Federated services made easier
Posted on Jan 23, 2025 by
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This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 23 Jan 2025, Week 4
Community News
Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.28, small fixes, yet big changes ahead. Last week we casually mentioned that Element users should test try other apps too, say like Element X or the fork SchildiChat Next, but we did so since we’ve seen what’s coming. The gist of it is that Element is being sunsetted and this version already is being impaired to force users to switch, as the app will “prevent creation of new accounts on server with MAS support, and redirect users to Element X”. Critics already pointed out that: “Element X is still very much incomplete, no support for spaces, no support for threads, and no support for validating other users”, so do shake these new clients thoroughly before jumping for good. We will add more news as we come across them.
For now SchildiChat, the Element fork, will not block any in-app features, so users still have options.
Emacs was updated to 30.0.93 as the first version that is specifically improved for Android. Potential users might shriek while reading the permissions list, and we’d like that pruned as much as possible too.
FOSDEM 2025 is a week away, and after you finish reading about the billionaires future dramas at the conference, do check the updates for FOSDEM 2025 Schedule, now at 1.69.0-FOSDEM-Edition, and FOSDEM Companion at 2.2.8. When you reach FOSDEM do try to find us, we might have stickers!
KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.10, and for a second we had a flash-back from October 2023 as we’ve seen this worrying report. We hope it’s just a glitch…
PeerTube, Federated video platform, is finally here and built reproducible. We host several apps that might be considered 3-rd party PeerTube clients or Fediverse clients that can access it, but now we have the so called official app. There has never been a better time to embrace federated services, and it’s getting better.
Still in federated news, Pixelix was updated to 3.2.1, did it replace your use of some big corporate siloed photo sharing site/app? Maybe take a look at it, as for a little while it was the best selling social network app in some other store. F-Droid offers it for free, but you can thank the developer on their Buy Me a Coffee donation page. And if you want to improve the app, there’s no easier way to contribute than translating it.
Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 7.3.5 for one last time, as the developer stopped its work on the app. We guess the integration with some big video site from a known monopolist corporation is proving problematic, once again.
But all is not lost, the developer will continue to work on the newly added Podcini.X - Podcast instrument, Modern, feature-rich, podcast instrument, app instead.
VPN Hotspot, Tethering/Wi-Fi repeater, a new fork of the old VPN Hostspot app was added and since the old one has not been updated for a long time it will be archived soon. Do try this one and replace the vanishing one.
Write On: Simple Notepad was updated to 1.2, yet you have it and you don’t see the update? Unfortunately the developer lost the key, no joke, bad things happen. Hence you’ll need to uninstall the app and reinstall the fresh one.
/PS: We’ve updated the RSS link in the footer to point straight to the feed. While the plain link was useful for both browser users and feed apps users, not all RSS apps would pickup the feed correctly unfortunately. Now the link is for app use only.
Removed Apps
2 apps were removed
- LibrePass: Take control of your passwords
- Mull: Privacy oriented web browser (Just.Get.Fennec!)
Newly Added Apps
19 more apps were newly added
- AddictoLogs: Activity tracker for your bad habits
- bicyweather: A simple weather forecast for german cities
- DCC++Throttle: Application to drive DCC-EX command station via Bluetooth
- Droid Pad: Create control interfaces for BLE, WebSocket, MQTT, TCP, and UDP protocols
- ExHale: Track the time since you last smoked and see the progress you’ve made
- Kuaizi IME: Kuaizi IME is an efficient and fast Chinese Pinyin input method
- Lotus: Music player designed with Material You
- NFC Alarm Clock: Customizable and feature-rich alarm clock app
- Pocket ReadLex: Shavian spelling dictionary
- Praktika Vortaro: Offline Esperanto dictionary
- Round Sync - Rclone for Android: A file manager for Android, using rclone for the heavy lifting
- ScanBridge: Effortlessly scan documents, photos, and more with your network-enabled scanner
- Seemless: Offline speech to text translator (Note that the app will be renamed to Seamless in the next version)
- Stateful Speedometer: Stateful speedometer & GPS viewer
- Stay Put - Unplug Alert: Stay Put is an app that helps prevent casual theft of your device while charging
- Sunrise Signal: Morning wood tracker app for men’s health
- Sunup: UnifiedPush provider using Mozilla’s push server
- Todo: Offline, secure, To-Do app with encrypted storage, fingerprint lock
- 聚在工大: All-in-one school service app for Hefei University of Technology students
Updated Apps
217 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- 38C3 Schedule was updated to
1.69.0 - AAAAXY was updated to
1.5.256+20250113.3575.02bcdf3a - Aegis Authenticator was updated to
3.3.4 - AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated to
2.4.0 - AlexCalc was updated to
1.0.6 - Alovoa was updated to
2.0.0 - Amber was updated to
3.1.8 - aShell was updated to
v0.12 - Aves Libre was updated to
1.12.2 - AVNC was updated to
2.7.1 - BeeCount was updated to
2.7.2 - BetterCounter was updated to
4.10.2 - blichess was updated to
8.0.0+ble1.1.0 - Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to
2.3.0 - Bookaccio Book Tracker was updated to
0.3.0 - Box, Box! was updated to
0.8.3 - Broccoli: The Green Recipe App was updated to
1.3.1 - BTC Map was updated to
0.9.1 - Bura was updated to
1.6.1 - Butterfly was updated to
2.2.4 - Calculator You: Math & Units was updated to
3.1.2 - Capy Reader was updated to
2025.01.1095 - Cartes IGN was updated to
3.1.35 - Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to
2.34.4 - Chess was updated to
9.6.0 - Chess Clock was updated to
1.2.2 - ColorBlendr was updated to
v1.11.2 - Colorful was updated to
2.2 - Commons was updated to
5.1.2 - Coordinate Joker was updated to
1.4.39 - CPU Info was updated to
6.1.1 - Dart Checker was updated to
0.7.11 - DataBackup was updated to
2.0.7 - DeepL was updated to
8.8 - Deku SMS was updated to
0.58.0 - Dog sports diary was updated to
1.0.12 - DPC was updated to
1.6.3 - Easy Diary was updated to
1.4.324.202501190 - EinkBro was updated to
14.3.0 - Energize was updated to
0.12.1 - Ente Auth was updated to
4.2.8 - Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to
0.9.81 - Exclave was updated to
0.13.3 - FaFa Runner was updated to
1.0.8 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2259 - Feeder was updated to
2.8.1 - Find My Device (FMD) was updated to
0.10.0 - Flip 2 DND was updated to
1.1.1 - FlorisBoard was updated to
0.4.5 - Forkgram was updated to
11.5.6.0 - Fossify Phone was updated to
1.3.1 - Fossify Voice Recorder was updated to
1.1.3 - Frigoligo was updated to
2.2.0 - Geto was updated to
1.16.8 - Giggity was updated to
2.1.4 - Grit was updated to
1.4.0 - HACS was updated to
2.21.0 - Healthy Battery Charging was updated to
2.0.13 - hEARtest was updated to
2.0 - HeliBoard was updated to
2.3 - HexViewer was updated to
1.57 - HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to
3.23.0 - Hydra was updated to
3.7.4-open - ICSx⁵ was updated to
2.2.6 - IED was updated to
Your Way +1 - InfiniList was updated to
1.3.0 - Inflation Calculator was updated to
2.18 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.3.0 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.7.0 - Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to
Build103.0.0 - InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you was updated to
7.0.0 - Ion Launcher was updated to
y25-v1 - Jami was updated to
20250117-01 - Joplin was updated to
3.2.7 - Journal was updated to
11.6 - jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to
2.10.00.ose - Keep it up was updated to
1.6.2 - kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to
1.0.0-alpha.16 - Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to
3.2.2 - Komelia was updated to
0.13.0 - Kotatsu was updated to
8.0-a1 - LabNex for GitLab was updated to
3.0.0 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.3.0-beta.1 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.2.1 - Logger was updated to
2.8.3 - Material Notes was updated to
1.12.0 - Mattermost Beta was updated to
2.24.1 - MAXS Main was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module AlarmSet was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module Bluetooth was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module BluetoothAdmin was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module Clipboard was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module ContactsRead was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module FileRead was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module FileWrite was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module LocationFine was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module Misc was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module NFC was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module Notification was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module PhonestateRead was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module Ringermode was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module Shell was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module SmsNotify was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module SmsRead was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module SmsSend was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module SmsWrite was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module WifiAccess was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Module WifiChange was updated to
0.5.19 - MAXS Transport XMPP was updated to
0.5.19 - MediLog was updated to
3.1.2 - MedTimer was updated to
1.15.1 - Meshtastic was updated to
2.5.16 - Mill was updated to
5.9.0 - Mindful Attention Awareness Scale was updated to
1.0.7 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
2025.01.14 - monocles chat was updated to
2.0.4+free - Musekit was updated to
2.1.1 - MyHackerspace (New) was updated to
2.2.0 - NanoLedger was updated to
1.1.0 - Network Survey was updated to
1.32 - News Reader was updated to
1.0.9 - Next Player was updated to
0.13.0 - Nextcloud was updated to
3.30.8 - Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to
0.24.0 - Nextcloud Deck was updated to
1.24.5 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20250121 - NextDNS Manager was updated to
5.4.1 - NFSee - NFC Card Helper was updated to
2.4.0 - NLWeer was updated to
1.10.3 - Notally | Minimalist Notes was updated to
6.0 - NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to
6.4.1 - Obtainium was updated to
1.1.39 - Odin was updated to
3.4.7 - Offi was updated to
13.0.10 - OGN AR Viewer was updated to
1.0.6 - OnePlus Flash Control was updated to
1.3.0 - OONI Probe was updated to
4.0.2 - Open Food Facts was updated to
4.18.1 - Open Sudoku was updated to
4.3.5 - OpenCalc was updated to
3.1.2 - OpenMensa was updated to
2.0.0 - OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to
v4.17.6irreproducible - Orgro was updated to
1.52.3 - Orgzly Revived was updated to
1.8.35 - OSM Dashboard (Offline) was updated to
6.0.0 - OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks was updated to
6.0.0 - Paseo was updated to
1.6.5 - Peristyle was updated to
v6.4.0 - Petals was updated to
3.34.1 - Phocid was updated to
20250120 - Phonograph Plus was updated to
1.9.0 - PicGuard was updated to
1.0.12 - Pie Launcher was updated to
1.23.0 - Planes Android was updated to
0.4.4.1 - Plexus was updated to
2.1.0 - PocketTRacker was updated to
2.2.4 - PodAura was updated to
3.0 - Polaris was updated to
0.9.6 - Power Ampache 2 was updated to
1.01-76-fdroid - Privacy Browser was updated to
3.19.2 - PySolFC was updated to
3.2.0 - QR Scanner (PFA) was updated to
4.6.7 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.4.1 - QRshare was updated to
1.0.11 - RailTrip was updated to
1.5.6 - Reader for Selfoss was updated to
125010201-github - Ricochlime was updated to
1.11.6 - RiMusic was updated to
0.6.67 - Rush was updated to
2.4.4 - Sapio was updated to
1.6.3 - SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to
1.3.6-rc0 - Share 2 Archive Today was updated to
3.0 - SimpleMarkdown was updated to
2025.1.0-free - SimpleTextEditor was updated to
1.26.5 - SimpleX Chat was updated to
6.2.4 - sing-box was updated to
1.10.7 - SiYuan was updated to
3.1.20 - sNotz was updated to
v0.33 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
4.1 - Status: Social Crypto Wallet was updated to
2.32.0 - StreetComplete was updated to
60.1 - Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) was updated to
1.4.2 - Sudoku (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
3.2.3 - Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to
2.3.5 - Syncthing-Fork was updated to
1.29.2.0 - Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to
14.4.3 - Termux:Widget was updated to
0.14.0 - The Light was updated to
3.89 - The One App was updated to
3.1.1 - Thor was updated to
1.7.4 - Thumb-Key was updated to
4.0.16 - Tickmate was updated to
1.4.15 - Todo Agenda was updated to
4.11.1 - TorrServe was updated to
MatriX.135.1.F-Droid - TRIfA was updated to
1.0.246 - Trigger was updated to
4.0.4 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.17.8 - Tusky was updated to
27.2 - Tuta Mail was updated to
259.250113.0 - Twili Recipes was updated to
0.2.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.15.3 - URLCheck was updated to
3.1 - URLSanitizer was updated to
3.0.1 - venera was updated to
1.2.0 - Vidya Music: Aersia VIP Player was updated to
1.5.0b - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.23.2 - Whisper was updated to
2.0 - WiFi Widget was updated to
1.6.4 - Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to
4.10.0 - Xed-Editor was updated to
2.9.3 - Xray was updated to
9.0.0 - Xtra was updated to
2.41.0 - YAACC was updated to
4.3.1 - Youamp was updated to
1.0.4 - zSMTH was updated to
24.12.27 - µLauncher was updated to
j-0.0.20 - 天使动漫 was updated to
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