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There is F-droid Basic, which lacks a few less popular functions but contains a rework of app installation. It can install apps in background as well. It's very smooth in my case, works pretty much like auto updating on play store.

You can get it through... regular fdroid!

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I could not make it work. Did you had to do anything special?

From what I learned, only apps that target Android 12and above could have this background update feature. I'm on Android 13 but none of the apps I use updated. I had to switch back to using the f-droid privileged extension.

A store can only auto-update apps when they've been first installed through it. The first time you update an app with neo store you'll have to do it manually, any update after that will be automatic.

No, it just worked, just the usual "allow this app to install software" thing.

I'm on Android 13 currently, I don't have root, stock OS. All my apps update, including ones that are marked in Fdroid as "created for older Android releases". I use around 15 apps from that source and none caused me much trouble. A few times had to invoke installation manually, but honestly I think it would update automatically with more patience on my side.

That's why I'm so pumped about Fdroid Basic - it's a much better experience.

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