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G-Droid for Android

0.10.4 GPL-3.0-or-later

An alternative client app to browse the F-Droid repository

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Version
0.10.4 (10004)
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Developer
Andreas Redmer
Category
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G-Droid app

G-Droid can browse the free F-Droid app-repository. It is an alternative client to the F-Droid client. You can follow the project

Additional features compared to F-Droid

shows reviews and comments for apps
star ratings of apps (up to 5 stars) - machine generated metrics
shows the star upstream star ratings (github, gitlab, sourceforge)
implements more metrics based on open source data (like average release cycle time) to generate a star-ratings
let the users choose which metrics are important to them, so there is no 'best app' in the repo - there is only a 'best app' from the point of view of the current user
shows 'similar apps' and 'apps of the same category' when watching an app
shows 'apps of the same author' when watching an app
shows a list of all authors, with their apps and average star rating
shows the web-site of the app even if it is 'only a README file on github'. F-Droid has removed many websites (not all though) of apps the team doesn't like. They also don't allow (as of now) to re-add these link to the websites. This has been done with dodgy explanations and only for apps that the F-Droid team particularly dislikes (to censor apps they don't like) and reduce the amount of download and users of these apps. Hint: if your app is affected and shows no website in F-Droid promote and encourage your users to use G-Droid.
shows newest apps and recently updated apps separated
does not censor the latest apps (F-Droid added censorship on 26/03/2019)
shows cards in same size for better overview
provides a list-view as alternative for the cards (as in older F-Droid versions) for people who don't like cards
has more possibilities to order and sort apps
ability to 'star' apps to mark them locally
ability to hide apps to remove them from all views
shows categories in correct translation (if available) after changing language on the device
shows screenshots in correct translation
makes use of larger screens: shows actually more apps on tablets
tags to find apps for standard-tasks easily (email clients, file browsers, text editors), since the F-Droid categories are too broad
view for 'random apps' to discover apps you usually wouldn't find
shows apps the user might like (without stealing the users data for analysis)
aims to provide many different views to the app repository in order to assist the user to find what she wants to find and encourage to use more open source apps from the repository
'share' apps so it can still be opened with another store (F-Droid, Yalp, Aurora, ...), to get more information about the app.
different search algorithm, can 'search harder' to continue a search if the results are insufficient
shows the logos of apps all the time (if network connection is okay)
shows more screenshots
shows screenshots, completely, up-to-date and in the correct language
shows screenshots also when they are not in the fastlane structure
has a new and modern codebase and is easy to maintain
G-Droid is actively maintained (the F-Droid client is not any more)
many more to come (G-Droid is still pretty new and has only one developer [and many translators] right now) ...

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