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.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
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Yeah this. You're telling me this isn't just an OSS project by some mel in their basement?
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.
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.
Ever since F-Droid introduced reproducible builds, there isn't really a reason for Accrescent existance anymore. And there is Obtainium for everything else.