Alternatives to Accrescent
An open-source Android app store focused on security and privacy, with pinned signing keys and signed metadata. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Accrescent
An open-source Android app store focused on security and privacy, with pinned signing keys and signed metadata.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Accrescent.
F-Droid
An app store and client for free and open-source Android apps that works without a Google account.
F-Droid offers a larger catalog of free and open source apps built from source, supports Android 7.0 and newer, and requires enabling installation from unknown sources.
Aurora Store
An open-source client for the Google Play catalog that installs and updates apps without a Google account.
Aurora Store gives access to the Google Play catalog without a Google account, but relies on a reverse engineered API and cannot install paid apps.
Droid-ify
An uncluttered Android client for browsing and installing apps from F-Droid repositories.
Droid-ify installs apps from F-Droid-format repositories with automatic background updates and supports session, root and Shizuku installation methods, instead of Accrescent's own signed store.
Zapstore
An open Android app store built on Nostr where each release is signed by its developer.
Zapstore also relies on developer-signed releases but is built on Nostr, has a catalog of more than 3,000 apps, and adds tipping and comments.
Obtainium
An Android updater that installs apps directly from developer release pages such as GitHub and GitLab.
Obtainium installs apps directly from developer release pages such as GitHub and GitLab, with no curated store, and requires Android 8.0 or newer.
Komi Store
An open-source app store for installing apps published as releases on GitHub, Codeberg and Forgejo.
Komi Store installs open-source apps from GitHub, Codeberg and Forgejo releases with a browse view, but only covers apps that publish releases on those forges.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Accrescent as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
IzzyOnDroid
A third-party F-Droid repository of open-source Android apps built and signed by their own developers.
Accrescent distributes developer-signed apps through its own open source client with signing key pinning, but it is in alpha with a small catalogue.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
InstallerX Revived
An open-source Android package installer that handles APK, split APK and bundle formats.
APKUpdater
An open-source Android app that checks several sources for updates to your installed apps.
FFUpdater
An open-source Android app that installs and updates privacy-focused browsers from their official sources.
