Victor-root/Omnify: Beyond F-Droid: install and auto-update apps straight from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg and self-hosted forges. · GitHub

A clutter-free F-Droid client that also installs apps from anywhere.

📱 Mobile

📺 Android TV

Omnify is currently in beta. The core is solid and I use it every day, but might as well say so clearly rather than pretend it's already fully polished. Any problem report is useful and welcome, see the Contributing Guide for how.

External sources deserve the most attention right now. Every GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg or self-hosted Gitea/Forgejo project organizes its releases, descriptions and files a little differently, and Omnify has to figure it out entirely on its own, with no F-Droid index to guide it. Here's what's worth checking on every external source added:

• The app icon and name shown actually match the real app, even before installing
• Tags like root-compatible or an anti-feature are accurate for that specific app
• The version number shown matches what's actually installed
• The supported languages list is correct
• The Google-services badge (and how well microG covers it) reflects what the app actually needs

Projects publish their releases in a huge variety of ways, and a given pattern can only really be made reliable once it's actually been encountered on a real repository. Every mismatch reported on a new source helps make detection a bit more solid for the next one: even a simple "this looks wrong" report is genuinely useful, never just noise.

Add a project's GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, or self-hosted Gitea/Forgejo releases as a source and install & update its app with no F-Droid repository required. Track a whole publisher account at once instead of one project at a time.

• Automatically picks the right APK for your CPU architecture (with an optional name filter), and falls back to an older release if the latest has none compatible.
• Shows the real app name and icon before installing, with a visual icon picker.
• Update notifications in the Updates tab, signature-conflict handling, and the project README rendered in-app.
• Per-source settings (custom name, pre-releases, mute), an optional no-scope GitHub token to lift the API rate limit, and included in your backup.
• Omnify's picks: a curated list of noteworthy sources, disabled by default, one tap away.

Maintain a project? Put a Get it on Omnify badge in your README and anyone reading it can follow your releases in one tap, without copying an address by hand. Paste your project's address on the badge page and copy the snippet it gives you.

Tapping it opens Omnify on its add-a-source screen, already filled in. Nothing is installed without the reader saying so, and if they don't have Omnify yet the page points them at the download rather than leaving them on a dead link.

A proper 10-foot interface, not an afterthought: full D-pad navigation, a scaled-up UI, automatic "Made for TV" detection for both catalogue and external apps, and a curated pack of FOSS TV apps ready to install.

Rebuilt in Jetpack Compose with Material 3: an accent-colour picker (including a wallpaper-based option, or matching an app's own icon on its detail page), tinted system bars, an edge-to-edge mode, a collapsing header, a two-column grid, animated search and wavy progress indicators.

A curated landing screen with carousels (what's new, recently updated, most downloaded) and a browsable categories section.

Hide any app, catalogue or external, from every list (Discover, Installed, Updates) with one tap on its page. Manage what's hidden, or bring an app back, from Settings.

Translate an app's summary and description into your language, with a choice of online, self-hosted, or fully offline on-device engines. An optional auto-translate toggle does it for you, and nothing is downloaded until you pick the on-device engine.

Back up repositories, external sources, settings, favourites and custom buttons independently, all in one file. Restoring only ever adds to what's already there, never wipes it.

• Signing certificate verified against the repository index before any install, with the installed and expected fingerprints viewable and copyable on the detail screen.
• Anti-feature warnings and the full runtime-permission list on the detail screen.
• A badge flags apps that depend on proprietary Google services, and how well microG covers what they actually need.
• Recovers an app's real supported languages even when its own listing doesn't declare them.
• The optional GitHub token is scope-less (it only lifts the rate limit), and translation can run fully offline.

Performance

• Unified the data layer on a single Room database, removing the legacy SQLite store, sync service, downloader and index parser.
• Moved list and screen-state work off the main thread, added a baseline profile for faster cold starts, and fixed a freeze (ANR) on the detail screen.

Large catalogues & sync

• Oversized repository rows no longer exceed the SQLite cursor-window limit that could crash the list.
• Reliable sync: auto re-sync after a database reset, no more silent empty-catalogue syncs, a fresh index file each time, and a clear fetching state on first launch. The foreground notification is throttled so it no longer flickers.

Updates & installs

• Hides system-app updates that can't be installed and stops the uninstall-prompt loop for differently-signed system apps.
• Reuses an already-downloaded APK after a signature-conflict uninstall, with no needless re-download.

Download: the latest APK from GitHub Releases. Build from source: see the Building Guide.

Requires Android 6.0 (API 23) or newer. See Language support below for translation coverage.

Verify: every release is signed with the same certificate. Compare its SHA-256 fingerprint (e.g. via apksigner verify --print-certs) against:

F2:2B:D7:B4:63:D8:D8:9C:A1:AC:3B:6C:41:DB:0B:25:AA:C7:7B:86:24:C9:70:E4:52:81:2D:32:19:42:A9:71

Omnify's own interface is fully translated in English, French, German, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Indonesian, Turkish, Italian, Dutch and Japanese. Every other language inherited from upstream Droid-ify only has partial coverage: it's missing everything added in this fork.

If you're a native speaker of any of these languages, a review pass to catch awkward phrasing or mistakes would be very welcome, and adding another language entirely is welcome too. See the Contributing Guide.

I use Droid-ify every day, intensively, and over time I ran into bugs and wanted features that really mattered for that kind of daily use. I proposed fixes upstream, but many of them were built with AI assistance, and the Droid-ify project has chosen to stay AI-free. That is entirely their decision to make, so those fixes couldn't be merged. Forking was the only way for me to keep improving the app at my own pace.

To be clear, this is not a fork against Droid-ify. I have deep respect for the original project, its author and its vision for the codebase. Omnify simply serves a different need, my own, and only exists because Droid-ify gave it such a strong foundation.

• Droid-ify by LooKeR: the base this fork builds on.
• Foxy-Droid by kitsunyan: the client Droid-ify itself grew from.

Huge thanks to both projects and their contributors. Contributions here are welcome too. Start with the Contributing Guide.

Omnify, a fork of Droid-ify

Copyright (C) 2025 LooKeR (original Droid-ify)
Copyright (C) 2026 Victor-root (Omnify fork)

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