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.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Control Updates
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Auto Update
- Update Notifier
- Software Installer
- Reliable update information
- Package Manager
- Data export/import
- Software Download
Obtainium News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
OrdinaryPerson added Obtainium as alternative to Vyxel Apps and Shizu CoreFetch
Julmik added Obtainium as alternative to F-Droid Basic
Featured in Lists
The ultimate list of apps/services for better Security, Privacy & Anonymity; Defense against Surveillance. What …
A list of apps I use on GrapheneOS, but most also make sense on other operating systems. Install "F-Droid …
The best Android apps for privacy and convenience. Open-source preferred. Remember, the most secure way to download an …
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
Imran R. Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.9Alternatives
65 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
OS & Utilities, Security & Privacy, Development, Online ServicesGitHub repository
- 18,958 Stars
- 570 Forks
- 393 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
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
Best way to pull apps from source! The user experience is far better than F-Droid ever was for me.
+Install and update apps straight from GitHub/Codeberg etc.
-UI is overloaded and confusing
The best way to keep apps that are not available on any store up to date!
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.
Great alternative of f-droid and f-droid have some problems with signing app keys
Although you can set up something like an RSS feed yourself for any app pretty easily, this makes it very easy, and is FOSS.