ARK-Store
App store for open-source apps on GitHub.
- v1.6.0
- Beta v1.7.0-beta.1
- 15 stars
- 444 downloads
Features
- Installs and updates apps straight from GitHub releases
- One list for updates, installed apps and new apps
- Warns before installing over a different signing key
- Beta versions when you want them
- No account
Details
- Latest
- v1.6.0 · 5 Oct 2026
- Beta
- v1.7.0-beta.1 · 6 Oct 2026
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Source
- GitHub
What's new
ARK-Store 1.6.0 5 Oct 2026
- The top slides away: the title bar, the search and the filters slide out of view as the list scrolls down and come back as soon as it scrolls up, so that the list has the screen; when a gesture leaves them half-way they settle, unhurried, to one edge or the other. A switch in the settings, under Appearance, keeps them above the list instead. In a window too low for all of them, in landscape or a split screen, they slide through the room there is, so that every row can be reached, and a control a keyboard or a D-pad focuses brings its row into view
- Bookmarks: an app can be bookmarked from its details, a bookmarked app carries a mark in the list, and a Bookmarks chip among the categories shows the bookmarked apps alone. The bookmarks stay on the device and follow the app's package, whatever place offers it
- Release notes as written: the notes in the details are shown with their headings, bullets, fenced code, bold and code, instead of as raw Markdown
- Which Android an app needs: the details say "Requires: Android 8.0 or later" when the app needs a newer Android than the store itself, and a version the device cannot run is not offered. An installed app whose newest version needs a newer Android stays in the list, with a note and no update button; a release built for a preview of Android is offered to that preview only. The index reads the lowest Android version from every APK
- Updates seen at once: the updates a refresh has just found are shown immediately; a list at its top stays at its top when a section comes first, while a list being scrolled is left alone
- The README explains what is and is not checked when an app is installed
Download ARK-Store-1.6.0.apk below and open it on your phone to install, or update from inside ARK-Store.
Beta · ARK-Store 1.7.0 beta 1 6 Oct 2026
- Which Android an app needs: the details tell it whenever it is known, also when the store itself needs no less, so that every app reads the same way
Download ARK-Store-1.7.0-beta.1.apk below and open it on your phone to install, or turn on Show beta versions in ARK-Store's settings and update from inside the app.