Aurora Store
Aurora Store enables you to search and download apps from the official Google Play store. You can check app descriptions, screenshots, updates, reviews, and download the APK directly from Google Play to your device.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
- HUAWEI AppGallery
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Online Anonymity
- Auto Update
- Package Manager
- Download old versions
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- Software Installer
- Advanced searching
- Filters
- App Discovery
- Update Notifier
Tags
- FOSS
- Marketplace
- Android Applications
- shizuku-compatible
- Software Repository
- shizuku
Aurora Store News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- botany_bulldog943 reviewed Aurora Store
Clean, simple, ad free and shows how many trackers are in apps
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What is Aurora Store?
Aurora Store enables you to search and download apps from the official Google Play store. You can check app descriptions, screenshots, updates, reviews, and download the APK directly from Google Play to your device. To use Aurora Store, log in using Google Play account, when you first open and configure Aurora Store. Unlike a traditional app store, Aurora Store does not own, license or distribute any apps. All apps, app descriptions, screenshots and other content in Aurora Store are directly accessed, downloaded and/or displayed from Google Play. Aurora Store works exactly like a door or a browser, allowing you to log in to your Google Play account and find the apps from Google Play. Please note that Aurora Store does not have any approval, sponsorship or authorization from Google, Google Play, any apps downloaded through Aurora Store or any app developers; neither does Aurora Store have any affiliation, cooperation or connection with them.
Features :
- FOSS: Has GPLv3 licence
- Beautiful design: Built upon latest Material 3 guidelines
- Account login: You can login with either personal or an anonymous account
- Device & Locale spoofing: Change your device and/or locale to access geo locked apps
- Exodus Privacy integration: Instantly see trackers in app
- Plexus integration: Instantly see app compatibility without Google Play Services or with microG
- Updates blacklisting: Ignore updates for specific apps
- Download manager
- Manual downloads: allows you to download older version of apps, provided
- The APKs are available with Google
- You know the version codes for older versions
Limitations :
- The underlying API used is reversed engineered from the Google Play Store, changes on side may break it.
- Provides only base minimum features
- Can not download or update paid apps.
- Can not update apps/games with Play Asset Delivery
- Multiple in-app features are not available if logged in as Anonymous.
- Library
- Purchase History
- Editor's choice
- Beta Programs
- Review Add/Update
- Token dispenser server is not super reliable, downtimes are expected.
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Comments and Reviews
Works great! Allows you to download all the apps from the Play Store without need to have Google account. Does what it promises, is stable, super fast and looks beautiful. What else could you want?
Clean, simple, ad free and shows how many trackers are in apps
Updates delivered sooner, and without all Google's 🐂💩
The best Appstore for Android. Privacy aware and very stable
Any alternative to slow and heavy bloatware is more than welcome! Over the years, the Aurora Store has improved a lot, becoming more stable and modern. A huge feature is the possibility to use Shizuku to install apps in the background.
The real use case for this is if you are using an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) OS on your device, like /e/OS, Lineage, etc. Given that they're pretty much de-Googled, your access to Google services are very much limited. So with Aurora, you can access the Google Play Store and download apps with your account or an anonymous account.
A big drawback to this is that the updates of your apps are not so straightforward. This was my experience a few years ago when I tried it. Another drawback is that you will not be able to access previously purchased apps. I was not able to do this.
In terms of positives, you will be able to bypass geographical restrictions and potentially access other apps you would not have seen.
However, it is of my opinion, that if you've already got an official Android OS on your phone, stick with the Play Store. For more app freedom you can go with an F-Droid client.
DON'T Use it! HUGELY Insecure! And incompetent. It offers 3 sign in choices: You can sign in with Google, or, you can go in as an "anonymous sign-in", or as an "anonymous (insecure) sign-in". So, obviously I tried Google (which, when you think about it, it's odd that you are given the one sign-in that you had been trying to avoid with the Aurora download, but whatever) and so I tried to get it to trigger my Password Manager to cough up the Google sign-in info and admittedly, sometimes takes a few taps to reset the cursor/prompt to make it wake up, but it was not, I would realize in a few moments, the fault of my Password Manager. Anyway I dragged down the notification bar to manually trigger it and then after my decryption of Password Manager, I had to call up Google by manually typing in a search for Google as the sign-in triggered the Manager to look for an Aurora password which is extremely rare when it happens and it's always due to the crummy website or something else that... well, anyway it's like a 2-3 times/year occurrence. Finally pull up Google, sign in email and password and it looks for 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) which Google always knows where to find my phone, like within milliseconds. It puts up a 2-digit number, say 26 for example, and then Google puts a notification on my phone...I said, and then Google puts a notification on my phone...,... well what is the deal here? I hit resend and it does, changing the new number to 27 or 25. I waited for 90 seconds (I watched the clock) and resend, etc, etc...I went back to try another method and suddenly an alert pops up on my phone, and I was like, okay, better late than never, but it was not Aurora by way of Google, It's one of my friends, but at least it was not me possibly being in a dead zone. I tried the Google Authentication app and it would reset every time I came back to enter the now 6-digit code. It is useless! But just in case, I closed and uninstalled Aurora and did a regular Google sign on, and Bleep! Instantly it came up. 12 minutes later, the first one came through, after I had taken it off my phone!