Aurora Store

An unofficial FOSS client to Google Play with an elegant design and privacy

AppID:	com.aurora.store
Author:	Rahul Kumar Patel
License:	GPL-3.0-or-later
Donation:	Webpage Bitcoin LiberaPay
InRepoSince:	2019-04-13
LastRepoUpdate:	2026-02-20
LastAppUpdate:	Unknown
LastVersion:	4.8.1
Categories:	App Store & Updater, System
APK source:	GitLab
Google Play:	Check if it's there

Aurora Store is an unofficial, FOSS client to Google Play with an elegant design. Aurora Store allows users to download, update, and search for apps like the Play Store. It works perfectly fine with or without Google Play Services or microG.

Features:

• FOSS: Has GPLv3 licence
• Beautiful design: Built upon latest Material 3 guidelines
• Account login: You can login with either personal or an anonymous account
• Device & Locale spoofing: Change your device and/or locale to access geo locked apps
• Exodus Privacy integration: Instantly see trackers in app
• Plexus integration: Instantly see app compatibility without Google Play Services or with microG
• Updates blacklisting: Ignore updates for specific apps

WhatsNew:

• Fixed wrong upgrade arrow indicator icon on RTL layouts
• Fixed paging and IME issues on search
• Fixed a bug that override user installer choice
• Update translations, exodus trackers database and google's root certificates

Hint: This app is available in both, F-Droid Main and IzzyOnDroid repos.

Anti-Features:

NonFreeNet (this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service):
⇒ Depends on the Google Play Store servers
Tracking (the application tracks and reports your activity to somewhere – usually either without your consent, or by default (i.e. you’d have to actively disable it)):
⇒ By default, the apps list and system details are sent to Google Play Store servers, which is likely enough data to fingerprint the device

Download Website Source Issues ChangeLog

While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device.

Packages

Version 4.8.1 (2026-02-20)

Android Versions:

Target: 16.0
MinVer: 6.0
ABIs: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64

Permissions:

Malware-Check:Passed

37 Libraries detected:

Libraries:

Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Browser (Utility)
display webpages in the user's default browser.
Jetpack Compose (Development Framework)
a framework to define UIs programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Androidx Graphics (Utility)
leverages graphics facilities across multiple Android platform releases.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
Navigation (Utility)
a framework for navigating between 'destinations' within an Android application that provides a consistent API whether destinations are implemented as Fragments, Activities, or other components.
Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Swiperefreshlayout (UI Component)
implemtation of the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
Jetpack WindowManager Library (Utility)
enables application developers to support new device form factors and multi-window environments. The library provides a common API surface for API versions 14 and later. Especially provides additional functionality on foldable devices.
WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
Epoxy (UI Component)
a library for building complex screens in a RecyclerView.
GPlayAPIⓃⓉ (Utility)
an unofficial FOSS implementation of Google Play API. Tracking AF is set as it needs to send detailed device data to GPlay.
Shimmer for Android (UI Component)
an Android library that provides an easy way to add a shimmer effect to any view in an Android app.
Accompanist (Utility)
a collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose.
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
Error Prone (Utility)
a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.
Google Gson (Utility)
A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
Google Protocol Buffers (Utility)
library that deals with Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) – Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
Process Phoenix (Utility)
facilitates restarting your application process (like a Phoenix from the ashes).
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
Shizuku (Utility)
help normal apps using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges through a Java process started with app_process.
AndroidHiddenApiBypass (Utility)
library to bypass restrictions on non-SDK interfaces.
Shizuku API (Utility)
using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges from normal apps through a Java process started with app_process.

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Version 4.8.0 (2026-01-09)

Version 4.7.5 (2025-11-14)

Android Versions:

Target: 16.0
MinVer: 5.0
ABIs: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64

Permissions:

Malware-Check:Passed

37 Libraries detected:

Libraries:

Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Browser (Utility)
display webpages in the user's default browser.
Jetpack Compose (Development Framework)
a framework to define UIs programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Androidx Graphics (Utility)
leverages graphics facilities across multiple Android platform releases.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
Navigation (Utility)
a framework for navigating between 'destinations' within an Android application that provides a consistent API whether destinations are implemented as Fragments, Activities, or other components.
Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Swiperefreshlayout (UI Component)
implemtation of the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
coil (Utility)
Coroutine Image Loader. An image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
Epoxy (UI Component)
a library for building complex screens in a RecyclerView.
GPlayAPIⓃⓉ (Utility)
an unofficial FOSS implementation of Google Play API. Tracking AF is set as it needs to send detailed device data to GPlay.
Shimmer for Android (UI Component)
an Android library that provides an easy way to add a shimmer effect to any view in an Android app.
Accompanist (Utility)
a collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose.
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
Error Prone (Utility)
a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.
Google Gson (Utility)
A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
Google Protocol Buffers (Utility)
library that deals with Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) – Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
Process Phoenix (Utility)
facilitates restarting your application process (like a Phoenix from the ashes).
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
Shizuku (Utility)
help normal apps using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges through a Java process started with app_process.
AndroidHiddenApiBypass (Utility)
library to bypass restrictions on non-SDK interfaces.
Shizuku API (Utility)
using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges from normal apps through a Java process started with app_process.

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