Zapstore featured in the HowToMen channel with 868,000 subscribers 🀯

Here's the clip (2nd out of 12 tools reviewed):

https://video.nostr.build/8939f1291eee714e3d0bafeead5faec922e6ffae113db4dc701b850d27f5bc3b.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-MEwPDw4k

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Absolutely loving to see it

Hey that's pretty neat

Nice!

Hell yes. Prepare battlestations!

Is that guy on nostr?

Congrats Fran

Good to see - wish he mentioned nostr and said you support the devs using SATs - but congrats zap store!

Good to see more mainstream content creators looking at freedom tech

One meeelion subscribers

This is the way

I hope that people download even more now! 🀘🏼⚑️

Very cool! He must be on Nostr....right?

It seems like googles side loading apk ban is a response to nostr and zapstore.

Lesgoooo :Zapstore:

Here are the 12 app stores / discovery tools explicitly mentioned in the transcript, cleaned up and normalized (some names were slightly mangled by transcription):

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The 12 stores (in order of appearance)

1. AppFinder

β†’ Advanced Play Store search/filter tool (not a store itself, but counted as one in the video).

2. Zap Store

β†’ Community-driven, open-source app store with developer-signed apps.

3. GitHub Store

β†’ Turns GitHub Android projects into a store-like experience.

4. Neo Store

β†’ Modern F-Droid client with tracker/permission visualization.

5. Dragon Store

β†’ Aggregates apps from official websites and GitHub without shady APK sites.

6. Mitch

β†’ Unofficial itch.io client for indie Android games.

7. FF Updater

β†’ Specialized store for alternative browsers (Firefox/Chromium forks).

8. Flicky

β†’ App store optimized for Android TV and big screens.

9. Aurora Store

β†’ Anonymous Play Store client (nightly version highlighted).

10. IzzyOnDroid (Unofficial app)

β†’ Standalone frontend for the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repository.

11. OpenAPK

β†’ Web-based (PWA) lightweight FOSS app store pulling from GitHub.

12. Orient Store

β†’ GitHub-backed, serverless app store with massive app coverage.

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Important clarification

Uptodown / APKMirror / F-Droid / Droidify were explicitly excluded by the creator as β€œthe usual ones.”

Optanium and APK Updater at the end are update managers, not counted among the 12 stores.