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Posted on Mar 13, 2026 by
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This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2026, Week 11
F-Droid core
The countdown to September lock-down continues. Did you do your part? Did you contact your local representative yet? What did they answer?
Did you install F-Droid on all you family’s members and close friends devices? Why not? Have them try a good FLOSS app today, we don’t have millions of apps but we host good apps that offer the transparency users deserve.
Let’s show them that one does not need to be an advanced users to get good, privacy respecting apps, and when everyone installs F-Droid we are normalizing the freedom of users to decide that for themselves.
Want to be more daring? Install or update to the latest F-Droid Basic version 2.0-alpha4. It brings:
- Tweak category layouts to separate groups of categories (Thanks Peter)
- Show banner alerting users to how Google developer verification threatens F-Droid (Thanks Peter)
- Evaluate and translate more strings
- DNS cache feature 2.0 refactor (Thanks Matthew Bogner)
- Update color definitions for light and dark themes (Thanks proletarius101)
- Consistent chip layout throughout (Thanks Peter)
- Show us in TV launchers (Feedback welcomed!)
- Fix bugs with keyboard navigation
- Show Discover screen faster and animate items
- Keep filter icon visible in app lists
- Allow filtering app lists by anti-features
- …and more
And by the time you read this, 2.0-alpha5 might be live too…
Want a good “starter” app in the world of FLOSS apps for Android? Have NewPipe, it was updated to 0.28.4 and, besides the usual fixes and improvements, it added a start dialogue to inform users about the Google plan to lock-down Android soon.
Community News
In stats news, @kitswas announces that all-time stat badges are available thanks to @BURG3R5. Now you can get badges like Downloads (all time) from the badge builder.
And our own @grote is researching integrating download stats in F-Droid Client (hint: Basic 2.0-alpha already includes stats) and they’ve quickly put up a website that shows downloads in total and per category for the last year. Note that the numbers only cover our own servers and not our dozen or so mirrors, since these are used at random for each download, you might need to multiply the numbers.
AndrOBD was updated to V2.7.4 after some months of development. Does the changelog sound nice? Oh, new contributors have arrived…
sing-box was updated to 1.13.2 with a refactored UI and many improvements.
Removed Apps
3 apps were removed
- NClientV2: An unofficial NHentai Client (See new apps below)
- Smile SS14: Smile from Space Stastion 14 as a ANeko skin
- WhatsDown: Fast encrypted chats for the family (Metadata needs to be updated to make it clear it’s a fork of ArcaneChat)
Newly Added Apps
38 apps were newly added
- Africa Quiz: Quiz game testing your knowledge of African capital cities
- Atmo Engine: Replicate the dynamic ‘Atmosphere’ unlock transition effect from Nothing OS
- Be nice: Your friendly launcher
- Bluetooth QR & Barcode to PC: Enables sending QR/Barcodes to a Bluetooth Device (e.g PC) without any Software
- CaptureCap: Record Audio and/or Screen
- Classic Tic Tac Toe: Fun with emoji naughts and crosses
- Episteme Reader: A document reader for PDF, EPUB, and MOBI
- FileFlow: Organize files automatically
- Gendie - Grammatical Gender Trainer: Never forget the gender of nouns with Gendie - the grammatical gender trainer
- Image Compressor: Compress JPEG/PNG images using mozjpeg or jpegli offline
- Internet Helper for Gadgetbridge: Companion for Gadgetbridge, to allow for controlled Internet access
- KyuubiMask - Privacy First: Privacy-focused notification masking for screen sharing and presentations
- Launcher314: Just a simple one screen launcher people can use
- LibreFind: Discover and replace proprietary apps with FOSS alternatives
- NClientV3: A configurable manga client, a fork of NClientV2
- NerdCalci: Calculator for nerds with variables, syntax highlighting, and file sessions
- Network Scanner: Fast, privacy-focused network scanner to discover devices on your local network
- NexNode for Linode Cloud: Manage Your Linode Cloud with NexNode
- NFC Archiver: Store and restore files across multiple NFC tags
- Octo8: Check current Splatoon 3 map schedules
- OnePlus ARB Checker: Check Anti-Rollback (ARB) index for OnePlus devices to ensure safe updates
- Punch-hole Download Progress: Xposed module showing download progress around the camera cutout
- QuandoInTV: Don’t miss the broadcast of your favorite TV programs
- RepoStore: Discover, install, and update apps directly from GitHub releases
- RiPlay: Multiplatform Music Player
- ruNNNpe bridge: Automatic bridge from NPE RUNN to Health Connect
- ScoreHub - Game Score Tracker: Track your board game scores easily
- Simple Audio Converter: A simple audio converter
- SimpleHIIT: Customisable HIIT timer with animated exercises
- Smoking Tracker: Track your smoking and see daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics
- Stutter: Speed-reading app that shows one word at a time with adjustable timing
- Taiga Mobile Nova: Unofficial client for Taiga.io project management
- Trails Hito: A simple and lightweight application for managing and exploring trails
- UniThen: Course check-in for ZHS without the bloaty UniNow app
- warecache: Smart Inventory Management companion
- WiFi Password Manager: Simple app using Shizuku or root access to manage WiFi passwords
- Wikisource Reader: Access public domain and freely licensed works from the Wikisource project
- Überböse: Control Bose SoundTouch speakers & Spotify auth
Downgraded Apps
1 app was downgraded
- Amarok was downgraded from
0.10.0to0.9.3so the dev fixes a thing or two.
Updated Apps
346 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
Lack of news made us skip last week’s TWIF, hence this list only grew larger.
- AAT Another Activity Tracker was updated to
v1.30.1 - AFWall+ was updated to
4.0.3 - AliasVault was updated to
0.27.2 - Alligator Bytes was updated to
0.31 - Amadz - Calling App was updated to
1.1.3 - Amber was updated to
4.1.3 - AndBible: Bible Study was updated to
5.0.910 - AndroidMic was updated to
2.2.6 - ANeko Reborn was updated to
2.3.0 - AniHyou - AniList client was updated to
1.5.2 - AnySoftKeyboard was updated to
1.13.8175 - Aria for Misskey was updated to
1.4.5 - Assistral was updated to
3.2.4 - Audio Source was updated to
1.5 - Automation was updated to
1.8.7 - Bahn-Vorhersage was updated to
0.6.2 - baresip+ was updated to
66.0.2 - baresip was updated to
77.2.2 - BikeBridge was updated to
0.0.6 - BikeSharingHub was updated to
2.1.5 - Binary Eye was updated to
1.68.5 - Blitz: Fischer Chess Clock was updated to
2.0.8 - Blockstream App (Green) was updated to
5.2.0 - Blorp was updated to
1.10.8 - Blue Line Console was updated to
1.2.25 - Bluetooth Remote was updated to
1.10.0 - BoutScoring was updated to
1.1 - Box, Box! was updated to
0.10.2 - Break.Down.Timer was updated to
1.5.0 - Breakout 71 was updated to
29546438 - Burger Party was updated to
1.4.6 - Calendar was updated to
v2.1.0 - Calibre-Web-Companion was updated to
1.8.8 - CameraFileCopy was updated to
0.6.4 - Cams was updated to
2.5 - Canta was updated to
3.2.2 - CAPod - Companion for AirPods was updated to
4.0.0-rc0 - Capy Reader was updated to
2026.03.1200 - Carburoid was updated to
1.4.4 - Cartes IGN was updated to
3.4.9 - CastLab was updated to
1.1.0 - Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to
2.41.7 - Cavity was updated to
1.11.1 - CClauncher was updated to
v10.7.3 - Celestia was updated to
1.9.10 - Chaka Book Reader was updated to
1.24.9a.20 - Chaldea was updated to
2.5.26 - Chess by Vayun Mathur was updated to
v2.1.0 - Chess was updated to
10.1.0 - Chitralaya CloudGallery App was updated to
0.6 - Chooser was updated to
1.4.11 - Citrine was updated to
2.0.0 - Ciyue was updated to
1.22.2 - Clash Meta For Android was updated to
2.11.23.Meta - CleanShare was updated to
2.1.0 - CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to
2026.03.09-18-FDroid - Conceal Authenticator was updated to
1.1.3 - Contacts was updated to
v2.1.0 - Conversations was updated to
2.19.13+free - Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to
4.6.0 - CPU Info was updated to
6.5.1 - Cuscon was updated to
4.0.9.0 - Daily You was updated to
2.17.3 - DataStats was updated to
3.0.0 - Delta Icon Pack was updated to
2.13.0 - DobbyVPN was updated to
1.1.21 - DOI to SciHub was updated to
1.3.0 - Dragon Launcher was updated to
2.6.2 - DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to
5.268.1 - Easter Eggs was updated to
4.4.3 - Easy Diary was updated to
1.4.343.202603010 - EasySSHFS was updated to
0.5.17 - EasySync was updated to
1.23 - Element Classic was updated to
1.6.52 - Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to
26.03.0 - Emerald Dialer was updated to
1.0.23 - EnigmaDroid was updated to
1.8.0 - EP Mobile was updated to
2.40.1 - EteSync - Secure Data Sync was updated to
2.7.0 - Exclave was updated to
0.17.23 - FaFa Runner was updated to
2.7.0 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2313 - FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to
1.16.0 - FakeTraveler was updated to
2.3.0 - Feeder was updated to
2.18.0 - Feeder (Play version) was updated to
2.18.0 - Fennec F-Droid was updated to
148.0.2 - FileFlow was updated to
1.2.0 - Fire Brigade Competition Radio Trainer (HFLÜ Hesse was updated to
2.5 - Flash Alert (Calls & SMS) was updated to
3.0 - Flashy was updated to
3.3 - Flexify was updated to
2.1.56 - Flicky was updated to
4.3.1 - Fluffy was updated to
4.1.7 - Flux News was updated to
1.14.2 - FMD edge was updated to
0.14.1 - FMD was updated to
0.14.1 - Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to
3.4.5 - Forkyz was updated to
79 - FossWallet was updated to
0.40.2 - Foto Timer was updated to
1.4.1 - Freebloks was updated to
1.7.2 - freeDictionaryApp was updated to
1.7.10 - FTPClient was updated to
3.0.0 - Futon was updated to
9.6.11 - Gauguin was updated to
0.49.1 - Gendie - Grammatical Gender Trainer was updated to
1.6.0 - GeoWeather was updated to
1.2.8 - geteduroam was updated to
2.1.7(2682) - getgovroam was updated to
2.1.7(2682) - Giggity was updated to
2.2 - Github Store was updated to
1.6.2 - Goals Tracker 24/7 - timeto.me was updated to
2026.03.08 - gptAssist was updated to
2.40 - Gridle was updated to
1.22 - Grit was updated to
5.7.3 - Gurgle was updated to
1.36 - Habit-Maker was updated to
0.0.45 - Hacki for Hacker News was updated to
3.2.0 - Harp was updated to
1.6.6 - HeliBoard was updated to
3.8 - Hisn Elmoslem - Azkar & Dua was updated to
3.2.01 - i2pd was updated to
2.59.0 - IITC-CE Mobile was updated to
0.42.1 - Image Toolbox was updated to
3.7.0 - Immich Uploader was updated to
2.1.1 - Improvement Roll was updated to
1.5.0 - Infomaniak Euria was updated to
1.3.0 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.13.0 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.24.6 - Insigno was updated to
1.4.5 - InviZible Pro: Tor & Firewall, DNSCrypt & I2P was updated to
7.4.0 - IR Blaster Remote was updated to
2.1.5 - Jami was updated to
20260306-01 - Jamu was updated to
0.1.4 - Janus was updated to
0.1.6 - Jiyi was updated to
1.0.3 - Json List was updated to
1.10 - Just Delete Me was updated to
0.5 - Kai was updated to
1.9.4 - Kanji Dojo was updated to
2.2.1 - Karui ToDo was updated to
1.4 - KashCal was updated to
23.3.0 - Kazumi was updated to
2.0.5 - KeepOn - Keep your screen on smartly! was updated to
2.1.1 - Key Mapper was updated to
4.0.5-foss - kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to
2.0.7 - Koofr Vault was updated to
0.1.25 - Kreate was updated to
2.0.0-fdroid - Latin Defense was updated to
1.3.1 - LaundryNotes was updated to
2.1 - Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud was updated to
2.11.1 - Librera Reader was updated to
9.3.63-fdroid - LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to
2.1.7 - LinkHub was updated to
2.0.9 - Linux Command Library was updated to
3.5.17 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.5.0-beta.3 - LinxShare was updated to
1.5 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.8.17 - Logcat Reader was updated to
2.4.1 - LogFox was updated to
2.1.10 - Logline - MovieApp was updated to
1.0.3 - Look4Sat: Satellite tracker was updated to
4.1.0 - Mages was updated to
4.2.3 - Magisk was updated to
30.7 - MakeACopy was updated to
3.5.0 - Mako Launcher was updated to
2026.26 - Markor was updated to
2.16.0 - Mastodon was updated to
2.11.10 - MateDroid was updated to
1.2.3 - Materialious was updated to
1.16.17 - Mattermost Beta was updated to
2.37.2 - MedTimer: Med & Pill Reminder was updated to
1.22.9 - MetaGer Search was updated to
5.1.10 - microMathematics Plus was updated to
2.23.3 - Mill was updated to
7.3.10 - Minis companion was updated to
1.6.0 - MMRL was updated to
v34296-release - Money Manager Ex was updated to
5.5.2 - monocles chat was updated to
2.1.4 - MsgGo was updated to
3.8 - MultiVNC was updated to
2.3.4 - Mumla was updated to
3.7.3 - Musekit was updated to
2.6.4 - MusicSearch was updated to
1.90.3 - Musify was updated to
9.9.1 - My Expenses was updated to
4.0.6.3 - My Quran - قرآني was updated to
1.7.5 - NanoLedger was updated to
1.4.0 - NATINFo+ was updated to
1.2.1 - NeoStumbler was updated to
2.3.2 - Network Survey was updated to
1.50 - NewsBlur - News reader was updated to
13.12.3 - Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to
0.28.0 - Nextcloud Deck was updated to
1.24.7 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20260312 - Nora was updated to
0.6.4 - nospeak was updated to
v0.12.3 - NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to
7.9.1 - Notely Voice: AI Voice to Text was updated to
1.3.1 - Notes was updated to
1.41 - NotiFilter was updated to
4.8.1 - NouTube was updated to
0.4.11 - ntfy - PUT/POST to your phone was updated to
1.24.0 - NymVPN – Private VPN was updated to
v3.0.0 - NZ Tides was updated to
25 - Obtainium was updated to
1.3.4 - Oinkoin was updated to
1.5.0 - OONI Probe was updated to
6.0.1 - Open Passkey Authenticator was updated to
2.1.0 - openScale was updated to
3.0.3 - OpenTune was updated to
2.0.12 - OpenWrt Manager was updated to
1.40.0 - Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPS was updated to
2026.03.11-12-FDroid - Orgro was updated to
2.1.3 - Orgzly Revived was updated to
1.18.0 - oxproxion was updated to
2.1.49 - Pachli for Mastodon was updated to
3.4.0 - Pagan was updated to
1.8.3 - Pantry was updated to
0.1.4-fdroid - Paperless Mobile was updated to
4.0.1 - Parcel - Pickup code was updated to
1.0.50 - PassVault was updated to
1.9.1 - Password Store was updated to
1.16.2 - P.CASH Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.52.0 - PDF was updated to
v2.1.0 - PDF Wallet was updated to
5.1.3 - PeerTube Live was updated to
1.4.1 - PennyWise AI was updated to
2.15.48 - Peristyle was updated to
v9.5.3 - Petals was updated to
3.39.0 - Phonograph Plus was updated to
1.12.0 - Photok was updated to
2.7.0 - PhotoSwooper was updated to
2026.3.1 - Pie Launcher was updated to
1.25.1 - PipePipe was updated to
4.8.1 - PlainApp: Phone Web Portal was updated to
3.0.4 - Play Maker was updated to
1.15.2 - PocketCheck was updated to
1.6.1 - PocketTRacker was updated to
2.5.7 - Polymarket Viewer was updated to
1.33 - ProseReader was updated to
1.8.0 - Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to
1.37.3 - ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to
5.16.88.0 - PTO - Plaintext Organizer was updated to
3.6.0 - Quicksy was updated to
2.19.13+free - Quran Revision Companion was updated to
1.7.5 - RaagaDB was updated to
1.1.4 - Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to
0.19.8 - Redomi was updated to
1.4.1 - Remember My Sort was updated to
2.0.1 - RHVoice - a free and open source speech synthesize was updated to
1.18.2 - Rhythm was updated to
4.3.338.911-fdroid - RidgeScout was updated to
3.1 - Ringdroid - Ringtone editor was updated to
2.9.9 - Roboyard was updated to
42 - RomanDigital was updated to
3.0.0 - RSAF was updated to
3.36 - Ruffle was updated to
0.260309 - Rush - Lyrics App was updated to
5.6.0 - SambaLite was updated to
1.5.1 - Sapio was updated to
1.16.0 - Saracroche was updated to
2.6.0 - ScanBridge was updated to
2.1.2 - ScreenStream was updated to
4.3.2 - Screen Time was updated to
1.3.2 - SDB Viewer was updated to
1.9.1 - SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to
1.6.4-rc0 - Sensors2OSC was updated to
0.16.1 - ServerBox was updated to
1.0.1331 - SFTP-SAF was updated to
0.2.20 - Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to
3.3.7 - ShikiApp was updated to
alpha-0.6.0 - Shiori was updated to
1.51.01 - ShockAlarm was updated to
0.4.4 - SimpleMarkdown was updated to
2026.03.00-free - Simple Notes Sync was updated to
1.11.0 - Simple Time Tracker was updated to
1.56 - SimpMusic was updated to
1.0.4 - SIS was updated to
1.9.0 - SiYuan was updated to
3.5.10 - SMS2Email was updated to
1.1.15 - Soul Searching was updated to
0.15.0 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
5.5 - Squealer was updated to
0.1.3 - Stashly - Vault tool was updated to
2.0.6 - Stocks Widget was updated to
4.0.060 - StreetComplete was updated to
63.0 - Suntimes Calendars was updated to
0.6.2 - Sunup was updated to
1.3.1 - SuperX Video Downloader was updated to
0.8.14 - Syncthing-Fork was updated to
2.0.15.0 - TaskerHA was updated to
1.1.3 - Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to
15.0 - TermuC was updated to
0.2.2 - Threema Libre was updated to
6.3.2l - Thumb-Key was updated to
5.1.5 - Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to
17.0b4 - tiefprompt was updated to
0.11.1 - Tilde Friends was updated to
0.2026.2 - Tiny Weather Forecast Germany was updated to
0.63.2 - To Do was updated to
1.5.0 - ToLoShare was updated to
1.0.16 - Tomato was updated to
1.8.4 - Torrent Search was updated to
0.4.8 - Tournant was updated to
2.11.0 - traced it was updated to
1.7.0 - Track Work Time was updated to
1.1.27 - Traffic Light was updated to
2.11 - Trailence was updated to
1.5.1 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.23.1 - Trime was updated to
3.3.9 - Trudido was updated to
1.3.2 - Tsacdop-Fork - Podcast Player was updated to
0.9.3 - TTS Util was updated to
4.1.1 - Tubular was updated to
0.28.4 - Tusky was updated to
32.2 - Tuta Mail was updated to
335.260310.0 - Ultrasonic was updated to
4.9.0 - Unblock Jam was updated to
v2.1.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.19.17-patch2 - UnitsTool was updated to
1.0.16 - UP-Example was updated to
2.3.0-rc1 - venera was updated to
1.6.3 - VerveDo was updated to
3.1.3 - Vespucci - an OSM Editor was updated to
21.2.4.0 - VRChat Android Assistant was updated to
2.8.2 - Waistline was updated to
3.10.1 - Webview Kiosk was updated to
0.26.5 - wger Workout Manager was updated to
1.10.2 - whoBIRD was updated to
5.1 - Wiki Fronted was updated to
r/50569-r-2026-03-03 - Wikipedia was updated to
r/50569-r-2026-03-03 - Windscribe was updated to
3.98 - Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to
4.21.0 - Word Maker was updated to
v2.1.0 - wX was updated to
55990 - XDYou was updated to
1.5.8 - XiVPN was updated to
1.9.0 - Xtra was updated to
2.54.4 - Yagni Launcher was updated to
0.4.7-alpha - You Have Mail was updated to
0.22.1 - Your local weather was updated to
6.3.5 - YtAlarm was updated to
1.0.0 - Yubico Authenticator was updated to
7.3.2 - Zodl: Zcash Wallet was updated to
3.0.1 - Zulip was updated to
30.0.271 - µLauncher was updated to
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