The Future of Accrescent
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Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providing an alternative to Google Play which doesn’t compromise on technical excellence and protecting our users. Aligned with this mission, over 42,000 people worldwide trust Accrescent to deliver their apps safely. Now, we need your help to continue. Accrescent has always been free to use because we believe security shouldn’t have to come at a price. We also understand we’re trusted by our users to secure a sensitive and significant portion of their lives — the apps they use — so we’ve built Accrescent transparently, making our code open source so others can run and inspect it as they please.
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    It’s a four-year-old app store that’s still beta with best I can tell 33 apps on it.

    I’m kind of impressed you’ve managed to get the amount of donations you have.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I have no qualms with them being a small project. We all started somewhere. I also don’t have any qualms with their mission to make a secure app store.

        It just doesn’t matter if they’re more secure than Aurora or F-droid, if there’s not more than one app on there, I’d consider running. And getting funding without usage seems to be a long-term fool’s errand.

        They need to become the default app store on something, and to do that they’ll likely need to get a lot more apps on there.

        They could probably take some of that funding and, by their way into places.

  • Autonomous User@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Great

    Accrescent promotes software which fails to include a libre software license text file, software we do not control, BAD!

    Next, it blocks every other app repo, forcing centralisation, BAD!

    Accrescent uses fake privacy and fake security coded language to break privacy, break security and hijack our libre app delivery community.

    No reason to leave F-Droid.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipMEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Ever since F-Droid introduced reproducible builds, there isn’t really a reason for Accrescent existance anymore. And there is Obtainium for everything else.