Getting started
One app to find, install and update all your other apps, with no account.
What you need
An Android phone running Android 10 or later. For now, Zapstore and the apps in its catalog are for 64-bit ARM phones (arm64-v8a). Support for 32-bit ARM (armeabi-v7a) is coming soon.
Install Zapstore
On your phone, tap the button and download the APK. On a computer, scan the QR code it shows with your phone. When Android asks, allow your browser to install apps.
Open Zapstore and it’s ready to use. There is nothing to sign up for.
Find an app
The home screen shows stacks, which are lists of apps people put together, and the apps others are commenting on and zapping. Search covers the whole catalog and works offline.
Install an app
Before anything downloads, Zapstore shows who signed the app, whether its developer has claimed it, and a security report.
- Tap Install on the app page.
- Read the sheet. A claimed app names its developer. An unclaimed app says so.
- Tap Install again. Zapstore downloads the file and verifies it.
- Android asks you to confirm the install.
Tap Full report and release details for the permissions, the package name, the file’s SHA-256, the signing certificate and the source. Security explains each one.
Keep apps up to date
Zapstore checks for new versions on your phone and lists them under Updates. Nothing about your installed apps is uploaded.
Your phone
- Installed apps
- Search terms
- Update checks
Never uploaded
Zapstore catalog
Apps, releases and their certificates
Release source
The developer’s own, or the catalog
While Zapstore is open, it checks every few minutes. In Settings you choose how often it checks in the background (every hour by default) and whether background updates may use metered networks, such as mobile data.
Whenever Android allows it, updates install silently, without asking you each time.
