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2nd Half Q4 2025 Progress and 2026 Foreshadowing

2026-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

It's past mid-January 2026, so let's check what happened in 2025 after November 15th and do some 2026 foreshadowing.</p> </span>

Apps and games added until December 31st, 2025</h3>
Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>

November</h4>

Manuals</a> - Read developer documentation</li>
Samaya</a> - Timekeeper for your tasks</li> </ul>
December</h4>

Riff</a> - Listen to music on Spotify. Succeeds Spot</a>.</em></li>
Tomatillo</a> - Focus better, work smarter</li>
Brief</a> - Browse command-line cheatsheets</li>
Reflection</a> - Take notes collaboratively</li> </ul>
Six apps in about six weeks is not much, but ... I was honestly distracted by other things, like finally migrating personal services from outdated infrastructure. The added six apps brought the count up to a total of 751 apps and games on December 31st, 2025.</p>
Maintenance</h3>
Today, right before this post, we landed another "automated maintenance content update" - well, semi-automated is the better term, as there's some manual work included.</p>
If you want to help with maintenance, please note that aside from our checkers</a>, lpa_helper</a> can also edit an existing listings.</p>
Thanks</h3>
I want to thank dbeley for deleting an unused git submodule (appscsv2tomlmd)</a> - thank you for contribution! You may know dbeley from maintaining a table of apps</a> based on LinuxPhoneApps.org.</p>
Again, thanks go out to Max</a> and for taking over the maintainership</a> of the games list/the games listed! Thanks again for your great work!</p>
What's coming in 2026?</h2>
A Conference Talk</h3>
On January 31st, I (Peter) will be presenting at FOSDEM once again after 2024</a>: "Linux Phone App Ecosystem (2026)"</a>. Aside from the talk, I am going to spend the first half of Saturday and most of Sunday at the Linux on Mobile stand</a> (building UD level 1). Come by and say hi!</p>
Retirement</h3>
Believe it or not, 2026 will be the year I (Peter) am going to retire from maintainng LinuxPhoneApps.org. This is not going to happen immediately, but I don't expect to be running any more checker</a>-based updates or do blog posts like this one from June 2026 onwards.</p>
The reason is simple: There's another responsibilty that's going need my attention: A tiny, new human being. This means I have to prioritize my #LinuxMobile activities, and while this project is near and dear to my heart, it has also been a massive time-sink never really becoming what I would like it to be, and continuing the Weekly Updates over at LINMOB.net</a> beyond that date feels just more important.</p>
What does this mean for LinuxPhoneApps.org?</h4>
No matter what happens, it's going to stay online, it will just go stale. If someone steps up, it may have a future. If you, dear reader, are interested in continuing it, please get in touch - or just fork it, as long as you respect the license, that's perfectly fine, too. In fact, I'd recommend some re-architecting - if I were to restart the site now, there are some things I'd do differently (e.g., storing data in AppStream Metadata XML</a> with custom extensions).</p>
What is the focus for the remaining months?</h4>
While it was a focus before to follow Flathub's Mobile Collection (today we're at a count of 43 apps we are lacking</a> (vs. 33 on November 16th, and 31 on October 5th) no listed), the new focus is upstreaming. That said, you may use services or have devices we do not - any help evaluating those apps we don't have is highly appreciated!</p>
What do I mean with upstreaming? Two things, really.</p>
One is making sure that Flathub Mobile Collection does not list apps that don't work on mobile, because their UI is to wide or is not touchscreen compatible. Doing so involves talking to these projects about appstream metadata and working towards fixing metadata, or better making the app actually ready for mobile.</p>
The other is making sure that apps listed on Flathub that work well on Mobile become part of the Mobile Collection</a>. This involves contributing to the apps appstream metadata and trying to make sure app maintainers know how what matters and how to test for that with regards to mobile compatibility for further developement.</p>
In all cases, being friendly and supportive when engaging with upstream is really important - these developers don't owe me/us nothing, after all.</p>
I want to help, where to get started?</h2>
If you read this last time, you can skip it, it's the same copy! ;-)</em></p>
We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that we aim to improve. All relevant parts of LinuxPhoneApps live in one repository</a> - the repo's README is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a> if you have questions!</p>
Fixing existing app or game listings is just one click away (provided you have a framagit.org account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p>
So if you see that something is wrong, please take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p>
Adding apps</h3>
If you want to help by adding an app:</p>
LPA helper</a> is still not properly integrated, but it works. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p>
See also:</p>

Submit apps via GitLab</a></li>
Listings explained</a></li> </ul>
You can also send your prepared listing via email to the discuss list</a>.</p>
Feedback, thoughts?</h2>
Thank you for reading this post! Please tell your friends (and Linux buddies) about LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for Linux Desktop users, as we constantly check the world wide web for new, awesome adaptive Linux apps (that often also work great on your laptop or desktop)!</p>

Mid Q4 Progress Report: 15 apps added, not much else

2025-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

I originally planned this post for late October, but well, let's have it now, mid-quarter and share what happened in the first half of Q4 2025 on linuxphoneapps.org.</p> </span>
Apps and games added until November 15th, 2025</h3>
Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>
October</h4>
Public Alerts</a> - Emergency and weather alerts</li>
Hieroglyphic</a> - Find LaTeX symbols</li>
Gradia</a> - Annotate your screenshots</li>
TriPeaks NEUE</a> - Patience game</li>
Energize</a> - Track your nutrition easily and fast.</li>
Euphonica</a> - MPD client with delusions of grandeur</li>
Exhibit</a> - Preview your 3D models</li>
Powersupply</a> - Linux power subsystem debugger</li>
Wattage</a> - Monitor power devices</li>
Lenspect</a> - Scan files for threats</li>
Identities</a> - Modern password-store client made for GNOME</li>
Cartridges</a> - Launch all your games</li>
Letters</a> - Word processor for GNOME</li>
DeltaTouch</a> - Decentralized, secure messenger app, powered by the chatmail core library . Thank you, trith, for adding the app!</em></li>
Bazaar</a> - Discover and install applications</li> </ul>
November</h4>
None.</em></p>
This is a bit disappointing, but due to life things and spending time on another project</a>, my contributions basically dropped to zero after October 19th; and it's not exactly likely that this going to change for the rest of the quarter.</p>
Still, we managed to add a total of 15 apps and games in the first half of the first quarter. This brought the count up to a total of 745 apps and games on November 15th, 2025.</p>
A note on Bazaar</h4>
Bazaar</a>, for the uninitiated, is a really great way to browse Flathub without a web browser - way quicker and nicer than GNOME Software. I would appreciate help with is creating a list of mobile-friendly apps for Bazaar's Favorites tab, as discussed on the fediverse</a>.</p>
Maintenance</h3>
Today, right before this post, we landed another "automated maintenance content.</p>
If you want to help with maintenance, please note that aside from our checkers</a>, lpa_helper</a> can also edit an existing listing, if you don't want to edit TOML + Markdown by hand like an animal.</p>
Thanks</h3>
First, I want to thank darkdragon-001 for improving our checkers once more</a> - thank you for continued contributions!</p>
Again, thanks go out to Max</a> and for taking over the maintainership</a> of the games list/the games listed! Thanks again for your great work!</p>
What's in the works?</h2>
Content</h3>
All The Mobile Apps</h4>
To just quote from two blog posts ago:</p>

Obviously, it's a goal to monitor Flathub's Mobile Collection</a>, and list most of its apps after evaluation. As it turns out, not all</a> of the apps in the collection live up to the promises made in their Metadata. As it's a goal to improve this, writing kind issues upstream or, contributing patches, adds to our broader to do-list. [...] If you want to follow our progress (or chime in), this is the issue to watch</a>.</p> </blockquote>
Similar to the last time, progress on this has been slow, as of today, November 16th, 2025, we're at a count of 33 apps in Flathub's Mobile Collection (vs. 31 on October 5th) not listed on LinuxPhoneApps.org. Please make sure to read the relevant ticket</a>, you may use services or have devices we do not and thus can make a serious difference in chiming in!</p>
There's the idea to just add these apps - but some just can't be easily evaluated and will be added to the "needs testing" segment. Adding more than ten apps to that part of the site is problematic, as long as these apps show up in the app count - I don't want to inflate the app count artificially.</p>
I want to help, where to get started?</h2>
If you read this last time, you can skip it, it's the same copy! ;-)</em></p>
We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that we aim to improve. All relevant parts of LinuxPhoneApps live in one repository</a> - the repo's README is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a> if you have questions!</p>
Fixing existing app or game listings is just one click away (provided you have a framagit.org account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p>
So if you see that something is wrong, please take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p>
Adding apps</h3>
If you want to help by adding an app:</p>
LPA helper</a> is still not properly integrated, but it works. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p>
See also:</p>

Submit apps via GitLab</a></li>
Listings explained</a></li> </ul>
You can also send your prepared listing via email to the discuss list</a>.</p>
Feedback, thoughts?</h2>
Thank you for reading this post! Please tell your friends (and Linux buddies) about LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for Linux Desktop users, as we constantly check the world wide web for new, awesome adaptive Linux apps (that often also work great on your laptop or desktop)!</p>

Q3/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, again

2025-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

How can it be October already!? Time to look back and see what happened in third quarter of 2025.</p> </span>
Apps and games added in Q3/2025</h3>
Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>
July (six apps added)</h4>
Tempo</a> - A modern metronome for musicians</li>
Constrict</a> - Compress videos to target sizes</li>
Pingveno</a> - Look up Esperanto words. This one is sadly already archived, due to the developer being harassed for their app Kapitano</a> and thus quitting. So, remember: Be kind. And if you see something like that happen, try to help.</em></li>
AAT Activity Tracker</a> - Track your outdoor activities</li>
GTK Meteo</a> - Select location from map and show forecast. This one and AAT are intesting, they are GTK apps build in Java, that are also available on Android.</em></li>
Digger</a> - DNS lookup tool with graphical interface</li> </ul>
August (nine apps added)</h4>

Rewaita</a> - Bring Color to Adwaita</li>
Sessions</a> - Focus with timed work intervals</li>
Cinny</a> - Yet another Matrix client with simple, elegant and secure interface.</li>
Nucleus</a> - Browse the chemical elements</li>
Recordbox</a> - Browse and play your local music</li>
KomoDo</a> - Work on To-Do lists</li>
BlueBubbles</a> - BlueBubbles client for Linux</li>
Fedinspect</a> - Analyse Fediverse servers</li>
Gauge</a> - Unit converter</li> </ul>
September (16 apps added)</h4>

Sudoku</a> - Solve puzzles in style</li>
Apostrophe</a> - Edit Markdown in style</li>
Inspector</a> - View information about your system</li>
Mini Text</a> - Ephemeral scratch pad</li>
Quadrapassel</a> - Fit falling blocks together</li>
Help</a> - Help viewer for GNOME</li>
awesome calculator</a> - AWESOME calculator program</li>
Key Cutter</a> - Easily generate passwords</li>
NewPipe (unofficial port)</a> - Free and lightweight YouTube frontend for Android. This one is possible thanks to Android Translation Layer</a>, a WINE-like approach to make Android apps run on Linux.</em></li>
Hitori</a> - Play the Hitori puzzle game</li>
Midori in the Magic School</a> - An Action Role Playing Game inspired by Alundra, Touhou Project, Megaman X, among others. Thanks, asgardius, for developing the game and getting in touch!</em></li>
Pentobi</a> - Computer opponent for Blokus</li>
r3-next</a> - The Red Robot Radio game. Thanks, asgradius, for developing the game getting in touch!</em></li>
Dconf Editor</a> - A graphical tool for editing the dconf database</li>
Organic Maps</a> - Free offline maps for everyone</li>
Damask</a> - Automatic wallpapers from the web</li> </ul>
In total, we managed to add a total of 31 apps and games in the third quarter. This brought the count up to a total of 730 apps and games on September 30th, 2025.</p>
Improvements to Advanced Search</h3>
Our Advanced Search</a> feature now has all the app content I could think off. This may slow it down a bit, but increases the chances of finding what you are looking for.</p>
Also the combined filters are really helpful when doing manual maintenance.</p>
Conferences</h3>
Some LinuxPhoneApps.org stickers were distributed at FrOSCon</a>, and LinuxDay Dornbirn 2025</a> - and maybe some at Akademy</a>, but that was such a blast that I am not 100% sure. If you are reading this due to grabing a sticker, you're welcome, and friendly greetings!</p>
A Talk</h4>
Also at FrOSCon, Peter held a talk about some highlights (and lowlights) in regarding Linux Phone Apps in 2025 - you can find the slides here</a>.</p>
Maintenance</h3>
Today, right before this post, we landed another "automated maintenance content update". At least I managed to update many listings in late July</a>, so currently, the maintenance status is mostly ok.</p>
If you want to help with maintenance, please note that aside from our checkers</a>, lpa_helper</a> can also edit an existing listing, if you don't want to edit TOML + Markdown by hand like an animal.</p>
Thanks</h3>
Again, thanks go out to Max</a> and for taking over the maintainership</a> of the games list/the games listed! Thanks again for your great work!</p>
Also, I want to thank darkdragon-001 for improving our checkers once more</a> - thank you for continued contributions!</p>
What's in the works?</h2>
Content</h3>
More regular update posts</h4>
Doing a quarterly blog post is a weird thing: There's always a lot I don't remember and only re-discover by going through the git log</code>.</p>
Therefore, I want to increase the frequence of these posts by making them monthly or, if that does not work out, bi-quarterly.</p>
All The Mobile Apps</h4> To just quote from the last post:</p>Obviously, it's a goal to monitor Flathub's Mobile Collection</a>, and list most of its apps after evaluation. As it turns out, not all</a> of the apps in the collection live up to the promises made in their Metadata. As it's a goal to improve this, writing kind issues upstream or, contributing patches, adds to our broader to do-list. [...] If you want to follow our progress (or chime in), this is the issue to watch</a>.</p> </blockquote> Similar to the last time, progress on this has been slow, as of today, October 5th, 2025, we're at a count of 31 apps in Flathub's Mobile Collection (vs. 38 on July 31st) not listed on LinuxPhoneApps.org. Please make sure to read the relevant ticket</a>, you may use services or have devices we do not and thus can make a serious difference in chiming in!</p> There's the idea to just add these apps - but some just can't be easily evaluated and will be added to the "needs testing" segment. Adding more than ten apps to that part of the site is problematic, as long as these apps show up in the app count - I don't want to inflate the app count artificially.</p> A second issue tracker?</h4> What I call the "evaluation backlog" has been an issue from day one of contributing to this list. Just because you stumble on something interesting, this does not mean you can immediately try it. With premature projects, you'll usually have to compile from source, with, with an unfamiliar or undocumented build process can be quite the timesink (especially for Electron and Flutter apps, but not just for these).</p> As a consequence of that, we had this list</a> essentially forever - but, it's hard to manage. You need to remember that you have the app there when you finally get around to adding it, and nobody can somewhat easily comment on things.</p> While this could be easily added in "one issue per app" way to our main issue tracker</a>, it would really pollute the thing ... I have to juggle a project with thousands of issues in JIRA at work, and finding the needles in the haystack is not what I look forward to in my spare time.</p> One idea would be to add an apps project, that's basically issue tracker only. To ease contributions, maybe mirroring this to, e.g., codeberg would be a fun thing to do - assuming two-way-mirroring is easy enough to set up.</p> So if you've got ideas, get in touch on the fediverse</a> or join our Matrix chat</a> and share your idea.</p> UI</h4> A good idea for a different UI was introduced by alf: [email protected]/114495841260805804">alf: "@linuxphoneapps My "engine" is…" - FLOSS.social</a></p> Like last quarter, I hope to at least find the time for experimentation with this in this quarter. If you have thoughts or want to help, please let us know!</p> I want to help, where to get started?</h2> If you read this last time, you can skip it, it's the same copy! ;-)</em></p> We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that we aim to improve. All relevant parts of LinuxPhoneApps live in one repository</a> - the repo's README is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a> if you have questions!</p> So if you see that something is wrong, please take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to help by adding an app:</p> LPA helper</a> is still not properly integrated, but it works. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h2> Thank you for reading this post! Please tell your friends (and Linux buddies) about LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for Linux Desktop users, as we constantly check the world wide web for new, awesome adaptive Linux apps (that often also work great on your laptop or desktop)!</p>
Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API 2025-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 It's almost August! Time to look back and see what happened in the past quarter.</p> </span> Apps and games added in Q2/2025</h3> April - 19 additions</h4> Extension Manager</a> - Install GNOME Extensions</li> Extensions</a> - Manage your GNOME Extensions</li> Lexi</a> - Build your own dictionary</li> Time Switch</a> - Set a task to run after a timer</li> GDM Settings</a> - Customize your login screen</li> Drum Machine</a> - Create and play drum beats</li> Words!</a> - Have fun guessing Words</li> Learn 6502 Assembly</a> - 6502 Assembly Learning Environment</li> GaticTacToe</a> - Play Tic-tac-toe with your friends</li> Delineate</a> - View and edit graphs</li> Hex Colordle</a> - Find the color</li> PedantiK</a> - Find the Wikipedia article</li> Reddy</a> - Repost Reddit images to Lemmy</li> SemantiK</a> - Find the secret word</li> Crosswords</a> - Solve crossword puzzles</li> Mahjongg</a> - Match tiles and clear the board</li> Main Menu</a> - Customize the menu</li> BMI Calculator</a> - Calculate your BMI</li> Interstellar</a> - Connect with the fediverse</li> </ul> May - 3 additions</h4> Nostalgia</a> - Set historic GNOME wallpapers</li> Packet</a> - Share files easily</li> Dolphin</a> - Manage your files</li> </ul> June - 11 additions</h4> Klaro</a> - Simple and fast translation app for KDE Plasma</li> Kontainer</a> - Manage Distrobox containers</li> Pigment</a> - Get color palettes from images</li> Keep Me Awake</a> - Inhibit lock screen and suspend</li> Tuner</a> - Extensible control center</li> Kapitano</a> - Stay safe from malware</li> Filmbook</a> - Track analog film usage in cameras</li> Multiplication Puzzle</a> - Solve a math mystery</li> Startup Configuration</a> - View and set startup scripts and applications</li> MQTTy</a> - GUI for consuming MQTT topics</li> Cavasik</a> - Audio visualizer based on CAVA</li> </ul> In total, we managed to add a total of 33 apps and games in the second quarter. This brought the count up to total of 699 apps and games on June 30th, 2025.</p> API</h3> We now have a JSON API. The endpoint is at https://linuxphoneapps.org/api/apps.json</a> (with gzip</a> and brotli</a> compression also available and you can find some Documentation in our Docs section</a>.</p> Moving Fediverse instances</h3> Just like its sibling linmob.net</a>, the account for LinuxPhoneApps is now at https://linuxmobile.social/@linuxphoneapps</a>. Please follow! If you're only on Bluesky, 1. What are you doing? but 2. you can follow us there, too</a>!</p> Maintenance</h3> Maintenance has gotten tougher; there was little time for manual maintenance. What I wrote last quarter</a> remains true, and more and more people are catching up to it: Abusive LLM scrapers make the web more hostile to small scrapers like the one this web page has. At least I managed to update many listings in late July</a>, so currently, the maintenance status is mostly ok.</p> If you want to help with maintenance, please note that aside from our checkers</a>, lpa_helper</a> can also edit an existing listing, if you don't want to edit TOML + Markdown by hand like an animal.</p> Thanks</h3> Again, thanks go out to Max</a> and for taking over the maintainership</a> of the games list/the games listed! Thanks again for your great work! Also, I want to thank darkdragon-001 for adding the API</a> in a much simpler and saner way than I had envisioned (meaning, without a Rust program to convert XML</a> to JSON).</p> What's in the works?</h2> Content</h3> All The Mobile Apps</h4> Too just quote from the last post:</p> Obviously, it's a goal to monitor Flathub's Mobile Collection</a>, and list most of its apps after evaluation. As it turns out, not all</a> of the apps in the collection live up to the promises made in their Metadata. As it's a goal to improve this, writing kind issues upstream or, contributing patches, adds to our broader to do-list. [...] If you want to follow our progress (or chime in), this is the issue to watch</a>.</p> </blockquote> Progress on this has been slow, as of today, July 31st, 2025, we're at a count of 38 apps in Flathub's Mobile Collection not listed on LinuxPhoneApps.org. On the other hand, there are 159 apps we have evaluated to be fine on Mobile that are available on Flathub, but not part of the mobile collection - so, if you're looking for something you can do for #MobileLinux, there's a ton of opportunity. Please make sure to read the relevant ticket</a>, you may use services or have devices we do not and thus can make a serious difference in chiming in!</p> UI</h4> A good idea for a different UI was introduced by alf: [email protected]/114495841260805804">alf: "@linuxphoneapps My "engine" is…" - FLOSS.social</a></p> I hope to at least find the time for experimentation with this in this quarter. If you have thoughts, please let us know!</p> I want to help, where to get started?</h2> If you read this last time, you can skip it, it's the same copy! ;-)</em></p> We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that we aim to improve.</p> All relevant parts of LinuxPhoneApps live in one repository</a> - the repo's README is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a> if you have questions!</p> Fixing existing app or game listings is just one click away (provided you have a framagit.org account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> So if you see that something is wrong, please take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to help by adding an app:</p> LPA helper</a> is ugly, but it works. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h2> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed reading it, please tell your friends (or Linux buddies) about LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for Linux Desktop users, as we constantly check the world wide web for new, awesome adaptive Linux apps (that often also work great on your laptop or desktop)!</p> Q1/2025 Progress: Over 20 apps added and many improvements 2025-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 It's April already! Time to look back and see what could be accomplished in the first quarter of 2025. (And if you are into XML Namespaces, get excited ;-) )</p> </span> Apps and games added in Q1/2025</h3> January</h4> Five apps and one game:</p> High Tide</a> - Sail away</li> Refine</a> - Tweak various aspects of GNOME</li> Timer</a> - Simple countdown timer</li> Haguichi</a> - Manage your Hamachi networks</li> Chronograph</a> - Sync lyrics of your loved songs</li> TriPeaks</a> - A Tri Peaks solitaire game . Thank you, Maxnet, for adding the game!</em></li> </ul> February</h4> Sticky Notes</a> - Pin notes to your desktop</li> FuriOS Gallery</a> - View your Photos and Videos</li> </ul> March</h4> 19 apps and one game:</p> Tally</a> - Count anything</li> Spotube</a> - Freedom of music</li> Tagger</a> - Tag your music</li> Sly</a> - Edit your images easily</li> Clapgrep</a> - Search through all your files</li> Quick Web Apps</a> - Web applications at your fingertips</li> Countdown</a> - Track events until they happen or since they happened</li> CoBang</a> - QR code scanner for Linux desktop</li> LPTK</a> - Stateless password manager</li> Geobug</a> - Check your location and save it to a GPX track</li> Frigoligo</a> - Your articles with you</li> Hunt</a> - Find every word</li> Bustle</a> - Visualize D-Bus activity</li> D-Spy</a> - Analyze D-Bus connections</li> Cashbox</a> - Memorise cost and calculate price of articles</li> Ignition</a> - Manage startup apps and scripts</li> SaveDesktop</a> - Save your desktop configuration</li> Libellus</a> - View DnD information in style</li> Camp Counselor</a> - Bandcamp.com Wishlist Manager</li> File Roller</a> - Open, modify and create compressed archive files</li> </ul> In total, we managed to add 26 apps and two games in the first quarter.</p> Maintenance</h3> Listings have also been updated at the end of the quarter, most only automagically, but many also by hand. Aside from the apps we know to be manual maintenance</a>, it turns out, that maintenance has not become easier lately: Checking links</a>, or updating our listings with the contents of upstream AppStream metadata</a>, has not gotten easier as code hosting platforms are forced to add defense mechanisms to fight back abusive AI scrapers.</p> If you want to help with maintenance, please note that lpa_helper</a>, while still not meaningfully integrated into the site (see more on that below) has been refactored: If you want to edit an existing listing, you can now rely on it and import the current markdown source file into it. We hope this change makes contributing more accessible.</p> Aside from apps and games, the docs</a> section saw some love, including a new page on building flatpaks</a>.</p> This past quarter also again saw a little work with upstream - here is my favorite example</a>.</p> Thanks</h3> Again, thanks go out to Max</a> and for taking over the maintainership</a> of the games list/the games listed! Thanks again for your great work!</p> FOSDEM</h3> Peter also attended FOSDEM - it was blast. If you are reading this post because you grabbed a sticker at the Linux on Mobile stand, welcome!</p> What's in the works?</h2> Content</h3> All The Mobile Apps</h4> Obviously, it's a goal to monitor Flathub's Mobile Collection</a>, and list most of its apps after evaluation. As it turns out, not all</a> of the apps in the collection live up to the promises made in their Metadata. As it's a goal to improve this, writing kind issues upstream or, contributing patches, adds to our broader to do list. It's also questionable, whether we need to actually add every app - take OptimusUI</a> as an example: If there are zero phones with nVidia optimus graphics, do we need to list that app? Other apps in the Collection are x86_64-only, which (if there's no alternative, can introduce a hold-up), but there's hope - if you are interested in Flutter-based apps, just check out this PR</a> (and the approach behind it). If you want to follow our progess (or chime in), this is the issue to watch</a>.</p> API</h3> Work towards an API has been undergone. While the JSON API is not out yet, as a first step, an extended ATOM feed</a> is out now - featuring a XML namespace</a> of it's own. This adds a simple way to reuse our data.</p> What's holding the JSON API? Honestly, not much (I already have a custom, working Rust converter on my computer). But an API need documentation, and ... I don't want to iterate unnecessarily on API and documentation (because lazy). There are a few general considerations (and decisions to make first): e.g., the future of our categories taxonomy</a>, reconsiderations regarding the rating system, or the question of removing the scale-to-fit values as Mobile Settings</a> has made these basically unnecessary. We just need planning - which changes need to be done in which order to not have more work than necessary.</p> If you are interested in using the API, please get in touch to discuss whether the current plans would work for you!</p> I want to help, where to get started?</h2> We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that we aim to improve.</p> All relevant parts of LinuxPhoneApps live in one repository</a> - the repo's README is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a> if you have questions!</p> Fixing existing app or game listings is just one click away (provided you have a framagit.org account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> So if you see that something is wrong, please take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to help by adding an app:</p> LPA helper</a> is ugly, but it works. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h2> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed reading it, please share it and spread the word LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends or yourself if you only use the Linux Desktop, as we constantly check for and add new, awesome adaptive Linux apps that often also work great on your laptop or desktop!</p> Merging sections: Games now part of apps. 2025-02-10T11:30:00+01:00 Every reasonable site (or app store) that list apps includes games and does not seperate them out like LinuxPhoneApps.org used to do.</p> LinuxPhoneApps.org only did that due to its history. During the LINMOBapps days, Peter seperated games out into a seperate games.csv list, to reduce the workload of maintenance and when adding addtional information. This seperation was kept in place when launching LinuxPhoneApps.org, as over time, in part due to maintainership, that data had diverged in structure.</p> Thanks to Max</a>, who recently took over maintenance of games listed, we could now merge lists, making the site and tooling around it quite a bit simpler.</p> While we tried our best to do this properly and not break incoming links, please get in touch [email protected]">via email</a> or on Matrix</a> if you think that mishaps occured - or better yet, open an issue</a> or fix it via Merge Request!</p> New Listings of Q4/2024: Adding 32 Apps, Three Games and other improvements. 2025-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 We're way into January 2025, so let's have a look at we accomplished in the last quarter of 2024, plus a glimpse at things to look forward to in 2025!</p> </span>New app listings</h3> We've added 32 apps, pushing the total count to 571.1</a></sup></p> October</h4> Netsleuth</a> - Calculate IP subnets</li> < polycule ></a> - A geeky and efficient [matrix] client for power users</li> Rosary</a> - Study Christianity</li> Calculator</a> - Beyond the equation</li> Uno Calculator</a> - Linux port of the Microsoft Windows calculator app</li> splitcat</a> - Splitcat application packaged as a Flatpak.</li> Lock</a> - Process data with GnuPG</li> Diurnals</a> - Get daily Todoist notifications</li> WebP Converter</a> - The fastest way to convert images to WebP</li> pomodorolm</a> - A simple, good looking and configurable pomodoro tracker with tray icon</li> Meshtastic Client</a> - Graphically control meshtastic devices</li> Caffeine</a> - Calculate your coffee</li> Turn On</a> - Turn on devices in your network</li> Cursed Delta</a> - A lightweight Delta Chat client for the command line . Thank you, magdesign, for adding the app!</em></li> Fruit Credits</a> - Keep plaintext accounts</li> Add Water</a> - Keep Firefox in fashion</li> NymphCast Player</a> - NymphCast Player provides NymphCast client functionality format in a graphical (Qt-based) format . Thank you, krzno, for notifying us about this app!</em></li> </ul> November</h4> Morphosis</a> - Convert your documents</li> Mobile Config for Firefox</a> - Mobile and privacy friendly configuration for Firefox (distro-independent)</li> Community Remote</a> - Roon control for family and friends</li> MailViewer</a> - EML and MSG file viewer</li> Keypunch</a> - Practice your typing skills</li> Calligraphy</a> - Turn text into ASCII banners</li> Nimlem</a> - An linux mobile first GTK4 client for Lemmy</li> Notify</a> - Receive notifications from ntfy.sh</li> Play Timer</a> - Native-feeling timers</li> PinApp</a> - Create and edit app shortcuts</li> Counters</a> - Keep track of anything</li> Poliedros</a> - Poliedros is a multi-type dice roller.</li> </ul> December</h4> Kumo</a> - A Wayland Mobile Browser</li> Geoclue Stumbler</a> - Submit Cell Tower/WiFi AP data to geoclue</li> Supersonik</a> - Subsonic music client</li> </ul> Games</h3> Three games were added in the past quarter:</p> Chess engine</a> - A fully compliant, playable chess engine written in Lua and rendered with the Love2D game framework forked from https://github.com/Azzla/chess-engine. . Thank you, glitchapp, for creating and adding the app!</em></li> Clockwind</a> - a platform game with time travel mechanichs forked from https://alesan99.itch.io/clockwind . Thank you, glitchapp, for creating and adding the app!</em></li> Flood It</a> - Flood the board</li> </ul> Maintenance</h3> Listings have also been updated, most only automagically, but many also by hand. We've also eliminated some technical debt by removing the csv-list of archived apps</a>, which were re-added to the site as listings where it made sense.</p> This past quarter also again saw some work with upstream (e.g., 1</a>, 2</a>, 3</a>, to share a few examples), and towards packaging in Alpine and Flathub.</p> Thanks</h3> I would like to thank everybody who contributed in the past quarter:</p> Max</a> - and for taking over the maintainership</a> of the games list/the games listed! Thanks again for your great work!</li> </ul> What's to come in 2025?</h2> We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that we aim to improve.</p> Recent happenings like the fact that Flathub now has a collection of Mobile Friendly Apps</a> and that developer tools for GNOME now make testing for mobile easier</a>, make our outlook on 2025 quite positive. We also have hopes that - like GitHub or not - Linux arm64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (Public Preview)</a> is going to help with having more Linux-y, but also cross platform apps (e.g., Flutter apps) available without tedious self-compiling.</p> All these changes should make the ecosystem better, and we hope to also improve LinuxPhoneApps.org, as time allows.</p> Also, LinuxPhoneApps.org will be present at FOSDEM (in some way). Peter won't do a talk</a> this year, but (poorly designed) stickers have been ordered and will be available at the Linux on Mobile stand in building K</a>. If you want to meet to talk things through, please get in touch!</p> For those interested in Mobile Linux, linmob.net is going to provide a collection of things to watch out for</a>, like it did last year</a>.</p> Contributions welcome</h2> All relevant parts of LinuxPhoneApps live in one repository</a> - the repo's README is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a> if you have questions!</p> Fixing existing app or game listings is just one click away (provided you have a framagit.org account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> So if you see that something is wrong, please take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to help by adding an app:</p> LPA helper</a> is ugly, but it works. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h2> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed reading it, please share it and spread the word LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends or yourself if you only use the Linux Desktop, as we constantly check for and add new, awesome adaptive Linux apps that also work great on your laptop or desktop!</p> ^1</sup>The current count is different, as we've re-added some list from old archive.csv, added two more apps this January and had to mark one more app</a> as gone</a>, removing it from the app count.</p> </div> Making status information maintainable 2024-11-23T16:30:00+01:00 Having status information always felt important for me when I came up with LinuxPhoneApps.org. When choosing between multiple apps, it can help to convey how mature an app is. Therefore, we had several values to communicate an apps status:</p> pre-release for apps that have no tags or releases,</li> early for new apps in an early project state,</li> maturing,</li> mature,</li> inactive,</li> unmaintained,</li> archived.</li> </ul> These have been replaced by a smaller set of status:</p> pre-release,</li> released,</li> archived and, additionally, if a project has seen zero commits in two years,</li> inactive.</li> </ul> These can be determined via the various APIs of codehosting platforms or via cloning the repos themselves and checking for git tags which is a clear advantage.</p> The change reduces subjectiveness and ambiguity. What does early mean? And when is a project really mature? One can see this as a function of time, but scope has to be considered, too: For example, a fully-fledged word processor takes way, way longer to mature than a simple Pomodoro timer.</p> To not remove information, we've added dates: The first commit and the latest commit. Despite having a checker</a> that now programmatically gets all this information for all apps hosted on GitHub and gitlab-, gitea- and forgejo-based code forges (and a slower solution</a> for all other code hosted in git repositories), it still has to be run manually. One painpoint are API keys - we list too many apps to not run into rate-limiting. Thanks, scrapers!</p> So while we've made progress, there's more to figure out. If you want to help with figuring this out so that we can run our checker, say, weekly, please get in touch [email protected]">via email</a> or on Matrix</a>.</p> New Listings of Q3/2024: 539 Apps and better app discovery 2024-10-03T19:50:00+02:00 It's October, three thirds of 2024 have already passed. Time flies! Let's have a look at what happened last quarter!</p> </span>A new feature</h3> First, let's get into a feature that was added today: Advanced Search</em></p> Advanced Search for Apps</a></li> Advanced Search for Games</a></li> </ul> Check the announement on Mastodon:</p> LinuxPhoneApps.org: "It took literally forever, but…" - FLOSS.social</a>. Feedback welcome!</em></li> </ul> It has been in the work for a long time. It was inspired by this issue:</p> allow filtering by multiple criteria (#57) · Issues · LinuxPhoneApps / linuxphoneapps.org · GitLab</a></li> </ul> Despite taking to so long, it is not much different from Linux Phone Apps Table - Explore data from LinuxPhoneApps.org</a> and lacks some features while having some others - but it a fully integrated part of the site and always fully up-to-date, as the every change to the contents included in the list is immediately reflected there too.</p> New listings</h3> 23 apps were added in the third quarter of 2024:</p> July</h4> Transito</a> - FOSS data-provider-agnostic (GTFS) public transportation app</li> PowerPlant</a> - A small app helping you to keep your plants alive</li> </ul> August</h4> Alpaca</a> - Chat with local AI models</li> Pulp</a> - Skim excessive feeds</li> Archives</a> - Create and view web archives</li> Echo</a> - Ping websites</li> Fidei</a> - Bible reader</li> EV</a> - Electric Vehicle information</li> Phosh OSK</a> - An experimental On Screen Keyboard for Phosh</li> Picker</a> - Randomly pick somthing to do</li> Unfettered Keyboard</a> - The Unfettered Keyboard is an on-screen keyboard for Linux mobile.</li> Keychain</a> - Manage your passwords</li> Concessio</a> - Understand file permissions</li> Screenshot</a> - Take screenshots</li> </ul> September</h4> Goains</a> - Workout tracking app. Thank you, Eeelco, for creating and adding the app!</em></li> Binary</a> - Convert numbers between bases</li> Arca</a> - Archive manager</li> Shutter</a> - Shutter is a camera application which exposes all available camera parameters to the user.</li> newsFish</a> - Nextcloud news client for Kirigami</li> Plattenalbum</a> - Connect to your music</li> GhostCloud</a> - A modern cross-platform client for Nextcloud, ownCloud & WebDav.</li> Mirror Hall</a> - Use Linux devices as virtual displays in a peer-to-peer fashion</li> Bitritter</a> - Simple GTK app (Relm4 framework) to interact with Bitwarden/Vaultwarden vaults</li> </ul> Games</h3> Three games were added in the past quarter:</p> boxclip</a> - "Boxclip", a 2D platformer engine, with an emphasis on interactive map editing. Thank you, glichapp, for adding creating the game!</em></li> Skladnik</a> - Sokoban Game. Thank you, ltworf, for contributing to the game and adding it!</em></li> explosive-c4</a> - Connect4 clone. Thank you, ltworf, for creating and adding the game!</em></li> </ul> Maintenance</h3> Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically, help with these is especially welcome!</p> Thanks</h3> I would like to thank everybody who contributed in the past quarter:</p> Adam</a></li> Guido</a> ... and everyone I may have forgotten, as this list is based entirely on repository contributions and new issues!</li> </ul> Thank you all so much!</p> Please contribute</h2> Since April 14th, 2023, the way this site is generated and thus also the ways to contribute to it have been simplified. All relevant parts now live in one repository</a> - the repo's readme is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a>!</p> Fixing existing app or game listings is just one click away (provided you have a framagit account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> </p> So if you see that something is wrong, take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to add an app (if you don't know any, check Apps to be added</a> ;-) ),</p> Fortunately, we now have an easy way to do this:</p> LPA helper</a> is ugly, but it works. We hope to integrate it properly soon - if you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> What's next?</h2> We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that should be changed. Lately the focus has been on adding more things that should be done - to then work on them.</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends or yourself if you only use the Linux Desktop, as we constantly check for and add new, awesome adaptive Linux apps!</p> New Listings of Q2/2024: More than 512 Apps 2024-06-30T12:00:00+02:00 The first half of 2024 has already passed. Time flies! Let's have a look at what happened last quarter!</p> </span> New listings</h3> 17 apps were added in the 2nd quarter of 2024:</p> April</h4> Usage</a> - A nice way to view information about use of system resources</li> </ul> May</h4> DewDuct</a> - A YouTube player Thank you, DaKnig, for creating and adding the app!</em></li> Elastic</a> - Design spring animations</li> Wildcard</a> - Test your regular expressions</li> Calculator</a> - A simple string calculator</li> Impression</a> - Create bootable drives</li> Lorem</a> - Generate placeholder text</li> Fonts</a> - View fonts on your system</li> Citations</a> - Manage your bibliography</li> Graphs</a> - Plot and manipulate data</li> Ptyxis</a> - Container-oriented terminal</li> Fotema</a> - Admire your photos</li> Web Apps</a> - Install websites as apps</li> </ul> June</h4> Papers</a> - Read documents</li> Showtime</a> - Watch without distraction</li> Alpaka</a> - Alpaka is a client for the Ollama AI service, which lets you run LLM models such as Llama 2. Thank you, cahfofpai, for adding the app!</em></li> eSIM Manager</a> - Download and manage eSIM profiles</li> </ul> Games</h4> 3 games were added in the past quarter:</p> Chess Clock</a> - Time games of over-the-board chess</li> Animatch</a> - A cute match-3 game</li> Ultimate Tic Tac Toe</a> - (Tic Tac Toe)² Thank you, Nokse, for creating and adding the app!</em></li> </ul> Maintenance</h3> Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p> Thanks</h3> I would like to thank everybody who contributed in the past quarter:</p> Max</a>, for a number of fixes,</li> cahfofpai</a>, for adding Alpaka, and a so far unmerged MR</a>,</li> nokse22</a>, for creating and adding Ultimate Tic Tac Toe and updating listings of other apps and games they have created! ... and everyone I may have forgotten, as this list is based entirely on repository contributions!</li> </ul> Thank you all so much!</p> Please contribute</h2> Since April 14th, 2023, the way this site is generated and thus also the ways to contribute to it have been simplified. All relevant parts now live in one repository</a> - the repo's readme is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room</a>!</p> Fixing existing app or game listings is just one click away (provided you have a framagit account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> </p> So if you see that something is wrong, take the time and help fix it - by fixing it, or by reporting it to the issue tracker</a> or via e-mail</a>.</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to add an app (if you don't know any, check Apps to be added</a> ;-) ),</p> Fortunately, we now have an easy way to do this:</p> LPA helper</a> is ugly, but it works. We hope to integrate it properly soon - if you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> What's next?</h2> I still have not managed to write the post with plans and goals for 2024, and it makes less sense to write one with every day that goes by. We do have a public issue tracker</a>, that lists things that should be changed. Progress on my side has been very slow, apologies for that! There's a glimmer of hope though, as, from September onwards, I should have a bit more time by switching to a four day work week.</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends or yourself if you only use the Linux Desktop, as we constantly check for and add new, awesome adaptive Linux apps!</p> New Listings of Q1/2024: Almost 500 Apps 2024-04-12T07:15:00+02:00 Let's have a look at what happened last quarter!</p> </span> New Listings</h3> The following 42 apps and one game were added to LinuxPhoneApps.org in the first quarter of 2024:</p> January</h4> Key Rack</a> - View and edit app secrets</li> Eloquens</a> - Generate the lorem ipsum text</li> Fielding</a> - Test your REST APIs</li> Journald Browser</a> - Browser for journald databases</li> KleverNotes</a> - KleverNotes is a note taking and management application</li> Licentia</a> - Choose a license for your project</li> MarkNote</a> - Write down your thoughts</li> Merkuro Mail</a> - Read your emails with speed and ease</li> Notae</a> - Take notes easily</li> </ul> February</h4> Speedtest</a> - Measure your internet connection speed</li> fWallet</a> - A beautiful cross-platform wallet application for your transport tickets, discount cards and subscriptions.</li> Electrolysis</a> - EV Charging interface for Linux Thank you, Undef, for adding the app!</em></li> LocalSend</a> - Share files to nearby devices</li> Eeman</a> - Track Salah, Read the Quran</li> Butler</a> - Companion for Home Assistant</li> Parabolic</a> - Download web video and audio</li> unlockR</a> - PDF Password remover</li> Muzika</a> - Elegant music streaming application</li> Jupii</a> - Play audio, video and images on UPnP/DLNA devices</li> Whakarere</a> - GTK4 Whatsapp Client</li> Shortcut</a> - Make app shortcuts</li> Zodiac</a> - A simple program for plotting horoscopes</li> Warehouse</a> - Manage all things Flatpak</li> Forge Sparks</a> - Get Git forges notifications</li> Door Knocker</a> - Check the availability of portals</li> Chance</a> - Roll the dice</li> Valuta</a> - Convert between currencies</li> Daikhan (Early Access)</a> - Play Videos/Music with style</li> Time Cop</a> - A time tracking app that respects your privacy and gets the job done without getting too fancy</li> Kana</a> - Learn Japanese characters</li> Done</a> - To-do lists reimagined</li> Paper Clip</a> - Edit PDF document metadata</li> Simple Wireplumber GUI</a> - A simple GTK4 GUI for PipeWire</li> Polypass</a> - A simple, secure, and easy to use password manager</li> Ticket Booth</a> - Keep track of your favorite shows</li> GNOME Network Displays</a> - Screencasting for GNOME</li> </ul> March</h4> GoForIt!</a> - A stylish to-do list with built-in productivity timer</li> Melon</a> - Stream videos on the go from different services</li> Date Calculator</a> - The go-to minimal date calculator</li> Memorize</a> - Study flashcards</li> Memorado</a> - Memorize anything</li> Folio</a> - Take notes in Markdown</li> </ul> Games</h4> Trivia Quiz</a> - Respond to endless questions</li> </ul> Maintenance</h3> Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p> Thanks</h3> I would like to thank all who contributed in the past quarter:</p> Dark Dragon</a> for continued contributions to our checkers,</li> Max</a>, a new contributor, who is going the extra mile and working with upstream to improve metadata, and also has fixed numerous listings,</li> Philippe for [email protected]%3E">pointing out an error</a>,</li> Undef for creating and adding Electrolysis,</li> </ul> Thank you all so much!</p> Please contribute</h2> Since April 14th, 2023, the way this site is generated and thus also the ways to contribute to it have been simplified. All relevant parts now live in one repository</a>.</p> As a consequence, fixing existing app or game listings is now just one click away (provided you have a framagit account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> </p> So if you see that something is wrong, take the time and help fix it!</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to add an app (if you don't know any, check Apps to be added</a> ;-) ),</p> Fortunately, we now have an easy way to do this:</p> LPA helper</a> is ugly, but it works. We hope to integrate it properly soon - if you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> What's next?</h2> Stay tuned for a post with our plans and goals for 2024. If you can't wait for that - we do have a public issue tracker</a>!</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends or yourself if you only use the Linux Desktop, as we constantly check for and add new, awesome adaptive Linux apps!</p> A Talk at FOSDEM 2024: 'The Linux Phone App Ecosystem' 2024-02-24T23:57:00+01:00 A blog post about FOSDEM 2024's 'The Linux Phone Apps Ecosystem' talk </p>The what, the how and a lot of addenda to the The Linux Phone App Ecosystem talk held at FOSDEM 2024</a></p> </span> Preface</h3> First things first: FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developers European Meeting) is a yearly event happening in Brussels, Belgium. It lasts only two days, but it has content for a about two weeks. It's a nice event, there's no sign-up, no admission - if you're involved with FOSS, and can make, it should just go. Yes, it's a health hazard and overcrowded. But it's such a boost, also.</p> After having attended FOSDEM 2023, I was sure to go again. Something made me believe that I should give a talk, and so, as the Call for Participation for the FOSS on Mobile devroom was taking place, I figured that it might be interesting to talk about the Linux Phone App Eosystem - not a bad idea. Also, I figured that my live would contain enough minutes and hours to prepare this well enough. This assumption was wrong, and led to a talk with last minutes slides; thankfully, I had somewhat prepared the rest. But as these things go, without time to rehearse, you will not deliver what you may have intended to deliver.</p> The contents</h3> I started out with a few puns and then went on to talk about the main players in the Linux Phone App Ecosystem; first trying to make clear, that Android is not the way to go.</p> I then went on a ride through Sailfish OS, Ubuntu Touch and what I called the "new contenders", the GNOME and Plasma Mobile efforts this very website focuesses on. Needless to say, if you want to get into the origins of these projects, and discuss a few highlights from their matters of app distribution, things become challenging in 40 Minute time slot, especially, if you're not a fast talker.</p> Enough said, maybe.. just watch it?</p> Watch the recording</h4> FOSDEM 2024 - The Linux Phone App Ecosystem</a></p> After that, here's where I think I could have done better.</p> Areas, where the talk could have been better</h3> Aside from the obvious slide navigations mishaps, and the lack of visual demos, the following should have been said clearer:</p> Sailfish OS</h4> Sailfish is actually, aside from its stores, able to run flatpak apps. However, it's stack (AFAIR it's the wayland compositor) makes it so, that GTK-based apps can't be run. Still, this should make it possible to run Nheko (and thus have a decent enough) Matrix app.</p> Ubuntu Touch</h4> I dropped the ball here, when I did not mention the read-only-filesystem - in a way, Ubuntu Touch is the immutable OG. This is a major characteristic. Also, an image of that donation prompt was sorely missed.</p> New contenders</h4> I am not too unhappy with this, but visuals, again, would have been good.</p> Interoperability issues when combining apps from different worlds, starting with what we the keyboard fun when running Qt apps on Phosh (non-automatic) and GNOME Shell Mobile (no keyboard at all), should have been mentioned.</p> The foreseeable issues when running Ubuntu Touch apps on any of the new contenders, that unlike Ubuntu Touch use a swipe up gesture for multi tasking, making it unavailable for in app menu things, also (with Sailfish's UI bits being proprietary, a "just build it and run it" approach is impossible, anyway. It will remain challenging and extra work to make an app feel native to each ecosystem, if it's feasible at all. Still, small as all these efforts are, collectively, we should at least try to make this better.</p> Where to go from here?</h3> One of my goals with this talk was to name a few examples of apps that essentially work everywhere. I was also touching on the topic of donations and the user appreciation that they can signal in a world of angry bug reports or unfriendly worded feature demands.</p> Payments though - as I was contacted after the talk, that's likely not worth the hassle, the author of the SailfishOS app Fernschreiber told me, from first hand experience. Transaction costs ruin small payment money transfer - it's a sad fact. Still, if it a mechanism, that can also work for all Linux Desktop users (Flathub is working on this), results may be slightly better if expectations are realistic: This is not iOS, you are unlikely to make a living of one indy app (assuming that's still possible for unknown new-comers over in Apple world, even).</p> That's the big picture stuff. Personally, I hope to get more in touch with people from both Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish OS, to explore avenues of app interoperability in all directions. Both projects are the most ready for the everyperson, but it would be great if they could participate from the seemingly more energetic space monitored on this website.</p> Regarding LinuxPhoneApps.org, my 2024 goals include easier maintenance by submitting MRs/PRs to listed projects, so that they can take care of updating listings and are in control of the ways their apps are described (there's a lot more, but this is the most important one, as it can make this project less important, which would be a good thing). This does not mean that I do not intend on making the site better; or that I mean to retire it. New apps showing up are unlikely to be perfect on that metadata; and I don't even know if there are plans to add indicators regarding adaptivity to Discover, Plasma's app management solution.</p> Conclusion</h3> Overall, given the circumstances, I am fairly happy with my talk. I hope to publish an enhanced/augmented version of it on TilVids and it's huge competitor in March. If you have any feedback</a>, or want to collaborate, do not hesitate to get in touch! (Public comments are best placed on Mastodon</a>).</p> New Apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q4/2023: 21 new apps, and a simpler way to add new apps! 2024-02-10T11:30:00+02:00 It feels like it is almost March, so let's have a long overdue look at what happened in the final quarter of 2023!</p> </span> New apps</h2> The following 21 apps were added to LinuxPhoneApps.org in the fourth quarter of 2023:</p> October</h3> Kalm</a> - Breathing techniques. Thank you, plata, for creating and adding the app!</em></li> Metronomek</a> - Trivial looking metronome with natural sounds and sophisticated possibilities. Thank you, Agent Smith, for adding the app!</em></li> Pygenda</a> - Pygenda is a calendar/agenda application written in Python3/GTK3 and designed for "PDA" devices such as Planet Computers' Gemini..</li> Fretboard</a> - Look up guitar chords.</li> </ul> November</h3> Biblioteca</a> - Read documentation.</li> Camera</a> - Take pictures and videos.</li> Jellybean</a> - Manage inventories of various things.</li> Dosage</a> - Keep track of your treatments.</li> Halftone</a> - Give your images that pixel art-like style.</li> Upscaler</a> - Upscale and enhance images.</li> KOReader</a> - A document viewer for DjVu, PDF, EPUB and more. Thank you, colinsane, for adding the app!</em></li> Decibels</a> - Play audio files.</li> Resources</a> - Monitor your system resources and processes.</li> Merkuro Contact</a> - Manage your contacts with speed and ease.</li> </ul> December</h3> Saber: Handwritten Notes</a> - The notes app built for handwriting.</li> Delfin</a> - Stream movies and TV shows from Jellyfin.</li> Pomodoro</a> - Pomodoro is a productivity-focused timer.</li> Exercise Timer</a> - Timer clock for high intensity interval training.</li> Wifi Connect</a> - Scan for Wifi SSIDs, connect, disconnect, and restart services on your linux phone. Thank you, AndyM48, for creating and adding the app!</em></li> Televido</a> - Access German-language public TV.</li> KWordQuiz</a> - Flash Card Trainer.</li> </ul> New Games</h2> As the games list remains unmaintained, it did not see much action. Please step up if you're into games, here are what's on the agenda (aside from adding/reviewing games)</a>!</em></p> Maintenance</h3> Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p> Please contribute</h2> Since April 14th, 2023, the way this site is generated and thus also the ways to contribute to it have been simplified. All relevant parts now live in one repository</a>.</p> As a consequence, fixing existing app or game listings is now just one click away (provided you have a framagit account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> </p> So if you see that something is wrong, take the time and help fix it!</p> Adding apps</h3> If you want to add an app (if you don't know any, check Apps to be added</a> ;-) ),</p> Fortunately, we now have a new and easy way to do this:</p> LPA helper</a> is ugly, but it works. We hope to integrate it properly and overhaul its UI soon - if you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!</p> See also:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> What's next?</h2> Stay tuned for a post with our plans and goals for 2024. If you can't wait for that - we do have a public issue tracker</a>!</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends or yourself if you only use the Linux Desktop, as we constantly check for new, awesome adaptive Linux apps!</p> If you want to contribute an/your app or work on the website itself, please see above or check the FAQ</a>!1</a></sup></p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a> or subscribe/post to our discuss mailing list</a>!</p> ^1</sup>If you are not aware of any new apps, check out apps listed in apps-to-be-added</a>, test the app and add it!</p> </div> New Apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q3/2023: 15 new apps, maintenance and more! 2023-10-08T19:40:00+02:00 It's October (and thus Q4): Let's have a look at what happened in the third quarter of 2023!</p> </span> New apps</h2> The following fifteen apps where added in the third quarter of 2023:</p> Juli</h3> No new apps :(</p> August</h3> Syncthing GTK</a>, a GUI for Syncthing. Thank you for adding the app, Guido!</em></li> Lemoa</a>, a Gtk client for Lemmy.</li> Lemonade</a>, follow discussions on Lemmy. _Despite these additions, I think we need more good Lemmy/kbin clients for #MobileLinux.</li> Pinephone MPV</a>, a simple wrapper for MPV for the Pinephone and other Linux mobile devices. Thank you, AndyM48 for creating and adding the app!</em></li> </ul> September</h3> Bluetooth Connect</a>. Scan, add, edit and connect bluetooth devices on your linux phone. Thank you AndyM48, for creating and adding the app to LinuxPhoneApps.org!</em></li> Flatsweep</a>. Flatpak leftover cleaner.</li> Letterpress</a>, create beautiful ASCII art.</li> Francis</a>. Track your time</li> Jogger</a>: Track and view your runs, walks, cycles, swims, and other workouts on mobile Linux.</li> </ul> Maintenance</h3> Also, at the very end of the quarter, most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. Also, we prepared the site to list even more information:</p> First, we are working on a new taxonomy</a> to also list whether/how well and app can work without a connection to the internet.</li> Secondly, but way more immidiate, App Images can now be linked to in our listings, so if you find one, let us know!</li> </ul> And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p> Please contribute</h2> Since April 14th, 2023, the way this site is generated and thus also the ways to contribute to it have been simplified. All relevant parts now live in one repository</a>.</p> As a consequence, fixing existing app or game listings is now just one click away (provided you have a framagit account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> </p> So if you see that something is wrong, take the time and help fix it!</p> New apps</h3> If you want to add an app (if you don't know any, check Apps to be added</a> ;-) ),</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> What's next?</h2> Goals for the Q4 are the following:</p> Making it easier to add new apps: Integrate lpa_helper.html into the site</a>, [make it possible to generate listings from metadata</a> or flathub.org</a>.</li> Improve information and UI - make listings better (more readable) and improve listings findability.</li> </ul> Still to be considered and fixed</h3> Talking about ratings: The way apps are rated a thing we still are thinking about. They are a hard topic, not just because changes to the rating system would then have to be applied to more than 400 apps. Among the considerations for the future are new separate sections (apps and games are sections in Zola</a> terminology) for Tablet apps (how to rate those with form factors ranging from 7" to 13"?) or TUI apps (think Sxmo</a>).</p> If you are willing to help with the concept, please describe it in an issue</a> - be prepared to contribute to the MR that adds it, though - also we should start out with at least 5 listings to make the section worthwhile.</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends or yourself if you only use the Linux Desktop!</p> If you want to contribute an/your app or work on the website itself, please see above or check the FAQ</a>!1</a></sup></p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a> or subscribe/post to our discuss mailing list</a>!</p> ^1</sup>If you are not aware of any new apps, check out apps listed in apps-to-be-added</a>, test the app and add it!</p> </div> New Apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q2/2023: 15 New Apps, Packaging Info and Tooling Improvements 2023-08-02T20:00:00+02:00 It's already August, so let's have a late look at the changes that happened in the second quarter of 2023!</p> </span> New apps</h3> The following fifteen apps where added in the second quarter of 2023:</p> April</h4> Karoto Shopping List</a>, an advanced shopping list app.</li> Arianna</a>, an e-book reader app for Plasma Desktop and mobile.</li> Loupe</a>, a simple GTK4/libadwaita image viewer.</li> Converter</a>, a tool to convert and manipulate images.</li> Telegraph</a>, an utility to write and decode morse code.</li> List</a>, a simple To Do application.</li> hamlocator</a>, "display a maidenhead locator".</li> Collision</a>, "check hashes for your files".</li> </ul> May</h4> Bavarder</a>, an app to chit chat with GPT.</li> </ul> June</h4> Junction</a> lets you choose the application to open files and links.</li> Imaginer</a>, a tool to generate pictures with AI.</li> Speech Note</a>: Note taking and reading with Speech to Text and Text to Speech.</li> Footage</a>: Trim, flip, rotate and crop individual clips.</li> Teleprompter</a>, ... well, a teleprompter!</li> Reminders</a>, an app to set reminders and manage tasks.</li> </ul> In total, LinuxPhoneApps.org now lists 430 apps, yay!</p> Please contribute</h3> Since April 14th, 2023, the way this site is generated and thus also the ways to contribute to it have been simplified. All relevant parts now live in one repository</a>.</p> As a consequence, fixing existing app or game listings is now just one click away (provided you have a framagit account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> Adding new apps (or games) has hopefully not become too much more difficult - you now have to create a new markdown file to add an app. Lately, I've come up with a tool to come up with a bare draft</a> of a new listing, which can then be augmented by running the existing checkers</a>.</p> We have initial documentation describing the new contribution flow:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> Documentation and tooling should improve over time, contributions to both are duely appreciated.</p> A useful new feature</h3> As already announced</a>, we've added a way to make it easier to find out whether an app is packaged for your distribution (or available on Snapcraft or Flathub).</p> On section overview pages (apps</a>, games</a>) and all taxonomy term pages (all pages linked on pages like services</a>, categories</a>, you can now easily grasp if/how you can install an app. The underlying change also makes the Packaged in taxonomy</a> more useful. The data is provided by repology.org</a>, and will be updated about monthly - the last update was done on July 15th, 2023. For more current data, we still embed the current svg from Repology on the individual app listings.</p> Still to be considered and fixed</h3> The first part of this section was already part of the previous progress report:</em></p> Talking about ratings: The way apps are rated a thing we still are thinking about. They are a hard topic, not just because changes to the rating system would then have to be applied to more than 400 apps. Among the considerations for the future are new separate sections (apps and games are sections in Zola</a> terminology) for Tablet apps (how to rate those with form factors ranging from 7" to 13"?) or TUI apps (think Sxmo</a>).</p> If you are willing to help with the concept, please describe it in an issue</a> - be prepared to contribute to the MR that adds it, though - also we should start out with at least 5 listings to make the section worthwhile.</p> For the remainder of Q3/2023, adding apps, work on UI and documentation will be the key focus - if time allows. Expect a report on what has been achieved early next quarter!</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org - it can also be useful for your friends that only use the Linux Desktop!</p> If you want to contribute an/your app or work on the website itself, please check the FAQ</a>!1</a></sup></p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a> or subscribe/post to our discuss mailing list</a>!</p> ^1</sup>If you are not aware of any new apps, check out apps listed in apps-to-be-added</a>, test the app and add it!</p> </div> Better packaging information: Thank you, Repology! 2023-06-04T16:45:00+01:00 Thanks to repology.org</a> LinuxPhoneApps.org now lists distributions that package certain apps. We came up with a script, that checks listings against repology's API. If an app is known to be available via Flathub or Snapcraft (meaning, someone manually found this and put the URL into the listing), the script also adds a tag to list these methods of app distribution as well.</p> </span> We really hope this helps making LinuxPhoneApps.org more useful. Please note though, that we are not updating constantly - since most distributions are not constantly changing, we plan to run the script that queries repology monthly.</p> Interested in how this was done/what changed? Check out the Merge Request that added the feature.</a></p> If you've got feedback or further ideas to implement this better, make sure to get in touch!</p> New apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q1/2023: Easier Editing Edition 2023-04-16T10:00:00+02:00 It's mid April, and here, are the news and changes of LinuxPhoneApps.org in early 2023, starting with the added apps.</p> </span> New apps</h3> The following nine apps where added in the first quarter of 2023:</p> January</h4> Feeel</a>, a cross-platform Flutter home workout app that respects your privacy.</li> Lemmur</a>, a mobile client for Lemmy - a federated reddit alternative.</li> GNOME Text Editor</a>, a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.</li> </ul> February</h4> Capsule</a>, a medication tracker for GNOME.</li> Monophony</a>, a GTK4/libadwaita app that facilitates streaming music from YouTube</li> Date of Catholic Easter</a>, a program for calculating the date of Catholic Easter</li> Punchclock</a>, track time for your tasks.</li> </ul> March</h4> Carburetor</a>, a GTK and Libawaita app for connecting to Tor network. Thanks to danialbehzadi for creating and adding this app!</em></li> Powertrack</a>, a tool to track battery statistics. Thanks to somefoo for creating the app and telling us about it</a>.</em></li> </ul> Simplifying the way this site is generated</h3> Since April 14th, 2023, the way this site is generated and thus also the ways to contribute to it have been simplified. All relevant parts now live in one repository</a>.</p> As a consequence, fixing existing app or game listings is now just one click away (provided you have a framagit account) - every listing has an edit link at the bottom of the page.</p> Adding new apps (or games) has hopefully not become too much more difficult - you now have to create a new markdown file to add an app.</p> We have initial documentation describing the new contribution flow:</p> Submit apps via GitLab</a></li> Listings explained</a></li> </ul> You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list</a>.</p> Documentation and tooling should improve over time, contributions to both are duely appreciated.</p> Tiny new features</h3> Aside from this big change, the way to list flatpaks has been improved. Whether it's Flathub, another repo or download option, or just a .yml file to use with flatpak-builder, we have a custom TOML frontmatter value for each that then gets displayed accordingly</a>. This was also implemented</a> for snaps in a similar fashion.</p> New values that are supposed to help understanding the limitations of an app better have also been introduced.</p> intended_for_mobile</code></a> is supposed to signal whether an app is intended to work with small touchscreens, going by its description and appstream metadata.</li> all-features-touch</code></a> could be called "the Seahorse</a> feature": With some apps, functionality will remain behind a right click and not accessible when using just a touch screen.</li> </ul> Future</h3> Talking about ratings: Ratings are a thing we still are thinking about. They are a hard topic, not just because changes to the rating system would then have to be applied to more than 400 apps. Among the considerations for the future are new separate sections (apps and games are sections in Zola</a> terminology) for Tablet apps (how to rate those with form factors ranging from 7" to 13"?) or TUI apps (think Sxmo</a>).</p> If you are willing to work on the concept, please describe it in an issue</a> - be prepared to contribute to the MR that adds it, though - also we should start out with at least 5 listings to make the section worthwhile.</p> For the remainder of Q2/2023 maintenance is a focus, alongside with work on usability/UI and documentation. Expect a report on what has been achieved early next quarter!</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org!</p> If you want to contribute an/your app or work on the website itself, please check the FAQ</a>!1</a></sup></p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a> or subscribe/post to our discuss mailing list</a>!</p> ^1</sup>If you are not aware of any new apps, check out apps listed in apps-to-be-added</a>, test the app and add it!</p> </div> New apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q4/2022 2023-02-26T19:00:00+01:00 It's almost March, and here, finally, is the post about the apps that have been added in the last quarter of 2022.</p> </span> New apps</h3> The following 6 apps where added in Q4 of 2022:</p> October</h4> Endeavour</a>, an intuitive and powerful application to manage your personal tasks.</li> </ul> GNOME Files (Nautilus)</a>, a file browser for GNOME.</li> Flare</a>, an unofficial Signal GTK4 client.</li> </ul> November</h4> Tooth</a>, a GTK4 Mastodon Client - Fork of Tootle.</li> Frog</a>, an utility to extract text from anywhere.</li> </ul> Dezember</h4> Wince</a> provides search for restaurants and businesses with a GTK4/libadwaita UI powered by Yelp. Thanks, wildeyedskies, for creating and adding this app!</em></li> </ul> Maintenance</h3> Some maintenance happened, to make maintenance more easy, we now have a set of scripts</a> - help with running the scripts and fixing issues (many need manual intervention) is welcome!</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org!</p> If you want to contribute an/your app or work on the website itself, please check the FAQ</a>!1</a></sup></p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a> or subscribe/post to our discuss mailing list</a>!</p> ^1</sup>If you are not aware of any new apps, check out apps listed in apps-to-be-added</a>, test the app and add it!</p> </div> Help us achieve self-maintaining App Listings by adding AppStream Metadata! 2022-12-24T16:45:00+01:00 With the festive season upon us, and the end of 2022 approaching, we have a big ask: Help us keep app listings up to date by working with upstream projects!</p> </span> In the past months, not many apps were evaluated or added to LinuxPhoneApps.org. But still, things were done: The technical stack was much improved. While most of this work is not directly user-facing, as it's about restructuring the underlying .csv files and adding more and more automatic content checkers, we've now arrived at a stage where we can update listings without a lot of the time-intense churn this was.</p> As the main contributor of these efforts1</a></sup> put it in the Matrix group:</p> Help wanted: upstreaming metadata</strong></p> The last weeks, I created a script which allows us to automatically update outdated information in the apps.csv file based on AppStream metadata: https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/check_via_appstream.py</a>.</p> This massively decreases manual maintenance overhead and allows us to instead focus on adding additional value like testing the apps, storing mobile compatibility scores and so on.</p> In order for that workflow to work out, we need your help:</p> Make sure each repository has an AppStream metadata file</a>.</em> This job</a> will list you the missing ones.</li> Add missing values:</em> This job</a> will show you where we have more information that reported upstream -> just earch for "missing in upstream AppStream file. Consider contributing it upstream"</li> </ul> See this issue</a> for further info. You can also comment links to upstream issues and merge requests there.</p> </blockquote> Want to help? Great! Please be polite and helpful to upstream!</h3> As always: Please don't bomb upstream here, be polite, don't just go around and create a ton of issues on upstrean projects!</strong></p> Try to be helpful instead: If you've ever dealt with HTML or other XML things, you'll be able to understand AppStream files well enough without much effort to create a Merge Request (MR) or Pull Request (PR), to take the initial load of this task from the individual developer. Be kind in the description of your PR or MR, after all it's a request you are making and politeness does not cost you money.</p> In order to reduce duplicate effort, make sure to briefly mention your MR or issue to the issue that tracks progress</a>. If you don't want to sign up with Framagit for that purpose, sending an email to [email protected] will do the same once I (linmob) get to it.</p> More on AppStream Metadata</h3> If this is the first time you've heard of AppStream Metadata, you may wonder: Ok, what is this good for? Is all this XML not a little much just to support this dumb LinuxPhoneApps.org website? Yes, it would be, you're not mistaken. But this is a well established specification, it makes listings in GNOME Software, KDE's Discover and other 'app store'-ish apps.look have nice content.</p> Still not convinced? Well, it also provides the data for websites like</p> Flathub</a>,</li> Apps for GNOME</a>,</li> KDE Applications</a>.</li> </ul> If you don't like XML, here are other ways to help</h3> Pretty cool, huh? If you still don't think so, and don't want to help us this way, you can help in other ways:</p> Submitting apps by email</a>,</li> Submit apps on GitLab</a>,</li> or just by writing a nice 'Thank you' mail/toot/tweet to the developers of your favorite apps!</li> </ul> And if you don't want to help at all, that's fine too. ;-) And even if we are a day late: Happy Festivus</a>!</p> ^{1</sup> Who doea not even want to be named - still: Thank you so much for your work on LinuxPhoneApps, and thanks for putting up with me (linmob) being difficult!</p> </div>} New apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q3/2022 - 400! 🎉 2022-10-08T11:07:00+02:00 It's October, its time for another quarterly update! Let's get started with some good news: LinuxPhoneApps.org now lists over 400 apps, and hit the 400 apps milestone before the end of the quarter. Now how did we get there?</p> </span> New apps</h3> The following 14 apps where added last quarter:</p> July</h4> Pidif</a>, a lightweight PDF viewer built for touch interfaces, with GTK4 and Rust. Thanks to bjesus for creating and adding this app!</em></li> Quadrix</a>, a minimal, simple, multi-platform chat client for the Matrix protocol (ReactXP, Electron). Thanks to alpabrz for evaluating and adding this app!</em></li> </ul> August</h4> Lobjur</a>, a GTK4 client for lobste.rs.</li> BadWolf</a>, Minimalist and privacy-oriented web browser based on WebKitGTK. Thanks lanodan for creating and adding this app!</em></li> </ul> September</h4> Myuzi</a>. Free Spotify alternative for Linux with no ads. Thanks to Cara for telling us about this app on Twitter! Please note: This is not a Spotify client!</em></li> Syndic</a>, a convergent feed reader for Plasma and Android.</li> Ear Tag</a>,https://github.com/knuxify/eartag,Small and simple music tag editor that doesn't try to manage your entire library,</li> WatchMate</a>, a PineTime smart watch companion app for Linux phone and desktop.</li> Gradience</a>, an app to change the look of Adwaita, with ease.</li> File Shredder</a>, a simple shredding program built for the GNOME desktop.</li> PicPlanner</a>, an app to calculate the position of the Sun, Moon and Milky Way to plan the position and time for a photograph,</li> GNOME Calendar</a>, Calendar application for GNOME. With release 43, this app has been redesigned to be mobile friendly. In initial testing (flathub), it misses this goal by a few pixels.</em></li> KeePassPQ</a> is a Python and QML based application to open KeePass (v4) databases on mobile devices and finally</li> Text Pieces</a>, Transform text without using random websites.</li> </ul> Maintenance</h3> I also want to take the time to thank everyone who helped with keeping the list up to date via Merge Request</a> or email:</p> alphabrz</em> updated Nota, Calindori and Quadrix</li> BigB</em> updated Sonically</li> </ul> and jumpexy</em> sent a first mail to our Errors list</a> pointing out an error that has since been fixed.</p> !</mark> If you find an error or something outdated in a listing, please scroll down and hit the link after "Something wrong?" at the bottom of the listing. Assuming you have a mail client set up on your system, a new new compose window will open that already has a subject, and some text to make us know what this is about. All you need to do is to describe the error and hit send - it helps a lot!</p> Please use this method and not social media to point out errors - social media is just too ephemeral, and your report may be missed (or cause some unneccessary mental load for maintainers ;-) ).</p> Help with maintenance!</h3> Overall, maintenance could be better. Sadly my personal life has changed in ways that I (1peter10) have a lot less time to maintain the listings - and at the same time, with more and more listings, there are more projects to watch and maintain. This requires better tooling (e.g., a checker for dead links, or a simple way to follow project releases / commits on "unreleased" projects via RSS/ATOM feeds), that's almost impossible to build for me in the few scraps of time I have in an average work week.</p> Sadly, due to spammers, framagit has enabled account moderation - signing up for a new account is not instantaneous and may take days. But you can of still contribute quickly: Just clone the repo, create a patch and send it to our devel mailing list</a>!</p> The way forward</h3> Now: More ways to contribute and communicate</h4> As mentioned above, we've added another way to contribute. Signing up for yet another code forge is something you may not want, and you don't have to. While you could also send patches via email before, there's now an official way for that documented on the devel mailing list</a>.</p> If you've developed an app (or found an app that's not listed) and don't want to bother with the arcane csv file, feel free to write about it to our discuss mailing list</a>.</p> Replacing CSV? TOML? metainfo.xml?</h4> Stay tuned for a post later this quarter that will contain my ideas to move beyond the current way which is somewhat convoluted - yes, I wrote "ideas" here, because I need the input of more savvy people to come up with an actual plan. The goal is to form a plan in 2022 and to then implement it in early 2023.</p> Also: Hacktoberfest</h3> Lastly, we briefly want to mention hacktoberfest</a>.1</a></sup> While contributing LinuxPhoneApps.org won't help you get a t-shirt, there are a few listed Linux Mobile projects that are accepting contributions during hacktoberfest:</p> Axolotl</a>,</li> Cawbird</a>,</li> Gradience</a>,</li> Myuzi</a>, and</li> Nheko</a></li> </ul> (Thanks to @JJS_10 for helping with compiling this list</a>!)</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org!</p> If you want to contribute an/your app or work on the website itself, please check the FAQ</a>!2</a></sup></p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a> or subscribe/post to our discuss mailing list</a>!</p> ^1</sup>Hacktoberfest has a bad reputation from leading to spammy commits, but after reading their guidelines for this year</a>, I think they have addressed this.</p> </div> ^2</sup>If you are not aware of any new apps, check out apps-to-be-added</a>, test the app and add it!</p> </div> New apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q2/2022 🎉 2022-07-07T22:10:00+02:00 Let's have a quick and dirty blog post listing all the additions to our app list in the second quarter of 2022!</p> </span>April</h3> Moment</a>,a ustomizable and keyboard-operable Matrix client, written in Qt/QML and Python. This is the continuation of Mirage</a>, which has been inactive for a bit.</em></li> GNOME Firmware</a>, GNOME's mobile friendly fwupd frontend.</li> Iotas</a>, a simple note taking with mobile-first design and a focus on Nextcloud Notes sync.</li> gtkcord4</a>, a GTK4 Discord client in Go.</li> Delta Chat Desktop</a>, an Email-based instant messaging client for Desktop. And phones, duh!</em></li> Quick Weather</a>, a QML Qt application for desktop and mobile, that uses BOM weather for Australia.</li> Roger Router</a>, a utility to control and monitor AVM Fritz!Box Routers.</li> Clans</a>, a WIP Gtk4 / libAdwaita Discord client. Warning: Use at your own risk. Using a third party Discord client may result in your account being banned.</em></li> Signal Desktop</a>, the official Signal app for desktops, works pretty well - except for suffering from the common Electron issues: Blurriness, or non-working virtual keyboards (partially on Phosh, totally on Plasma Mobile) when enabling the ozone wayland backend. Sadly, Signal does not provide official ARM64/aarch64 binaries, so that unofficial builds must do: Builds for Debian are listed on the Mobian Wiki</a>, builds for Arch are available on privacy-shark</a> and there's also a distribution-independent flatpak build</a> that should work on every distro.</em></li> Amberol</a>, a small and simple sound and music player that is well integrated with GNOME.</li> Jami-qt</a> is the cross platform client for Jami, a privacy-oriented voice, video, chat, and conference platform.</li> Coasts</a>, a nice and simple map viewer.</li> Tasks</a>, a simple task list application.</li> </ul> May</h3> Geopard</a>, a Gemini client written in Rust, using the GTK4 toolkit</li> Warp</a> allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.</li> Smile</a>, a simple emoji picker for Linux with custom tags support.</li> Paper</a>, a pretty note-taking app for GNOME.</li> Shopping List</a>, a shopping list application for GNU/Linux mobile devices.</li> </ul> June</h3> Songrec</a>, an open-source, unofficial Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.</li> G4Music</a>, a fast, fluent, light weight music player written in GTK4, with a beautiful, adaptive user interface, so named G4Music.</li> Valent</a>, securely connect your devices to open files and links where you need them, get notifications when you need them, stay in control of your media and more. Valent is an implementation of the KDE Connect protocol, built on GNOME platform libraries.</em></li> Iridium</a>, a native Linux IRC client built in Vala and Gtk for elementary OS.</li> Phosh Mobile Settings</a>, a settings app for Phosh and related components. Really neat tool that tackles everything I always wanted to add to postmarketOS Tweaks</a>.</em></li> Goguma</a>, an IRC client written in Flutter for mobile devices.</li> BlackBox</a>, a beautiful GTK4 terminal.</li> </ul> Thanks to everyone involved in developing and submitting these apps!👏</p> Other noteworthy changes</h3> There also have been a some nice updates to already included listings - shout out to BigB, Maeve and alpabrz for their contributions!</p> Overall, I would have hoped to get more done in the past three months. My day job has been challenging at times, so maybe more progress was just not possible. That said, especially progress on site features like app authorship</a>1</a></sup> or others that you can find in the issue tracker</a> (or in my head) has been way to slow for my liking.</p> So if you think you can help out, please do get in touch!</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org!</p> If you want to contribute an/your app or work on the website itself, please check the FAQ</a>!2</a></sup></p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a>!</p> ^1</sup>This is the current state</a>, in case you were curious.</p> </div> ^2</sup>If you are not aware of any new apps, check out apps-to-be-added</a>, test the app and add it!</p> </div> New apps of LINMOBapps, Q1/2022 🎉 2022-04-07T23:00:00+02:00 January</h3> Osmin</a>, a GPS Navigator On-Road/Off-Road for Android, Sailfish and Linux phones. A great QtQuick maps app. It’s available in Manjaro's repos, so if you are using Manjaro or Arch,1</a></sup> do give it a try. Thanks Karry for contributing this app!</em></li> Store Cards</a>,a Tk based utility to keep all your store cards on your linux phone.</li> Strike</a> is Maui's simple minimal IDE for the Linux phones. Code, build, and run from the phone!</li> </ul> February</h3> No apps were added in February.🧐</p> March</h3> GadgetController</a>, a pythonic GTK/libhandy utility to use your PinePhone as an USB gadget.</li> Huely</a>, an app to control WiFi lights compatible with the Android Magic Home app using this simple app. Sadly it seems to be a few pixels to wide, so it's not a 5</strong>.</em></li> Déjà Dup Backups</a>, a duplicity based simple backup tool that uses GTK4/libadwaita for a convergent UI,</li> Warpinator</a>, an utility allowing you to easily connect multiple computers on a local area network and share files quickly and securely, developed for Linux Mint,</li> cpupower-gui</a>, a graphical program that is used to change the scaling frequency limits of your CPU,</li> DieBahn</a>, a GTK4 frontend for the travel information of the german railway,</li> Reactions</a>, written in Zig, GTK4 and libadwaita, it uses the GIPHY search API,</li> Passes</a>, a simple GTK4/libadwaita tool that allows you to import and take your digital passes (.pkpass files) with you,</li> Polari</a>, a simple IRC Client that is designed to integrate seamlessly with GNOME, working on mobile since its GTK4/libadwaita overhaul for release 42, There's a bug with quick nickname editing, not sure whether Polari or Squeekboard are at fault here, - but it generally works, which is awesome, as [mobile friendly IRC clients|(https://linuxphoneapps.org/categories/irc-client/) are rare!</em></li> Powersupply</a>, a PinePhone power status tool that should have been added forever ago,</li> Euterpe GTK</a>, a convergent desktop and mobile client for Euterpe, a self-hostable music streaming server, realized with GTK3/libhandy,</li> Mepo</a> a fast, simple, and hackable OSM map viewer for Linux, designed with the Pinephone & mobile linux in mind; realized with Zig and SDL, Thanks milesalan for creating and adding this amazingly performant little maps app!</em></li> Random</a>, a GTK4/libadwaita utility that make randomization easy so you don't need to flip a physical coin,</li> Furtherance</a>, a time tracking app written in Rust with GTK 4/libadwaita, Unfortunately ciirca 40 pixels too wide, sadly crashes while adding tasks on aarch64.</em></li> WhatsWeb</a>, an Electron frontend for WhatsApp Web for Mobile Linux Devices, that makes web.whatsapp.com responsive,</li> Friendiqa</a>, a Qt/QML App for Friendica, a federated, decentralized social network,</li> Swatch</a>, a color palette manager utilizing GTK4 and libadwaita, and finally</li> Karlender</a>, a GTK4/libadwaita, mobile-friendly calendar application written in Rust supporting CalDAV. Karlender is really nice, as it supports a day view - something GNOME Calendar (be it in its GTK4/libadwaita non-mobile friendly upstream</a> or its adaptive port by Purism</a>) just does not offer.</em></li> </ul> Thanks to everyone involved in developing and submitting these apps!👏</p> Other noteworthy changes</h3> The re-evaluation of archived apps in the process of launching this site was really worth it: Turns out that the only Discord app we ever listed, gtkcord3</a>, once abandoned, was revived by its developer and is definitely better than no option for all you Discord users!</p> Feedback, thoughts?</h3> Thank you for reading this post! If you enjoyed it, please spread the word about this post and LinuxPhoneApps.org. While we're still in an early state, the page should only become more useful from here on.</p> If you want to contribute an/your app to the list, please check the FAQ</a>!</p> And if you want to discuss apps with like minded persons, make sure to join our Matrix group</a>!</p> ^1</sup>The PKGBUILD</a> should also work for other Arch-based distributions</p> </div> Hello World 👋 2022-03-28T20:00:00+02:00 Note: It's not all ready, and things aren't super great. But, after such a long process, launching in a "not fully baked" state feels a lot better than launching never.</p> What's missing?</h3> Individual app listings</strong> are here, but they aren't quite what we were aiming for: We don't have screenshots yet, soon we might incorporate some for images uploaded somewhere else. Hosting too many images in a git repo is not a good idea, and it would make things more complicated - this way, every listing is just a markdown file that follows a certain logic.</li> The markdown files can't be edited directly yet.</li> We can't reuse contents from structured appstream metadata yet.</li> Other considered features, such as some kind of user comment system, have not been tackled at all yet. Merge requests for a system that requires some kind of authentication, be it ActivityPub, Matrix or else, are very welcome, though!</li> </ul> </li> No new representation of the Games List.</strong> It's going to land, once apps are "done".</li> Docs/Resources.</strong> We have some, but especially developer resources aren't more than a bunch of links, which makes sense given that I am not a developer, despite the pythonic mess</a> I've created to get this effort to this point.</li> </ul> Why are we launching anyway?</h3> There's no regression compared the previous state: The original JavaScript heavy lists are still here:1</a></sup></p> Apps</a> (dubbed "Classical App List" 😉)</li> Games</a>,</li> Archive</a>, which has been partly re-integrated into apps.csv (with the status set to archived or inactive) and now only lists two apps for which re-integration did not make any sense.</li> </ul> We're also not loosing any Git history, as the original .csv lists are not only meant to stay here, but their repo</a> is still intact and a part of this project. It really should be moved to be part of the same organization, but in order to make this transition easier it will remain where it is. Also, a single source of truth, such as apps.csv, has its benefits - it can be reused in third party</a> projects</a> easily. Yes, CSV is ugly, but as long as there's no replacement (e.g. in XML), we'll have to keep it around.</p> Also, with all the caveats applied, this should be a lot better then what we're had before, for repology integration alone!</p> What's next?</h3> Aside from what's in the issue</a> trackers</a>, there's a lot of design work that will need to happen. Several overviews are far from perfect, and I am not even happy with how the app listings are looking right now. They need to be reordered and polished, which will happen over time.</p> There's a lot of work ahead, but hey, at least we're launched now! 🥳🎉</p> ^{1</sup> They work exactly the same way as they always did – except for some unfixed regressions when dark mode is active.</p> </div>}

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2nd Half Q4 2025 Progress and 2026 Foreshadowing

Apps and games added until December 31st, 2025</h3> Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>

Maintenance</h3> Today, right before this post, we landed another "automated maintenance content update" - well, semi-automated is the better term, as there's some manual work included.</p>

Mid Q4 Progress Report: 15 apps added, not much else

Apps and games added until November 15th, 2025</h3> Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>

November</h4> None.</em></p>

What's in the works?</h2> Content</h3> All The Mobile Apps</h4> To just quote from two blog posts ago:</p>

Content</h3>

All The Mobile Apps</h4> To just quote from two blog posts ago:</p>

Q3/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, again

Apps and games added in Q3/2025</h3> Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>

Content</h3>

Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API

Apps and games added in Q2/2025</h3>

What's in the works?</h2> Content</h3> All The Mobile Apps</h4> Too just quote from the last post:</p>

Content</h3>

All The Mobile Apps</h4> Too just quote from the last post:</p>

UI</h4> A good idea for a different UI was introduced by alf: [email protected]/114495841260805804">alf: "@linuxphoneapps My "engine" is…" - FLOSS.social</a></p> I hope to at least find the time for experimentation with this in this quarter. If you have thoughts, please let us know!</p>

Q1/2025 Progress: Over 20 apps added and many improvements

Apps and games added in Q1/2025</h3>

January</h4> Five apps and one game:</p>

February</h4> Sticky Notes</a> - Pin notes to your desktop</li> FuriOS Gallery</a> - View your Photos and Videos</li> </ul> March</h4> 19 apps and one game:</p>

March</h4> 19 apps and one game:</p>

What's in the works?</h2>

Content</h3>

Merging sections: Games now part of apps.

New Listings of Q4/2024: Adding 32 Apps, Three Games and other improvements.

December</h4> Kumo</a> - A Wayland Mobile Browser</li> Geoclue Stumbler</a> - Submit Cell Tower/WiFi AP data to geoclue</li> Supersonik</a> - Subsonic music client</li> </ul> Games</h3> Three games were added in the past quarter:</p>

Games</h3> Three games were added in the past quarter:</p>

Making status information maintainable

New Listings of Q3/2024: 539 Apps and better app discovery

A new feature</h3> First, let's get into a feature that was added today: Advanced Search</em></p>

Games</h3> Three games were added in the past quarter:</p>

Maintenance</h3> Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically, help with these is especially welcome!</p>

Thanks</h3> I would like to thank everybody who contributed in the past quarter:</p>

New Listings of Q2/2024: More than 512 Apps

New listings</h3> 17 apps were added in the 2nd quarter of 2024:</p>

Games</h4> 3 games were added in the past quarter:</p>

Maintenance</h3> Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p>

Thanks</h3> I would like to thank everybody who contributed in the past quarter:</p>

New Listings of Q1/2024: Almost 500 Apps

New Listings</h3> The following 42 apps and one game were added to LinuxPhoneApps.org in the first quarter of 2024:</p>

Maintenance</h3> Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p>

Thanks</h3> I would like to thank all who contributed in the past quarter:</p>

A Talk at FOSDEM 2024: 'The Linux Phone App Ecosystem'

Sailfish OS</h4> Sailfish is actually, aside from its stores, able to run flatpak apps. However, it's stack (AFAIR it's the wayland compositor) makes it so, that GTK-based apps can't be run. Still, this should make it possible to run Nheko (and thus have a decent enough) Matrix app.</p>

Ubuntu Touch</h4> I dropped the ball here, when I did not mention the read-only-filesystem - in a way, Ubuntu Touch is the immutable OG. This is a major characteristic. Also, an image of that donation prompt was sorely missed.</p>

New Apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q4/2023: 21 new apps, and a simpler way to add new apps!

New apps</h2> The following 21 apps were added to LinuxPhoneApps.org in the fourth quarter of 2023:</p>

Apps and games added until December 31st, 2025</h3>
Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>

Apps and games added until November 15th, 2025</h3>
Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>

Apps and games added in Q3/2025</h3>
Make sure to read the comments!</em></p>

UI</h4>
A good idea for a different UI was introduced by alf: [email protected]/114495841260805804">alf: "@linuxphoneapps My "engine" is…" - FLOSS.social</a></p>
I hope to at least find the time for experimentation with this in this quarter. If you have thoughts, please let us know!</p>

Maintenance</h3>
Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically, help with these is especially welcome!</p>

New listings</h3>
17 apps were added in the 2nd quarter of 2024:</p>

Maintenance</h3>
Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p>

New Listings</h3>
The following 42 apps and one game were added to LinuxPhoneApps.org in the first quarter of 2024:</p>

Maintenance</h3>
Most listings were automatically updated, and many of them were additionally edited by hand and brought up to date. And because information regarding services or frameworks can't be updated automatically ...</p>

Sailfish OS</h4>
Sailfish is actually, aside from its stores, able to run flatpak apps. However, it's stack (AFAIR it's the wayland compositor) makes it so, that GTK-based apps can't be run. Still, this should make it possible to run Nheko (and thus have a decent enough) Matrix app.</p>

Ubuntu Touch</h4>
I dropped the ball here, when I did not mention the read-only-filesystem - in a way, Ubuntu Touch is the immutable OG. This is a major characteristic. Also, an image of that donation prompt was sorely missed.</p>

New apps</h2>
The following 21 apps were added to LinuxPhoneApps.org in the fourth quarter of 2023:</p>