It's almost August! Time to look back and see what happened in the past quarter.
Apps and games added in Q2/2025
April - 19 additions
- Extension Manager - Install GNOME Extensions
- Extensions - Manage your GNOME Extensions
- Lexi - Build your own dictionary
- Time Switch - Set a task to run after a timer
- GDM Settings - Customize your login screen
- Drum Machine - Create and play drum beats
- Words! - Have fun guessing Words
- Learn 6502 Assembly - 6502 Assembly Learning Environment
- GaticTacToe - Play Tic-tac-toe with your friends
- Delineate - View and edit graphs
- Hex Colordle - Find the color
- PedantiK - Find the Wikipedia article
- Reddy - Repost Reddit images to Lemmy
- SemantiK - Find the secret word
- Crosswords - Solve crossword puzzles
- Mahjongg - Match tiles and clear the board
- Main Menu - Customize the menu
- BMI Calculator - Calculate your BMI
- Interstellar - Connect with the fediverse
May - 3 additions
June - 11 additions
- Klaro - Simple and fast translation app for KDE Plasma
- Kontainer - Manage Distrobox containers
- Pigment - Get color palettes from images
- Keep Me Awake - Inhibit lock screen and suspend
- Tuner - Extensible control center
- Kapitano - Stay safe from malware
- Filmbook - Track analog film usage in cameras
- Multiplication Puzzle - Solve a math mystery
- Startup Configuration - View and set startup scripts and applications
- MQTTy - GUI for consuming MQTT topics
- Cavasik - Audio visualizer based on CAVA
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.
API
We now have a JSON API. The endpoint is at https://linuxphoneapps.org/api/apps.json (with gzip and brotli compression also available and you can find some Documentation in our Docs section.
Moving Fediverse instances
Just like its sibling linmob.net, the account for LinuxPhoneApps is now at https://linuxmobile.social/@linuxphoneapps. Please follow! If you're only on Bluesky, 1. What are you doing? but 2. you can follow us there, too!
Maintenance
Maintenance has gotten tougher; there was little time for manual maintenance. What I wrote last quarter 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, so currently, the maintenance status is mostly ok.
If you want to help with maintenance, please note that aside from our checkers, lpa_helper can also edit an existing listing, if you don't want to edit TOML + Markdown by hand like an animal.
Thanks
Again, thanks go out to Max and for taking over the maintainership of the games list/the games listed! Thanks again for your great work! Also, I want to thank darkdragon-001 for adding the API in a much simpler and saner way than I had envisioned (meaning, without a Rust program to convert XML to JSON).
What's in the works?
Content
All The Mobile Apps
Too just quote from the last post:
Obviously, it's a goal to monitor Flathub's Mobile Collection, and list most of its apps after evaluation. As it turns out, not all 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.
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, you may use services or have devices we do not and thus can make a serious difference in chiming in!
UI
A good idea for a different UI was introduced by alf: alf: "@linuxphoneapps My "engine" is…" - FLOSS.social
I hope to at least find the time for experimentation with this in this quarter. If you have thoughts, please let us know!
I want to help, where to get started?
If you read this last time, you can skip it, it's the same copy! ;-)
We do have a public issue tracker, that lists things that we aim to improve.
All relevant parts of LinuxPhoneApps live in one repository - the repo's README is hopefully helpful. Feel free to ask away in our Matrix room if you have questions!
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.
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 or via e-mail.
Adding apps
If you want to help by adding an app:
LPA helper is ugly, but it works. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to ask/get in touch!
See also:
You can also send your prepared listing via email to the devel-list.
Feedback, thoughts?
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)!