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Q3/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, again

Posted October 5, 2025 by 1peter10 ‐ 9 min read

How can it be October already!? Time to look back and see what happened in third quarter of 2025.

Apps and games added in Q3/2025

Make sure to read the comments!

July (six apps added)

  • Tempo - A modern metronome for musicians
  • Constrict - Compress videos to target sizes
  • Pingveno - Look up Esperanto words. This one is sadly already archived, due to the developer being harassed for their app Kapitano and thus quitting. So, remember: Be kind. And if you see something like that happen, try to help.
  • AAT Activity Tracker - Track your outdoor activities
  • GTK Meteo - Select location from map and show forecast. This one and AAT are intesting, they are GTK apps build in Java, that are also available on Android.
  • Digger - DNS lookup tool with graphical interface

August (nine apps added)

  • Rewaita - Bring Color to Adwaita
  • Sessions - Focus with timed work intervals
  • Cinny - Yet another Matrix client with simple, elegant and secure interface.
  • Nucleus - Browse the chemical elements
  • Recordbox - Browse and play your local music
  • KomoDo - Work on To-Do lists
  • BlueBubbles - BlueBubbles client for Linux
  • Fedinspect - Analyse Fediverse servers
  • Gauge - Unit converter

September (16 apps added)

In total, we managed to add a total of 31 apps and games in the third quarter. This brought the count up to total of 730 apps and games on September 30th, 2025.

Our Advanced Search feature now has all the app content I could think off. This may slow it down a bit, but increases the chances of finding what you are looking for.

Also the combined filters are really helpful when doing manual maintenance.

Conferences

Some LinuxPhoneApps.org stickers were distributed at FrOSCon, and LinuxDay Dornbirn 2025 - and maybe some at Akademy, but that was such a blast that I am not 100% sure. If you are reading this due to grabing a sticker, you're welcome, and friendly greetings! https://programm.froscon.org/2025/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/911/original/linux-phone-apps-in-2025-highlights-and-room-for-improvement.pdf?1755362514

A Talk

Also at FrOSCon, Peter held a talk about some highlights (and lowlights) in regarding Linux Phone Apps in 2025 - you can find the slides here.

Maintenance

Today, right before this post, we landed another "automated maintenance content update". 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 improving our checkers once more - thank you for continued contributions!

What's in the works?

Content

More regular update posts

Doing a quarterly blog post is a weird thing: There's always a lot I don't remember and only re-discover by going through the git log.

Therefore, I want to increase the frequence of these posts by making them monthly or, if that does not work out, bi-quarterly.

All The Mobile Apps

To 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.

Similar to the last time, progress on this has been slow, as of today, October 5th, 2025, we're at a count of 31 apps in Flathub's Mobile Collection (vs. 38 on July 31st) not listed on LinuxPhoneApps.org. 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!

There's the idea to just add these apps - but some just can't be easily evaluated and will be added to the "needs testing" segment. Adding more than ten apps to that part of the site is problematic, as long as these apps show up in the app count - I don't want to inflate the app count artificially.

A second issue tracker?

What I call the "evaluation backlog" has been an issue from day one of contributing to this list. Just because you stumble on something interesting, this does not mean you can immediately try it. With premature projects, you'll usually have to compile from source, with, with an unfamiliar or undocumented build process can be quite the timesink (especially for Electron and Flutter apps, but not just for these).

As a consequence of that, we had this list essentially forever - but, it's hard to manage. You need to remember that you have the app there when you finally get around to adding it, and nobody can somewhat easily comment on things.

While this could be easily added in "one issue per app" way to our main issue tracker, it would really pollute the thing ... I have to juggle a project with thousands of issues in JIRA at work, and finding the needles in the haystack is not what I look forward to in my spare time.

One idea would be to add an apps project, that's basically issue tracker only. To ease contributions, maybe mirroring this to, e.g., codeberg would be a fun thing to do - assuming two-way-mirroring is easy enough to set up.

So if you've got ideas, get in touch on the fediverse or join our Matrix chat and share your idea.

UI

A good idea for a different UI was introduced by alf: alf: "@linuxphoneapps My "engine" is…" - FLOSS.social

Like last quarter, I hope to at least find the time for experimentation with this in this quarter. If you have thoughts or want to help, 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. https://programm.froscon.org/2025/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/911/original/linux-phone-apps-in-2025-highlights-and-room-for-improvement.pdf?1755362514 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.https://programm.froscon.org/2025/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/911/original/linux-phone-apps-in-2025-highlights-and-room-for-improvement.pdf?1755362514

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 still not properly integrated, 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! Please tell your friends (and 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)!