F-Droid
Easily browse and install free open-source Android apps with F-Droid, a privacy-focused, ad-free alternative. No registration required, lightweight, and allows portable use via USB with dark mode support. Excludes tracking, ensuring secure app management.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Custom Repos
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- App Discovery
- Auto Update
- Package Manager
- Distributed
- No Tracking
- Categories
- Software Installer
- Dark Mode
- Software Management
- Indexed search
- Portable
- Independent
- Crowdsourced
Tags
- FOSS
- Software Repository
- application-managers
- Android Applications
F-Droid News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about F-Droid
F-Droid warns Google’s sideloading rules will kill the project & several open-source appsF-Droid has publicly warned that Google’s upcoming sideloading restrictions will likely bring an en...
- Fla published news article about F-Droid
F-Droid leads the way: first third-party store to support Android 15 app archivingF-Droid has become the first third-party app store to incorporate support for Android 15's new app ...
- IanDorfman published news article about F-Droid
F-Droid free and open source Android app storefront is now 10 years oldThe free and open source Android app storefront F-Droid celebrated its 10th birthday on September 2...
Recent activities
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What is F-Droid?
The F-Droid Repository is an easily-installable catalogue of free and open source apps for Android. With F-Droid, it's easy to browse and install apps on your device, and keep track of updates. You can also browse the repository with a web browser, and download the app directly from there, if you can’t or don’t want to run the F-Droid client on your device.
All applications in the default repository must be Free and Open Source software – for example, released under a GPL or Apache license. Every effort is made to verify that this is actually the case, both by visual inspection of the source, and by building the application from the published source.
Software that reports user activity without permission (e.g. via Google Analytics) or tracks user behaviour (e.g. most advertising platforms) is specifically excluded from FDroid’s own repository, as is software with the primary purpose of interacting with a non-Free network service. You are, of course, free to set up your own repository for this kind of software – the server source is available, and the client will allow addition or removal of repositories as you see fit.
F-Droid originated as a fork of Aptoide. F-Droid can be installed from its website or from within Aptoide, but it is not available for download in Google Market.
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Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
I use F-Droid in place of the proprietary Google Play Store or services, and it's served me well for years now. If you're looking to move away from Google and its data-munching services to something more open, private and secure, F-Droid is a must.
Not what it used to be. While I love the developers who use the f-droid platform, a vocal minority of fdroid devs/contributors are turning it into a battleground for political grandstanding. Time to switch to alternatives like obtainium
F-Droid is a solid app store for open-source lovers, though some apps can feel a bit rough or early in development. It's great for privacy fans but could use better search and sorting options. Updates come slower since apps are compiled from source, which makes it trustworthy but sometimes a little outdated.
It has many very useful and open source applications.
A dream come true! In an age of extensive data collection, having a library of privacy-respecting apps is invaluable. Before discovering F-Droid, finding open-source software for Android was challenging. Now, it’s easy, with everything in one place and a growing number of apps developed under this philosophy.
The only problem with F-Droid is that the app search is not very precise, and we can't use the Shizuki installer.
F-Droid's only shortcoming is its interface. Otherwise, it is a great app store for free and open source Android apps promoting privacy and mobile freedom. However, its interface is a bit outdated and plain compared to Google Play Store. It just shows app lists instead of app cards, categories etc. But despite the interface, F-Droid still succeeds well in providing free and open source apps. Only the design of the interface could be improved.
So the only "issue" to get to the amazing apps on F-Droid is its somewhat outdated-looking interface, which is acceptable.
You'll need this on your android phone