The ‘17 Tools We Use Daily for Free’ list was published in week 26, squarely in the middle of 2025. Calling it a ‘best of’ at that point in the year is exactly the kind of premature award that makes these roundups meaningless. F-Droid deserves better than lazy link aggregation.

F-Droid remains the only app store where reproducible builds let you verify the APK actually matches the source. That kind of auditability is not a feature, it is the entire point, and Google Play has never come close to offering it. For anyone who actually cares about what runs on their device, the choice is obvious.