OpenHub-Store

A free, open-source app store experience for GitHub releases.

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What we're building

Most great open-source software lives on GitHub, but discovering and keeping it installed is a chore — checking releases, side-loading APKs, manually checking for updates, dealing with mismatched architectures. GitHub Store turns GitHub itself into the catalog: trending lists, real installers (.apk, .exe, .dmg, .AppImage, .deb, .rpm), one-click installs, automatic update checks. No middleman, no Play-Store fees, no F-Droid build pipeline — just the binaries the maintainers already publish.

The whole stack is FOSS, community-driven, and works on every major desktop OS plus Android.

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The stack

Repo	What it is	Tech
GitHub-Store	The client app — discover, install, and update GitHub-released software on Android and Desktop.	Kotlin Multiplatform · Compose Multiplatform · Material 3 Expressive
backend	The optional API that powers search, ranking, badges, the OAuth device-flow proxy, and the cached resource layer. The client falls back to static data when this is unreachable.	Kotlin · Ktor 3 · Postgres · Meilisearch · Caddy
api	The discovery pipeline. Scrapes GitHub daily for repos that ship real installers, ranks by trending / new / popular per platform, and emits the structured JSON the backend serves.	Python · GitHub Actions

┌──────────────┐   browse / install / update    ┌─────────────────────┐
│  Client app  │ ─────────────────────────────► │ api.github-store.org│
│  (Android +  │ ◄───── search · cache · auth ──│ backend (Ktor)      │
│   Desktop)   │                                 │     ▲               │
└──────┬───────┘                                 │     │ ranked JSON   │
       │                                         │     │               │
       │ direct GitHub API (fallback path)       │     │ daily cron    │
       ▼                                         │     │               │
┌─────────────────┐                              │  ┌──┴───────────┐   │
│   api.github    │ ◄──── pipeline scrapes ──────│  │  api (Python) │   │
│      .com       │                              │  │  pipeline     │   │
└─────────────────┘                              │  └───────────────┘   │
                                                 └─────────────────────┘

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Get the app

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Contributing

Pick a repo and dive in:

• Open issues — bug reports, feature requests, polish work.
• GitHub-Store CONTRIBUTING.md — KMP setup, build commands, coding conventions.
• backend run-locally instructions — Postgres + Meilisearch via Docker Compose.

We label good-first-issue, help-wanted, and bug consistently across all three repos.

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Stay in the loop

• Website: github-store.org
• Releases: watch GitHub-Store for the client, backend for API
• Featured on: Trendshift · HelloGitHub

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License

Every repo in this org ships under Apache-2.0. Use it, fork it, ship it.