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Obtainium

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

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  • Android
  • Android Tablet
  • Obtainium
  • F-Droid
  • Android TV
  • OpenAPK
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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

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

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Top Positive Comment
5

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

colada
0

Best way to pull apps from source! The user experience is far better than F-Droid ever was for me.

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

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.

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What is Obtainium?

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

Currently supported App sources: • Open Source: -F-Droid icon F-Droid (searchable) -Forgejo icon Forgejo ( Codeberg icon Codeberg ) (searchable) -GitHub icon GitHub (searchable) -GitLab icon GitLab (searchable) -IzzyOnDroid icon IzzyOnDroid -itch.io icon itch.io -Jenkins icon Jenkins -SourceHut icon SourceHut -Third Party F-Droid Repos

• Other: -Aptoide icon Aptoide -APKCombo icon APKCombo -APKMirror icon APKMirror (track-only) -APKPure icon APKPure -HUAWEI AppGallery icon HUAWEI AppGallery (searchable) -LiteAPKs icon LiteAPKs -RuStore icon RuStore (searchable) -Samsung Galaxy Store icon Samsung Galaxy Store -SourceForge icon SourceForge -Telegram icon Telegram -Uptodown icon Uptodown (searchable) -APK4Free -CoolAPK -Farsroid -NeutronCode -RockMods (track-only) -Tencent App Store -vivo App Store (searchable) -Direct APK Link -HTML

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Obtainium information

  • Developed by

    CA flagImran R.
  • Licensing

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

    Average rating of 4.9 (18 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Bosnian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Chinese
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Esperanto
    • French
    • Galician
    • German
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Malayalam
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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  •  20,123 Stars
  •  617 Forks
  •  390 Open Issues
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Our users have written 10 comments and reviews about Obtainium, and it has gotten 144 likes

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