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TWIF curated on Friday, 08 May 2026, Week 19

F-Droid core

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-alpha9, but that’s old news by now. Go update and test!

We also fixed our website generation, as build cycles added apps updates, new apps and posts, yet these were not published on the website (but available in the client!). It appears our huge mix of more apps and more languages takes a toll on memory usage. It took a bit longer to debug with our server hoster (Thanks OSUOSL for your quick reaction and support!) as the process was locking the machine up in the same locale sending us on a wild-goose chase. Things cleared up when we “downloaded more RAM” so to speak.

@linsui makes order in the mess:

We got 5 new categories:

Diet: Nutrition, calorie, food management and tracker
Health Manager: Manager weight, heart rate, blood pressure, menstruation and other health metrics
Schedule: Schedule for conference and event
Text to Speech: TTS tools
Time Tracker: Track time usage on activities and screen time

…and more waiting for review. Our goal is to make discovering new apps easier, thanks to our client 2.0 search improvements that help users explore the catalogue. In due time huge categories like Internet and Multimedia might go away since apps are already covered by more granular ones.

We covered Conversations and now Quicksy changes in 2.19.16+free in last week’s post, but that one got delayed. Go read it as you might find that the new files storage workflow impacts you.

Mindustry was updated to 8-fdroid-157.4 with some nice changes and more fixes followed. But our first build was crashing so we had to fix it and rebuilt it. If you’ve already updated to the crashing version you can fix this without losing your progress by either upgrading to the next update or, in the meantime, by downloading the fixed package directly and installing it.

Nora was updated to 0.7.0 but it’s crashing. Upstream is aware, tracking the issue here, and we’re going to remove the faulty versions in the next cycles. If you did not update yet make sure to skip this version (in F-Droid or Basic, app details, upper right menu, “skip this update”).

@linsui proxies the sync news:

Are you the lucky citizen of a firewalled country? Well, we can’t say congrats, but we can provide tools to ease some of that pain. Usually we could recommend a proxy-server-app-url-thing, but maybe that’s hard to reach too. The newly added Lumine, A lightweight local HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy server protects TLS connections over TCP, tries to achieve the same level of Internet freedom by running the proxy on the device. Based on the, now archived TLSFragment, it gets a rewritten faster core, subscriptions, management UI and more.

Murine Launcher, A modern, lightweight Launcher3 fork for an enhanced stock++ experience, was just added. We had trouble packaging Launcher3-based launchers for years. But now we get one! With the help of AI the dev successfully generated stubs for the framework jar which was the main blocker for packaging. This also opens the door for more Launcher3-based launchers. Would you like to help?

SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.5.1 polishing the experience. But the big news came last week in 6.5.0 with added public channels, safe web links, and more. The developers also wrote about how public channels work and about the financial future of the project in a detailed post.

Snowflake Volunteer, Help people in censored countries access the Internet without restrictions, was added. What’s Snowflake? Snowflake allows people to connect to the Tor network in places where Tor is blocked by routing the connection through volunteer run proxies located in uncensored countries. Similar to VPNs, which help users bypass Internet censorship, Snowflake disguises the Internet activity as a video or voice call, making users less detectable to Internet censors. What does the app do? It allows you to act as the proxy for those in need of one, yet this does not expose you as you are just an entry-node in their path through the Tor network. Thank you for supporting Internet freedom around the world, from your pocket!

Though the official Syncthing Android client went to “development hell”, we still have a fork of it. And since then, there were two more clients added, BasicSync, which was just updated to 1.26, and the new SyncUp, An open-source Syncthing client, that comes with these features:

• Daemon runs in-process on Android. The Go daemon lives inside the app via gomobile. There is no subprocess to manage, no IPC between a background service and the UI, and no service-restart handling.
• Auto-accept folders from trusted peers. When you add a peer, you can toggle auto-accept so any folder they share is added to your device automatically without a prompt. Other pending offers show up as accept/ignore cards in the Folders tab.
• QR pairing works both ways. Display your device’s QR for a peer to scan, or scan theirs. The 56-character device ID never needs to be typed by hand.
• UI updates in near real time. Long-polling /rest/events means config changes, folder state, and incoming offers reach the UI in about a second, instead of on a polling interval.

But one of the nicest highlights is that this new client supports SAF, which is a long awaited feature that was never implemented in the official client before its development stopped.

Removed Apps

One app was archived

• Thorium a PeerTube client: a PeerTube player

Newly Added Apps

26 more apps were newly added

• Acutis Firewall: Parental control app that blocks adult content and dangerous sites on-device
• Backtalk: Backtalk: message yourself to stay organized
• Baseline: Gentle self-care for depression, disability, chronic illness, or burnout
• Cheese BTC Widget: Tiny home-screen widget showing the latest Bitcoin price in USD or EUR
• Ermis: Privacy focused chat application
• geminiAssist: WebView wrapper for Google Gemini
• Gitlalchemy: Native GitLab client for Android and desktop
• GitSync: Git client for syncing a repository between remote and a local directory
• Idle Fantasy: Idle RPG: train skills, fight dungeons, craft gear. No ads, no accounts.
• Jamfish: Delicious native music player for Jellyfin, based on Gelli
• Khushu: Private Muslim app for prayer, tasbih, study, and gentle reminders
• Martial Body: Offline 24-week MMA preparation trainer. No ads, no tracking, no cloud.
• Murem: Strip background music from YouTube videos using AI vocal separation
• NekoVideo: Modern video player with folder management, gesture controls and video cutting
• Office Break: Active break timer with exercises – reminds you to move at the office
• Paperless NGX Uploader: Upload documents to a Paperless-NGX server using the native share intent
• Perfice: Track anything, find the patterns that shape your life
• Permission Pilot: Apps permission overview
• RakuRaku IME: Traditional Chinese keyboard for the EZ Input Method, with English predictions
• SecureScreen: Protect selected apps from screenshots and screen recording
• SeekPrivacy: Hardware-hardened file isolation to defeat “All Files Access” surveillance
• ShutApp: Manage multiple computers on your local network remotely
• Stims: Keep your screen awake while specific apps are in the foreground
• SuperSMP Companion: Vote, shop & explore SuperSMP anywhere! Companion app for server features.
• TigerDuck: NTUST campus assistant for courses, assignments, and more
• Tui: Privacy-first local media player

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