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June 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM

🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴

@scottzona.bsky.social

Bracts that are small when they subtend the flower can become enlarged (accrescent) in fruit. The fleshy, dark-staining tissue that surrounds black walnuts is comprised of accrescent bracts. This is Juglans nigra. #Juglandaceae #bracts #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

May 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Another day, another refresh! We've restyled and unified our website so that you can find everything Accrescent all in one place with one look, blog posts and documentation included.

Let us know what you think!

accrescent.app

Accrescent is an Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providin...

September 18, 2026 at 7:51 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent: blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-fu...

The Future of Accrescent

Accrescent is an Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

August 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM

GrapheneOS

@grapheneos.org

GrapheneOS App Store now includes a mirror of Accrescent, which is a privacy and security focused alternative to the Play Store distributing developer builds of apps:

accrescent.app

Accrescent comes from within the GrapheneOS community and we're collaborating together.

Accrescent

Release 0.28.0 · accrescent/accrescent

July 20, 2024 at 11:22 PM

POM 🪩

@pomegraniteart.bsky.social

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June 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent 0.28.0 is out, including:

- Download cancellation support
- Better update scheduling (especially on Android 14+)
- UI improvements and bug fixes

Full release notes below!

github.com/accrescent/a...

This release adds a "cancel" button for downloads, provides better update scheduling (especially on Android 14+), and includes a handful of UI improvements and bug fixes. Changed Perform gentle up...

GitHub - accrescent/android-bundle: Android bundle protobuf definitions extracted from bundletool

November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Check out our new repositories:

github.com/accrescent/a...
github.com/accrescent/d...
github.com/accrescent/d...
github.com/accrescent/ina

Android bundle protobuf definitions extracted from bundletool - accrescent/android-bundle

Accrescent Frequently Asked Questions

August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

With the Amazon Appstore shutting down, it's becoming even more important to invest in sustainable alternative stores you can trust.

See how you can invest in Accrescent's future! A little help goes a long way:

accrescent.app/faq#contribu...

Answers to frequently asked questions about Accrescent.

Release 0.25.0 · accrescent/accrescent

February 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent 0.25.0 is out with Android 15 app archiving support, Private Space support, and settings UI improvements!

We also forgot to announce that since 0.24.0, Accrescent supports in-app predictive back!

Check out the release notes below 👇

github.com/accrescent/a...

This release adds initial app archiving support on Android 15, makes Accrescent show up as an installer in Private Space, and improves the settings UI! We also forgot to mention that since 0.24.0, ...

Release 0.27.0 · accrescent/accrescent

October 21, 2024 at 9:20 AM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent 0.27.0 is here! This is the most significant release we've made to date:

- New, stable app store API
- Complete installer rewrite, resolving all known bugs
- Tons of new features
- More snappy, correct, & informative UI

Check it out! 👇

github.com/accrescent/a...

Happy release day! This release is the most significant Accrescent release to date, marking our migration to a new, stable app store API; completely rewriting our core logic to resolve all known in...

Release 0.26.0 · accrescent/accrescent

October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

New releases of Accrescent and our developer console are also out, with Android 16 updates and Material 3 changes. Check them out!

github.com/accrescent/a...
github.com/accrescent/p...
github.com/accrescent/c...

Alongside this release, we've made an announcement on our blog about Accrescent's future which we recommend reading. This release updates Accrescent to target Android 16, adds a periodic donate req...

Accrescent is an Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

August 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM

GrapheneOS

@grapheneos.org

Our full time developer working on this already built their own Transcribro app for on-device speech-to-text available in the Accrescent app store. For GrapheneOS itself, we want actual open source implementations of these features rather than OpenAI's phony open source though.

January 29, 2026 at 10:11 PM

Fluxer

@fluxer.app

Quick reminder! We plan to go to launch to app stores soon! So far we are looking at Fdroid, Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and Accrescent (once available). You can also download an apk from Github directly.

For those who like to get their hands dirty, build info is on Github as well!

August 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM

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@celenity.dev

Should be live on Accrescent, thanks to them for the rapid fix!

July 9, 2026 at 4:09 AM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

In case you missed it: Accrescent is now mirrored in the GrapheneOS App Store! This helps GrapheneOS users securely and easily obtain Accrescent from a trusted source.

GrapheneOS highly values privacy and security as we do, so we're excited about this collaboration.

GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · Jul 20

GrapheneOS App Store now includes a mirror of Accrescent, which is a privacy and security focused alternative to the Play Store distributing developer builds of apps:

accrescent.app

Accrescent comes from within the GrapheneOS community and we're collaborating together.

Accrescent

Accrescent Frequently Asked Questions

July 23, 2024 at 2:57 AM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent recently surpassed 1,000 stars on GitHub 🥳! Thank you to everyone for your continued support!

If you'd like to help us grow, check out accrescent.app/faq#contribu.... There are lots of ways to contribute even if you can't code!

github.com/accrescent/a...

Answers to frequently asked questions about Accrescent.

Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providin...

October 17, 2024 at 6:06 AM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Because of you, we can dedicate ourselves fully to our mission of building a modern Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

If you want to read the original blog post: blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-fu...

Or if you want to see our plans: blog.accrescent.app/posts/progre...

The Future of Accrescent

Release 0.20.0 · accrescent/accrescent

August 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent 0.20.0 is out with support for respecting other app stores, UI improvements, bug fixes and more!

Download Accrescent or view the changelog below for details.

github.com/accrescent/a...

A more substantial release this time around! Accrescent now respects other app stores and manual APK installations, no longer attempting to take over updates for apps you installed outside of Accre...

Accrescent and Android Developer Verification

April 25, 2024 at 3:35 AM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

If you've wondered how Android developer verification affects Accrescent, today we have a new blog post explaining briefly what it is, how it impacts us, and how we're responding.

blog.accrescent.app/posts/androi...

Google recently announced that starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers for users to install them on their devices, i.e., all apps must be registered b...

November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

In anticipation of our upcoming blog posts, we've refreshed our blog! It's now simpler, smoother, smaller, and JavaScript-free.

We'll be revising it gradually, so let us know what you think of the new design! Accessibility is especially important to us.

blog.accrescent.app

Accrescent Blog

Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providin...

September 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

If you haven't already read our blog post about Accrescent's future, you can find it here: blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-fu...

The Future of Accrescent

Release 0.13.0 · accrescent/accrescent

August 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent 0.13.0 is out! This release adds Android 10 and 11 support, utilizes new Android 14 features, and makes some slight UX improvements!

Check out the changelog for more 👇

https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases/tag/0.13.0

This release adds support for Android 10 and 11, takes advantage of some new Android 14 features, and makes the user experience just a little bit nicer! Add support for Android 10 and 11 Target SD...

Release 0.16.0 · accrescent/accrescent

July 12, 2023 at 12:35 PM

Accrescent

@accrescent.app

Accrescent 0.16.0 is released! Apps can now include short descriptions, MTE is enabled by default for extra security, and update notifications aren't quite as pesky anymore. See the changelog below 👇

github.com/accrescent/a...

Improvements Add support for short descriptions Enable MTE Make "update finished" notification channel non-noisy Updates Bump AGP to 8.2.0 Bump bundletool Gradle plugin to 0.2.3 Bump Compose com...