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Posted on Mar 27, 2026 by paulali

This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Friday, 27 Mar 2026, Week 13

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ArcaneChat was updated to 2.46.0 and Delta Chat to 2.47.0 and their changelogs almost match. The team is fairly active in the Fediverse and wants to make people realize that while end-to-end encryption for your messages is nice, the metadata surrounding them might reveal a lot more than one wants. Their latest infographic covers one app from BigTech, but you can compare that with your current solution and strive to limit metadata as much as possible.

Fennec F-Droid was updated to 149.0.0 and you can read the changelog here. Did you update yet? Then you might have seen the strange notification that now pops-up, about UnifiedPush. It appears it’s part of some code reorganization that’s not yet done. We are tracking this issue here and you can read how to hide the notification so it’s no longer annoying. NOTE: While the word “push” has big corporation connotations, that’s just the result of how it was abused. UnifiedPush is an open standard protocol, and we’ve been covering it since its inception. You can read all about that in our older post.

In more UnifiedPush news, FMD and FMD edge were updated to 0.14.2. If you’re using them with your favorite UnifiedPush distributor maybe double-check if they are registered ok, FMD is working towards updating this code and some distributors, like Conversations (and forks), might not work until ready.

Also Prism, Privacy-first UnifiedPush distributor with an optional self-hosted server, was just included offering an alternative in this diverse ecosystem.

Saracroche was updated to 2.7.0 and celebrates one year of existence. You can read (in French or use Fennec offline translation) about the road behind and the one ahead.

SchildiChat Next was updated to 0.11.0-ex_26_3_3 after a five month hiatus while reproducibility issues were fixed.

WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser was updated to 0.10.0 with a huge changelog. If you want to try an alternative to the Fennec UI, but based on the same engine, you now have more reasons.

@linsui counts to potato:

We’ve just added two new apps in the Calculator category to a total of 40+2. While we have so many calculator apps, do all of them calculate? Let’s try a simple test: 10000000000.1 - 10000000000. Simple. The answer should be 0.1, right? (Don’t cheat, don’t open some app, wait and read!) Yet some apps don’t think so. The new added SoulCalc, Schulrechner and Calculator You told me 0.1000003815. CalcYou told me 0, the new Calculator M3 said the same but it’s fixed now. CuteCalc, Neumorphic Calculator and Mint Calculator told me 0.10000038146972656. Qalculate! told me 100⋅10^−3. PariDroid told me 0.099999999999999999999999999979805160823. And yetCalc crashes on start and the working version also thinks that the answer is 0.10000038146972656. Glad to see that most calculators in F-Droid know how to calculate, but looks like this is not a very easy task to achieve.

@shuvashish76 dusts an old second factor:

FreeOTP+ was updated to 3.2 after two years. It’s now updated to Material Design 3 and got some security fixes. Other apps did not stand still during this time, our “Password & 2FA” category has a lot of nice apps.

Removed Apps

2 apps were removed
  • DesktopLabel: Custom desktop label widgets
  • Pi Locker: Lockscreen

Newly Added Apps

16 more apps were newly added
  • BlueGate: Control bluegate BLE gate controller
  • Calculator M3: Clean, private calculator with zero data collection. Offline. No ads.
  • Cashiro: Offline expense tracker for bank SMS and PDF statements with optional AI chat
  • DropCount: A recreation of the classic Drop7 puzzle game
  • End of Updates Checker: Check until when your phone gets updates
  • GifBoard: Search and share GIFs directly from your keyboard
  • Golden Ticket: Lottery simulation game - explore strategies without spending money
  • Iremi Breathing App: Breathing exercises to reduce anxiety
  • iTrack workout tracker: Workout tracker for managing your fitness routines
  • MetaPurge: Locally strip sensitive EXIF/metadata from your photos
  • Nontrinsic: Where nonsense lives on
  • Numerus: Train oral comprehension of numbers in foreign languages with real speech clips
  • OceanNex for DigitalOcean: Manage Your DigitalOcean Infrastructure
  • podium (Podcasts): A modern, open-source Podcast app
  • SoulCalc: Notepad-style calculator with variables, line references, multi-line support
  • TapDucky: Run DuckyScript over USB HID. Import, schedule, and manage payloads (root)

Updated Apps

190 more apps were updated
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