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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
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