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Posted on Jun 26, 2025 by
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This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Jun 2025, Week 26
F-Droid core
It comes a moment in the dev life when one needs to take the risk and deem an app stable enough for everyone. That time came this week for 1.23.0, and by now everyone either got their F-Droid Basic auto-updated or saw the Updates tab red dot for F-Droid. Let the ACRA reports flow! Or… just enjoy the Material Design update!
Over the years our categories were rather static, not saying we’ve reached perfection but, every time you add or remove one you need to parse the whole repo and reconsider past choices. Based on our main client developer @grote’s initial research, @linsui took the time to go through heaps of apps to create some new categories and label apps a bit better. Today you can see the new DNS & Hosts, Email and VPN & Proxy, but more are underway as we peruse the candidates. This won’t cover all apps. As usual, if you see any mis-categorization, or want to add more categories feel free to ping us or make your contribution directly.
Community News
To continue in the same software development vein, Ashish Bhatia pulls the curtain a bit so you can see what it is like to be an Android developer today. “Maintaining an Android app is a lot of work” is a ten minutes journey through programming languages, breaking changes, UI rules unpredictability and forced upgrades. For TWIF readers these might sound familiar.
Now that you got scared by that experience, let’s continue with “17 Tools We Use Daily for Free”. Are these the Best Open Source Apps for Android (2025)? I hope not, this is just week 26, smack in the middle of the year, surely some great apps are just around the corner waiting to be included in F-Droid!?
Bangle.js Gadgetbridge and Gadgetbridge were updated to 0.86.0 but users of Fossil/Skagen Hybrids should skip this version as the app will crash on connect. An update builds as we write this.
Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.42 fixing a CVE level issue. You are encouraged to update, or better yet switch to the newer Element X - Secure Chat & Call as the old version will soon be depreciated.
Zulip was updated to 30.0.258 aka the “new app” rewritten in Flutter and this developer post explains what’s changed. NOTE: Description and details will be fixed with the next update.
Newly Added Apps
6 apps were newly added
- Bouncing Logo: Classic TV and DVD player screensaver app with bouncing DVD logo
- CryptX: Simple Android Cryptography Toolkit (NOTE: Description and details will be fixed in the next update)
- Lumolight: Screen & Flashlight: Simple, modern & easy-to-use flashlight app that comes with a ton of features
- Polymarket Viewer: Browse Polymarket prediction markets
- PublicArtExplorer: Discover and view public art around you
- Shots Studio: AI powered screenshots manager and organizer
Downgraded Apps
1 apps were downgraded
- Booming Music was downgraded from
1.1.0-beta.3to1.0.4, as upstream asked us to skip “beta” updates.
Updated Apps
138 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- Activity Launcher was updated to
2.1.4 - Alarm Klock was updated to
2.13 - Alex vs Bus: The Race was updated to
2025.06.16.0 - Alligator Bytes was updated to
0.24 - ANeko Reborn was updated to
1.2.3 - APM was updated to
3.3.2 - ArchiveKeep was updated to
0.4.3 - Aria for Misskey was updated to
1.2.3 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.15.1 - aTalk was updated to
4.3.1 - baresip was updated to
67.1.0 - Battery Notification was updated to
1.4.7 - BetterUntis was updated to
5.0.0-beta02 - BinEd - Hex Editor was updated to
0.2.7 - BitBanana was updated to
0.9.6 - CAPod - Companion for AirPods was updated to
2.17.3-rc0 - Capy Reader was updated to
2025.06.1141 - Cartes IGN was updated to
3.3.0 - Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to
2.35.1 - Celestia was updated to
1.8.3 - Citrine was updated to
0.8.1 - DankChat was updated to
3.11.8 - DNSNet was updated to
1.3.0 - DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to
5.237.0 - e1547 - e621 browser was updated to
20.2.0 - Easter Eggs was updated to
4.0.0 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2283 - Find my IP was updated to
4.0.1 - FluffyChat was updated to
2.0.0 - Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to
2.9.0 - Forkgram was updated to
11.9.3.0 - Fossify Calculator Beta was updated to
1.0.5 - Fossify Camera Beta was updated to
1.0.4 - Fossify Contacts was updated to
1.2.2 - Fossify Keyboard Beta was updated to
1.2.1 - Fossify Launcher Beta was updated to
1.1.3 - Fossify Messages was updated to
1.2.1 - Fossify Phone was updated to
1.5.1 - Fossify Voice Recorder Beta was updated to
1.3.1 - FossWallet was updated to
0.20.0 - Goodtime - Minimalist Pomodoro Timer was updated to
3.0.10 - Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
5.0.3 - GreenStash: Track Your Savings was updated to
3.9.4 - Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to
3.0.2 - Habit-Maker was updated to
0.0.31 - Headwind MDM Agent was updated to
6.22 - ICSx⁵ was updated to
2.2.10 - Immich was updated to
1.135.3 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.12.1 - InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you was updated to
7.2.0 - jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to
2.11.06.ose - Keep Screen On was updated to
1.24.0 - Kepler-App was updated to
2.16.0 - Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to
3.3.5 - Kreate was updated to
1.5.1-fdroid - Kwik DEM (ant.spl) was updated to
1.09 - Kwik DEM (eur.rus) was updated to
1.09 - Kwik DEM (pan.arg) was updated to
1.09 - Kwik DEM (sah.jap) was updated to
1.09 - Kwik DEM (usa.can) was updated to
1.09 - Kwik DEM (zar.aus) was updated to
1.09 - Linkora was updated to
0.13.1 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.4.0-beta.0 - litube was updated to
1.5.3.1 - Materialious was updated to
1.9.13 - Mattermost Beta was updated to
2.29.1 - Meshtastic was updated to
2.6.22 - MFC Balance was updated to
1.0.0 - Mill was updated to
6.5.0 - MMRL was updated to
v33858-release - MonsterMusic was updated to
0.1.48 - Multi Launcher ‧ Home Screen was updated to
1.10.7.5 - Muse - Text to Speech was updated to
0.1.3 - Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to
4.5.1 - NATINFo Flutter was updated to
0.6.4 - Nextcloud was updated to
3.32.0 RC1 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20250621 - Notely Voice: AI Voice to Text was updated to
1.1.0 - Obtainium was updated to
1.1.58 - Open Sudoku was updated to
4.4.8 - OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to
1.22 - OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to
v4.19.5irreproducible - OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to
v4.19.5 - Orgro was updated to
1.61.4 - OSS-Dict was updated to
1.1.2 - P.CASH Wallet was updated to
0.42.2 - Passman was updated to
1.6.0 - Phocid was updated to
20250621 - PipePipe was updated to
4.5.0 - PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated to
2.0.13 - pretixPRINT was updated to
2.19.9-foss - pretixSCAN was updated to
2.10.3 - ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to
5.11.73.1 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.5.10 - Readeck App was updated to
0.6.0 - RomanDigital was updated to
2.1.1 - SaveTo.Downloader was updated to
1.12 - SaveTo… was updated to
1.15.20 - Schulrechner was updated to
1.9.0 - SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to
1.4.14-rc0 - Seafile was updated to
3.0.15 - Session was updated to
1.24.2 - Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to
3.1.1 - Simple Search was updated to
2.5.1 - Simple. : Fitness Simplified. was updated to
1.7.7 - SimpleX Chat was updated to
6.3.6 - sing-box was updated to
1.11.14 - SnapSaver was updated to
0.8.1 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
4.12 - Standard Notes was updated to
3.197.3 - Status Bar Speedometer was updated to
3.13.0 - Suntimes was updated to
0.16.8 - Super Productivity was updated to
13.1.2 - Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to
2.5.7 - TacticMaster was updated to
1.0.20 - Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to
14.7.3 - Todo was updated to
1.5.7 - TRIfA was updated to
1.0.250 - Tsacdop-Fork - Podcast Player was updated to
0.8.3 - Unciv was updated to
4.16.18 - UnderEat was updated to
1.0.7 - Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.42.4 - Urn was updated to
1.4.2 - URnetwork was updated to
2025.6.19 - Vacation Days was updated to
17.0 - venera was updated to
1.4.5 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.36.0 - WAFRN was updated to
1.4.7 - WG Tunnel was updated to
3.9.3 - wger Workout Manager was updated to
1.8.3 - Wiki Fronted was updated to
r/2.7.50536-r-2025-06-18 - Wikipedia was updated to
r/2.7.50536-r-2025-06-18 - WikiReader was updated to
2.3.1 - XiVPN was updated to
1.5.0 - Xray was updated to
10.9.1 - Xtra was updated to
2.45.2 - おやつ Oyatsu was updated to
3.3 - 聚在工大 was updated to
4.15.6.3
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