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I highly recommend adding the IzzyOnDroid repository. It's mainly FOSS apps that don't have an f-droid build and new releases are pulled straight from GitHub/GitLab releases, adding over 800 apps to F-Droid.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index.php

Some other honorable mentions I haven't seen yet

- Fennec (Firefox) - DAVx5 - Gotify-UP - Joplin - Link Eye - Wormhole William

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'Izzy' also keeps a comprehensive OPDS catalog of Public Domain ePubs here;

- English: https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=en&pageformat=html - German: https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=de&pageformat=html

(if you change 'pageformat=html' into 'pageformat=xml' (or 'atom'), you should be able to connect with any OPDS capable client to it.

If anyone wants to help shepherd Wormhole William through the f-droid submission process, that would be appreciated!

I know this isn't what you asked, but making your own F-Droid repo is relatively straightforward, and since your release process already cooks apks for every release, using the tooling to then push them into a repo would likely not be a lot of additional work, once you've gotten the underlying f-droid repo tooling setup

That process is driven by https://pypi.org/project/fdroidserver/ and then it just needs a local "config.py", keypair, and I use rsync --delete to publish to my repo. You can create a QR code for folks to add the repo which includes the URL and the public-key that signs items in the repo. The gory details are on their website: https://f-droid.org/docs/Setup_an_F-Droid_App_Repo/ and on Mac and Linux (with Linuxbrew) you can "brew install fdroidserver" although that might not work in GitHub Actions

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