Every travel app I've used asks where I want to go and then tells me what it costs. I kept wanting the opposite: I have ₹60,000 and a week in September, so where can I actually go?

So I built Range. You give it a number, a date and who's coming, and it prices the whole trip to 180 destinations and shows you everywhere that fits.

Whole trip, not just the airfare — getting there, sleeping, eating, moving around, doing things, visas, insurance and a buffer, for your group size at your comfort level. Change "comfort" to "budget" and watch the map open up.

A few things I cared about getting right:

- It won't lie about transport. It prices flight/train/bus/taxi/own car and uses the cheapest that genuinely works. There's no train to Dubai, no drive to Bali, and no railway to Kaza, Leh or Gangtok. Mountain roads are timed slower than plains. If it's too short to fly, it says so and substitutes the surface option.

- Everything is modelled on device. No account, no ads, no analytics, no location permission. The only network call is an exchange-rate refresh, and it falls back to bundled rates offline.

- Results are ranked by what's interesting at your budget, not just what's cheapest — the cheapest answer from anywhere is always the dull city two hours away.

There's also a radar view that plots every destination by true bearing and log-scaled distance, with a boundary through the farthest thing you can afford in each direction. Mostly it's just nice to look at.

Honest caveat: the prices are a model, not live fares. Nothing is scraped and no booking API is called — that's why it works offline and needs no account. Treat the totals as a realistic planning range, then check a booking site once you've picked somewhere. I'd rather say that up front than have you find out.

Android 8.0+, 2.8 MB, Material You so it picks up your wallpaper colours.

Download: https://github.com/NikhilKain/Range/releases/latest

Happy to answer anything about the pricing model — it's the part I spent the longest on.

I build **Stride**, a native Android step counter. A user asked for a retro theme, and

instead of just swapping the colours I ended up redesigning the whole UI as a proper

8-bit skin. It was way more fun than it should have been, so I wanted to share.

**What "retro" actually meant, technically:**

- **Real stepped corners.** A small corner radius still looks like Material. On an actual

8-bit display a "rounded" corner is just square pixels knocked off at 45°, so I wrote a

custom `CornerBasedShape` that draws the staircase. That one change does most of the

heavy lifting.

- **Pixel typeface** (Press Start 2P, OFL). It has a tall intrinsic ascent, so my first

build had text overlapping itself — every tier needed ~2× leading and centred

line-height alignment before it looked right.

- **Block progress ring** instead of the smooth indicator, with a radar sweep that

brightens each cell as it passes.

- **Hard offset shadows** — blur would defeat the entire aesthetic.

- **CRT scanlines** drifting over the whole app, and a blinking terminal caret.

- **The map too** — the walk map is OpenStreetMap tiles run through a duotone colour

matrix so it lands in the same palette, inside a pixel frame.

The whole thing is driven by a composition-local "skin", so screens ask for shapes

instead of hard-coding radii. **The default Material design is completely untouched

behind a toggle**, and none of it changes how the app works — it's purely cosmetic.

**The app itself,** if you're curious: on-device hardware pedometer (no account, your

data stays on your phone), Health Connect optional, live step notification, home-screen

widget, goals, streaks and achievements. Core is open source under GPLv3.

Happy to go into detail on any of the implementation — the stepped-corner shape and the

duotone map filter were the two most interesting bits to figure out.

Link :- https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/tag/v1.0.2

I built an Android app store that combines GitHub, F-Droid, GitLab, Codeberg & more into one app

I got tired of jumping between different platforms just to discover open-source Android apps.

So I started building Vyxel—an Android app store that brings multiple repositories together in one place.

Features

• 🔍 Search apps across GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Codeberg, Flathub, and Winget.
• 📦 Install apps from multiple repositories without switching between apps.
• 🎨 Modern Material 3 Expressive UI with Material You support.
• 🌈 Multiple themes, with even more currently in development.
• 🌍 Localization support.
• ⚡ CDN-first architecture for faster loading.
• 🛠️ Support for custom repositories.
• 🔑 Optional Shizuku integration for a smoother installation experience.

The goal isn't to replace existing app stores—it's to make discovering apps from all these sources feel like one seamless experience.

I'm still actively developing Vyxel, so all suggestions are welcome! Whether it's a feature request, UI/UX feedback, performance improvements, bug reports, or even small quality-of-life ideas, I'd love to hear them.

Constructive criticism is just as valuable as praise, and every piece of feedback helps make Vyxel better.

Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

Link:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.7

Hey everyone,

I just launched my first app, **Auralis: Live Lyrics**, and wanted to share it here.

It shows **live, time-synced lyrics in a floating overlay** on top of whatever music app you're using. Play a song in almost any player and Auralis detects it, fetches the synced lyrics, and scrolls them line-by-line in a little floating pill you can move anywhere — pull down to expand it into a full card.

**What it does:**

- Live lyrics that stay in sync with the song, highlighted line-by-line

- Floating overlay that works over any music app (Spotify, YT Music, etc.)

- Three styles: compact pill, expanded bar, and a big karaoke-style card

- Fully customizable — background/text/accent colors, size, corner roundness, position

- Per-song sync memory — nudge the timing once and it remembers it for that track

- Bring your own lyrics — import a .lrc or .txt for anything it can't find

- No account, no ads. It only reads the current track's title + artist to look up lyrics; it never reads your personal notifications or sells data.

It's **free** and works on Android 8.0+.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vythera.auralis

I'd genuinely love feedback — feature ideas, bugs, anything. What would make this a daily-use app for you? Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Hey Everyone,

Every step counter I tried wanted a login, a subscription, or permission

to sell my movement data to whoever asked. So I wrote one that wants none

of that, and open-sourced it.

**Stride** counts your steps and gets out of the way.

**What it does**

* Reads from Health Connect, or falls back to your phone's hardware step

sensor if you don't use it. Works on day one either way.

* Full **Material 3 Expressive** — wavy progress rings, shape-morphing

badges, spring motion. Material You wallpaper colours, AMOLED black,

4 palettes, 6 bundled fonts.

* Weekly bar chart and a monthly calendar heatmap.

* Streaks and 14 achievements.

* Share cards that render your day as an image.

* Backup/restore to a plain JSON file. No cloud in the middle.

* English and Hindi.

* Android 16 Live Updates, where your ROM actually supports it — and the

app tells you honestly when it doesn't, instead of silently failing.

**The privacy bit:** no ads, no account, no analytics, no tracking. The

only network permission is for checking GitHub for updates. That's it.

**Being upfront:** it's open-**core**. The repo is the free edition and

it's a complete app — nothing time-limited or nagged.

📖 Source (GPLv3): https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride

📥 APK: https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/latest

Android 8.0+. Play Store submission is coming.

Built with Kotlin and Compose. Happy to answer anything about the

implementation — the Health Connect + sensor merge and getting Live

Updates working on Android 16 were both more annoying than expected.

🎁 Giving away 15 Premium Themes for Vyxel!

I built an Android app store that combines GitHub, F-Droid, GitLab, Codeberg & more into one app

As a thank you to the community, I'm giving away 15 Premium Theme licenses for Vyxel.

📅 The giveaway starts on Sunday, 26 July 2026 at 4:00 PM IST.

The giveaway will take place exclusively on our Telegram channel, where I'll post the coupon and all the details.

If you'd like to join, hop into the Telegram community before the giveaway starts

Telegram channel:- @ vyxelapps_announcement

Good luck, and may the fastest fingers win! 🚀

I built an Android app store that combines GitHub, F-Droid, GitLab, Codeberg & more into one app

I got tired of jumping between different platforms just to discover open-source Android apps.

So I started building Vyxel—an Android app store that brings multiple repositories together in one place.

Features

• 🔍 Search apps across GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Codeberg, Flathub, and Winget.
• 📦 Install apps from multiple repositories without switching between apps.
• 🎨 Modern Material 3 Expressive UI with Material You support.
• 🌈 Multiple themes, with even more currently in development.
• 🌍 Localization support.
• ⚡ CDN-first architecture for faster loading.
• 🛠️ Support for custom repositories.
• 🔑 Optional Shizuku integration for a smoother installation experience.

The goal isn't to replace existing app stores—it's to make discovering apps from all these sources feel like one seamless experience.

I'm still actively developing Vyxel, so all suggestions are welcome! Whether it's a feature request, UI/UX feedback, performance improvements, bug reports, or even small quality-of-life ideas, I'd love to hear them.

Constructive criticism is just as valuable as praise, and every piece of feedback helps make Vyxel better.

Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

Link:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.6

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on Vyxel, an open-source Android app store that lets you discover apps from multiple sources like GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Codeberg, and more.

I finally decided to make a dedicated website for it... well, sort of. 😅

The current version is a test website, so it's definitely not perfect. Before I launch the real thing, I'd love to hear what other people think.

🌐 https://vyxelwebstore.pages.dev/

I'm looking for feedback on things like:

• 🎨 Design & overall look
• 🧭 Navigation & usability
• 📱 Mobile responsiveness
• ⚡ Performance
• 🐛 Bugs or broken pages
• 💡 Features you'd like to see

Don't hold back—if something looks weird, feels clunky, or makes you question my life choices, let me know. 😂

Thanks for taking the time to check it out! Every suggestion helps make the final version better.

Hey everyone,

I’m the developer of **Vyxel Apps**—the open-source Android client built for tracking, managing, and installing FOSS apps directly from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, and Codeberg pipelines.

Yesterday's update completely blew up, hitting 3K+ downloads in 24 hours and pushing our total across all versions past the **34K mark**!

To celebrate this milestone, I’m giving away **15 Pro Keys** for the **Liquid Glass Theme** framework.

### 📅 Giveaway Details:

* **When:** Tomorrow, June 14, 2026, at exactly **4:00 PM IST**.

* **How to claim:** I will be dropping the raw keys directly in our Telegram channel. It’s a straight copy-and-paste claim, first-come, first-served.

Make sure to join the channel ahead of time so you don't miss it when the clock strikes 4!

👉 **Check out the Project on GitHub:** https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps

Thanks for all the support and feedback on the new update! See you tomorrow. 🥳

P.s. Telegram Channel Link in comments

Hey everyone!

I've just released Vyxel Apps v1.0.4, one of the biggest updates to the project so far.

This release heavily focuses on improving the Liquid Glass experience while also bringing new customization options, better localization, improved update detection, and numerous bug fixes.

What's New?

💎 Major Liquid Glass overhaul

🖼️ Custom wallpapers for Liquid Glass

🌫️ Adjustable blur effects

🔮 Adjustable refraction effects

✨ Adjustable edge effects

⚡ Significant performance improvements and lag fixes

📱 New Liquid Glass preview experience

🔧 Added Shizuku support

📦 Added manual repository entry for custom repositories

🌍 More language support, including Chinese

🖼️ Fixed screenshots not loading

🎨 Fixed app icons not loading

🔄 Fixed update tracking and installed-app update detection

⭐ Fixed favorites list only showing 5 items

🎨 Various UI refinements and polish throughout the app

A lot of work also went into stability improvements and under-the-hood fixes to make the overall experience smoother and more reliable.

Release:
https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.4

Feedback, feature requests, and bug reports are always appreciated. Thanks to everyone who has been testing and supporting the project!

I built an Android app because I was tired of manually searching GitHub for open-source apps

A few months ago I realized that most of the apps I use come from GitHub, GitLab, and F-Droid rather than the Play Store.

The problem was that discovering them was messy.

I'd find an app on Reddit or GitHub, open the repository, scroll through releases, figure out which APK matched my device, check whether it was actively maintained, and repeat the whole process again when updates were available.

So I decided to build my own solution.

The result is Vyxel Apps, an open-source Android app that helps discover, install, and manage apps from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, and custom repositories in one place.

Features

• Discover apps from multiple open-source sources

• Custom repository support (new in v1.0.3)

• Advanced search and filtering

• Background update monitoring

• Repository trust scoring

• Easier app downloads and installation flow

• In-app translation support

• Material 3 Expressive UI

• Optional LiquidGlass premium theme

• AMOLED and customizable themes

What's New in v1.0.3

🚀 Faster reloads and performance improvements

🎨 Major UI refinements across the app

🌍 Expanded language support and in-app translation

⚙️ Custom repository support

🔍 Better search, filters, and categories

📖 New About section with project information

⬇️ Improved download and installation experience

The project is completely open source, and I'd love to hear feedback, suggestions, or feature requests.

Release: https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases

🚀 Vyxel Apps v1.0.3 — Major UI & Performance Update

After weeks of development, a huge update for Vyxel Apps is now available!

Vyxel Apps is a free and open-source Android app store that helps you discover and install apps directly from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, and other sources. Previous community feedback requested better search, more sources, improved UI, and customization — many of those suggestions have now been implemented. (Reddit)

✨ What's New

🎨 LiquidGlass Theme (Premium)

• Brand-new frosted glass design
• Light & Dark variants
• Smooth blur effects and modern visuals
• Available as a one-time in-app purchase ($3)

🎭 Material 3 Expressive Redesign

• Cleaner layouts
• Better typography
• More consistent spacing
• Smoother navigation

🌍 Improved Language Support

• More language coverage
• In-app translation for app descriptions
• Better accessibility for global users

🎨 Expanded Customization

• Additional themes
• More fonts
• Greater control over app appearance

🔍 Advanced Search & Filters

• Faster discovery
• Better category browsing
• Improved filtering system

⚙️ Custom Repository Support

• Add your own repositories
• Connect self-hosted sources
• Expand beyond default catalogs

⚡ Performance Improvements

• Faster startup times
• Quicker reloads
• Improved caching
• Smoother scrolling and animations

📖 New About Section

• Version history
• Contributor information
• Documentation links

⬇️ Improved Downloads

• Cleaner installation flow
• Better progress indicators
• Fewer interruptions during installs

Still Included

✅ No ads
✅ No tracking
✅ Open source
✅ AMOLED themes
✅ GitHub, GitLab & F-Droid support
✅ Repository trust scoring
✅ Background update monitoring

Download the latest release and share your feedback!

Release: Vyxel Apps Releases

❤️ Every suggestion helps shape future updates.

#Android #OpenSource #FOSS #GitHub #GitLab #FDroid #Material3 #AndroidApps #IndieDev #Privacy #VyxelApps

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a huge update for Vyxel Apps, the open-source Android app store powered by GitHub releases.

This update focuses heavily on UI polish, customization, performance, and app discovery.

What’s new in this update:

• Material 3 Expressive redesign
• Faster backend/server response
• Smoother animations & scrolling
• Advanced filters and category search
• Expanded theme engine & AMOLED themes
• More fonts support
• Multi-language support improvements
• In-app translation for app descriptions
• Better GitHub, GitLab & F-Droid browsing

The goal is to make Vyxel Apps feel modern, fluid, and highly customizable while staying lightweight and privacy-friendly.

Still:
✅ No ads
✅ No tracking
✅ Fully open source

Would love feedback and suggestions ❤️

Link:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/

Hey everyone!

I've been working on Vyxel Apps, a free and open-source Android app store that lets you discover and install apps directly from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, Codeberg, Flathub, and

Winget — all in one place.

No Play Store. No tracking. Just open-source apps.

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**What it does:**

- 🔍 Search across GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, Codeberg, Flathub and Winget simultaneously

- 📦 Install APKs directly from GitHub releases with one tap

- 🗂 19 curated hoe categories — Trending, Games, Tools, Browsers, Dev Tools, Finance, and more

- 🎨 6 themes — Light, Dark, AMOLED, Minimal, Sunset, and a fully custom theme editor

- 🌍 16 languages — full UI localization including the nav bar

- 🔄 Update checker — tracks installed apps and notifies you of new releases

- 📱 Material You / Monet support on Android 12+

- 🔤 Font selection

- ⭐ Favourites, recently vieweed, install history with rollback support

- 🆚 App comparison side by side

**Download / Source:**

👉 https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.1

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on Vyxel Apps, an Android app store focused on discovering and installing open-source apps directly from GitHub releases.

The goal was to create something lightweight, privacy-friendly, and modern — without ads, tracking, or unnecessary clutter.

Some features included in the first release:

• Smart APK architecture detection • Background update monitoring • Repository trust scoring • Install history & rollback • GitHub starred repo syncing • App comparison mode • Auto-extracted screenshots from READMEs • AMOLED & Material 3 themes

The app is completely free and open source.

Also this is my first project.

Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome ❤️

https://nikhilkain.github.io/vyxel-apps/