What do you think of Accrescent app store?

LunaticBuzz

I've had Accrescent installed since I came to GOS coming up to 3 years ago now. I admire what it is trying to do. The (very few) apps I need can be found via Obtainium or Aurora in anonymous mode. So, for the present, it is not required, but I am open to seeing what else shows up.

I recognise that there is a process to have apps added to Accrescent, but what process exists to remove defunct ones, such as RiMusic, which was closed as a project quite some time (at least 6 months) ago?

VEECCdYKYi

It's very barebones. However I do appricate the effort. I got some hopes for it. As of now there are only one store to get proprietary apps from Google Play (Aurora is still just Google Play). The de facto app store monopoly is a problem for the android ecosystem. Accresent if it where successfull, it could mitigate some of the problem with that. If the user could get some of the proprietry apps the user finds neccessary such as banking apps, uber, commuting, parkning etc from another store that Google Play. It's an overall win.

brookie229

VEECCdYKYi banking apps

Never going to happen.

lberrymage

LunaticBuzz Existing apps will be automatically delisted once their target SDK is far enough out-of-date, which usually takes about a year. That is, once it's out-of-date enough, it won't be normally viewable to users browsing Accrescent who don't already have the app installed. The system is similar to Google Play's.

gristle-cause

lberrymage I am curious what criteria Accrescent uses to consider an app's target SDK sufficiently out-of-date to delist. Will target=35 be removed for Android16, for example?

lberrymage

gristle-cause We intend to use the same criteria Google Play uses for now. For example, existing apps must currently target at least Android 14 (API 34) to be available on Android 15 and higher.

Developer-Dude

scrolling through this thread I keep thinking to myself, wow, I created a megathread! :D

DeletedUser1191

August 24:
https://xcancel.com/accrescentapp/status/2091975912007086169#m

Progress update! We've been hard at work tackling Accrescent's most pressing development needs, and now we want to share what we've been working on.

We'll post blog posts in the next few weeks detailing our security, stability, and feature progress along with what's next!

We know it's been a long time since our last progress update, so to keep you more in the loop, we're switching to more frequent, smaller posts from now on.

We're getting ever closer to opening up app submissions to everyone. Thank you all for your support and patience!

umrath

In the current state Accrescent is not a viable alternative to Fdroid & Co.
I understand the concept behind it - but as long as the catalogue is so limited, the need to install stuff via a different channel will override that for most users.

r134a

umrath Currently i have to agree, the bread is better from the bakery, but most of the time if i'm already in the supermarket i might compromise. Though i'm delighted that part might switch soon:

DeletedUser1191 We're getting ever closer to opening up app submissions to everyone.

DeletedUser1131

It may well be seen as the gold standard for getting apps into your GrapheneOS phone, its irrelevant to me, as it has nothing that I use.

Graffiti

I've lost track on the latest announcements, but I know for a fact the maintainer(s) of Qlango, to whom I have complained more than once for the unavailability of the latest version on Accrescent, assert that Accrescent is extremely slow in publishing updates, to the point they may look for an alternative app store. Qlango is also on Google Play, the irony being Accrescent is lagging constantly 4-5 days behind before keeping up with Play store version.

0xC0DED0D0

Graffiti Accrescent is lagging constantly 4-5 days behind before keeping up with Play store version.

IronFox seems to get the update out within hours (minutes?) from being posted on Gitlab..? Aves, too, recently.

Wonder if it has more to do with the developer(s), than the store, actually.

But anyway, I've been having my doubts about the whole Accrescent thing. Seemingly dead, really.

DeletedUser1191 We'll post blog posts in the next few weeks detailing our security, stability, and feature progress along with what's next!

Glad to see things are moving along, then! Let's go. 👍

Graffiti

I have just reported his words.

I complained the app required to be updated and exited (a policy I don't find very user friendly), and yet the new version was not online on Accrescent. It has happened twice at least, and in both cases the maintainer stated he did send the new version on time, but the Accrescent verification process is too slow and it take days before actually publishing the updated app.

fid03

Graffiti I complained the app required to be updated and exited (a policy I don't find very user friendly), and yet the new version was not online on Accrescent. It has happened twice at least, and in both cases the maintainer stated he did send the new version on time, but the Accrescent verification process is too slow and it take days before actually publishing the updated app.

I guess they hit the "manual review" process requirements for those updates then? https://accrescent.app/docs/guide/maintenance/updates.html

erikfritzek

DeletedUser720 3yo-promising store's shelves are still practically empty and it's not like there are signs something will change in the nearest future for an average user.

This

erikfritzek

SirWolf The list of available apps has been too small for months.
I can get everything I need from Obtanium anyway that Accrescent would also provide.

This

erikfritzek

It's so secure it still holds RiMusic that is officially dead for more than a year.
https://github.com/fast4x/RiMusic
Last release was in March 2025!

What's the explanation for that speaking of security?

Novaliss

0xC0DED0D0 doubts about the whole Accrescent thing. Seemingly dead, really.

I thought so too for a while, until I tapped the right part of their Github: https://github.com/orgs/accrescent/repositories

This shows a ton of activity and work.
There's a reason this haven't been done before. Much easier to produce an app store with loosely held security I'd assume.

They'll get there.

Novaliss

erikfritzek What's the explanation for that speaking of security?

The Store isn't finished and fully open for business yet. I'm hopeful the timely updates will come when the store comes out of alpha.

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