For fifteen more
Posted on Sep 04, 2025 by
Licaon_Kter
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 04 Sep 2025, Week 36
F-Droid core
Given these past weeks events we got sidetracked into caring more about CPU architectures, web servers certificates and APK signatures. We need not lose track of our goals, and these are not short timed, and do not depend on future SSE versions, cron scripts or the next evil thing a certain monopoly does.
This year we celebrate 15 years of F-Droid, see our first post here, but more so, we celebrate 15 years of a community gathered around FLOSS and Android. “In a software commons the resource isn’t the software, it’s contributor time and attention” sums it up pretty well and describes how F-Droid worked during these first 15 years that have passed. From people handling code, running servers, hosting mirrors, updating metadata, opening inclusions requests, doing translations and critiquing our shortcomings, we’ve got the means to build something great that we wish to continue for 15 more.
To all of you, even if you don’t end up reading this TWIF (we have RSS!), we say Thank You!. And we want to thank everyone else that has been around, for caring, for spreading FLOSS, for helping other users, for tooting, for boosting, for booing, for linking to that old blog post that needs an update, for continuing to use apps even if they are slow to load, for working on making Android distros more secure, for freeing users from proprietary code, for spreading federated and decentralized services, for staying compatible and for all the things we forgot to list.
Recent news have saddened us, true, but seeing the community support pour in even after significant upheaval in the way Android reaches us and the way it can be used has give us hope for the future. The news cycle gets old by the hour and we don’t know how things will work out, in the mean time, the folks at the Software Freedom Conservancy will have a “Phone freedom tips, and related Q&A” video chat on Friday, Sep 5 (2025), at 15:00 UTC (08:00 US/Pacific, 11:00 US/Eastern, 17:00 CEST), to discuss how to best remove proprietary code from your phone, and ensure that you control how your phone operates, and which apps can run on it (and from whom). We’ll be sure to be there!
Talking about celebrating round numbers, 10 years ago we posted the “Complete, reproducible app distribution achieved!” news, talking about the first app that was build reproducible. We are pushing for reproducible apps at inclusion time and many already included apps apps have switched too, as their developers wanted, because we feel this is an important feature to cultivate. We currently host about 747 apps that are signed by their developer, but that’s just a bit more than 19% of our apps. In the context of the Android changes mentioned above this percent might be a curse or a blessing, we’ll see what the future holds.
For more time than F-Droid, the folks at reproducible-builds.org have been supporting and encouraging software projects to consider and implement reproducibility, with patches, tools and documentation. We have been present at their yearly organized events in the past and we will be this year too in Vienna, Austria, between October 28-30, 2025. If you find the news of a gathering of like minded people discussion applications built reproducible interesting, maybe you can join too.
Community News
Conversations and Quicksy were updated to 2.19.4+free. The changes range from a new ‘empty chat’ screen, through bug fixes and better performance in large public channels. What was a bit more troublesome, was the new added TLS v1.3 setting that was turned on by default. Apparently some instances didn’t have this security level enabled so Conversations will just show an error and refuse to connect. This can be easily fixed (for now) by going into Settings, Security and toggling off “Strong transport security”. Going forward, please contact your server admin and ask them to update the server or configure TLS v1.3 as soon as possible.
Removed Apps
1 app was removed
- Massive, Track your reps and sets in the gym, completely offline was dropped in favor of Flexify
Newly Added Apps
2 apps were newly added
- Aktivpause to Go: App to integrate planned breaks into your day
- PennyWise AI: Offline expense tracker from bank SMS with optional AI chat
Downgraded Apps
1 app was downgraded
- HyperRogue was downgraded from
13.0vto13.0aas the game was crashing on start.
Updated Apps
186 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- 8-Bit Wonders was updated to
0.8.8 - Acode editor - Android code editor was updated to
1.11.6 - Alligator Bytes was updated to
0.27 - AndBible: Bible Study was updated to
5.0.891 - AndroidMic was updated to
2.1.12 - ANeko Reborn was updated to
1.3.2 - Another notes app was updated to
1.6.0 - ANOTHERpass was updated to
2.2.4 - aTalk was updated to
4.5.0 - AVNC was updated to
3.0.0 - Badge Magic was updated to
1.18.15 - Better Stundenplan was updated to
1.2.4 - Bim! was updated to
10 - Binary Eye was updated to
1.66.2 - Blichess was updated to
8.0.0+ble2.1.2 - Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to
2.4.2 - Blood pressure monitor was updated to
1.8.9 - Bluetooth Remote was updated to
1.8.1 - Brethap was updated to
1.8.3 - Bubble was updated to
3.2 - Cavity was updated to
1.9.2 - CClauncher was updated to
v9.9.3 - Cheogram was updated to
2.19.0-1+free - Chess was updated to
9.8.1 - Chronal was updated to
0.3.0 - Clash Meta For Android was updated to
2.11.15.Meta - Classical Music Scanner was updated to
1.9.1 - Classical Music Tagger was updated to
1.10 - Com-Phone Story Maker was updated to
1.8.1 - CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to
2025.08.31-15-FDroid - Commons was updated to
6.0.1 - Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to
4.4.0 - CryptX was updated to
1.4.0 - Cuscon was updated to
4.0.6.3 - Daily You was updated to
2.12.2 - DankChat was updated to
3.11.10 - DataBackup was updated to
2.0.11 - Datenspuren 2025 was updated to
1.72.0-Datenspuren-Edition - Deepr was updated to
1.0.6 - Delta Icon Pack was updated to
2.7.0 - DetoxDroid: Digital Detoxing as Your New Default was updated to
2.1.0 - DigiAgriApp was updated to
0.4.1 - DNSNet was updated to
1.3.4 - Dokuwiki Android was updated to
v1.1.1 - DOOM & Wolfenstein RPG was updated to
1.0.4.5 - Droid Pad was updated to
3.0.0 - Easy Watermark was updated to
2.9.6 - EinkBro was updated to
14.0.0 - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
4.6.2 - Enhanced Music Controller Lite was updated to
1.37 - Exclave was updated to
0.16.1 - FaFa Runner was updated to
2.5.6 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2294 - FediPhoto-Lineage was updated to
8.0 - Feeder was updated to
2.13.0 - FitBook was updated to
2.0.18 - Flang was updated to
1.14 - Flicky was updated to
3.2.3 - floccus bookmark sync was updated to
5.7.0 - FluffyChat was updated to
2.1.1 - Forkyz was updated to
71 - Fossify Voice Recorder Beta was updated to
1.3.5 - FossWallet was updated to
0.26.0 - Fread was updated to
1.6.0 - Freebloks was updated to
1.7.0 - Fulguris Web Browser was updated to
1.10.2 - Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to
1.39.0 - Gauguin was updated to
0.44.0 - Goodtime - Minimalist Pomodoro Timer was updated to
3.0.14 - Graph 89 was updated to
1.1.9 - Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to
3.6.1 - HexViewer was updated to
1.59.0 - hwloc lstopo was updated to
2.12.2-1-1.6.1 - IITC-CE Mobile was updated to
0.41.0 - Immich was updated to
1.140.1 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.8.5 - Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to
build106.3.3 - J-K Bike - Mechanical Disaster Prevention was updated to
3.1.3 - Joplin was updated to
3.4.5 - KISS Launcher was updated to
3.22.2 - Kotatsu was updated to
9.1.4 - Kreate was updated to
1.7.0-fdroid - Ladefuchs was updated to
3.4.0 - Libre Librivox listener was updated to
3.0.0 - LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to
2.1.1 - Linphone - open source SIP client was updated to
6.0.16 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.4.0-beta.3 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.6.16 - litube was updated to
1.6.0.2 - Lyrion was updated to
0.9.0 - MedTimer was updated to
1.18.2 - Metronome was updated to
5.4.0 - Mill was updated to
6.7.1 - Mindustry was updated to
8-fdroid-151.1 - MoasdaWiki was updated to
3.9.5.1 - MoeMemos was updated to
0.8.6 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
5.4.8 - mpv-android was updated to
2025-08-25-release - MRMCD 2025 Schedule was updated to
1.72.0-MRMCD-Edition - MultiVNC was updated to
2.2.0 - MuPDF mini was updated to
1.26.7a - MuPDF viewer was updated to
1.26.7a - MusicSearch was updated to
1.60.2 - NewsBlur - News reader was updated to
13.7.0 - Nextcloud was updated to
3.33.0 RC1 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20250901 - Nextcloud Talk was updated to
21.2.0 - Nora was updated to
0.1.9 - NouTube was updated to
0.3.8 - NymVPN: Secure VPN by Nym was updated to
v1.9.1 - Odin was updated to
3.5.8 - Offline Translator was updated to
0.1.1 - Open Camera was updated to
1.55 - openScale sync was updated to
0.4.3 - OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to
v4.22.1irreproducible - OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to
v4.22.1 - Opus 1 Music Player was updated to
2.66 - Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to
2025.09.01-6-FDroid - OwnTracks was updated to
2.5.4 - oxproxion was updated to
1.2.8 - P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.46.2 - Pachli for Mastodon was updated to
2.16.0 - Paperize - A Wallpaper Changer was updated to
3.1.2 - Password Store was updated to
1.15.1 - Phocid was updated to
20250829 - Pineapple Lock Screen (OSS) was updated to
2.1.1-oss - PipePipe was updated to
4.7.2 - Pixel 5G was updated to
2.1.0 - Pixelix was updated to
4.2.0 - PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated to
2.1.14 - Productivity Tools - timeto.me was updated to
2025.08.30 - ProseReader was updated to
1.5.3 - PTO - Plaintext Organizer was updated to
3.5.1 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.6.1 - Quad9 Connect was updated to
1.2.0 - Read You was updated to
0.15.1 - Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to
0.18.1 - Ruffle was updated to
0.250826 - SAF Media Scanner was updated to
1.8.5 - SambaLite was updated to
1.2.5 - Satunes was updated to
3.2.1 - ScanBridge was updated to
1.4.0 - Screen Time was updated to
1.2.0 - SDB Viewer was updated to
1.9 - Seafile was updated to
3.0.18 - SelfPrivacy was updated to
0.13.3 - Session F-Droid was updated to
1.27.0 - Shader Editor was updated to
2.35.2 - Shiori was updated to
1.50.21 - Simple Keyboard was updated to
5.37 - Simple Time Tracker was updated to
1.50 - SimpleX Chat was updated to
6.4.4 - SimpleXray was updated to
1.10.2 - sing-box was updated to
1.12.4 - SiYuan was updated to
3.3.0 - SkyTube was updated to
2.996 - SkyTube Legacy was updated to
2.996 - Slideshow Wallpaper was updated to
1.2.4 - Spell4Wiki was updated to
3.0 - Squeeze Client was updated to
2.0 - Standard Notes was updated to
3.198.17 - Status Bar Speedometer was updated to
3.14.0 - Stocks Widget was updated to
4.0.017 - Super Productivity was updated to
14.4.1 - Thor was updated to
1.8.9 - Threema Libre was updated to
6.1.2l - Tilde Friends was updated to
0.2025.8 - Tower Collector was updated to
2.17.0 - Tuta Calendar was updated to
304.250825.0 - Tuta Mail was updated to
304.250825.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.17.18 - Unpopular Music Player was updated to
2.85 - VPN Hotspot was updated to
2.19.1 - WAFRN was updated to
1.5.10 - Weather: Cool and Hot was updated to
0.13 - wger Workout Manager was updated to
1.8.4 - Whisper was updated to
3.5 - WikiReader was updated to
2.5.3 - Xed-Editor was updated to
3.1.7 - Xray was updated to
11.3.2 - Xtra was updated to
2.47.1 - Zashi: Zcash Wallet was updated to
2.2.1 - Zulip was updated to
30.0.264 - α-Remote was updated to
1.1 - スミレ 日本語キーボード was updated to
1.4.400 - 聚在工大 was updated to
4.17.6
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