FROM THE ARCHIVE14 Oct 2026

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City builder · Free

Unknown Horizons

Meet your next obsession.

AND SOMETHING FOR YOUR EVERYDAYKeePassDX

Password manager · Android

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Unknown Horizons

By The Unknown Horizons Developers

Unknown Horizons is a free 2D strategy game about growing a small settlement into a colony. Players collect taxes, supply goods, and use trade and diplomacy alongside the economy. The playable release is the legacy FIFE version; the newer Godot port has no playable build yet. Its own artwork, including the sailing-ship logo, is under CC BY-SA 3.0.

F7 INSIGHTThe interesting part is the colony ledger: maps, goods, and trade are data the player can reason about, while the sailing-ship mark is covered by the project's own CC BY-SA grant rather than a loose code license.

Newly discoveredWindows · Linux

Pink cartoon hedgehog with blue spikes on a purple background

Turn-based artilleryCheck price

Hedgewars

By Andrey Korotaev and others

Hedgewars is a turn-based artillery game in which each player fields a team of hedgehogs and takes shots with whatever weapons the turn allows. Official downloads list Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, iOS, and source. The project calls itself free software in the freedom sense and does not state a monetary price on the download page. Images and sounds are under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.

F7 INSIGHTThe turn is a small physics puzzle: one hedgehog, one shot, and a field that remembers the mess. For F7, the pink hedgehog mark is usable because the project puts images under the GFDL rather than leaving them as an unnamed extra.

Newly discoveredWindows · macOS

Four Cataclysm scenes: a street, autumn woods, a farm, and a tiled interior

Survival roguelikeFree

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

By CleverRaven

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a free turn-based survival game in a persistent, procedurally generated world. Players scavenge food, equipment, and vehicles, and deal with monsters and other survivors. The project publishes tiles and terminal builds and documents Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD. Code and content are CC BY-SA 3.0 except files that carry their own license notices.

F7 INSIGHTThe showcase is four different places in one ruleset: street, woods, farm, and a sealed interior. That range is why the tiles build is worth a look, and the project license covers the screenshot apart from named font and library exceptions.

Newly discoveredWindows · macOS

Real-time strategyFree

MegaGlest

By MegaGlest project

MegaGlest is a free 3D real-time strategy game. Players pick one of seven factions, gather resources, and train units on maps with rivers, mountains, seas, or cliffs. Official installers cover Linux, Windows, and macOS, and the download page also links Steam and GitHub. Images and other game data are under the project's CC-BY-SA terms.

F7 INSIGHTSeven factions on one ruleset is a useful study in readable asymmetry. The sword-and-lettering logo can be shown because the project puts images in the CC-BY-SA data grant, separate from the GPL source.

Newly discoveredWindows · Linux

White key crossed by a diagonal bar on a green square

Password managerFree

KeePassDX

By Kunzisoft (Jeremy Jamet)

KeePassDX is a free, ad-free Android app for editing an encrypted KeePass database in one file. The project says the main features stay free and that encryption is the same for every user. It is GPL-3.0, published by Jeremy Jamet of Kunzisoft, and links a Google Play build plus GitHub releases. The repository license does not exclude the key icon.

F7 INSIGHTA password safe is only useful if the file format stays portable. KeePassDX keeps that file on Android without treating encryption as a paid extra, and the key icon ships inside the GPL grant.

Newly discoveredGoogle Play

RSS readerFree

Feeder

By spacecowboy

Feeder is a free Android reader for RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed, maintained in the spacecowboy/Feeder repository since 2014. It stores the library on the device and does not require an account. The readme lists offline reading, notifications, and OPML import and export. The app is GPLv3, with Google Play, F-Droid, and GitHub releases.

F7 INSIGHTFeeder treats the feed list as a private local library. That is a useful contrast with readers that start by asking for an account, and the green mark is part of the GPL project rather than a separate logo reservation.

Newly discoveredGoogle Play

Black barcode inside a white circle on a light green square

Barcode scannerFree

Binary Eye

By Markus Fisch

Binary Eye is a free, ad-free Android barcode tool by Markus Fisch. It reads codes in portrait or landscape, including inverted codes, and can also generate barcodes. The readme credits ZXing for scanning and links Google Play and F-Droid. The project license is MIT and does not carve out the icon.

F7 INSIGHTScanning and composing live in the same small tool, so a code can be checked and then recreated without a second app. The barcode mark is covered by the MIT grant on the repository.

Newly discoveredGoogle Play

Green image frame and pencil on a dark green background

Image editorFree

Image Toolbox

By T8RIN

Image Toolbox is a free Android image editor by T8RIN. The readme describes cropping, filter chains, EXIF editing, background removal, and batch work. A comparison table shows a FOSS build without the market build's analytics and crash reporting. It is Apache 2.0 and links Google Play, F-Droid, and GitHub.

F7 INSIGHTThe useful split is the FOSS build versus the market build: the same editor can avoid the extra Google services. The green pencil-and-frame icon is part of the Apache 2.0 repository.

Newly discoveredGoogle Play

Music playerCheck price

Auxio

By OxygenCobalt

Auxio is an Android music player for files already on the device. It uses Media3 ExoPlayer, a Material-style interface, and customizable playback behavior. The readme links F-Droid, Accrescent, and GitHub, and the repository license is GPL-3.0. It does not state a monetary download price.

F7 INSIGHTAuxio is a local player that starts from the files you already have. The blue note is the project's own icon under the GPL, and the readme leaves the store price unstated, so that part stays unchecked.

Newly discoveredF-Droid

Habit trackerCheck price

Loop Habit Tracker

By Álinson Santos Xavier

Loop Habit Tracker is an Android app by Álinson Santos Xavier for recording habits and seeing them change over time. It scores streaks, supports weekly or alternating schedules, and can remind you or add a home-screen widget. The readme says there are no in-app purchases and no ads, but it does not state the store download price. The app is GPL-3.0.

F7 INSIGHTThe score that survives a missed day is the useful idea: a habit tracker that does not wipe a long streak after one gap. The circular arrow icon is part of the GPL app, while the Play price is left as check-the-official-site.

Newly discoveredGoogle Play

White note with gray lines on a blue square

NotesCheck price

Notally

By OmGodse

Notally is a small Android notes app from the OmGodse repository. Notes can be colored, pinned, and labeled, with reminders, search, pictures, and rich text. Exports include TXT, JSON, HTML, and PDF, and the readme also lists widgets and automatic backup. It is GPL-3.0 and links Google Play and F-Droid, without stating a download price.

F7 INSIGHTNotally is a notes app that stays small: the readme even cites an APK around 1.4 MB. The paper icon belongs to that GPL project, and the price is left unchecked because the readme never states one.

Newly discoveredGoogle Play