zap.store is a permissionless app store, which is powered by your friends.
Built on top of nostr zap.store allows you to check if your friend Alice follows, recommends, or perhaps has verified a particular app's SHA256 hash.
Unlike centralized app stores of Guulagl, and Tim Apple, nostr web-of-trust allows for social proof to more closely resemble recommendations of friends & family in real life. There is no more a need to rely solely on a centalized appstore curator.
Unlike Obtainium, which is a great solution that allows bypass of appstores, zap.store brings the confidence of seeing what apps your contacts interact with.
For devs, you can prove ownership of your APK by cryptographically signing said APK with your nostr, PGP, or other keys.
In due course, there will be a self-serving, permissionless way to list your APK on zap.store. See https://zap.store/developers, and join the dev chat here: https://t.me/+Azeu1bePFNtkYWMx.
For sample nostr events, see https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore/wiki/Sample-app-events.
On day one, zap.store will nostr-sign APKs on other devs behalf. Yes this is a centralizing action designed to bootstrap zap.store. Devs can claim and prove ownership by cryptographically signing their app releases.
If you would like your app added to zapstore, or you would like to suggest another dev's app to be added to zap.store DM Fran, or create a github issue.
Android version is released.
Github repos having a latest release with an APK file are supported.
Only Android arm64-v8a architecture supported today.
Desktop, PWAs, DMGs, AppImages, IPA soon™️.
Read https://github.com/zapstore/.github/blob/main/PRIVACY.MD