It's past mid-January 2026, so let's check what happened in 2025 after November 15th and do some 2026 foreshadowing.
Apps and games added until December 31st, 2025
Make sure to read the comments!
November
December
- Riff - Listen to music on Spotify. Succeeds Spot.
- Tomatillo - Focus better, work smarter
- Brief - Browse command-line cheatsheets
- Reflection - Take notes collaboratively
Six apps in about six weeks is not much, but ... I was honestly distracted by other things, like finally migrating personal services from outdated infrastructure. The added six apps brought the count up to a total of 751 apps and games on December 31st, 2025.
Maintenance
Today, right before this post, we landed another "automated maintenance content update" - well, semi-automated is the better term, as there's some manual work included.
If you want to help with maintenance, please note that aside from our checkers, lpa_helper can also edit an existing listings.
Thanks
I want to thank dbeley for deleting an unused git submodule (appscsv2tomlmd) - thank you for contribution! You may know dbeley from maintaining a table of apps based on LinuxPhoneApps.org.
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!
What's coming in 2026?
A Conference Talk
On January 31st, I (Peter) will be presenting at FOSDEM once again after 2024: "Linux Phone App Ecosystem (2026)". Aside from the talk, I am going to spend the first half of Saturday and most of Sunday at the Linux on Mobile stand (building UD level 1). Come by and say hi!
Retirement
Believe it or not, 2026 will be the year I (Peter) am going to retire from maintainng LinuxPhoneApps.org. This is not going to happen immediately, but I don't expect to be running any more checker-based updates or do blog posts like this one from June 2026 onwards.
The reason is simple: There's another responsibilty that's going need my attention: A tiny, new human being. This means I have to prioritize my #LinuxMobile activities, and while this project is near and dear to my heart, it has also been a massive time-sink never really becoming what I would like it to be, and continuing the Weekly Updates over at LINMOB.net beyond that date feels just more important.
What does this mean for LinuxPhoneApps.org?
No matter what happens, it's going to stay online, it will just go stale. If someone steps up, it may have a future. If you, dear reader, are interested in continuing it, please get in touch - or just fork it, as long as you respect the license, that's perfectly fine, too. In fact, I'd recommend some re-architecting - if I were to restart the site now, there are some things I'd do differently (e.g., storing data in AppStream Metadata XML with custom extensions).
What is the focus for the remaining months?
While it was a focus before to follow Flathub's Mobile Collection (today we're at a count of 43 apps we are lacking (vs. 33 on November 16th, and 31 on October 5th) no listed), the new focus is upstreaming. That said, you may use services or have devices we do not - any help evaluating those apps we don't have is highly appreciated!
What do I mean with upstreaming? Two things, really.
One is making sure that Flathub Mobile Collection does not list apps that don't work on mobile, because their UI is to wide or is not touchscreen compatible. Doing so involves talking to these projects about appstream metadata and working towards fixing metadata, or better making the app actually ready for mobile.
The other is making sure that apps listed on Flathub that work well on Mobile become part of the Mobile Collection. This involves contributing to the apps appstream metadata and trying to make sure app maintainers know how what matters and how to test for that with regards to mobile compatibility for further developement.
In all cases, being friendly and supportive when engaging with upstream is really important - these developers don't owe me/us nothing, after all.
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 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 discuss 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)!