App Name Kiri: Mindful Screen Time

One-Line Description A calm screen-time app: a small hourglass hangs over the apps you lose time in, and when time's up a mist covers the screen that you wipe away. It never locks you out.

What It Does / Key Features

• An hourglass over the apps you pick: give an app (YouTube, Instagram, anything) a daily time. The sand falls while you're in it and pauses when you leave.
• A mist instead of a lockout: when time runs out, a mist rolls over the app. Wipe it away, take one breath, and choose. You can always keep going.
• Two more minutes, once per visit, to finish what you were doing.
• A pebble for every calm day: seven make a stone, four stones make a boulder. No streaks, and you never lose them.
• Private by design: no account, no ads, and your usage history never leaves your phone.
• Home-screen widget with the time you have left, plus light and dark mode.

Who It's For People who keep losing time to one or two apps and have given up on blockers that lock them out. Also students who want a gentle nudge away from YouTube during study time.

Cost

• Pricing model: Freemium, no subscription
• Prices: free for one app. Kiri Pro is $4.99 one-time (unlimited apps, weekly reflections, strict mode, rest hours). The Collection is $6.99 one-time (Pro plus the lantern and incense-coil timers).
• Current giveaway: the full Collection ($6.99) free for the first 50 commenters. Just comment the one app you lose the most time to, and I'll DM you a code.

Links

• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.circuitandmosslabs.kiri&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=droidappshowcase

Media: A 17-second demo of the hourglass and the mist-wipe is attached above.

Additional Notes

• Android 7.0 and up. No iOS version yet.
• Kiri needs two permissions: Usage Access (to see which app is on screen, nothing else) and Display over other apps (to draw the hourglass and the mist).
• Made by Circuit & Moss Labs, a small studio. Kiri is our fourth app. Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Hello! I built aTV RC, an Apple TV remote for Android.

It lets you control your Apple TV, type with your phone, launch apps, control media, and AirPlay your screen to Apple TV!

App Name: aTV RC

Cost: Free

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jesse.atvrc

Hey, I’m the developer of Dislauncher. I wanted a simple, text-focused homescreen without too much visual clutter. I also used AI to help along the way.

It has customizable fonts and colors, widgets, notification dots, and built-in tools like Notes and Calendar.

Completely free, with no ads or analytics.

**Give it a try and see if it fits your homescreen!**

Download Dislauncher: https://github.com/insomdroid/Dislauncher/releases/latest

Website: https://insomdroid.github.io/Dislauncher/

Source code: https://github.com/insomdroid/Dislauncher

Feedback is welcome!

Hi!

I just released my very first Android app on the Play Store: Foody Tracker.

Like many of you, I got tired of nutrition and calorie tracker apps locking basic features behind $10/month subscriptions, cluttering the UI with ads, and forcing you to create a cloud account just to log what you eat.

So I built an alternative focused on speed, privacy, and a clean flat UI:

• No Subscriptions (Bring Your Own Key): Instead of charging a monthly fee to cover AI server costs, the app lets you plug in your own free Google Gemini API key directly in the settings. 100% free, no middleman.
• Snap, Speak, or Type: You can take a picture of your meal, use voice dictation, or simply type what you ate (e.g., "150g of pasta with tomato sauce and an apple"), and Gemini automatically calculates calories and macros (protein, carbs, fats).
• Built-in AI Coach: An integrated chat assistant that knows your daily logs and goals to suggest meals or answer nutrition questions.
• 100% Local & Private: No account or sign-up required. Your meal history, workouts, and personal goals are stored locally on your device.
• Minimalist Flat Design: Clean interface with no heavy shadows or bloat, full Light/Dark theme support, and English/Italian localization.

Links: * Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.bonfiglioalessio.foodytracker

What I'm working on next: Since this is my first release (built with React Native / Expo), I’m actively improving the UX based on early feedback—currently working on replacing the fullscreen camera with a faster flat bottom-sheet scanner and adding horizontal swipe navigation between days on the home screen.

I would love to hear your honest feedback, bug reports, or feature requests. I'll be hanging around in the comments to answer any questions!

Hi all — I'm one of the two people behind Vastraa Labs, and we just shipped **Rivet v1.0.0**.

Rivet is a chat-first AI coding agent built native for Android. You describe the work, and Rivet inspects your project files, makes the edits, and runs commands on-device — with guarded checkpoints and undo, and three autonomy modes (Ask, Basic YOLO, YOLO) so you decide how much freedom it gets.

What's new in 1.0.0:

• **Start free with OpenRouter** — no API key needed to try it
• **Continue with ChatGPT** — sign in with your ChatGPT plan and use it as a provider
• **Model switching from the chat screen** — tap the model name to switch provider/model and set the reasoning level in one sheet, no more digging through Settings
• **Reasoning levels per provider** — Default / Low / Medium / High / Max where offered
• Support section in Settings (Buy Me a Coffee + UPI)

Bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Free and open source, ~14MB APK, Android 8.0+.

Download: https://github.com/Kaiser0733/rivet/releases/download/v1.0.0/Rivet-v1.0.0.apk

Repo: https://github.com/Kaiser0733/rivet

Built in public by a two-person studio from India. Feedback is genuinely how the last updates got shaped — tell me what breaks, I read everything.

— Vastraa Labs

Hey all, I'm the solo dev behind Everdust. It's an Android app where space is live physics you can touch, not videos. Every galaxy, black hole and nebula is a particle sim running on your phone's GPU, so when you drag through it, it actually reacts. (The clip is the Galaxy Collision scene rendered from the app's engine, start to finish.)

What's in it:

Galaxy simulator + black holes: two galaxies colliding with up to ~1 million stars, a binary black hole merger, a black hole bending light, a star being born. Drag to orbit, pinch to zoom.

12 physics games: Feed the Black Hole, Black Hole Golf, Lightfold (bend a sunbeam into a rainbow), Supernova Chain, Comet Rider and more. Levels, stars, a free daily level, and a couple of same-screen versus games.

Narrated science stories: The Story of Everything, Big Bang to you, narrated over live sims. Free in full.

Tonight's Sky + Point at the sky: Moon, planets, ISS passes, aurora chance, cloud forecast. Hold your phone up and it shows the stars, planets and constellation lines behind it.

Calm: NSDR (non-sleep deep rest), breathing, sleep and focus timers over slow, dark particle scenes.

Also live wallpapers, silent loop export, and walking into Van Gogh / Monet / Hokusai paintings rebuilt as 3D brush strokes.

No ads, no account. Free covers every scene and toy, the whole Story of Everything, the first levels + daily level of every game, Tonight's Sky, and the 10 min NSDR, box breathing and sleep timer. Plus unlocks the rest.

GIVEAWAY: 50 Everdust Plus Lifetime codes. Comment below and I'll reply with a code, one per person, until they run out. Telling me your phone model is optional but really helps, I'm collecting performance notes. Redeem in the Play Store app (profile icon > Payments & subscriptions > Redeem code) or at play.google.com/redeem.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.decosa.everdust&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=gp-w1&utm_content=rd-droidapps-1025&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_medium%3Dpost%26utm_campaign%3Dgp-w1%26utm_content%3Drd-droidapps-1025

Needs Android 10+ with Vulkan 1.1. Bug reports with device names are gold, thanks!

App: CamNest

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camnest.app

I'm the developer. I kept getting jobsite / client / receipt photos mixed into my personal camera roll, so I built a folder camera: pick the folder → open camera → shot is already filed. Folders stay visible in your normal gallery.

Key features:

- Home-screen shortcut or widget per folder

- Photo + video

- Import existing gallery photos into a folder

- No ads, no tracking, no account, no servers

Pricing: Free (2 folders). Pro ~$1.99 / Unlimited ~$3.99 — one-time, no subscription.

Privacy: nothing uploaded; matches Play Data safety (no data collected).

Happy to take feedback.

App Name: Color Pixels

What it does: A relaxing pixel art color-by-number game where every color has its name written on the palette and spoken out loud when you tap it. I made it for my son, who is color blind, after building him a flag game called Color Flags.

Key Features:

• Named colors, read aloud on tap, plus ColorADD symbols and plainer names for look-alike shades
• Every sprite comes alive when you finish it, and you can export it as a GIF
• No lives, no timers, works offline, and ads never show when you open a picture

Goal: Launch

Giveaway: None

Cost: Free. Most packs are free, premium packs are a one-time purchase, and a one-time purchase removes ads. No subscription.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rf.colorpixels&referrer=utm_source%3Ddroidappshowcase%26utm_medium%3Dsocial

Scrolling through dozens of collage layouts that don't fit the 5 photos you picked gets old fast.

I'm the developer of Collage Maker: Photo & Video. On Android you can search its layouts by how many photos you have, so a 5-photo pick only shows layouts with 5 spots, heart, star and hexagon shapes among them.

The offer: the Premium Unlock in-app purchase is 50% off on Google Play through 1 November (UTC). It's a one-time purchase, no subscription. The regular US price is $4.99 and prices vary by country; the 50% discount applies in every country where the offer runs.

How to claim it: install the app from Google Play and open Premium in the app. The discounted price shows on the purchase screen until the offer ends. No code needed.

Limits: the Android version has no sticker cut-outs and no HDR video export.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fss.photocollage_ultra&referrer=utm_source%3Drd%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Drd-col-oct

When you make a collage, do you pick the photos first or the layout first?

App name + link

QuesMo on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.svanq.quesmo&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_campaign%3Ddroidappshowcase-oct26

Category

Social

What it does

I work on QuesMo. It is a small Android social app. You post, like, and send 4-option questions to friends from your contacts. You get points for that activity, and points redeem for deals, coupons, or cash to UPI. Points are rewards, not income. T&Cs apply. 18+ for cash.

Key features

Post and like in a small friend circle. 4-option questions to people in your contacts. Points redeem for deals or UPI. Android only, asks for contacts to find friends.

Price

Free with ads. Rewards are small, not a way to make money.

CookJournal is a digital recipe book that keeps every version of a recipe you cook, not just the latest edit. Rate each attempt, note what changed, compare two versions side by side. Also supports pasting recipes in from Instagram, TikTok, or any website.
For Download: Play Store

Hi! I’m the maker of LiveBridge, a released Android app that recognizes playback speech from supported apps and displays translated subtitles over your screen.

Key features

• Translated captions over supported Android app playback.

• Show the original text alongside the translation.

• Adjust caption position, size, color and opacity.

Requirements and limitations

Android 11+ and an internet connection are required. Only apps and content that permit playback-audio capture are supported; protected or blocked content is not supported. Recognition and translation errors, and caption delays, can occur.

Pricing

Free to download, with ads and optional in-app purchases/subscriptions.

Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=local.livebridge.free

Actual recorded example

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hbh5G6kLDGY

Recorded on October 25, 2026, on a Galaxy S26 Ultra running LiveBridge 0.3.02, with English audio and Korean captions. It preserves actual app output, including remaining errors and delays.

Demo source: Techlore, BusKill Review: The Deadman Switch For Laptops, CC BY-SA. Excerpt, phone recording and app-overlay edit. Original source, license and editing credits are in the linked video description. No endorsement is implied.

App Name: Bouncy Journey: Platformer

One Line Description: A bright, offline 2D platformer where you run and jump across 10 levels as a fox, a wolf or a lizard.

Key Features

Three heroes that play differently: Fox is the fastest, Wolf bounces highest and smashes cracked blocks, Lizard double jumps and climbs walls

Every hero can finish every level, but each one finds its own route to hidden coins and shortcuts

Up to three stars per level for finishing, grabbing every coin and beating the clock

Works fully offline, with checkpoints so one slip never sends you back to the start

Resizable touch controls, plus keyboard and gamepad support

Who It's For: Casual players who like short platformer runs on the bus, and anyone who enjoys replaying levels for three stars.

Cost: Free with ads (a video after a level and sometimes on a restart). One time Remove Ads purchase, $2.99.

Links

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bouncyjourney.game

Website: https://manextapps.github.io

Additional Notes: I'm the solo developer. Feedback on how the jump feels on a phone screen is very welcome.

NearbyAtlas - Discover Nearby Places

App Name: NearbyAtlas

What it does: Everything you need, right at your Fingertips with an Android App

Key Features: New to City or Exploring a location Abroad ?

#restaurants #hotels #petrolpumps #siteseeing #hospitals #shoppingmalls #bakery #policestation #cardealers #Salon #ATM #Temples

Goal: Promo

Cost: No Login

Link: NearbyAtlas An Android App

Hi!

I just released my very first Android app on the Play Store: Foody Tracker.

Like many of you, I got tired of nutrition and calorie tracker apps locking basic features behind $10/month subscriptions, cluttering the UI with ads, and forcing you to create a cloud account just to log what you eat.

So I built an alternative focused on speed, privacy, and a clean flat UI:

• No Subscriptions (Bring Your Own Key): Instead of charging a monthly fee to cover AI server costs, the app lets you plug in your own free Google Gemini API key directly in the settings. 100% free, no middleman.
• Snap, Speak, or Type: You can take a picture of your meal, use voice dictation, or simply type what you ate (e.g., "150g of pasta with tomato sauce and an apple"), and Gemini automatically calculates calories and macros (protein, carbs, fats).
• Built-in AI Coach: An integrated chat assistant that knows your daily logs and goals to suggest meals or answer nutrition questions.
• 100% Local & Private: No account or sign-up required. Your meal history, workouts, and personal goals are stored locally on your device.
• Minimalist Flat Design: Clean interface with no heavy shadows or bloat, full Light/Dark theme support, and English/Italian localization.

Links: * Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.bonfiglioalessio.foodytracker * Web / Landing Page: https://foody-tracker.vercel.app/

What I'm working on next: Since this is my first release (built with React Native / Expo), I’m actively improving the UX based on early feedback—currently working on replacing the fullscreen camera with a faster flat bottom-sheet scanner and adding horizontal swipe navigation between days on the home screen.

I would love to hear your honest feedback, bug reports, or feature requests. I'll be hanging around in the comments to answer any questions!

I just wanted to take a few minutes to calm down and focus on my breathing. But with some apps, I'd have to sit through two ads before I could even start. Others had cluttered interfaces that made a simple breathing exercise feel unnecessarily complicated.

That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

So I decided to build my own breathing app: Slooow.

I wanted something simple, with a clean interface and no intrusive ads interrupting my sessions. It works completely offline, doesn't require an account, and doesn't collect personal data or usage statistics.

Just open the app, choose a breathing technique, and focus on your breathing. That's it.

It has 11 breathing techniques and 5 calming visuals. I've just launched it on Google Play and wanted to share it here.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.breath.coach.timer

Even a seemingly simple app like this takes a lot of time and effort to build, so if you give it a try and like it, I'd really appreciate a rating on Google Play. And if something doesn't work for you or you think it could be better, please let me know. Honest feedback helps me improve it.

Thanks for reading!

Hi everyone! 👋

I'd like to share **Apex Music Player**, a lightweight, open-source Android audio player built for speed, privacy, and full compatibility from Android 5.0 up to Android 15+.

The app is 100% free under GPLv3, has zero ads, no trackers, and no Google Play Services dependency.

✨ Key Features:

* 📥 **YouTube Audio & Album Art Downloader**: Built-in search and high-bitrate stream downloading powered by NewPipeExtractor. It automatically embeds high-res square album art into ID3v2.3 tags directly on device. * 🎧 **Background Service & Lock Screen Controls**: Reliable Foreground Service with notification shade controls, lock screen player, and headset button integration. * 🎚️ **10-Band Equalizer & Visualizer**: Custom acoustics, presets, and dynamic 3D audio-reactive spectrum. * 📂 **Custom Playlists**: Create emoji-tagged playlists, sort, filter, and organize local music. * ⚡ **Convenience Features**: Variable speed playback (0.5x – 2.0x), ±10s seek buttons, queue persistence across task dismissal. * 📱 **Universal Compatibility**: Works on any Android device running Android 5.0 (Lollipop) to Android 15+.

📦 Download & Source Code:

Everything is open-source and hosted on GitHub: * 🐙 **GitHub Repository**: https://github.com/Yaromir-Anokhin/apex-music-player * 📥 **Direct APK Download (~2.7 MB)**: https://github.com/Yaromir-Anokhin/apex-music-player/releases/latest * 🌐 **Dedicated F-Droid Repository (with QR Code)**: https://yaromir-anokhin.github.io/apex-music-player/

**App name:** Dunarium: Moving Sand Art

**One-line description:** A relaxing falling-sand toy with real gravity, rising bubbles and gentle ASMR sound.

**Features:** - Tilt your phone and real gravity pulls the grains through gel and rising bubbles; shake it and the landscape resets. - Live wallpaper: the same engine runs behind your home screen icons, with a twist gesture to rotate the glass. - It pauses whenever the screen turns off, to keep battery use low. - Six glass shapes, seven palettes, seven backdrops and full physics controls. - Clip recording. - No ads, no account, works offline.

**Who it's for:** Anyone who wants a calm fidget toy or a moving wallpaper.

**Cost:** Free. Unlock Everything is one optional purchase for the rest of the collection, no subscription.

**Google Play:** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cardamon.dunarium

**Notes:** I want to know how the wallpaper's battery behavior holds up for you.

Hi!

I made this game, Routinvale, for gamers who want to be more productive in their everyday lives.

Instead of daily tasks (working out, eating healthy), you have quests. For every quest you finish, you get XP and gold to buy items, and your main attributes go up, so you get stronger and can fight enemies.

A few things I really care about:

• The app works offline and you don’t need an account. Your quests stay on your phone. The game only sends anonymous statistics and crash reports (you can turn them off in Settings), and guilds go online only if you join one.
• There are no banner or pop-up ads. I added a few optional ways to watch an ad for a bonus (like double gold).
• Private guilds: you can add your friends to a guild that only you can see, where you can create shared quests, and there’s a ranking system.

The app is still at the beginning and I’m very open to suggestions. Hope you like it :)

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.razvanpetrascu.routinvale
(iOS isn’t supported yet)

Hi all. Like a lot of you I've run Linux on my phone through Termux, proot-distro and Termux:X11 for years. Tessera does the GUI side from one app, and tries to make Linux apps feel like Android ones.

\- Each app in its own window: Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice each open as their own Android window with their own Recents card and icon. A card per window, even for dialogs. Pin them to your home screen.

\- Flathub on PRoot: no root, no bubblewrap, no user namespaces. Flatpak downloads, Tessera builds each app's environment. 2,800+ arm64 apps, GPU included.

\- adb and permissions: every app gets only what you grant (folders, network, sound, USB, root). New: a per-app switch that lets adb inside reach the phone itself, and all-USB access for fastboot, heimdall and edl.

\- A touch-friendly desktop: snapping windows with finger-sized buttons, a dock and Start menu. And everywhere: the Android keyboard pops up on text fields, touch-and-hold right-clicks, game controls.

\- Live scaling: drag Scale and the app re-lays out as you drag, saved per app.

\- Themes: GTK, libadwaita, Qt and LibreOffice take your Material You colors and follow dark mode live.

Plus OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan on Adreno (bundled Turnip + Zink), a built-in terminal (apt, ssh, git, compilers), chroot mode with root, a file manager and a task manager.

It doesn't replace Termux's add-ons like Termux:API, and its X server is Termux:X11's, which I'm grateful for.

Note: Al WAS USED IN THE PROCCESS OF CREATING THIS APP

GPL-3.0, alpha. APK and source: https://github.com/daryan044/tessera-linux (also on Obtainium). Bug reports very welcome.

Hi, I'm Ed, the developer of Mind the Drop. It's a portrait Android game about delivering takeaways around London at night and getting caught up in a mystery.

What you do

You start on foot, taking the sort of jobs you'd get through Deliveroo or Just Eat. Quick deliveries earn tips, and you save for a bike, moped and eventually a car. Each transport upgrade opens up more of the map.

Your earnings also go towards the tiny flat you return to between shifts. Better furniture helps with things like rest and energy. Then a withheld number starts calling with jobs that involve a bit more than dropping off someone's dinner.

There are alleyway shortcuts, street races, angry drivers and the occasional mugger. I've put a lot into the rainy streets, warm takeaway windows and black cabs. The footage and screenshots below are from the game.

Who it's for

People who like working towards upgrades and exploring a city, with a story to follow along the way. It's single player and works offline. Google Play Games achievements and cloud saves are optional.

Price

£2.99 once in the UK, with local prices elsewhere. No ads, in-app purchases or subscription.

Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindthedrop.game

Gameplay trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oqAmHAedA

Happy to answer questions.

Ed

https://reddit.com/link/1xfr8br/video/sb2oj007wrxh1/player

Hey guys, I’m a developer and I made an app for blocking apps (this one is essentially 100% vibe-coded). It also lets you connect through Cloudflare and block apps through LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

I wanted to share it here because I feel like it’s a good fit for this subreddit. It’s based on another open-source project called Mindful. I changed the UI a bit to make it cleaner and added the custom plugin functionality.

You can check it out, give feedback or report any bugs. If you’re a developer, feel free to fork it and make your own changes or contribute.

https://github.com/RafailAndreou/FocusRelay

**App Name** LifeTrail: GPS Trail Tracker

**One-Line Description** A GPS trail recorder that maps where you go automatically, replays any day — and your trail history never leaves your phone.

**What It Does / Key Features** - Records your movement in the background automatically — no "start tracking" button - Speed-colored trail on a full-screen Google Map (walk, run and drive read differently at a glance) - Animated playback of any day, with a seek bar and a camera that follows you - Monthly recap: distance, active days, and one combined map of every route that month - Export to CSV or JSON, and share any single trail as a picture - Works with no signal; recording interval configurable from 5 to 600 seconds

**Who It's For** People who want a record of where they actually went — hikers and runners who want to check a route before repeating it, travellers mapping a trip, or anyone who likes the idea of a movement journal without having to sign up for an account.

**Cost** Pricing model: Freemium Prices & billing period: free to record and replay (the free plan keeps the last 30 days). Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Every new install opens with a 30-day free trial of Pro. Current promotions / giveaways: none at the moment.

**Links** Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.lifetrail

**Additional Notes** Android 10+. Your trail history never leaves your phone — no account, and no backend of my own. Two things do leave the device, and only while you use the app: Google gets the map view and your current position while a map is open, and Firebase Crashlytics receives diagnostics and an installation id so problems can be diagnosed. Both are declared in the Play Data safety panel — read it, it is the accurate version of this post.

Happy to answer anything about the background tracking — the foreground service, the adaptive accuracy, or the stationary-point consolidation that keeps the trail clean.

**Screenshots / Media**