Omnify Beta

Beyond F-Droid: install and auto-update apps straight from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg and self-hosted forges.

A clutter-free F-Droid client that also installs apps from anywhere.

Highlights 📦 Install apps from anywhere (External sources) Add a project's GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, or self-hosted Gitea/Forgejo releases as a source and install & update its app with no F-Droid repository required. Track a whole publisher account at once instead of one project at a time. - Automatically picks the right APK for your CPU architecture (with an optional name filter), and falls back to an older release if the latest has none compatible. - Shows the real app name and icon before installing, with a visual icon picker. - Update notifications in the Updates tab, signature-conflict handling, and the project README rendered in-app. - Per-source settings (custom name, pre-releases, mute), an optional no-scope GitHub token to lift the API rate limit, and included in your backup. - Omnify's picks: a curated list of noteworthy sources, disabled by default, one tap away.

🏷️ A badge for your own project Maintain a project? Put a Get it on Omnify badge in your README and anyone reading it can follow your releases in one tap, without copying an address by hand. Paste your project's address on the badge page and copy the snippet it gives you. Tapping it opens Omnify on its add-a-source screen, already filled in. Nothing is installed without the reader saying so, and if they don't have Omnify yet the page points them at the download rather than leaving them on a dead link.

📺 Made for Android TV A proper 10-foot interface, not an afterthought: full D-pad navigation, a scaled-up UI, automatic "Made for TV" detection for both catalogue and external apps, and a curated pack of FOSS TV apps ready to install.

🎨 Modern Material You interface Rebuilt in Jetpack Compose with Material 3: an accent-colour picker (including a wallpaper-based option, or matching an app's own icon on its detail page), tinted system bars, an edge-to-edge mode, a collapsing header, a two-column grid, animated search and wavy progress indicators.

🧭 Discover home A curated landing screen with carousels (what's new, recently updated, most downloaded) and a browsable categories section.

👁️ Hide apps you don't need Hide any app, catalogue or external, from every list (Discover, Installed, Updates) with one tap on its page. Manage what's hidden, or bring an app back, from Settings.

🌍 Built-in translation Translate an app's summary and description into your language, with a choice of online, self-hosted, or fully offline on-device engines. An optional auto-translate toggle does it for you, and nothing is downloaded until you pick the on-device engine.

💾 Backup & restore Back up repositories, external sources, settings, favourites and custom buttons independently, all in one file. Restoring only ever adds to what's already there, never wipes it.

🛡️ Security & privacy - Signing certificate verified against the repository index before any install, with the installed and expected fingerprints viewable and copyable on the detail screen. - Anti-feature warnings and the full runtime-permission list on the detail screen. - A badge flags apps that depend on proprietary Google services, and how well microG covers what they actually need. - Recovers an app's real supported languages even when its own listing doesn't declare them. - The optional GitHub token is scope-less (it only lifts the rate limit), and translation can run fully offline.

🔧 Stability & bug fixes Performance - Unified the data layer on a single Room database, removing the legacy SQLite store, sync service, downloader and index parser. - Moved list and screen-state work off the main thread, added a baseline profile for faster cold starts, and fixed a freeze (ANR) on the detail screen. Large catalogues & sync - Oversized repository rows no longer exceed the SQLite cursor-window limit that could crash the list. - Reliable sync: auto re-sync after a database reset, no more silent empty-catalogue syncs, a fresh index file each time, and a clear fetching state on first launch. The foreground notification is throttled so it no longer flickers. Updates & installs - Hides system-app updates that can't be installed and stops the uninstall-prompt loop for differently-signed system apps. - Reuses an already-downloaded APK after a signature-conflict uninstall, with no needless re-download.

License GNU