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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Nov 2025, Week 45

Community News

Jami was updated to 20251031-01. The devs are busy at work but also at posting interesting blogs. “Manifesto 2025: the freedom to communicate belongs to all of us” talks about how humanity has more tools to speak yet we end up silenced. And in “Jami survival kit: Internet down? Keep talking!” we learn about the many ways Jami can cope when Internet access is severely limited or entirely cut off.

MakeACopy was updated to 2.1.1 but we also included MakeACopy – OCR Latin (Best), More accurate Tesseract Best models for Latin languages. Add-on so you can have these at hand and use in-app directly.

Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.34.0 and ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.14.2.1, but in more Proton news we also included Lumo, A private AI assistant by Proton

Vishal scares us:

Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission. But that changed once Google secured Android. The end………… No, hehe, we’re just joking, developers have plenty of ways to track your app usage, profile you, categorize you, track your usage of their competitors apps, punish you if you use the wrong apps and maybe even sell this information to others. And yes, all these apps are vetted as secure and compliant and are made available in the big centralized store from that big monopoly company that wants to block you from installing F-Droid and privacy preserving FLOSS apps.

This 15 minutes read will make you angry or even worse, if you’re from India.

Removed Apps

1 app was removed
  • Buses: Geographical GB bus times lookup app

Newly Added Apps

21 more apps were newly added
  • Athena: Review your device’s information, from hardware to software
  • Contacts: An open-source, fully-functional contacts app
  • De1984 Firewall: Privacy-focused Firewall and Package Manager for Android devices
  • Die Simulator: A simple app which allows you to roll a die
  • Droid_SCEP: Get certificates from a SCEP server and monitor the expiration
  • File85Toolkit: Lightweight file compression and decompression using LZMA + Base85
  • LibreLynx Lite: Lightweight privacy-focused web browser
  • Motion-UI: A web interface to manage your own NVR with motion
  • Pinyin Web & EPUB and dialects: Adds Pinyin or Cantonese etc to websites and EPUBs
  • reReminder: A simple, open-source app for setting recurring reminders throughout your day
  • Roaming Borders: Avoid unexpected roaming charges
  • Sensor Spot: Stream real-time Android sensor data over MQTT
  • ShoppingList: A Shopping List with reminders, price tracking and list sharing
  • Stashly - Vault tool: A simple, secure way to manage your personal files and notes.
  • TextTL: Local plain text file timeline memo tool
  • Therapiefinder: Support in search of a therapy
  • tmtLauncher: Minimalist Android Launcher | made by Timothy Choi
  • Traffic Light: Track your internet usage in the status bar
  • Trailence: Hiking app to organize tracks, record new ones, search, edit, and much more
  • Waterfly III: Unofficial App for Firefly III, an open source personal finance manager
  • TeXeTeScribe: Read and write in text-based files: TXT, JSON, HTML, CSV, XML, YAML, INI, MD

Downgraded Apps

1 apps were downgraded
  • freeminer was downgraded from 5.13.0 to 5.10.0 as the app was crashing.

Updated Apps

182 more apps were updated
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