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This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 31 Jul 2025, Week 31
F-Droid core
F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.23.1 fixing the index diff bug we’ve talked about on July 17 and July 24.
Five more post release issues were tackled:
- Disable edge-to-edge for Android 10 and below since it caused issues there (Versions section is visible again)
- Fix top app bar background in OLED black theme
- Fix implied POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission mismatch (Should make the client less toast spammy on Graphene and other distros)
- Fix minimum installable target SDK for Android 16 (marks apps as incompatible again)
- Fix crash when setting session timeout with conscrypt installed
How to install this release? In F-Droid Client, on its own page, either scroll down, expand Versions and install the latest, or in the upper right menu choose “Allow Beta updates”. After a bit of time passes, this will be marked as suggested for everyone.
In metadata news, our docs cover the way developers have to format app description, summary, screenshots, icon and more in “All About Descriptions, Graphics, and Screenshots” so that their app page looks nice and informative, maybe even fun. We’ve noticed that not everyone loves to host random folders in the root of their source code so we adapted our parser to pick it up from more paths. Hosting more than 3800 apps (and forks of apps) there are plenty of chances we’ve missed an edge case or two.
After the last cycle, users pinged us about a mysterious second Element X app appearing in their searches. Since the changes were fresh in our mind we quickly tracked and fixed the issue for SchildiChat Next for Android, the Element X fork. As they build on top of the upstream app, F-Droid metadata parser detected the original files for description, summary, screenshots and icon and used those instead. When the currently running cycle is published it should bring back the right information for SchildiChat Next.
Community News
The research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) belongs to the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The group was founded in 2011 and we host dozens of their apps that are privacy-friendly, with minimal permissions, that do not track you nor show you ads.
The team just announced in a recent post that F-Droid will be their only app distribution channel from now on. If you had any of their apps installed from some centralized store, make sure you backup and reinstall it from F-Droid to get timely updates in the future.
Licaon_Kter stays on XMPP and grabs a 🍿:
Session F-Droid was updated to 1.26.0, but did you know that our very own @linsui is doing the work of cleaning the app of non-FOSS bits so we can publish it on F-Droid?
Anyway, the upstream dev team just introduced a “Pro” version of the app, a paid version with extra features, for users that want them and want to support and sustain the development of the app and the network. For F-Droid users this means, that for now, the “Pro” is unattainable as a payment system is not yet ready, outside of privacy invading centralized stores. Read more in the 20 minutes long post & FAQ.
Removed Apps
6 apps were removed
- APV PDF Viewer: PDF viewer
- ePUBator: Offline PDF to ePUB convertor
- PDF Reader: View PDF files
- PicGuard: Your pictures, your signature
- VCMI: Engine recreation for Heroes of Might and Magic III
- xBrowserSync: Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free (Extension no longer working, better get a bookmark app instead)
Newly Added Apps
10 apps were newly added
- BallBreak: Minigame
- Birdipedia: A pocket bird guide written in Jetpack Compose
- Frogue: 3D FPS with Boss Fights and Randomized Weapons
- Jiyi: Encrypted audio logging app
- Libre Librivox listener: A unofficial libre application to listen to public domain audiobooks
- PlugBrain: PlugBrain blocks apps and uses math challenges to reduce screen time
- Remind Me!: Set alarms for a specific date in the future (alarm, not a reminder!)
- SimpleXray: A high-performance and stable Xray-core client for Android
- Snakes: Make your way through an extended version of Snake with computer-controlled opponents
- VirtualGamePad Mobile: Android phone as a gamepad for your PC
Downgraded Apps
1 app was downgraded
- unjumble was downgraded from
4.0to2.0as the app was broken.
Updated Apps
104 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- 2048 (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.4.2 - AndrOBD was updated to
V2.6.15 - AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to
2.22.1 - APK Explorer & Editor was updated to
v0.31 - Audio Source was updated to
1.4 - Aves Libre was updated to
1.13.5 - baresip was updated to
68.0.0 - baresip+ was updated to
55.0.0 - Bide et Musique was updated to
4.1.2 - Blichess was updated to
8.0.0+ble2.1.1 - Broccoli: The Green Recipe App was updated to
1.4.3 - Cartes IGN was updated to
3.3.26 - Cavity was updated to
1.9.0 - Checkers (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.3.3 - Chess was updated to
9.7.2 - Chooser was updated to
1.4.6 - CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy was updated to
2025.07.23-4-FDroid - Copy SMS Code - OTP Helper was updated to
1.19.3 - Cuscon was updated to
4.0.5.8 - DAVx⁵ was updated to
4.5.2.1-ose - DCC++Throttle was updated to
1.4 - DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to
5.241.1 - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
4.6.0 - Emotic was updated to
0.1.9 - Etar - OpenSource Calendar was updated to
1.0.50 - Exclave was updated to
0.15.1 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2288 - FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to
1.3.0 - Fitness Calendar was updated to
2025.07.2 - FixupXer - URL Enhancer was updated to
1.4.6 - Flang was updated to
1.13 - Flexify was updated to
2.0.60 - Flip 2 DND was updated to
7.0.1 - Fossify Calendar was updated to
1.5.0 - Fossify Camera Beta was updated to
1.1.0 - Fossify Contacts was updated to
1.2.3 - Fossify Gallery was updated to
1.4.1 - Fossify Paint Beta was updated to
1.1.1 - FossWallet was updated to
0.23.1 - Freebloks was updated to
1.6.6 - Fujiten was updated to
1.0.8 - Game Counter was updated to
2.5.3 - Grit was updated to
4.2.2 - Habit-Maker was updated to
0.0.33 - ICSx⁵ was updated to
2.3.0 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.7.0 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.14.0 - Jerboa for Lemmy was updated to
0.0.80 - JetBird was updated to
1.3.4 - Keep it up was updated to
1.8.0 - Kid3 was updated to
3.9.7 - Komelia was updated to
0.16.0 - Kwik EFIS was updated to
7.12 - Launch - Minimalist Launcher was updated to
4.6 - Library App VideLibri was updated to
2.938 - Linkora was updated to
0.13.6 - litube was updated to
1.6.0.1 - Mafia was updated to
0.3.0 - MapComplete was updated to
0.54.4 - Memo Game (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.1.3-google - Meshenger was updated to
4.4.7 - Mill was updated to
6.5.1 - Mindustry was updated to
8-fdroid-150 - MusicSearch was updated to
1.49.2 - Nextcloud was updated to
3.32.3 RC1 - Nextcloud Notes was updated to
4.4.1 - NouTube was updated to
0.2.0 - ntodotxt was updated to
0.14.2 - NymVPN: Secure VPN by Nym was updated to
v1.7.0 - Offi was updated to
13.0.12 - OnTime was updated to
2.6 - ownCloud was updated to
4.6.0 - P.CASH Wallet was updated to
0.44.1 - P2Play - Peertube client was updated to
0.9.3 - PCAPdroid was updated to
1.8.7 - Peercoin Wallet was updated to
1.4.6 - PeerTube was updated to
1.0.3 - Phocid was updated to
20250721 - Plus Plus Battery was updated to
2.3.1 - Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to
8.17.7 - Pomodorot was updated to
0.11.2 - Power Ampache 2 was updated to
1.01-83-fdroid - Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to
1.32.7 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.5.14 - Rank-My-Favs was updated to
0.6.15 - Ruffle was updated to
0.250721 - RustDesk was updated to
1.4.1 - Seafile was updated to
3.0.16 - Simlar - secure calls was updated to
2.13.1 (alwaysOnline) - Simple. : Fitness Simplified. was updated to
1.7.13 - SimpMusic was updated to
0.2.18-hf - SiYuan was updated to
3.2.1 - Smither was updated to
3.6.2 - SMS Import / Export was updated to
2.5.0-standard - Standard Notes was updated to
3.198.11 - Thumb-Key was updated to
5.0.3 - Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to
12.0b3 - Transistor - Simple Radio App was updated to
4.2.6 - Unciv was updated to
4.17.8-patch1 - venera was updated to
1.4.6 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.39.2 - Windscribe was updated to
3.91 - Zimly S3 Backup was updated to
3.3.0 - Zulip was updated to
30.0.262
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