Accrescent, for those who don’t know, is an alternative android app store. They aim to compete directly with the play store, so unlike F-Droid they include both FOSS and proprietary apps. They are also very security focused. They’re still small but I find their approach interesting and their ambition worth supporting.
Unfortunately, as with many FOSS projects, funding is a challenge. If you believe they are worth supporting, please read this blog post.
Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with the project in any way, just a fan trying to raise awareness.
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The fact that they offer proprietary apps is a black mark in my book, and the fact that they are so security focused that they do not allow you to do third party repositories at all, which makes them extremely vulnerable to force to take down of apps by the government puts another black mark on them for me.
With F-Droid government says “take down this app” fdroid says “okay” app dev launches an onion repo and gives instructions to use it. You cant do that in accrescent
Can’t have everything. Allowing closed-source apps gives us more choice (in theory).
In practice Accrescent has basically no apps.
