From casting to currency

This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Friday, 17 Oct 2025, Week 42

Community News

We’ve featured Taler news before, and while reading about possibilities and what it does “in theory” sounds nice, having their apps and infrastructure to actually test and use is what everyone wants. Hence, following last year’s success, GNU Taler has once again offered digital payments at Datenspuren, the annual event organized by Chaos Computer Club Dresden (C3D2). Visitors could acquire the made up “SPURLOS” currency on-site at a 1:1 exchange rate for euros from Taler cashiers, or via instant bank transfer directly into their Taler wallets. Throughout the event, SPURLOS were accepted alongside euro cash at various booths. Get the full story from their post.

CastLab, CastLab: Cast gallery media to DLNA/UPnP devices with playlist support, finally bridges the gap between our devices, via standard DLNA. While BigTech locks users with proprietary sharing/streaming/casting protocols that FOSS apps can’t integrate, DLNA allows users to stream to their own devices freely and with open source applications/servers end-to-end. Simplest example, stream your vacation videos to your own Kodi instance hosted on a common Raspberry Pi connected to your living room TV.

Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.2.11 and Tuta Calendar and Tuta Mail were updated to 310.251008.0. But why group them like this? There’s a possibility that you are already running both, or maybe you want to, if so, take a look at the Tuta & Ente partnership and get a discount to get you started.

Tessel – A tile game, Place tiles with matching colors to make shapes and fill the board, was just added and apparently needs no introduction as it already made some waves in the Fediverse. Go play!

kitswas sets us free:

Gaming should be enjoyable. Otherwise, it’s not worth it. While VirtualGamePad Mobile was updated to 0.4.0, the best news is that the VirtualGamepad Server now supports Linux.

Newly Added Apps

8 more apps were newly added
  • CanIWebView: Test your web content with different WebView configurations
  • Flare: All your Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, X, RSS feeds, in one APP
  • PrivacyScanner: scan installed apps and highlight privacy risks by analyzing their permission
  • Quotes.app: A minimalistic quotes app
  • Retherm: RTD & thermocouple calculations
  • SecureOTP - Universal OTP Extractor: Auto-detect and copy OTP codes from SMS, Email, and app notifications
  • SharedHavenTN4: Bitcoin wallet with secure multisig features
  • SkillApp: Simple, fully offline time-tracking app

Updated Apps

189 more apps were updated
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