After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest app update in 10 years. For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free and open source Android apps. F-Droid 2.0 builds on that foundation with a modern interface, better app discovery, improved search, and a simpler experience that works well, whether you’re new to F-Droid or have been using it for years.

This isn’t just a visual refresh. The user experience was redesigned to integrate smoothly with current Android patterns, like Material Design, while keeping familiar F-Droid interactions in place. Key components were reworked and rewritten using Kotlin Compose, the standard toolkit these days, creating a foundation that will help us deliver improvements more quickly in the years ahead. We are excited to begin rolling out F-Droid 2.0 to users over the coming weeks after 14 test releases.

One of our main goals was to simplify navigation into three core areas: Discover, Search and My Apps. Categories are now integrated into Discover, making it easier to browse and explore. Discoverability improvements include a redesigned Discover screen highlighting newly added, recently updated, and most downloaded apps. Categories have been expanded and refined, including 17 different game genres in the Games category. Search can now scan app descriptions, categories, and translated content, making it easier to find relevant free and open source software without tracking you.