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Project Url: NikhilKain/vyxel-apps

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Vyxel Apps — every store, one place. F-Droid, GitHub, GitLab, TapTap and 14 more. Works offline, zero ads, zero bloat.

⬇ Download APK · 🌐 Website · 💬 Telegram · 🐛 Report a bug

_{What's new · Features · Themes · Screenshots · Install · Open core · Support}

18 sources in one feed · 17 curated categories · 16 languages · 0 ads or trackers

[!IMPORTANT] This repository is the only official source of Vyxel Apps. APKs from any other website, Telegram channel or mirror are unofficial and may be tampered with. Always verify the signature.

📂 Custom repositories. Add an F-Droid catalog, a GitHub, GitLab or Codeberg project, or an APK download page, then browse it from App sources.
🎛️ Update controls. Skip a version, exclude an app, set a preferred update source, or lock one app to one source.
📌 Better tracking. Track an app before installing it, or add a repo directly by link.
🌊 New dock animation. The selected icon floats in its own circle, dips behind the dock and rises at the next tab.
💎 A refined look. New sign-in and welcome screens, softer controls, and rounded app icons.
↩️ Your place, kept. Back returns to your exact scroll position across the app.

Full release notes →

✨ Features

Sources: F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, developer repos, GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Aurora OSS, Aptoide, TapTap, APKPure, Uptodown, APKMirror, Flathub, WinGet and root modules

🔍 18 sources, one store
F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, the developers' own F-Droid repos, GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Aurora OSS, Aptoide, TapTap, APKPure, Uptodown, APKMirror, Flathub and WinGet, plus four root-module repositories — searched and merged into a single feed.

📴 Works offline
Every source's app list is kept on the phone. Browse and search with no connection; online, search answers from disk before the network does.

🗂 17 curated categories
Games, Productivity, Security, Dev Tools, Media, Finance and more, plus smart sections like Trending and Newly Launched.

🛡 Signature verification
Every downloaded APK is checked against the installed app's signing certificate before install — a hijacked repo or redirected release can't silently overwrite what's on your phone.

🥷 Silent installs via Shizuku
Skip the system install confirmation screen entirely when Shizuku is running.

🛡 Trust Score
A 0–100 score based on stars, activity, releases and forks.

🔔 Background update monitoring
WorkManager checks installed apps against every source and notifies you of updates.

📱 Home screen widget
App of the Day plus your pending update count, refreshed every 30 minutes.

⬇️ Download APK
Save any app's file to Downloads instead of installing it — split installs are saved as the whole set.

📸 Auto-extracted screenshots
Pulled straight from each repo's README.

🔄 Install history & rollback
Roll back to a previous version straight from your install history.

⭐ GitHub starred repos sync
Sync your stars into favourites.

🌍 16 languages
English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Swedish.

📂 Custom repositories
Add your own F-Droid catalogs, project links and APK pages, and browse each one on its own page.

🎛️ Update controls
Skip versions, exclude apps, and choose which source each app updates from.

📢 In-app announcements
Dismissible banners for giveaways, releases and community updates.

🎨 Themes

💎 Liquid Glass Pro _(optional)

Four premium themes — Liquid Glass Dark, Liquid Glass Light, Neon Punk and Cyberpunk — built on real-time backdrop blur, all unlocked with a single licence key. A free 30-second preview is available before you buy.

The app is fully usable without it — see Open core for exactly what is and isn't included.

📱 Screenshots

_{Today · Expressive}	_{Today · Liquid Glass Dark}	_{Today · Liquid Glass Light}	_{Today · Cyberpunk}
_Explore	_Search	_{App details}	_Library
_{Custom repos}	_{Settings · skins}	_Welcome	_{Today · Atelier}

📥 Installation

Download the latest APK from Releases. Most phones need app-arm64-v8a-release.apk; if you're not sure, use app-universal-release.apk.
On your Android device: Settings → Apps → Special access → Install unknown apps → allow your browser or file manager.
Tap the downloaded APK to install.

[!TIP] Install Shizuku for silent, confirmation-free installs of every app you update through Vyxel Apps.

🔧 Building from source

git clone https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps.git
cd vyxel-apps

Open the project in Android Studio (JDK 17, compileSdk 37, targetSdk 36, minSdk 26). It builds and runs out of the box — the following local.properties keys are all optional and only needed to reproduce specific production behaviour:

Key	Purpose	If omitted
`signing.storeFile` / `storePassword` / `keyAlias` / `keyPassword`	Release signing	Unsigned release APK
`gumroad.product.id`	Liquid Glass Pro licence verification	Verification disabled — Pro themes stay locked
`lg.hmac.secret` / `lg.script.url`	Liquid Glass licence signing endpoint	N/A in forks

Everything else — the update scanner, Trust Score, comparison mode, widget and free themes — works fully without any secrets configured.

🧩 Open core

Vyxel Apps is open core. Everything that makes it an app store is open source under AGPL-3.0; a small optional visual pack is not.

✅ Open source

All 14 sources and the search, ranking and merge engine
Downloads, signature verification, Shizuku installs
Update scanning, rollback and install history
The Modules screen (Magisk, Zygisk, LSPosed, KernelSU)
The Expressive interface
Trust Score, comparison, backup/restore
16 languages

💎 Paid build only

The four Liquid Glass Pro themes and their real-time blur rendering
The licence verification and entitlement service

No feature that affects finding, installing, updating or removing an app is behind the paywall. The paid part is cosmetic, and it is what funds the rest.

The open core is this repository. Grab the Source code archive attached to any release, or clone main. Source updates land here every few releases, so main can be a little behind the newest APK.

🛠 Tech stack

Kotlin + Jetpack Compose + Material 3
Retrofit + OkHttp — GitHub / GitLab / F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid / APKPure / Aptoide clients
Coil — image loading
WorkManager — background update checks and the daily offline sync
SQLite with FTS4 — the offline catalogue and its instant search
Shizuku — silent installs without root
AndroidX Security Crypto — encrypted storage for tokens and licence keys
Backdrop — real-time blur for the Liquid Glass Pro themes

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Open an issue first to discuss what you'd like to change.

Fork the repo
Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/cool-thing)
Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add cool thing')
Push to the branch (git push origin feature/cool-thing)
Open a pull request

💖 Support

If Vyxel Apps is useful to you:

⭐ Star this repo
💎 Grab Liquid Glass Pro — it's the main thing that funds ongoing development
🐦 Share it with your friends
🐛 Report bugs in Issues
📝 Send feedback with the in-app feedback button

App support: https://t.me/vyxelapps/1 · Privacy policy: nikhilkain.github.io/vyxel-apps/privacy-policy.html

☕ Buy me a coffee

Hey! 👋 I'm Nikhil, an indie Android developer building this project in my free time — making apps from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid and other developer-first sources easier to discover, install and manage on Android, while keeping everything open, fast and user-friendly.

Every contribution goes directly toward new features, bug fixes, performance improvements and long-term development.