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Obtainium

Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Android
  • Android Tablet
  • F-Droid
4.9
Excellent18 reviews
114likes
9comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Control Updates
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No registration required
  4.  No Tracking
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  Update Notifier
  7.  Auto Update
  8.  Reliable update information
  9.  Software Installer
  10.  Package Manager
  11.  Data export/import
  12.  Software Download

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Top Positive Comment
LinuxDoge
4

This app combines lots of sources and even has a search function!

Its use case is to download Android apps directly from the official releases, instead of from F-Droid for example.

You can share your sources via a backup, making adding them less painful.

You can use the F-Droid source links for most apps, or even search for them.

Github, Codeberg, Gitlab and more work without a problem, some have trouble. Also the Developers dont always supply precompiles APKs so you may need F-Droid

parsnip85
0

+Install and update apps straight from GitHub/Codeberg etc.

-UI is overloaded and confusing

Casper Rivers
0

The best way to keep apps that are not available on any store up to date!

jarelllama
1

My preferred way to update apps with direct APK downloads (GitHub for example). Would use it to download and update apps instead of Aurora Store or F-Droid.

Lee Yoon
0

Great alternative of f-droid and f-droid have some problems with signing app keys

Sam Lander
1

Although you can set up something like an RSS feed yourself for any app pretty easily, this makes it very easy, and is FOSS.

PoorPocketsMcNewHold
3

Easy way to mark and monitor updates for ypur favorite FOSS apps, via plenty of sources, source repos, app stores or even just monitoring web-pages ! Alliw for easy changelogs reading, and downloading of the detected updates, including for itself !

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What is Obtainium?

Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.

Motivation: Side Of Burritos - You should use this instead of F-Droid | How to use app RSS feed

Currently supported App sources:

Obtainium information

  • Developed by

    CA flagImran R.
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.9 (18 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    57 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

OS & UtilitiesSecurity & PrivacyDevelopmentOnline Services

GitHub repository

  •  14,133 Stars
  •  358 Forks
  •  315 Open Issues
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Our users have written 9 comments and reviews about Obtainium, and it has gotten 114 likes

Obtainium was added to AlternativeTo by Abhi on and this page was last updated .