F-Droid is an app store for Android phones that offers only free and open-source apps. It is for people who want to find and install Android apps without using Google Play.
Obtainium is an Android app that installs and updates apps directly from their official release pages, and can notify you when new versions come out. It is for people who want to get apps from their original sources instead of an app store.
Accrescent is an app store for Android phones that focuses on security and privacy, with automatic updates and no account needed to install apps. It is in early alpha and suits people who want a privacy-focused alternative to the Google Play Store.
Aurora Store is a free Android app that lets you search and download apps from Google Play without using the standard Play Store. It is for people who want Google Play apps on their phone with a privacy-focused, open-source client.
Fossdroid Core is the open-source code behind the Fossdroid.com website, a web interface for browsing free and open source Android apps from the F-Droid repository. It is for people who want to run their own catalogue site for F-Droid apps; it does not install apps itself.
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Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/app-stores.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
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Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Google Play Store, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- F-Droid (GPL-3.0, https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient; replaces fully): F-Droid is an app store for Android phones that offers only free and open-source apps. It is for people who want to find and install Android apps without using Google Play.
- Obtainium (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium; replaces partly): Obtainium is an Android app that installs and updates apps directly from their official release pages, and can notify you when new versions come out. It is for people who want to get apps from their original sources instead of an app store.
- Accrescent (Apache-2.0, https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent; replaces partly): Accrescent is an app store for Android phones that focuses on security and privacy, with automatic updates and no account needed to install apps. It is in early alpha and suits people who want a privacy-focused alternative to the Google Play Store.
- Aurora Store (GPL-3.0, https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore; replaces partly): Aurora Store is a free Android app that lets you search and download apps from Google Play without using the standard Play Store. It is for people who want Google Play apps on their phone with a privacy-focused, open-source client.
- FossDroid (MIT, https://github.com/SnaKKo/Fossdroid-Core; replaces partly): Fossdroid Core is the open-source code behind the Fossdroid.com website, a web interface for browsing free and open source Android apps from the F-Droid repository. It is for people who want to run their own catalogue site for F-Droid apps; it does not install apps itself.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
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