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TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, Week 51

Community News

Tech Policy Press has a series of posts titled “Symposium on Digital Markets Act (DMA) Enforcement” that you might find interesting, since you read this. The latest one, “Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly”, touches upon the hardship we at F-Droid, and FLOSS devs everywhere, encounter when trying to thrive in a monopoly ruled world. The full series covers more topics like users’ data in the AI age, tech experts and what DMA achieved so far and what’s next, so make sure to read them all.

Authnkey, Passkey credential provider for hardware security keys, makes your security keys (Yubi, Solo, Nitro, etc) usable without proprietary components.

Billionaire device companies run marketing campaigns for new devices focused on an app that takes a screenshot of the screen? That can’t be true, right? I mean “circle to search” can’t be the technical innovation that sells new devices in 2025. I refuse to accept such a thing, and a FLOSS dev did the same as we’ve just included their CircleToSearch App, with multi search engine support, that allows you to do that magic on your current device, without buying anything.

PeerTube was updated to 2.0.0 adding the much sought “creator mode”.

QUIK SMS, Open source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android. A revival of QKSMS had its signing key changed and now has a new appid. At the same time, Messages (a fork of QUIK) was updated to 1.0.3. If you’re still running the old app (now archived, see below), test these two and switch to one of them now.

Removed Apps

2 apps were removed
  • Canta: Uninstall any(*) app without root (Switch to the newer app, named exactly the same: Canta)
  • QUIK SMS: Open source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android. A revival of QKSMS. (Key change, appid change, see News above)

Newly Added Apps

19 more apps were newly added
  • CalSync - Notification Calendar Sync: Sync notification time info to calendar automatically
  • Chess: An open-source chess app
  • DobbyVPN: VPN client-side toolset
  • FindMyBus: View public transport vehicle positions in real time
  • Github Store: App store for GitHub releases - discover and install apps with one click
  • Infomaniak Euria: Euria, your sovereign AI assistant that respects your privacy and the planet
  • Jamu: An app to help learn Japanese
  • Kai: Powerful Conversational AI
  • LCTerm: Crypto point of sale for merchants
  • Mages: Experimental Matrix client using Compose Multiplatform (and Rust)
  • My Quran - قرآني: A lightweight, offline Quran reading app
  • PDF: A simple, open-source PDF viewing app
  • searxist: Search with SearXNG natively
  • SicMu Neo: Simple, full-featured, file-based music player
  • Sossoldi: Sossoldi is a wealth management and tracking app
  • Streak: Lightweight & Minimal daily streak tracker, built in C
  • TaskerHA: A Tasker plugin to fully integrate Home Assistant into your workflow
  • TaskMate - Minimal Productive Task Manager: A simple, clean, distraction-free task manager for daily focus
  • Unblock Jam: Classic game “Rush Hour” - private & open source

Updated Apps

160 more apps were updated
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