The Future of Accrescent
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Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providing an alternative to Google Play which doesn’t compromise on technical excellence and protecting our users. Aligned with this mission, over 42,000 people worldwide trust Accrescent to deliver their apps safely. Now, we need your help to continue. Accrescent has always been free to use because we believe security shouldn’t have to come at a price. We also understand we’re trusted by our users to secure a sensitive and significant portion of their lives — the apps they use — so we’ve built Accrescent transparently, making our code open source so others can run and inspect it as they please.

Accrescent, for those who don’t know, is an alternative android app store. They aim to compete directly with the play store, so unlike F-Droid they include both FOSS and proprietary apps. They are also very security focused. They’re still small but I find their approach interesting and their ambition worth supporting.

Unfortunately, as with many FOSS projects, funding is a challenge. If you believe they are worth supporting, please read the linked blog post.

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with the project in any way, just a fan trying to raise awareness.

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
      0·
      20 days ago

      Fdroid. The government can ask that a app be removed from the main repository, and they would have to comply, but since you have the ability to add third-party repositories, the developer could just launch a Tor onion service and give some simple instructions, and people could continue using it, like nothing ever happened.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        11·
        20 days ago

        You realize they can just demand for it to be removed from the source repository?

            • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
              1·
              19 days ago

              None of them deliver exclusively over tor. F-Droid has default tor repositories if you want to use them. And third party repositories can be tor repositories.