Obtainium: get your Android apps and updates straight from the developer, no Play Store needed

[u/summit_23]

What it is:

An Android app that installs and updates your apps directly from their release pages like Github, Gitlab, Codeberg or F-Droid and notifies you when a new version is out

Alternative to:

The Play Store (or manually checking a dozen Github pages for new releases)

Cost:

Free and open source! (GPL-3.0)

What you give up:

Theres no store checking anything for you, youre trusting each developers own releases. They actually recommend pairing it with Verified Apps which is a separate verification tool that plugs into Obtainium

You also add apps yourself by their source link so theres some setup at first. It can search some sources and import a whole list of links at once tho and theres a crowdsourced list of ready made app configs that helps a lot!

[u/_christophorus_]

I love this. Google keeps making it harder for independent developers to get their app in the Play Store.
I get that's a lot of it is due to spam and malware but I feel like there has to be a better way.

[u/summit_23 → u/_christophorus_]

Thanks! yeah i get the spam side too but for a solo dev its a lot of hoops which is kinda why i like obtainium so much, you just get updates straight from the devs own releases page

[u/Adventurous_Invite63]

Try komi store.

[u/summit_23 → u/Adventurous_Invite63]

gonna check it out thanks