Zapstore

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Download 0.2.6 for Android: https://cdn.zapstore.dev/b15e06ae0d516d70777a94b96f24e0cda1dc05285bf8e20890a2b8e3524b9bc3

SHA-256 checksum: b15e06ae0d516d70777a94b96f24e0cda1dc05285bf8e20890a2b8e3524b9bc3

APK certificate hash (for AppVerifier): 99e33b0c2d07e75fcd9df7e40e886646ff667e3aa6648e1a1160b036cf2b9320

Public Key

npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8

NIP-05 Address

_@zapstore.dev

NIP-57 Address

zapstore@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0npyq99

Publishing to

relay.nostr.band

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8

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Last Notes

2025-04-25 19:29:13

🚀 Zapstore 0.2.6 released!
- Fixes for stale data, apps should now show their latest versions
- Upgrade to @nprofile…prv3 DVM format
- New Developer screen (basic for now, delete local cache if apps are missing!)
Older web of trust format is deprecated and will soon stop working. Please upgrade!
https://image.nostr.build/b214629b5f6daf511547324dd6ebec00c220954b78b7ce681b76e6bbe6428f05.jpg

2025-04-25 03:00:23

Muy buena charla sobre app stores! Gracias @nprofile…46jj
#nevent1q…sxzr

2025-04-18 01:54:27

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No worries. Please open issues in the github repo 🙏

2025-04-17 12:03:53

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Sorry to hear this. I'm a bit overwhelmed at the moment, all I can say is it works for me. A lot of this stuff will be rewritten so hopefully it works then.
If you don't mind sharing, is that an alby nwc?

2025-04-11 01:42:43

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Could you please add it on github? zapstore/indexer

2025-04-10 20:30:05

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Thanks I read that, but where are the APKs?

2025-04-09 14:47:36

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Sorry I'm not following. What should I do? Where are these apps?

2025-04-09 00:44:50

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🚩
https://image.nostr.build/4df471944e91b89bda429b6b562af81727acaa2020f630177608276e335e3cf9.jpg

2025-04-09 00:41:44

Found it and Misty Breez now available on Zapstore🤙
#nevent1q…u7uj

2025-04-09 00:32:27

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Found it! It was on pre-release

2025-04-09 00:20:13

Yo @nprofile…thfh where can we find the APK for Misty @nprofile…lwpx?

2025-04-08 18:08:53

https://image.nostr.build/9fc3ed4bb4d5f625c51056c6899817654e1622a01a239690ddf3249b5fbe3654.jpg
#nevent1q…94zl

2025-04-08 01:46:51

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Use a VPN

2025-04-08 01:45:38

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Will have a look, thanks

2025-04-07 23:18:21

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I don't handle transitions from indexer to self publishing very well yet. Go to settings and clear cache

2025-04-05 17:59:44

Yo zapstriches!
Small update coming next week, hopefully.
Otherwise, *very* busy on a few different low-level building blocks that are dynamite. Can't wait to share with y'all.
Once ready (likely 4-6 more weeks) I will finally be able to start shipping a significant amount of user-facing features that have been in the pipeline.

2025-04-05 16:12:45

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Sure. I'm building that GUI but not ready yet.
Can you use nak? @nprofile…eua6
nak req -k 30267 --id fe63a3d75eacc21962fc95f55e284f5a6cda5a1f8be4c4d0b90e19f7d57e90c3 wss://relay.zapstore.dev | jq -c '.tags |= map(select(.[1] != "32267:78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d:xyz.elliptica.enuts.beta"))' | nak event --sec 1234 wss://relay.zapstore.dev
Replacing 1234 with your nsec

2025-04-04 15:21:22

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Oh it got merged but forgot to reload the indexer

2025-04-01 12:38:24

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@nprofile…qmxe how did you publish the latest release? That should not be happening

2025-03-27 15:29:07

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Congrats everyone!
To more freedom tech 🚀

2025-03-26 16:59:29

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How do I zap you on Obtainium? 😂

2025-03-22 12:31:14

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I apologize for that 🫂
Yes 0.2.5 should be better, and currently reworking lots of the internals to make it much smoother.

2025-03-22 12:28:54

Agreed
#nevent1q…cv06

2025-03-20 21:39:06

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Which version are you on?

2025-03-18 13:01:17

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Wow, appreciate it! Thank you.
I did not mean you should sign up for Alby Hub, I was asking because Coinos for example has NWC and does not cost anything extra. Some cashu wallets as well

2025-03-18 00:03:29

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I don't understand which service you are using

2025-03-17 13:45:48

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I would first ask you, which one do you think is the legit one?
But yeah, just removed the one we were indexing and let Blake push his own.

2025-03-17 13:42:14

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Thank you! I use Alby Hub with Alby Go, requires no Google. Could use coinos (also in Zapstore), cashu.me , etc
Eventually I want to allow paying LN invoices

2025-03-17 13:39:45

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Thanks! Should be fixed now

2025-03-14 23:29:54

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Zapoli is the one built in golang?
What is ddsrs?

2025-03-14 19:20:40

Heads up zapstriches!
Not releasing much lately. Hard work happening under the surface:
- Working on UI/UX and data loading with @nprofile…je4n
- Working on all-new relays with @nprofile…7jew
That is laying the groundwork for a LOT of cool social features, and access to massive amount of apps.
And my most important interop priority: ability to manage relays, Blossom servers and DVMs.

2025-03-14 17:14:19

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It's legit!
Source: me

2025-03-13 17:34:50

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I myself can stop recommending it but will not remove it from users' recommendations.
The dev will probably say nothing.
Only viable way at the moment seems having users sign a "I consider this project abandoned" event. We could display these events sorted by WoT

2025-03-13 12:47:45

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Yep, we need some sort of signal for this.
Lets make a new kind!

2025-03-13 12:37:06

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I know about releases not commits. Yes there is a warning when latest is over a year old.

2025-03-13 12:18:21

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Search will get much better with the new relays i'm building

2025-03-12 16:08:52

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Secure in what sense?

2025-03-12 15:20:56

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Sherpa TTS is on @nprofile…tdq0
Btw, you can install F-Droid apps from Obtainium

2025-03-12 15:14:23

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Fixed

2025-03-12 15:01:51

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Thank you. It's because they changed the name of the APK.

2025-03-12 14:34:37

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Not to mention a way for many people to discover your app, and get zapped

2025-03-12 14:33:19

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@nprofile…mswv he means nostr-signing the release. You sign a few nostr events which link to your APK hashes.
Such that people who first encounter this app are certain it has been built by @nprofile…mswv
You use zapstore-cli for this.
https://zapstore.dev/docs/cli/publish

2025-03-12 14:29:23

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Have you asked @nprofile…5cfd ?
Also, no one requested it or sent a PR to our indexer repo, so that is why.

2025-03-12 14:24:35

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Thank you!!

2025-03-12 14:24:22

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🫂

2025-03-11 17:33:54

Huge thank you to @nprofile…uazd for approving my grant for Zapstore!
Excited for the year ahead!

2025-03-10 16:41:40

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@nprofile…3a5g any have plans to make SN nostr interoperable?

2025-03-10 16:40:43

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I love SN but not what I'm looking for. Maybe later.

2025-03-10 16:37:07

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Yeah we'll build great stuff. But it will take longer than April amigo.
However I want to see whats available now. Which one is a NIP-72 client? Just to check it out

2025-03-10 16:34:07

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Amethyst where? All I see is feeds

2025-03-10 16:33:29

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@nprofile…nkr4 would you know?

2025-03-10 16:25:53

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I do not like Discord style interfaces. Too gen z for me.
Amethyst where? All I see is feeds. Feeds everywhere.

2025-03-10 16:24:45

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That is correct. Two of my requirements though:
- in the beginning only care about Forum posts, not chat
- i want it now 😅

2025-03-10 16:14:59

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Am I supposed to send users interested in Zapstore through these hoops?
It will never work.
Appreciate your help though

2025-03-10 16:07:54

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I have no communities. When I go to Explore I get a 404 error @nprofile…wj75

2025-03-10 16:04:34

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Where exactly in nostrudel?

2025-03-10 15:59:28

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@nprofile…je4n

2025-03-10 15:50:35

I want a reddit style community-building tool on nostr, for Zapstore.
What do I use?
#asknostr #devstr

2025-03-10 12:36:08

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True but they only use it to establish the connection, that is encrypted and they don't store anything

2025-03-08 01:46:03

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Thank you for the heads up!
It seems Utah's legislators have some learning to do.

2025-03-07 21:44:07

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Works on Android? App?

2025-03-07 20:19:44

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Yes it will be opt-in

2025-03-07 20:07:43

Managed to get silent updates running 🤩
While I generated 99% of the code with an LLM and it kinda worked out of the box (impressive), silent updates still did not.
But the absolute legend of @nprofile…vdel helped me out and sent a PR with a few changes, and now it works! Zap him if you can.
Still in development phase, but coming soon! I need to make it opt-in, and with the ability to prevent some apps from auto updating.
#nevent1q…k40s

2025-03-07 18:52:41

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Soon! Planned for year 2168

2025-03-07 18:52:08

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I said open source only 😜

2025-03-07 18:50:57

What do you use to transfer text and files between your devices?
#asknostr
Open source answers only

2025-03-07 18:47:45

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That's fair. This would obviously be opt in and per app

2025-03-07 18:01:03

About automatic silent app updates:
Which OSS app store has them? In theory I see Obtainium and Accrescent do.
However with Obtainium I've always been prompted to Update. Sure, updates were downloaded in the background but user action was required.
Can't speak for Accrescent as I have not used it.
Also, in several code tests I could not make it work despite having the right permissions (UPDATE_PACKAGES_WITHOUT_USER_ACTION) and being Android 12+.
I would appreciate feedback on this issue as I'm not even sure it's possible.

2025-03-06 22:18:39

So cool to get these zaps 🙌
Thank you @nprofile…3ctl and all others
https://image.nostr.build/9730e1cda7672e84ecf6bbdb08b20ca322ad374fc11e1b5839a7e157dee23ff0.jpg

2025-03-06 22:16:13

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Do they publish the APK somewhere? And the version number

2025-03-06 22:15:05

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How would this work? NIP-89 to find zapstore, then deeplink to the app, if zapstore is installed open the app detail screen. If its not, prompt them to install but then its difficult not to lose the thread

2025-03-05 00:19:52

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🚩

2025-03-04 13:58:47

GM fellow nostriches 🌩️
Some of the newly indexed apps:
Bluemoon (for our freedom tech ladies), Cromite browser, EXIF Eraser, OpenTracks (sport tracking), Aliucord (Discord client), Free OTP Plus, Stratum Auth and Ente Auth (2fa), Amaze File Manager, Simple Keyboard, Blade (music player), Delta Chat, Dantotsu, AnymeX.
As well as Libretube, SkyTube and Clipious (alternative Youtube frontends).
With the idea of making this process user driven and not manual work, is that I'm making progress with the new Zapstore relays - there will be a specific one that proxies to Github/Gitlab, and also evaluating F-Droid/Izzy and more.
If this architecture pans out as I want, Zapstore will become Obtainium on steroids.

2025-03-03 21:19:45

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I think an exception could be made for this particular small app store, because you are already significantly trusting GrapheneOS.
What I would like is to have Zapstore on the Graphene App Store.

2025-03-03 19:04:21

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👏

2025-03-03 19:00:40

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You cannot rely on that

2025-03-03 18:57:21

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🫡

2025-03-03 18:55:20

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How do you get updates when you install from a website?

2025-03-03 01:57:44

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Are you using full text search for NIP-50? If so, what are you indexing?

2025-02-25 23:31:38

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How is the indexing performed, do you include/exclude certain tags, give more weight to title etc?
I will check it out next week!

2025-02-25 21:13:16

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*I meant updating without user action, via the permission. Not installing

2025-02-25 21:05:57

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A stable install APK plugin, in Kotlin, that returns correct error codes and supports installing without user action

2025-02-25 21:03:54

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I still feel it's a bit of shooting in the dark. I just spent 3 hours with Claude and it produced some random shit, when a line doesn't work it rewrites 30% of the previous code "sorry I made a mistake". There's little coherence and so far it does not seem like the right approach (because I don't understand Kotlin well, so can't modify)

2025-02-25 20:48:53

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Thanks. Afaik replit does not do native apps or does it?

2025-02-25 20:47:51

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Blitz is probably because the dev started signing on Zapstore and you had the previous one. Reinstalling will fix it.
For Obsidian, they manipulated the release files after indexing. Need to wait til the next release

2025-02-25 20:44:44

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Thanks. I need a developer.

2025-02-25 20:23:29

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What do you mean?

2025-02-25 20:22:29

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Did you input your NWC string?

2025-02-25 20:20:52

LLMs sound promising but three hours interacting with Claude 3.7 Sonnet has produced nothing of value. Maybe I'm a simpleton who does not know how to prompt.
Fighting with language servers and build tools seems like a waste of life at this point.
I need help. If you know Kotlin and Flutter and want to help Zapstore out, let me know! We need to create a solid install APK plugin that actually works, and allows for auto updates. I will reward you with juicy sats.
#devstr #asknostr

2025-02-25 14:45:20

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It's a mix up of universal and arm64-v8 version codes. I don't understand this convention of using different code ranges for each.
I noticed your zapstore.yaml includes the universal APK. Can you start publishing arm64-v8 only? Zapstore does not support any other Android architecture, and the APK is way lighter

2025-02-25 14:31:06

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@nprofile…ml9t the parsed version codes are 7 (for 0.7.3-alpha) and 8 (for 0.7.4-alpha) but when installed 0.7.3-alpha reports version code 7003
So 8 < 7003 and shows as downgrade.
I need to dive into this but if you have any pointers let me know

2025-02-23 17:40:51

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Woah! Very nice. I had no idea you were doing this.
It took you long to build? What is your golang skill level? I had a little more experience with khatru and not as convinced with it now.

2025-02-23 17:36:21

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Good question

2025-02-23 17:35:45

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Ugh... if versionNumber is correct this sould NOT happen. Version strings are otherwise compared, this may be a bug, will check.

2025-02-22 00:11:45

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Not an optimal solution but you can go to the Brave screen, copy the APK file hash (b8a4a51987c0d379f3cb10a2a7a8675361c04e0993ddea4394d7b56600111f65) and download it from our Blossom server: https://cdn.zapstore.dev/b8a4a51987c0d379f3cb10a2a7a8675361c04e0993ddea4394d7b56600111f65
Install via your browser and then pull to refresh on Zapstore.
UX for selecting servers will eventually improve

2025-02-21 23:36:23

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Oh you mentioned Brave.
Just tried, it installed under a minute. Zapstore fetches that one from Github so it's something between you and Github servers.
File is huge (262mb) so if you have an older device it might take longer as its also hashing the file for verification.

2025-02-21 20:21:11

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First off thank you for the time you took to write this, I sense you genuinely like the project and want it to succeed.
Agree with 95% of what you listed, as a matter of fact these are things that I already want to do. Most are documented in Github issues. So I appreciate your free consultation, Sir, the main constraint is I'm running a solo show with zero funding other than a few zaps - not a startup with 12 employees.
Priorities matter, and for my target niche audience (nostr enthusiasts, first stage) trust is established via other means. It would be foolish to focus a minute of my time on the blog, even though I would like to see that looking better.
Normies are not the target audience at this moment.

2025-02-21 20:04:34

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Would be awesome! Thanks

2025-02-21 19:18:51

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The "do" part is the hard one

2025-02-21 19:17:27

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Which one?