Privacy Pros: Updates apps directly from their source repo, eliminating middle-man appstores. Get updates sooner than FDroid, Aurora, or even Google Play.
Privacy Cons: NA
Privacy Tip: Make sure to install from only trusted repos.
Obtainium allows you to install and update Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
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Currently supported App sources:
Open Source – General:- GitHub
- GitLab
- Forgejo (Codeberg)
- F-Droid
- Third Party F-Droid Repos
- IzzyOnDroid
- SourceHut
Other – General:- APKPure
- Aptoide
- Uptodown
- APKMirror (Track-Only)
- Huawei AppGallery
- Tencent App Store
- CoolApk
- vivo App Store (CN)
- Jenkins Jobs
- RuStore
Other – App-Specific:- Telegram App
- Neutron Code
- “HTML” (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files
Limitations:
For some sources, data is gathered using Web scraping and can easily break due to changes in website design. In such cases, more reliable methods may be unavailable.