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
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h/t nostr:npub1kq7g9dewnjtnxw94xfqgat29536eegk7sxl2fdphu9jeepyj5leqwm72xz for discovering it
Absolutely loving to see it
nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn you're famous on youtube now
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?
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
→ Advanced Play Store search/filter tool (not a store itself, but counted as one in the video).
2. Zap Store
→ Community-driven, open-source app store with developer-signed apps.
3. GitHub Store
→ Turns GitHub Android projects into a store-like experience.
4. Neo Store
→ Modern F-Droid client with tracker/permission visualization.
5. Dragon Store
→ Aggregates apps from official websites and GitHub without shady APK sites.
6. Mitch
→ Unofficial itch.io client for indie Android games.
7. FF Updater
→ Specialized store for alternative browsers (Firefox/Chromium forks).
8. Flicky
→ App store optimized for Android TV and big screens.
9. Aurora Store
→ Anonymous Play Store client (nightly version highlighted).
10. IzzyOnDroid (Unofficial app)
→ Standalone frontend for the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repository.
11. OpenAPK
→ Web-based (PWA) lightweight FOSS app store pulling from GitHub.
12. Orient Store
→ 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 “the usual ones.”
Optanium and APK Updater at the end are update managers, not counted among the 12 stores.