Linux Phone Apps
in 2025:
Highlights and Room for improvement

Agenda

• introduction
• losses
• new apps
• improved apps
• apps that could use some love improvement
• gaps? missing an app?
• introduction into contributing to linuxphoneapps.org

Introduction

• Peter, 39
• maintainer of https://linuxphoneapps.org 
• blogs at  https://linmob.net (Weekly Updates on #LinuxMobile)

What is linuxphoneapps.org

• shitty website with really poor search
• "powered by framagit, Zola, AdiDoks, baguetteBox, DataTables and Sakura CSS"
• lists over 700 apps and games, of which almost 600 have been evaluated to work well on tiny screen Linux devices (well, phones)

fortunately, we have some competition:

1. Recent Losses

• Melon (online videos) https://codeberg.org/comcloudway/melon
• Axolotl (Cross platform signal client)
  https://github.com/axolotl-chat/axolotl

Great new apps

New (or new to me) apps that make me smile

Improved

worth another try

• Plasma Camera
• GNOME Maps
• Pipeline

Apps that
have a lot of potential, but...

• CampCounselor (Band Camp client)
• Merkuro Mail - mail app for Plasma (Mobile), settings need to be exposed in mobile view (maybe fixed in current, needs checking)
• bazaar (not added yet): Flatpak app store for GNOME, allows for distro-supplied blocklists and recommendations

Gaps

https://pad.hacc.space/XP5opplBQ3mWEpAcv47oSg?both
linked on linuxmobile.social/@linuxphoneapps

Part 2.
Contributing to LinuxPhoneApps.org

Getting started

1. sign up at framagit.org 
   (accounts are being verified, takes a bit)
2. do something! see issue tracker
3. get yelled at thanked by me ;-)

Example: My workflow to add an app

1. find something
2. test it/evaluate it
3. start a listing on lpa-helper
4. complete it with aliases
5. git stuff

1. Finding something

1. seeing some new app on the web/social media or
2. monitor https://flathub.org/apps/collection/recently-added/1 or
3. search for terms on code forges (github, gitlab, kde/gnome gitlabs, codeberg, sourcehut ...)
4. and then: have a first look to see if there's more than a readme and whether it may work

2. Test it/Evaluate it

1. install it/build it
2. if x86_64 only and difficult to build: measure length
3. does it work? does it fit? if yes, it worth adding.

4. complete it

• Now I go back to my terminal and type 'lpa'
• It changes to my local linuxphoneapps.frama.io repo clone and activates the Python virtual environment to run checkers
• mv ~/Downloads/foo.bar.baz.md content/apps/
• lpa-check content/apps/foo.bar.baz.md

lpa-check

is an alias to this function

5. git stuff

• git add it,
• commit it,
• push it,
• merge it ...
• done!

Thank you!

Questions?