Obtainium

Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.

More info:

Obtainium/wiki
AppVerifier - App verification tool (recommended, integrates with Obtainium)
apps.obtainium.imranr.dev - Crowdsourced app configurations
Side Of Burritos - You should use this instead of F-Droid | How to use app RSS feed - Original motivation for this app

Currently supported App sources:

Open Source - General:
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Codeberg
- F-Droid
- Third Party F-Droid Repos
- IzzyOnDroid
- SourceHut
Other - General:
- APKPure
- Aptoide
- Uptodown
- APKMirror (Track-Only)
- Huawei AppGallery
- Jenkins Jobs
Open Source - App-Specific:
- Signal
- VLC
Other - App-Specific:
Direct APK Link
"HTML" (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files

Finding App Configurations

You can find crowdsourced app configurations at apps.obtainium.imranr.dev.

If you can't find the configuration for an app you want, feel free to leave a request on the discussions page.

Or, contribute some configurations to the website by creating a PR at this repo.

For some sources, data is gathered using Web scraping and can easily break due to changes in website design. In such cases, more reliable methods may be unavailable.