & Ente partnership back in Oct 17 TWIF, here comes another offer between Notesnook and Ente. Access the Notesnook offer and here’s the Ente offer. Oh, talk about photo apps, Immich was updated to 2.3.1, and reading their latest October recap I noticed OCR being mentioned. So here’s a challenge from me, which one do you find better, Immich’s OCR or Ente’s OCR? K-9 Mail and Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox were updated to 14.0 and Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 15.0b1. Thunderbird for Android has been out for just over a year so the team prepared a special retrospective post (and a bonus 1 hour long discussion) with the mobile team to look back at what they were able to accomplish this last year, what they’re still working on, and what’s up ahead. /PS: While I, for one, hate the “new” Account Drawer thing, hearing about JMAP being worked on makes me happy. Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.35.1 and ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.14.65.0, and they are now joined by the new Proton Authenticator, Private, secure, offline 2FA across devices, raising the number of Proton apps to four. Saracroche, Block unwanted spam calls automatically and protect your privacy if you’re France, was just added. Camille Bouvat, the developer, gave an interview (in French) back in September to talk about how the app came into existence and how you can help to make it better. Missed last week, Status: Ethereum Crypto Wallet 2.34.4 will be the last version in this current form as the app will be replaced by a new one soon. The devs wrote a post explaining the reasons why and how to switch when ready. What about the new app? It’s called “the Unified Status Mobile App” and it’s work in progress, sharing an unified code-base with the Desktop client, running on QT version 6. F-Droid will be supported, as we can read in the revealing post but it might take some time until then. NOTE: Pre-built QT libs are no longer available under a FLOSS license hence we’ll need to first built QT6 before building the app. A dauting task no less, but doable as we already build plenty of other apps like this. @linsui checks a signing key: Syncthing-Fork was updated to 2.0.11.3 and Syncthing-Lite was updated to 2.0.0.1, but they are now both under a new development team. There was bit of a mystery about why, how and when the original developer handed over the keys and blessings to the new team, and you can follow some of the discussions in this upstream issue and this long forum thread. Both apps are built reproducible which means that the guarantees mentioned in our inclusion page are helpful in assessing the situation. Newly Added Apps 11 more apps were newly added Al-Quran - Simple: A simple open-source Quran reader BikeBridge: Companion app for e-bikes and components ciphernotes: Client-side encrypted notes that sync across devices Dnd Toggle: Toggle DND from a Quick Settings tile IPerf3Client: iPerf3 is a tool for active measurements of the max bandwidth on IP networks Janus: Contextual translations using Wikipedia’s knowledge graph Mental Math: Practice mental arithmetic solo or compete with friends Quotes - Quotes Status Creator: Quotes Status Creator lets you share quotations as images on social media Repertoire: An app for musicians to track their repertoire and media Sift: A minimalist, open-source recipe keeper WiFi Exporter: Export your WiFi passwords (requires root) Updated Apps 203 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.8e Acode editor - Android code editor was updated to 1.11.7 aFreeRDP was updated to 3.18.0 AliasVault was updated to 0.25.0 Alligator Bytes was updated to 0.29 Anx Reader was updated to 1.10.0 Apollo was updated to 1.6.10 aTalk was updated to 4.6.1 Aves Libre was updated to 1.13.11 baresip was updated to 71.1.2 baresip+ was updated to 59.0.0 BILIBILIAS was updated to 3.1.0 Bimba was updated to 3.11.0 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.3 BLE Radar was updated to 0.32.0-beta Blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble2.3.0 Blitz: Fischer Chess Clock was updated to 2.0.6 Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to 2.4.5 Blorp was updated to 1.10.0 Bold Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 1.5.4 BusTO was updated to 2.4.6 Calisthenics Memory was updated to 1.7.1 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 24.4 CClauncher was updated to v9.10.8 Citrine was updated to 0.9.0 Clipeus was updated to 1.1.1 Clock was updated to 2.26 Colony Control was updated to 1.1 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2025.11.25-4-FDroid Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to 4.5.0 Copy SMS Code - OTP Helper was updated to 1.20.2 Critical Maps was updated to 3.0.0 croc was updated to 10.3.1 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.7.5 Dart Checker was updated to 0.8.3 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.5.6-ose De1984 was updated to 2.4.5 Diatronome was updated to 1.0.11 DoliDroid was updated to 3.0.67 Doors of Doom was updated to 0.0.7 Drawpile was updated to 2.3.0 Droid Pad was updated to 3.4.0 Droid_SCEP was updated to 1.3 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.257.1 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.2.2-alpha eduVPN was updated to 3.5.1 Encointer Wallet was updated to 1.18.0 EP Mobile was updated to 2.38.0 Exclave was updated to 0.16.15 FairEmail was updated to 1.2303 Feeder was updated to 2.16.1 Feeder (Play version) was updated to 2.16.1 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.13.0 Flang was updated to 1.17 Flare was updated to 1.1.2 Flexify was updated to 2.1.37 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.8.1 Flux was updated to 2.2 Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to 3.4.0 Forkgram was updated to 12.2.3.0 FossWallet was updated to 0.32.0 Fread was updated to 1.7.21 Free the bugs was updated to 0.6.4 Gallery was updated to 4.0.2 Geo Share was updated to 5.8.0 Goals Tracker 24/7 - timeto.me was updated to 2025.11.24 Goodtime - Minimalist Pomodoro Timer was updated to 3.0.15 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 5.1.2 Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 3.6.7 HappyTaxes was updated to 1.0.4 Hidroly was updated to 1.3.3 Home Assistant was updated to 2025.11.3-minimal HypoStats was updated to 0.5.2 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.11.1 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.21.2 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to build106.4.2 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.19.4 Kazumi was updated to 1.9.0 KDE Connect was updated to 1.34.4 Language Dex was updated to 0.29.5 LibChecker was updated to 2.5.3 Library App VideLibri was updated to 2.950 Librera Reader was updated to 9.1.7-fdroid Linphone - open source SIP client was updated to 6.0.20 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.4.11 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.2-rc.0 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.7.12 MakeACopy was updated to 2.2.2 Mastodon was updated to 2.11.7 Materialious was updated to 1.11.9 MBCompass was updated to 1.1.12 MediLog was updated to 3.4.1 Meshtastic was updated to 2.7.7 (29319424) fdroid Mondstern Acrylic Icons was updated to 19.0 Money Manager Ex was updated to 5.4.11 monocles chat was updated to 2.0.17 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2025.10 Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen was updated to 1.11.2 build 7 Musify was updated to 9.6.14 Network Survey was updated to 1.46 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.6.0a Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251126 NFC Alarm Clock was updated to 12.6.4 Nora was updated to 0.4.10 Offi was updated to 13.0.17 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.4.3 OONI Probe was updated to 5.3.0 Open Notes was updated to 1.3.3 OpenBible was updated to 2.1.2 openHAB was updated to 3.18.1 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.19.0-beta OpenTune was updated to 2.0.9 Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPS was updated to 2025.11.26-5-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.66.7 osm2gmaps was updated to 0.6.0 OsmAnd~ was updated to 5.2.10 Outline was updated to 1.18.0-rc.1 oxproxion was updated to 2.0.6 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.49.2 PAIesque was updated to 19 PassVault was updated to 0.8.0-beta01 Password Store was updated to 1.15.3 Passwords was updated to 0.5.2 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.40 Periodical was updated to 1.95 Persian Calendar was updated to 10.0.5 Petals was updated to 3.37.3 PhotoSwooper was updated to 2025.11.4 Picard Barcode Scanner was updated to 1.7 Pimi Weather Widget was updated to 1.4.0 Pineapple Lock Screen (OSS) was updated to 2.1.2-oss Pinyin Web & EPUB and topolects was updated to 2.12.61 Pixiv for Muzei 3 was updated to 3.9.1 PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated to 2.1.21 Plus Plus Battery was updated to 2.3.7 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 9.2.0 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.27 Pomodorot was updated to 0.13.2 Prayer Book was updated to 0.10.3 Prayer mode was updated to 1.5 Presence Publisher was updated to 2.7.0 Privacy Flip was updated to 2.0.3 PublicArtExplorer was updated to 1.5.0 Quotes.app was updated to 3.4 Quran Revision Companion was updated to 1.7.3 Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.19.2 Redomi was updated to 1.4.0 Resticopia was updated to 0.7.7 RetroArch was updated to 1.22.2 Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to 2.7.9 RSAF was updated to 3.25 rust-keylock-android was updated to 0.17.1 RustDesk was updated to 1.4.4 Saber was updated to 1.29.0 Satunes was updated to 3.3.3 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.15.0 Seafile was updated to 3.0.20 Sensor Spot was updated to 1.6.4 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.29.3 Share To InputStick was updated to 3.8.0 SharedHaven was updated to 1.6.7 ShikiApp was updated to alpha-0.4.6 Simple Keyboard was updated to 6.0-beta1 SiYuan was updated to 3.4.1 Slideshow Wallpaper was updated to 1.2.5 Squawker was updated to 3.8.4 Squeezer was updated to 2.3.12 Standard Notes was updated to 3.201.3 Stocks Widget was updated to 4.0.028 Stream Player was updated to 1.2.3 StyncyNotes was updated to 1.3 Table Habit was updated to 1.21.1 TacticMaster was updated to 1.0.26 Tailscale was updated to 1.90.8-tedc9d2245-gcf2f8cfec Taison was updated to 1.1.0 Tempus Romanum was updated to 2.6.1 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.10 Text Tools was updated to 2.1.3 The Battle for Wesnoth was updated to 1.19.18 The Light was updated to 3.95 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.2025.11 Tomato was updated to 1.6.6 Torrents Digger - Dig Torrents From Internet was updated to 1.1.2 Track & Graph was updated to 8.1.1 Traffic Light was updated to 2.3 Trail Sense was updated to 7.4.0 Trailence was updated to 1.2.3 Transport You was updated to 3.0 Transportr - Public Transit was updated to 2.2.6 Unchained was updated to 1.4.1 Unciv was updated to 4.18.16 Vibe was updated to 1.2.0 Vidya Music: Aersia VIP Player was updated to 2.2.0 WAFRN was updated to 1.8.4 Waterfly III was updated to 1.1.9 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.36 WhatsApp Web To Go - Mobile Client for WhatsApp We was updated to 1.7.5 Wiki Fronted was updated to r/2.7.50559-r-2025-11-24 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50559-r-2025-11-24 Windscribe was updated to 3.95 XDYou was updated to 1.5.4 Xtra was updated to 2.51.2 Yivi was updated to 7.11.2 Zashi: Zcash Wallet was updated to 2.4.8 zSMTH was updated to 25.11.22 聚在工大 was updated to 4.18.5.3 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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15 years ago this month, @CiaranG started “an experiment in automated building from source”. And so F-Droid began to automate building all our apps from source. Before this, apps were either built manually or the binary files were fetched from trusted developers like Mozilla. Automating the build process was a key early step that set up F-Droid to lead on trustworthy computing. Since then, we moved to requiring apps to be built from source on our servers. Now we build apps from source as much as possible, and have expanded to Anti-Features, app reviews, privacy checks, reproducible builds, and more. Building from source is certainly not the easiest way to distribute software, but it is the best way. Automation is key to making it feasible. Developers already build the binary APK package locally as part of their development process, the easiest would be for them to just upload the APK directly to F-Droid. In order to provide all the benefits of free software, APKs need to be built on our servers. The extra steps required are completed by computers as much as possible, rather than humans. By integrating directly with the git source repo, it is possible to make things quite automatic. Our automation has gradually evolved over the 15 years to build over 5000 apps from source, handling a wide variety of quirks and edge cases. That also means that the code had grown quite unwieldy, since it mostly grew organically as F-Droid expanded. So we have introduced a new structure, starting with rearchitecting the fdroid build command that runs the building part of the publishing cycle. fdroid build manages starting the VM for the build, pulling in source code, running the scripts to build the package, checking the results, and pulling the unsigned package to be added to the publishing queue. The central goal is to make easily reusable modules of functionality. Internally, they are known as “subcommands”, since they are subcommands of the fdroid command (e.g. fdroid fetch_repo, fdroid execute_sudo, etc). Things have been massively refactored to be modular, testable and understandable. This new architecture decouples our build automation from any particular virtualization/containerization platform. We started with a massive pile of tangled, 15 year old code that has faithfully kept building apps from source. And we’ve broken everything down into logical modules that are designed to plug into virtualization/automation infrastructure like Buildbot, GitLab CI, Podman and Vagrant. If you have looked at the old build automation code before 😱 and were scared away, I invite you to take another look. These automation subcommands are designed to plug into build automation. They are meant to run in scripted environments. They are not intended for interactive use. Although they sometimes might be useful interactively, it could also be dangerous to run some interactively because they assume they are run in a disposable environment (e.g. a container). They modify the local environment or even run things as root. For that reason, they are not listed in the help or other places that other human-facing commands are. These new subcommands function in between an external API and an internal API: The external API is a set of subcommands used in a build management system like Buildbot or GitLab CI. The internal API for implementing alternate containerization methods for running the builds. Currently, Vagrant (our legacy setup) and Podman are supported. A key new concept has been introduced: each automation subcommand only operates on a single build, never more than one. That keeps the code simple and makes it easy to integrate into build management systems, which generally have similar assumptions. Each of these new subcommands require exactly one pair of one Application ID and one Version Code, e.g. org.fdroid.fdroid:1023051. This is the globally unique identifier for a specific build, based on the Application ID, which is the globally unique identifier for an Android app. We’re still figuring out exactly how fine-grained these modules should be. One case that seems clear is that each build step can be run in its own subcommand (e.g. fdroid execute_sudo runs what is listed in the sudo: build field). As things solidify, they will be documented as part of our standard documentation. There are lots of notes in the development wiki page for those who want to dive in already. Buildbot also provides us with a proven system for scheduling a variety of jobs in parallel, across many VMs, containers and bare metal machines. After six months of running Buildbot, it has proven to be a solid system for build management. https://verification.f-droid.org runs this automation stack on Podman. We stuck with Vagrant for production because it has been working solidly since 2012. The maintainers of Vagrant are moving away from free software, so we need to be ready to switch to something else. Now both virtual machines and containers are easily supported, and there is a clear API for integrating with other systems. There has been some discussion of debvm and Docker as additional options. Which system would you like to contribute support for? For parallelization of jobs, we’re starting with four on https://verification.f-droid.org and planning on three for the production buildserver host. This is now the foundation for future work. I hope that this can serve as the base architecture for splitting up all of the pieces that run the process behind f-droid.org following this architecture. The next piece is fdroid update, which indexes all of the apps, finds localized app store entries and graphics, checks signatures, enforces automated inclusion rules, and more. We have two prototypes already in process extract_icons and fetch_metadata. The next 15 years of build automation are looking a lot brighter! (This work was supported by NLnet and your donations. To ensure F-Droid can continue this work, please check out the donation page and contribute what you can.)

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Nov 2025, Week 47 Community News MBCompass was updated to 1.1.11 after we missed three versions. What’s new? Many new UI improvements and fixes. @CodeDoctor brings us a point one: Butterfly was updated to 2.4.1 with the biggest set of bug fixes and improvements in a long time. Highlights: 💾 Delayed autosave 🖼️ Thumbnail capture improvements 🔁 Template import and export improvements 📄 Improved PDF handling ✍️ Drawing improvements 🗂️ File view and UI improvements 🖱️ Multi-input and tools improvements 🛠️ Stability and performance for large files Read more here @linsui seeks modernization: ETH & UZH mensa Zürich was updated to 2.0.4 with a modernized rewrite from a new maintainer. And hearing echoes from the past, Voicesmith was updated to 3.0 after eleven years, featuring a new processing engine and audio API. Newly Added Apps 16 apps were newly added Athena: Firewall & Adblocker: Firewall & AdBlocker (Root/VPN Supported). Material3 And Minimalistic Design Calisthenics Memory: Simple bodyweight training tracker - create and customize your own exercises Carburoid: Find Spanish gas stations by price and distance Colony Control: Management and tracking of ant colonies with NFC and QR Dhaaga (Lite): An indie SNS and chat app Glosdalen: Vocabulary lookup with direct Anki card creation HSTempo: With this app, users can tap to music beats and obtain it’s bpm Itinerary Planner: Plan and manage travel itineraries Language Dex: Create custom dictionaries and retain words with puzzles Minimal Currency Converter: Offline, manual input, minimal currency converter MovieFlix: Cinephile’s Movie Diary NerdSteam: Discover trending games, player and price statistics, and detailed from Steam Pantry: Manage your pantry and avoid food waste Pimi Weather Widget: A minimal, Pixel-style widget that shows the date and weather Record Play Reverse: A simple audio toy that lets you record and playback audio forward or reversed Taison: Manga reader fork with a warm theme and navigation tweaks Downgraded Apps 1 app was downgraded Notesnook - Private notes app was downgraded from 3.3.8 to 3.0.32 to fix a crash, a new version will be built soon. Updated Apps 154 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Aiyo was updated to 1.0.8 Alligator Bytes was updated to 0.28 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.901 APatch was updated to 11142 Arcticons was updated to 13.4.6 Arcticons Black was updated to 13.4.6 Arcticons Day & Night was updated to 13.4.6 Arcticons Material You was updated to 13.4.6 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.15.4 aTalk was updated to 4.6.0 Aurora Store was updated to 4.7.5 Aves Libre was updated to 1.13.10 AVNC was updated to 3.1.1 Barcode Scanner was updated to 1.26.0 bilimiao was updated to 2.4.8.1 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.2 Blocker was updated to 2.0.5839 Book’s Story was updated to 1.8.0 Breezy Weather was updated to 6.0.12_freenet Buckwheat: Budget manager was updated to 4.8.0 Burger Party was updated to 1.4.5 Call Limiter was updated to 0.3.4 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.11.1178 Cardabase was updated to 1.6.3 CClauncher was updated to v9.10.3 Chess was updated to 9.9.15 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.7.4 Daily You was updated to 2.14.2 Dart Checker was updated to 0.8.2 De1984 was updated to 2.4.2 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.4.3 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.255.0 EasySSHFS was updated to 0.5.16 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.2.0-alpha Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.11.2 EP Mobile was updated to 2.37.0 EVMap - EV chargers was updated to 2.0.2 Exclave was updated to 0.16.14 FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 1.6.0 Fitness Calendar was updated to 2025.11.1 Flare was updated to 1.0.7 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.8.0 FluffyChat was updated to 2.3.0 Forkyz was updated to 76 Free the bugs was updated to 0.6.0 Fulguris Web Browser was updated to 1.11.1 Gallery was updated to 4.0.1 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.40.0 Geekttrss was updated to 1.6.9 GitNote was updated to 25.11.1 Handy Reading was updated to 1.0.3 HexViewer was updated to 1.59.2 I2P was updated to 2.10.1 Imagepipe was updated to 0.74 ImgurViewer was updated to 2.5.4 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.21.0 Invoice Ninja was updated to 5.0.183 IPCalc Android was updated to 3.0 Jami was updated to 20251114-01 JetBird was updated to 1.4.6 Kahon was updated to 0.19.4 Kazumi was updated to 1.8.8 Keep it up was updated to 1.9.1 KeePassDX Pass(key/word) Vault was updated to 4.2.4 Kreate was updated to 1.8.4-fdroid LibreOffice Viewer was updated to 25.8.3.2 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.4.10 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.1 Lumo was updated to 1.2.9-nogms MakeACopy was updated to 2.2.0 Mastodon was updated to 2.11.5 Materialious was updated to 1.11.6 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.34.0 MedTimer was updated to 1.20.2 Meshtastic was updated to 2.7.6 (29319394) fdroid Migraine Log was updated to 0.14.1 Mill was updated to 7.0.0 Minis companion was updated to 1.4.0 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2025.9 MusicSearch was updated to 1.81.0 Musify was updated to 9.6.12 NanoLedger was updated to 1.2.2 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.6.0 Nextcloud was updated to 3.34.1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251114 Nextcloud Notes was updated to 4.5.2 OpenComicVine was updated to 1.1.4 OpenFoodFacts was updated to 4.22.3 OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to 1.24.2 OpenTune was updated to 2.0.8 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.13.1 ownCloud was updated to 4.7.0 oxproxion was updated to 1.9.5 PassVault was updated to 0.5.0 Periodical was updated to 1.94 Permission Manager X was updated to v1.30-foss PhotoSwooper was updated to 2025.11.3 PicGuard was updated to 5.0.5 Pill Time was updated to 10.0 PipePipe was updated to 4.7.5 PiPixiv was updated to 1.2.1 PlugBrain was updated to 1.5.4 Polaris was updated to 0.10.3 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.25 Prayer mode was updated to 1.4 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.14.44.0 QRAlarm was updated to 2.7.4 Quitter was updated to 1.0.92 RedReader was updated to 1.25 RetroArch was updated to 1.22.1 Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to 2.7.7 Saber was updated to 1.28.2 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.5.4-rc0 Sensors2OSC was updated to 0.14.0 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.29.1 Share To InputStick was updated to 3.7.1 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.4.7 SnapSaver was updated to 0.9.0 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.21 Spotube was updated to 5.1.0 Status: Ethereum Crypto Wallet was updated to 2.34.4 Street­Complete was updated to 62.0 Sumire Japanese Keyboard was updated to 1.4.471 Sunup was updated to 1.2.2 Super Productivity was updated to 16.3.6 SwatchIt was updated to 0.2.2 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.9 Therapiefinder was updated to 0.6 Threema Libre was updated to 6.2.1l TLSFragment was updated to 3.4.0 ToFShare was updated to 1.0.7 Torrents Digger - Dig Torrents From Internet was updated to 1.1.1 Trackbook - Movement Recorder was updated to 2.2.7 Traditional T9 was updated to 56.0 Traffic Light was updated to 2.1 Transistor - Simple Radio App was updated to 4.3.5 Translate You was updated to 16.1 Transportr - Public Transit was updated to 2.2.4 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.261 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.21.4 TTRSS-Reader was updated to 1.97.9 Tuta Calendar was updated to 314.251111.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 314.251111.0 Unciv was updated to 4.18.14-patch1 UnderEat was updated to 1.0.21 V2EX was updated to 2.9.7 Valentin’s PowerTools #002 - Passwords to remember was updated to 1.0.7 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.40.4 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 2.7.6 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.31 WorkTimer was updated to 1.5-alpha1 Xed-Editor was updated to 3.2.4 Xtra was updated to 2.51.1 おやつ Oyatsu was updated to 5.0 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Nov 2025, Week 46 F-Droid core Without much fanfare, remember the old CPU issues we had? Well… for the last 3 or 4 cycles we have been building apps on our new modern hardware. So stay tuned for more info, more updated apps and faster updates notifications. The first batch of missed updates starts today… Community News Bartek of Wolność w Kieszeni or better said of Freedom in the Pocket has written a detailed post (in Polish) about nice apps from F-Droid, entitled “Unlock your smartphone: Applications”. After reading this you can peruse the other posts too as they seem nicely aligned with FLOSS and F-Droid goals. ArcaneChat and Delta Chat were updated to 2.25.0 improving onboarding, adding more metadata protection, reducing app size and much more. Kotatsu was updated to 9.4.1 but development has stopped. The developer wrote: “In light of recent challenges — including threatening actions from Kakao Entertainment Corp and upcoming Google’s new sideloading policy — we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Kotatsu and end its support. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who contributed and to the amazing community that grew around this project.” Luanti (former Minetest) is a popular game, and they’ve just joined Open Collective Europe, a non-profit based in Belgium that provides fiscal hosting to open source projects. OCE hosts many notable projects, including EndeavourOS, F-Droid, and postmarketOS. This allows Luanti to operate like a non-profit and unlocks many new opportunities. Read more here to find out how you can help too. Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.3.8 after a long delay. What did we miss? A new sidebar UI and a tree view for notebooks at least, plus a new search, archive and importer secondly, and search filters and stats recently. Of note, latest version brings new pricing plans that you might want to read about. OsmAnd~ had another big update, to 5.2.9, adding numerous new features and bug fixes. The list is huge so just head over to the dedicated announcement. Note: As usual, this update is not yet suggested as stable, if you want to have it now, just enable “Allow beta updates” from the app details menu. Session F-Droid was updated to 1.29.0 with plenty of changes you can read about here. Bonus post, the devs talk about “screenshot alerts”. What are those? Most decentralized chat users and devs would call them “security theater” so here’s a 5 minutes explainer. @paulali visited a conference: This week there was Droidcon Kampala happening on the 10th to the 11th of November. I had the opportunity to talk about F-Droid and how users can distribute their own apps using F-Droid + Repomaker. The talk was aimed at college students interested in Android development. Many thanks to the Droidcon Uganda team and the F-Droid team for making an amazing project. The slides are available here. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed Music Player GO: Very simple, nice, privacy-friendly and original local Android Music Player Precio Luz: Official electricity rate in Spain (PVPC). Note: While there’s a successor in Open_luz, we can’t include it as it requires a private key. Newly Added Apps 15 apps were newly added AirheadWaves: Stream Android audio to any Linux device over WiFi GDF HEMA Timer: A precise and minimal timer for HEMA training and sparring HappyTaxes: Private bookkeeping for freelancers, small business, or personal finances HypoStats: Simple tracking and stats for hypos Keep Alive Lite: Notify others if you haven’t used your device in a given period of time Komodo Wallet: Cross-platform cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange (DEX) OpenAssistant: A simple, open-source AI app that uses Grok Paiesque: Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) calculator PassVault: A secure, 100% offline password manager Prayer mode: Automatic DND for prayer times without being disturbed during your Salah QuickNotes: Capture and organize notes with AI-assisted tagging and reminders Resticopia: Restic Backup Android App (Unofficial) Ringdroid - Ringtone editor: An application for creating your own ringtones (Nice to have the old Ringdroid brought back to life!) Space Vertex Multiplayer: Have you ever played a Cat and Mouse game with your friends ... in Space? Torrents Digger - Dig Torrents From Internet: Dig Torrents from Internet Updated Apps 197 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.8c a-rithist was updated to 1.0.7 AAAAXY was updated to 1.6.314+20251110.3932.723db6e6 AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated to 2.6.2 Aisleron Shopping List was updated to 2025.9.1 AliasVault was updated to 0.24.0 aShell was updated to v0.23 Audio Spectrum Analyzer was updated to 3.1 Auxio was updated to 4.0.10 Baby Name was updated to 2.0.4 baresip was updated to 71.1.1 baresip+ was updated to 58.1.0 bilimiao was updated to 2.4.8 Birthday Adapter was updated to 3.1 Booming Music was updated to 1.1.0 Box, Box! was updated to 0.10.1 BTC Map was updated to 1.0.0 Calliope mini was updated to 2.0.8 CAPod - Companion for AirPods was updated to 3.0.3-rc0 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 24.0 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.39.2 Cavity was updated to 1.10.2 Chess was updated to 9.9.12 Chooser was updated to 1.4.9 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2025.11.07-2-FDroid ConnectBot was updated to 1.9.13-oss Coordinate Joker was updated to 1.4.42 Copy SMS Code - OTP Helper was updated to 1.20.1 CuteMusic was updated to 3.1.0 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.5.5-ose De1984 was updated to 2.3.7 Deepr was updated to 1.0.19 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 2.9.0 Die Simulator was updated to 1.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.254.1 Easter Eggs was updated to 4.2.0 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.339.202510260 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.1.9-alpha eduVPN was updated to 3.5.0 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.11.0 Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.2.18 Escapepod - Podcast Player was updated to 1.6.2 Exclave was updated to 0.16.12 Exercise Reminders was updated to 1.7.2 FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 1.5.0 FastTrack was updated to 4.1.1 Fcitx5 was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (Anthy Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (Chewing Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (Clipboard Filter Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (Hangul Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (Jyutping Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (RIME Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (Sayura Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (That Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Fcitx5 (Unikey Plugin) was updated to 0.1.2-0-g5a4870c0 Feeder was updated to 2.16.0 Feeder (Play version) was updated to 2.16.0 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 145.0.0 Find Family was updated to v1.11 Flip 2 DND was updated to 8.0.1 Force Stop Helper was updated to 0.9.0 Fossify Calendar was updated to 1.8.1 Fossify Gallery was updated to 1.9.0 Fossify Music Player was updated to 1.6.0 Fossify Phone was updated to 1.9.0 Fossify Voice Recorder Beta was updated to 1.5.1 FossWallet was updated to 0.31.0 Gas Prices was updated to 3.2 Geo Share was updated to 5.7.0 GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea was updated to 11.0.0 GitNote was updated to 25.11 GMaps WV was updated to 4.8 Grit was updated to 5.1.0 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.38 Home Assistant was updated to 2025.11.1-minimal Human Benchmark was updated to 1.1.0 Immich was updated to 2.2.3 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.10.5 InviZible Pro: Tor & Firewall, DNSCrypt & I2P was updated to 7.3.0 Jami was updated to 20251107-01 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.19.3 Jitsi Meet was updated to 25.6.1 Json List was updated to 1.8 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.14.01.ose KDE Connect was updated to 1.34.3 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.16 Lalumo was updated to 6.0 LibreTube was updated to 0.29.1 LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 2.1.4 Linkora was updated to 0.14.0 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.4.9 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.1-rc.4 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.7.9 LISTEN.moe was updated to 6.4.0 LxReader was updated to 0.8.6 (fdroid) Mastodon was updated to 2.11.4 Material Notes was updated to 2.1.3 Materialious was updated to 1.11.3 Materials Live Wallpaper was updated to 1.9 MMRL was updated to v34195-release Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.14 Neo Store was updated to 1.1.5 Network Survey was updated to 1.44.1 Nextcloud was updated to 3.34.1 RC1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251108 Nextcloud Notes was updated to 4.5.2 RC1 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.5.17 NextPush was updated to 2.3.4 NFC Alarm Clock was updated to 12.6.3 Nora was updated to 0.4.5 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.5.3 Notes (PFA) was updated to 2.1.1 NouTube was updated to 0.4.4 Obtainium was updated to 1.2.8 Offi was updated to 13.0.16 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.5.8 OpenComicVine was updated to 1.1.3 OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to 1.24.1 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.23.2irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.23.2 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2025.11.11-5-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.66.4 OuterTune was updated to 0.10.0 oxproxion was updated to 1.9.0 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.48.8 Pagan was updated to 1.7.21 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.38 Peristyle was updated to v9.3.3 Petals was updated to 3.37.2 Photok was updated to 2.2.0 PhotoSwooper was updated to 2025.11.2 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.23.8 PiPixiv was updated to 1.2.0 Pixiv-MultiPlatform was updated to 1.8.2 Play Maker was updated to 1.14.1 PlayOnDlna was updated to 1.5 Plexus was updated to 2.1.5 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.5.4 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.25.2 Pomodorot was updated to 0.12.2 pOT-Droid was updated to 5.5.5 Primitive FTPd was updated to 7.4 PrivacyFlip was updated to 2.0.0 QRAlarm was updated to 2.7.3 QRshare was updated to 1.0.21 QuickDic was updated to 5.8.2 Quitter was updated to 1.0.82 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.16 Readeck App was updated to 0.8.0 RetroArch was updated to 1.22.0 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.11 Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder was updated to 2.16 RSAF was updated to 3.22 Ruffle was updated to 0.251110 rust-keylock-android was updated to 0.16.4 Saber was updated to 1.28.1 Satunes was updated to 3.3.1 SchildiChat Legacy was updated to 1.6.48.sc90 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.14.0 SharedHaven was updated to 1.6.6 ShoppingList was updated to 11.0 Smither was updated to 3.6.4 SmsLoc was updated to 1.3.2 Soul Searching was updated to 0.13.0 Squeeze Client was updated to 2.2 Standard Notes was updated to 3.201.2 Street­Complete was updated to 62.0-beta1 StyncyNotes was updated to 1.2 Sumire Japanese Keyboard was updated to 1.4.467 Super Productivity was updated to 16.3.1 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 2.0.11.2 Table Habit was updated to 1.21.0 TermuC was updated to 0.2.1 Threema Libre was updated to 6.2.0l Thumb-Key was updated to 5.0.10 Tomato was updated to 1.6.5 Trailence was updated to 1.2.0 Tsacdop-Fork - Podcast Player was updated to 0.9.2 Tuner was updated to 9.0.0 Unchained was updated to 1.4.0 Vespucci was updated to 21.1.7.0 Voice Audiobook Player was updated to 25.10.5 Waterfly III was updated to 1.1.8 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.26 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.9.1 Wiki Fronted was updated to r/2.7.50555-r-2025-11-03 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50555-r-2025-11-03 WikiReader was updated to 2.5.5 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.16.2 YAM Launcher was updated to 1.8 Youamp was updated to 2.0.2 Zimly S3 Backup was updated to 3.4.0 Zulip was updated to 30.0.267 聚在工大 was updated to 4.18.4.1 TeXeTeScribe was updated to 1.1 🌜 LunaTracker 🌛 was updated to 0.8 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Nov 2025, Week 45 Community News Jami was updated to 20251031-01. The devs are busy at work but also at posting interesting blogs. “Manifesto 2025: the freedom to communicate belongs to all of us” talks about how humanity has more tools to speak yet we end up silenced. And in “Jami survival kit: Internet down? Keep talking!” we learn about the many ways Jami can cope when Internet access is severely limited or entirely cut off. MakeACopy was updated to 2.1.1 but we also included MakeACopy – OCR Latin (Best), More accurate Tesseract Best models for Latin languages. Add-on so you can have these at hand and use in-app directly. Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.34.0 and ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.14.2.1, but in more Proton news we also included Lumo, A private AI assistant by Proton Vishal scares us: Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission. But that changed once Google secured Android. The end………… No, hehe, we’re just joking, developers have plenty of ways to track your app usage, profile you, categorize you, track your usage of their competitors apps, punish you if you use the wrong apps and maybe even sell this information to others. And yes, all these apps are vetted as secure and compliant and are made available in the big centralized store from that big monopoly company that wants to block you from installing F-Droid and privacy preserving FLOSS apps. This 15 minutes read will make you angry or even worse, if you’re from India. Removed Apps 1 app was removed Buses: Geographical GB bus times lookup app Newly Added Apps 21 more apps were newly added Athena: Review your device’s information, from hardware to software Contacts: An open-source, fully-functional contacts app De1984 Firewall: Privacy-focused Firewall and Package Manager for Android devices Die Simulator: A simple app which allows you to roll a die Droid_SCEP: Get certificates from a SCEP server and monitor the expiration File85Toolkit: Lightweight file compression and decompression using LZMA + Base85 LibreLynx Lite: Lightweight privacy-focused web browser Motion-UI: A web interface to manage your own NVR with motion Pinyin Web & EPUB and dialects: Adds Pinyin or Cantonese etc to websites and EPUBs reReminder: A simple, open-source app for setting recurring reminders throughout your day Roaming Borders: Avoid unexpected roaming charges Sensor Spot: Stream real-time Android sensor data over MQTT ShoppingList: A Shopping List with reminders, price tracking and list sharing Stashly - Vault tool: A simple, secure way to manage your personal files and notes. TextTL: Local plain text file timeline memo tool Therapiefinder: Support in search of a therapy tmtLauncher: Minimalist Android Launcher | made by Timothy Choi Traffic Light: Track your internet usage in the status bar Trailence: Hiking app to organize tracks, record new ones, search, edit, and much more Waterfly III: Unofficial App for Firefly III, an open source personal finance manager TeXeTeScribe: Read and write in text-based files: TXT, JSON, HTML, CSV, XML, YAML, INI, MD Downgraded Apps 1 apps were downgraded freeminer was downgraded from 5.13.0 to 5.10.0 as the app was crashing. Updated Apps 182 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Alovoa was updated to 2.2.5 Andor’s Trail was updated to 0.8.15 Anx Reader was updated to 1.9.2 AusweisApp was updated to 2.4.0 Baby Name was updated to 2.0.2 baresip was updated to 71.1.0 BatteryVoltageDisplay was updated to 1.2 Bible Notify was updated to 4.11.0 Bim! was updated to 12 BinEd - Hex Editor was updated to 0.2.9 Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.8.10 Broccoli: The Green Recipe App was updated to 1.4.4 BusTO was updated to 2.4.4 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.10.1175 Cavity was updated to 1.10.1 Celestia was updated to 1.9.2 Chaldea was updated to 2.5.23 Cheogram was updated to 2.19.0-3+free Chess was updated to 9.9.11 ClassiPod was updated to 1.12.0 Commons was updated to 6.1.0 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to 2.10.0 Daily Dozen was updated to 28 Deepr was updated to 1.0.18 Discreet Launcher was updated to v7.8.3 DrawAnywhere was updated to 1.2 drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking was updated to 1.2510.25 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.16.1 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.253.1 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.1.7-alpha Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.10.1 Endless Sky was updated to 0.10.16-55 Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.2.15 Enthusiast Tea Timer was updated to 1.6.1 FairEmail was updated to 1.2302 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 1.7.1 Flang was updated to 1.16 Flare was updated to 1.0.6 Fluffy was updated to 3.3.3 FluffyChat was updated to 2.2.0 Flux News was updated to 1.10.1 folder launcher was updated to 0.3.5 Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to 3.3.5 Forkyz was updated to 75 Fossify Calculator Beta was updated to 1.2.0 Fossify Calendar was updated to 1.8.0 Fossify Camera Beta was updated to 1.4.0 Fossify Clock Beta was updated to 1.4.0 Fossify Contacts was updated to 1.4.0 Fossify File Manager was updated to 1.4.0 Fossify Gallery was updated to 1.8.0 Fossify Keyboard Beta was updated to 1.6.0 Fossify Launcher Beta was updated to 1.5.0 Fossify Messages was updated to 1.6.0 Fossify Music Player was updated to 1.5.0 Fossify Notes Beta was updated to 1.6.0 Fossify Paint Beta was updated to 1.2.0 Fossify Phone was updated to 1.8.0 Fossify Voice Recorder Beta was updated to 1.5.0 Fridgey was updated to 2.2.9 Geo Share was updated to 5.6.0 Geotag video camera was updated to 2.1.14 GMaps WV was updated to 4.7 huggingAssist was updated to 2.3 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.10.4 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.20.1 IzzyOnDroid (unofficial) was updated to v0.14 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.19.2 Just Delete Me was updated to 0.2 Kahon was updated to 0.19.3 Kazumi was updated to 1.8.7 Keep Alive was updated to 1.3.3 KeePassDX Pass(key/word) Vault was updated to 4.2.3 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 2.0.0-beta.12.2 KOReader was updated to v2025.10 Ladefuchs was updated to 3.5.5 Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud was updated to 2.10.4 LinkHub was updated to 1.6.6 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.1-rc.3 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.7.5 Logcat Reader was updated to 2.3.1 Loud Bang was updated to 0.51 Materialious was updated to 1.10.18 MediLog was updated to 3.3.11 MedTimer was updated to 1.20.1 Mindustry was updated to 8-fdroid-152.3 Money Manager Ex was updated to 5.4.10 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.26.11a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.26.11a Musify was updated to 9.6.11 NATINFo+ was updated to 0.13.7 NeoStumbler was updated to 2.1.10 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.9e NFC Alarm Clock was updated to 12.6.1 Nora was updated to 0.4.3 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.5.2 Notes (PFA) was updated to 2.1.0 NouTube was updated to 0.4.3 Nov Open Reader was updated to 1.3.0a Offi was updated to 13.0.15 Onyx was updated to 2.0.13 Open Alert Viewer was updated to 1.3.4 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.5.7 openHAB was updated to 3.18.0 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.17.15-beta OpenMoneyBox was updated to 3.5.1.4 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.23.1irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.23.1 Orgro was updated to 1.66.3 oxproxion was updated to 1.7.4 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.48.3 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 3.1.0 Package Manager was updated to v7.6 PDF Wallet was updated to 4.6.1 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.37 Peristyle was updated to v9.3.2 Persian Calendar was updated to 10.0.0 PipePipe was updated to 4.7.4 Play Maker was updated to 1.13.2 Plus Plus Battery was updated to 2.3.6 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.23.3 Polymarket Viewer was updated to 1.24 PrivacyScanner was updated to 1.2.1 PublicArtExplorer was updated to 1.4.6 QRAlarm was updated to 2.7.2 QuickWeather was updated to 2.8.5 Quitter was updated to 1.0.78 Read You was updated to 0.15.3 Retro Music was updated to 6.6.0 RSAF was updated to 3.21 Ruffle was updated to 0.251103 rust-keylock-android was updated to 0.16.3 Saber was updated to 1.27.1 Sapio was updated to 1.9.1 Save by OpenArchive was updated to 4.0.3-fdroid Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.12.5 Seafile was updated to 3.0.19 SelfPrivacy was updated to 0.13.4 Share 2 Archive Today was updated to 5.9 ShikiApp was updated to alpha-0.4.5 Shiori was updated to 1.50.22 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.4.1 ShoppingList was updated to v1.20.0 sing-box was updated to 1.12.12 SiYuan was updated to 3.3.6 SnapSafe was updated to 3.5.4 solXpect was updated to 2.8 SoundAura was updated to 1.6.2 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.20 Standard Notes was updated to 3.200.9 Stateful Speedometer was updated to 0.2.0 Stay Put - Unplug Alert was updated to 0.8.7 strongSwan VPN Client was updated to 2.6.2 Sumire Japanese Keyboard was updated to 1.4.459 Super Productivity was updated to 16.2.1 SwatchIt was updated to 0.2.1 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.6.5 Table Habit was updated to 1.20.0 Tailscale was updated to 1.90.4-t0d7298602-g92f2bb273 Taler Cashier was updated to 1.1.0 Taler Point-of-Sale Terminal was updated to 1.1.0 Taler Wallet was updated to 1.1.0 taz was updated to 2.0.3 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.6 Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 14.0b3 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.2025.10 Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to v2.92 Tomato was updated to 1.6.2 Transport You was updated to 2.3 Trime was updated to 3.3.7 Tsacdop-Fork - Podcast Player was updated to 0.9.1 Tuta Calendar was updated to 314.251030.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 314.251030.0 venera was updated to 1.6.0 Vernet - Network Analyzer was updated to 1.3.2 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.24 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.16.1 XiVPN was updated to 1.7.3 Xtra was updated to 2.51.0 YAM was updated to 1.1 yetCalc was updated to 2.0.8 µLauncher was updated to 0.2.8 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, Week 44 Community News Fossify Messages update 1.5.0 from last week has been having some crashing issues with heavy conversations, tracked by the developer here. If you’ve encountered them, you are advised to uninstall, install older version 1.4.0 and use the upper right menu in client to “Ignore this update” until the next one (built while you read this) comes. PrivacyFlip was updated to 1.4.1 and features a key change unfortunately. Things happened with the old key, as they do, and a new one has been born. If you’ve installed the app in the past we recommend you uninstall and install the newly signed one today. SwatchIt, Manage your knitted swatches, was just added. What is it? It’s a choose your own adventure game that involves quests you solve with yarn and needles, I guess. Here’s a bit of a background of how the app came to be. And to gain extra experience, you can read about the developer’s quest to add their app to F-Droid, if you have 15 minutes to spare, here. @samanbaia spells the magic words: Lineage, F-Droid, XMPP will summon an one hour long video presentation and the corresponding slides, both in Italian. Bonus QR codes spread around to poll you on your choices. This was part of Linux Day Torino 2025, that took place on October 25th. @shuvashish76 has bad and good news: Immich is the fourth most starred app in our repo and one with a healthy following. Earlier this month they ended up having their services inaccessible at Google’s whims as all of their *.immich.cloud websites were marked as dangerous and users started being shown the dreaded “red-screen-of-death” page. How did our heroes fight the beast? You can read it all in the 5 minutes long post. One word comes to mind after reading this, can you guess which? (scroll to the end to see if we think alike) LibreTube was updated to 0.29.0. After half a year of work, this is perhaps one of their biggest releases ever (more than 500 commits), including: Material 3 Expressive redesign, edge-to-edge support, predictive back and much more. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed Bible Feed: Feed on God’s Holy Bible using this Professor Grant Horner reading plan tracker Quacker: A private and clean way to browse Twitter/X Newly Added Apps 4 more apps were newly added Chitralaya CloudGallery App: Transform Telegram into your personal, unlimited photo cloud storage Omni Files: A powerful file explorer app that can edit many different types of files OuterTune: Material 3 Music Player with local file & YouTube Music support Squeezelite: ‘Headless’ audio player for Lyrion Music Server (LMS) - Squeezelite Updated Apps 137 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AndroidMic was updated to 2.2.3 App Lock was updated to 2.0.0 ArcaneChat was updated to 2.22.0 Avare was updated to 11.0.5 Baby Name was updated to 2.0.1 Bahn-Vorhersage was updated to 0.5.0 Ball2Box was updated to 4.1.9 baresip was updated to 71.0.2 baresip+ was updated to 58.0.2 Bible Verse App was updated to 1.5 Birday - Birthday Manager was updated to 4.7.2 Breakout 71 was updated to 29353327 Cams was updated to 2.4.4 Cavity was updated to 1.9.4 CClauncher was updated to v9.10.1 Chip Defense was updated to 1.55 CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to 2025.10.20-1-FDroid Cuscon was updated to 4.0.7.3 Daily You was updated to 2.14.0 Demodulate was updated to 1.2.2 Dicer (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 2.0.0 Drawpile was updated to 2.3.0-beta.4 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.16.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.252.0 Easy Watermark was updated to 2.10.0 Eblan Launcher was updated to 0.1.5-alpha EinkBro was updated to 15.3.0 Endless Sky was updated to 0.10.16-54 EnigmaDroid was updated to 1.5.0 Enthusiast Tea Timer was updated to 1.6.0 Exclave was updated to 0.16.10 FairEmail was updated to 1.2301 Find Family was updated to v1.10 flabr was updated to 1.2.6 Flexify was updated to 2.1.34 Flicky was updated to 3.6.3 Flux was updated to 2.1 Flux News was updated to 1.9.2 FossWallet was updated to 0.30.0 freeDictionaryApp was updated to 1.7.8 Fucks Given was updated to 1.0.8 Fujiten was updated to 2.3.0 Fulguris Web Browser was updated to 1.11.0 FW-Wettkampf Funk-Trainer was updated to 2.3 Goals & Checklists - timeto.me was updated to 2025.10.22 gpsdRelay was updated to 2.2 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.10.2 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.20.0 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to build106.4.0 Jami was updated to 20251024-01 K-9 Mail was updated to 13.0 Kazumi was updated to 1.8.6 KeePassDX Pass(key/word) Vault was updated to 4.2.1 Kvaesitso was updated to 1.38.0-fdroid Libre Librivox listener was updated to 3.2.0 LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader | ODF was updated to 4.0 LinkHub was updated to 1.6.5 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.4.8 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.1-rc.1 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.7.3 MakeACopy was updated to 2.0.0 Markor was updated to 2.15.2 Mastodon was updated to 2.11.3 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.33.1 MediLog was updated to 3.3.10 MedTimer was updated to 1.20.0 Migraine Log was updated to 0.14.0 MinCal Widget was updated to 2.18.6 monocles chat was updated to 2.0.16 Musify was updated to 9.6.9 NanoLedger was updated to 1.2.1 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.9d Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251027 Nora was updated to 0.3.1 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.5.1 Notely Voice: AI Voice to Text was updated to 1.2.6 NouTube was updated to 0.4.2 ntfy - PUT/POST to your phone was updated to 1.17.13 OctoDroid was updated to 4.6.14 Offi was updated to 13.0.14 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.5.6 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.23.0irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.23.0 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2025.10.23-22-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.65.2 oxproxion was updated to 1.6.3 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.48.2 PDF Wallet was updated to 4.6.0 Persian Calendar was updated to 9.9.3 Photok was updated to 2.1.2 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.23.7 Play Maker was updated to 1.10.0 plees-tracker was updated to 25.8.1 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.23.2 pretixPRINT was updated to 2.21.0-foss PrivacyScanner was updated to 1.2.0 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.14.2.0 PublicArtExplorer was updated to 1.4.5 Quitter was updated to 1.0.77 RF Analyzer (FOSS) was updated to 2.1.1-foss RSAF was updated to 3.20 Ruffle was updated to 0.251027 Saber was updated to 0.26.12 SambaLite was updated to 1.3.1 SchildiChat Next was updated to 0.10.10-ex_25_10_0 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.12.4 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.28.2 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.4.0 SimbaDroid was updated to 0.8 sing-box was updated to 1.12.11 Smart Dock was updated to 1.14.1 SmartScan was updated to 1.1.7 Standard Notes was updated to 3.200.7 strongSwan VPN Client was updated to 2.6.1 Sumire Japanese Keyboard was updated to 1.4.449 Super Productivity was updated to 16.1.0 SuperX was updated to 0.6.5 Table Habit was updated to 1.19.0 Tailscale was updated to 1.90.3-tca8f3d049-g0150bd949 taz was updated to 2.0.1 Tehran Metro was updated to 1.0.0 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.5 Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 14.0b2 Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox was updated to 13.0 Tomato was updated to 1.6.0 Trackbook - Movement Recorder was updated to 2.2.6 Trail Sense was updated to 7.3.0 Transistor - Simple Radio App was updated to 4.3.3 Transport You was updated to 2.2 WebLibre: Private Browser was updated to 0.9.27 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.16 whoBIRD was updated to 4.9 WHPH was updated to 0.18.0 Wispar was updated to 0.9.0 WorkTimer was updated to 1.5-beta1 Xtra was updated to 2.49.2 Zulip was updated to 30.0.266 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in the ways that you want. The post garnered quite a lot of feedback and interest from the community and press, as well as various civil society groups and regulatory agencies. In this post, I hope to clarify and expand on some of the points and rebut some of the counter-messaging that we have witnessed. Google’s message that “Sideloading is Not Going Away” is clear, concise, and false Shortly after our post was published, Google aired an episode of their Android Developers Roundtable series, where they state unequivocally that “sideloading isn’t going anywhere”. They follow-up with a blog post: Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android? Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away. This statement is untrue. The developer verification decree effectively ends the ability for individuals to choose what software they run on the devices they own. It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk. This could perhaps be further precised as “direct installing”, in case you need to make a distinction between obtaining software the old-fashioned way versus going through a rent-seeking intermediary marketplace like the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. Regardless, the term “sideload” was coined to insinuate that there is something dark and sinister about the process, as if the user were making an end-run around safeguards that are designed to keep you protected and secure. But if we reluctantly accept that “sideloading” is a term that has wriggled its way into common parlance, then we should at least use a consistent definition for it. Wikipedia’s summary definition is: the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved By this definition, Google’s statement that “sideloading is not going away” is simply false. The vendor — Google, in the case of Android certified devices — will, in point of fact, be approving the source. The supplicant app developer must register with Google, pay a fee, provide government identification, agree to non-negotiable (and ever-changing) terms and conditions, enumerate all their current and future application identifiers, upload evidence of their private signing key, and then hope and wait for Google’s approval. What this means for your rights You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, starting next year, they will be non-consensually pushing an update to your operating system that irrevocably blocks this right and leaves you at the mercy of their judgement over what software you are permitted to trust. You, the creator, can no longer develop an app and share it directly with your friends, family, and community without first seeking Google’s approval. The promise of Android — and a marketing advantage it has used to distinguish itself against the iPhone — has always been that it is “open”. But Google clearly feels that they have enough of a lock on the Android ecosystem, along with sufficient regulatory capture, that they can now jettison this principle with prejudice and impunity. You, the state, are ceding the rights of your citizens and your own digital sovereignty to a company with a track record of complying with the extrajudicial demands of authoritarian regimes to remove perfectly legal apps that they happen to dislike. The software that is critical to the running of your businesses and governments will be at the mercy of the opaque whims of a distant and unaccountable corporation. Monocultures are perilous not just in agriculture, but in software distribution as well. As a reminder, this applies not just to devices that exclusively use the Google Play Store: this is for every Android Certified device everywhere in the world, which encompasses over 95% of all Android devices outside of China. Regardless of whether the device owner prefers to use a competing app store like the Samsung Galaxy Store or the Epic Games Store, or a free and open-source app repository like F-Droid, they will be captive to the overarching policies unilaterally dictated by a competing corporate entity. The place of greater safety In promoting their developer registration program, Google purports: Our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play. We haven’t seen this recent analysis — or any other supporting evidence — but the “50 times” multiple does certainly sound like great cause for distress (even if it is a surprisingly round number). But given the recent news of “224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud campaign discovered”, we are left to wonder whether their energies might better be spent assessing and improving their own safeguards rather than casting vague disparagements against the software development communities that thrive outside their walled garden. In addition, other recent news of over 19 million downloads of malware from the Play Store leads us to question whether the sole judgement of a single corporate entity can be trusted to identify and assess malware, especially when that judgement is clouded by commercial incentives that may not align with the well-being of their users. What can be done? Google has been facing public outcry against their heavy-handed policies for a long time, but this trend has accelerated recently. Last year they crippled ad-blockers in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers by forcing through their unpopular “manifest v3” requirement for plugins, and earlier this year they closed off the development of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is how they were able to clandestinely implement the verification infrastructure that enforces their developer registration decree. Developer verification is an existential threat to free software distribution platforms like F-Droid as well as emergent commercial competitors to the Play Store. We are witnessing a groundswell of opposition to this attempt from both our user and developer communities, as well as the tech press and civil society groups, but public policymakers still need to be educated about the threat. To learn more about what you can do as a consumer, visit keepandroidopen.org for information on how to contact your representative agencies and advocate for keeping the Android ecosystem open for consumers and competition. If you are an app developer, we recommend against signing yourself up for Google’s developer registration program at this time. We unequivocally reject their attempt to force this program upon the world. Over half of all humankind uses an Android smartphone. Google does not own your phone. You own your phone. You have the right to decide who to trust, and where you can get your software from.

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 24 Oct 2025, Week 43 F-Droid core Our website runs on a pretty standard software stack, all from Debian as expected. Yet we are not rewriting it every 7 months in a new shiny framework, but we aim for simplicity, maintainability and stability. While we encourage users to use the F-Droid Client to get timely updates and info on new apps, we know that the website is the point-of-entry for both new and old users. In the past year or so, we’ve also expanded our Categories to simplify discoverability and not have some with 500 apps that aren’t really helpful. We’ve been bugged by an issue with categories for years now, as the number of apps grew bigger, a category app list was paginated, but pages 2 and later were not rendered correctly, missing the app icon and summary. Thanks to @Ray c for finally tracking a possible fix as others were affected too, so now all categories pages render correctly. Community News ArcaneChat and Delta Chat were updated to 2.20.0 and added experimental built-in calls? Interesting, did you test already? Looks like Webxdc proves to be more and more useful. We skipped some versions, due to technical issues, but Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated this week to 2.39.1. What did we miss? Non-archived cards widget, support for .pkpasses files, it now targets Android 16, features a new crash reporter to help the developer fix issues faster and more. DOOM & Wolfenstein RPG released its last update on F-Droid. Starting from the next version, it will switch to doom64 ex+, which is using proprietary fmod. DumDum, another proxy client, joined our family of VPN and proxy apps on F-Droid with reproducible builds. This is also based on a fork of the old SagerNet while designed to be minimalistic and only supports SOCKS/HTTP/HTTPS proxies. Fennec F-Droid was updated to 144.0.0, raising the Minimum Android Version to 8.0 (Oreo). Mozilla also dropped the support for 32-bit x86 devices, but we will still try to build it anyway in our next cycles. @shuvashish76 modernizes passwords: KeePassDX - Pass(key/word) Vault was updated to 4.2.0 adding Passkeys support. What is Passkeys? Why Passkeys? The app Wiki has all the answers. @Tobias_Groza glazes a virtual cake: NewPipe celebrated 10 years last month and it’s time for a fancy post. Looking back, looking now and looking forward, you might end up going through all sorts of emotions. For now, read and rejoice but also be weary of things to come. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed WebCall, WebCall P2P E2EE Telephony, as the developer stopped offering the service (Albeit you could host your own and edit the URL) WG Tunnel, A WireGuard & AmneziaWG VPN client with auto-tunneling, lockdown & proxying, as the developer requested it. (Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN, Exclave and sing-box can connect to WireGuard and one other app might be coming soon) Newly Added Apps 7 more apps were newly added Anx Reader: A thoughtfully crafted e-book reader for book lovers Eblan Launcher: Android Launcher made from scratch using Kotlin, Coroutines and Jetpack Compose Hacker’s Diet Offline: This is an offline version of the Hackers Diet Online Kmtemplate: Organize tasks effortlessly across all your devices with Kmtemplate Quitter: Give up on addictions and become a Quitter VScan: A visual perception layer for the blind Yet Another Tuner (Y.A.M.): Simplistic metronome app by an amateur musician Updated Apps 131 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AAAAXY was updated to 1.6.301+20251014.3919.5d658aa3 AAT Another Activity Tracker was updated to v1.29 AELF - Bible and day’s reading was updated to 2.9.2 baresip was updated to 70.0.1 baresip+ was updated to 57.1.0 BatteryTemperatureDisplay was updated to 1.1 Blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble2.2.1 Blorp was updated to 1.9.26 BusTO was updated to 2.4.3 Call Limiter was updated to 0.3.3 CameraFileCopy was updated to 0.6.3 CineLog was updated to 3.0.0-beta1 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.17.Meta Cuscon was updated to 4.0.7.2 Deepr was updated to 1.0.17 Demodulate was updated to 1.2.1 Diatronome was updated to 1.0.10 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.251.1 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was updated to 0.33.1-15-gd434b7dfca EP Mobile was updated to 2.36.0 EteSync - Secure Data Sync was updated to 2.6.0 Exclave was updated to 0.16.9 F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.13.0 FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 1.4.0 Feudal Tactics was updated to 1.4.2 Flare was updated to 1.0.5 Flux News was updated to 1.9.1 Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to 3.3.4 Force Stop Helper was updated to 0.7.0 Forkgram was updated to 12.1.1.0 Fossify Calendar was updated to 1.7.0 Fossify Gallery was updated to 1.7.0 Fossify Messages was updated to 1.5.0 Fossify Music Player was updated to 1.4.0 Fossify Paint Beta was updated to 1.1.2 Fossify Phone was updated to 1.7.3 FossWallet was updated to 0.29.0 geteduroam was updated to 2.1.7(2676) getgovroam was updated to 2.1.7(2676) Godot Engine 4 was updated to 4.5.1.stable Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 5.1.0 Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 3.6.5 Harmony Music was updated to 1.12.1 HeliBoard was updated to 3.5 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.10.0 Infomaniak kMeet was updated to 2.6.7 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.20.0 Kazumi was updated to 1.8.4 Keep Screen On was updated to 1.27.0 Komelia was updated to 0.17.0 Kreate was updated to 1.8.2-fdroid Linphone - open source SIP client was updated to 6.0.19 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.4.7 Linwood Flow Nightly was updated to 0.5.1 MakeACopy was updated to 1.7.6 Materialious was updated to 1.10.17 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.33.0 MedTimer was updated to 1.19.2 mensen was updated to 1.5.0 Musify was updated to 9.6.7 NeoStumbler was updated to 2.1.9 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.9c News Reader was updated to 1.12 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20251021 Nextcloud Notes was updated to 4.5.1 Nora was updated to 0.2.7 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.5.0 Offline Translator was updated to 0.2.3 Open Notes was updated to 1.3.2 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.5.5 oxproxion was updated to 1.5.4 P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.47.6 Pagan was updated to 1.7.20 Passwords was updated to 0.5.1 PDF Wallet was updated to 4.5.3 PennyWise AI was updated to 2.15.36 Peristyle was updated to v9.3.1 PicGuard was updated to 5.0.4 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.21.0 Pokéverse was updated to 1.2.1 ProseReader was updated to 1.6.0 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.33.1 QED was updated to 3.1.4+fdroid QR Scanner (PFA) was updated to 4.6.18 QRAlarm was updated to 2.7.1 Quick Calculation was updated to 1.4 Quillpad was updated to 1.5.7 Really Basic Vocab was updated to 3.4.8 Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.19.1 Ruffle was updated to 0.251020 RustDesk was updated to 1.4.3 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.12.3 ServerBox was updated to 1.0.1270 SharedHavenTN3 was updated to 1.6.5-testnet SimbaDroid was updated to 0.7 SimpleXray was updated to 1.10.6 sing-box was updated to 1.12.10 SmartScan was updated to 1.1.6 SnapSafe was updated to 3.5.2 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.19 Squeezer was updated to 2.3.11 Sumire Japanese Keyboard was updated to 1.4.441 Suntimes was updated to 0.16.11 Super Productivity was updated to 15.3.0 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 2.0.10.2 Table Habit was updated to 1.18.0 Tailscale was updated to 1.88.4-tc18ddfa3d-g4a3522527 TermuC was updated to 0.2.0 Tessel – A tile game was updated to 1.0.2 The Battle for Wesnoth was updated to 1.19.17 Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 13.0b5 Todo List (PFA) was updated to 3.3.1 ToFShare was updated to 1.0.6 Tomato was updated to 1.5.0 TorrServe was updated to MatriX.136.1.FOSS Trackbook - Movement Recorder was updated to 2.2.4 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.260 Tuta Mail was updated to 310.251016.1 UnderEat was updated to 1.0.20 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.45.2 Valentin’s PowerTools #023 - MemorizeYourClassics was updated to 1.0.4 VolumeLockr was updated to 1.6.3 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 2.7.3 WAFRN was updated to 1.7.2 Warpinator for Android (unofficial) was updated to 1.8.5 Webview Kiosk was updated to 0.24.8 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.15.4 XiVPN was updated to 1.7.2 Xray was updated to 11.9.0 Xtra was updated to 2.49.1 YAACC was updated to 4.4.1 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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