F-Droid
Sign in to saveF-Droid is a free and open source app store and software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play Store. The main repository, hosted by the project, contains only free and open source apps. Applications can be browsed, downloaded, and installed from the F-Droid website or client app without the need to register an account. "Anti-features" such as advertising, user tracking, or dependence on non-free software are flagged in app descriptions.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, F-Droid is referenced by 276 other articles, and connects out to Google Play, GNU Project and S8.
It sits within the topics Free and open-source Android software, Free package management systems and Internet services supporting OpenID.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Software.title
- F-Droid
- Software.name
- F-Droid
- Software.logo
- F-Droid Logo 4.svg
- Software.logo size
- 64px
- Software.logo alt
- Official F-Droid logo
- Software.screenshot
- 222px
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of F-Droid 1.19.0 on Android showing the latest apps
- Software.programming language
- Python (server tools), Jekyll (software) (site), Java (client)
- Software.operating system
- Android (client), Linux, macOS, Windows 10, Windows 11, FreeBSD (server)
- Software.genre
- Digital distribution of free software, Software repository
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mobile app
- Official website
- fdroidorg6cooksyluodepej4erfctzk7rrjpjbbr6wx24jh3lqyfwyd.onion
- Image
- F-Droid 1.2 screenshot.png
- Has use
- digital distribution
Show 22 more facts
- operating system
- Linux
- Commons category
- F-Droid
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.com/fdroid
- inception
- 2010-09-29
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.oftc.net:6697/#fdroid-translators
- publication date
- 2010-09-29
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/fdroid
- search formatter URL
- search.f-droid.org/?q=$1
- web feed URL
- news.f-droid.org/index.xml
- programmed in
- Java
- issue tracker URL
- f-droid.org/issues
- software version identifier
- 1.23.1
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- social media followers
- 22452
- data size
- 8014353
- checksum
- b417d61756879ef7e182c198a4cd953c124056938e0c17f2f63badc5ae206fe49bca837b0dabca01eeac9d5847b9d2d2079fa520e61b6f6a1dfeeaa17b883ce6
- public key fingerprint
- 37D2 C987 89D8 3119 4839 4E3E 41E7 044E 1DBA 2E89
- IM channel URL
- fdroid:f-droid.org
- official forum URL
- forum.f-droid.org
- translation contribution URL
- hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid
- service status information URL
- monitor.f-droid.org
- language of work or name
- multiple languages
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Scope of project
- Client application
- Key management
- Security issues
- Reception
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
F-Droid is a free and open source app store and software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play Store. The main repository, hosted by the project, contains only free and open source apps. Applications can be browsed, downloaded, and installed from the F-Droid website or client app without the need to register an account. "Anti-features" such as advertising, user tracking, or dependence on non-free software are flagged in app descriptions.
The website also offers the source code of applications it hosts, as well as the software running the F-Droid server, allowing anyone to set up their own app repository.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “F-Droid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.