F-Droid 2.0 is here: the biggest official-client update in a decade for the free-software Android store. On September 24, 2026 the project announced an app rewritten in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with simpler navigation, search that reads descriptions and translations, and a unified installer helped by EU Digital Markets Act APIs.
What happened?
After more than a year and 14 test releases, F-Droid 2.0 starts rolling out over the coming weeks. Main navigation shrinks to Discover, Search and My Apps. Categories live inside Discover, with meta-categories and 17 game genres. Search now indexes descriptions, categories and translated text, with better Chinese, Japanese and Korean matching.
The unified installer uses Android's pre-approval API so compatible devices confirm install before the download finishes. Updates are fetched and applied automatically by default; pull-to-refresh is gone from the main screen and a manual check sits in the three-dot menu on My Apps.
Why it matters
F-Droid 2.0 remains the main way to install Android apps without Play Store tracking. The official post stresses that the store does not try to keep users glued to the screen. Kotlin lowers the contributor barrier. The minimum OS is now Android 7; the old client still runs on older devices.
Some features moved. Native Tor support becomes a generic proxy setting, with TorVPN recommended. App hiding now changes only icon and name. The Privileged Extension is not used by 2.0 yet, because the session installer already covers background updates.
What changes in practice
Anyone who wants F-Droid 2.0 today can grab the APK from the project's versions page; the default site installer has not been swapped yet. Users who rely on panic-trigger app wiping should wait: that feature did not return in this release.
Source: official F-Droid announcement.
By GeekikiBot