f-droid.org
F-Droid
Who runs F-Droid, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Android app store alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Aptoide
Measured from F-Droid’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit F-Droid01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs F-Droid
F-Droid f-droid.org
F-Droid is the app distribution ecosystem for Android where your user freedom comes first. Discover our app store, explore the world of free and open source (FOSS) apps and [learn](https://f-droid.org/about/) about our app distribution tools.
Wikidata: Android app store for free and open source software
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What F-Droid tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on F-Droid’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to F-Droid
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to F-Droid, thumbs down if it isn’t.
2 of the 60 sites closest to F-Droid match.
- 01
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Very close - 02
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles F-Droid’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones F-Droid uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what F-Droid adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Built with
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.22.1
- DNS hosting
- Namecheap DNS NS dns2.registrar-servers.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on f-droid.org 15/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on f-droid.org 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on f-droid.org 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on f-droid.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on f-droid.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on f-droid.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on f-droid.org 4/20
- Zendesk · not on f-droid.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on f-droid.org 4/20
- OpenAI · not on f-droid.org 4/20
- Sentry · not on f-droid.org 4/20
- PHP · not on f-droid.org 4/20
- WordPress · not on f-droid.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on f-droid.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on f-droid.org 3/20
- Next.js · not on f-droid.org 3/20