# Official Brave F-Droid repository now available **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/official-brave-f-droid-repository-now-available/28795 **Category:** General **Tags:** article, software **Created:** 2025-07-01T14:02:00Z **Posts:** 16 ## Post 1 by @jerm — 2025-07-01T14:02:00Z > **[Official Brave F-Droid repository now available | Brave](https://brave.com/blog/f-droid/)** > > Our new officially-supported repository allows users of the F-Droid client to install the browser and receive automatic updates without requiring Google Play. --- ## Post 2 by @KevPham — 2025-07-01T14:06:37Z Great news! Probably best if we make a new PR to include this change. As a sidenote, do most folks here use Sandboxed Google Play or Obtainium to install Brave Browser on GOS? --- ## Post 3 by @KevPham — 2025-07-01T14:10:06Z I just spotted this caveat? Even if you can call it that. > **Can I use premium features such as Brave VPN + Firewall, Brave Leo or Brave Rewards without a Google account?** > > No. At the moment, these features require a Google account on Android. Only a very few will miss those features if they’re installing the app through F-Droid anyways. I’ll consider that a plus for me though --- ## Post 4 by @anon19217679 — 2025-07-01T14:20:50Z [@KevPham](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/KevPham) I didn't know you could get it from Obtainium, I was getting it from Aurora. I know Sandboxed Google Play is recommended by GOS, but I no longer have a Google account, so 🤷. I'm glad I can get it now from F-Droid! --- ## Post 5 by @KevPham — 2025-07-01T14:27:10Z I haven’t tried it myself yet. From my basic research, Obtainium requires some manual configuration for Brave. > > > When Brave Browser is downloaded to Obtainium it downloads but it will not insta…ll. I contacted GOS and they suggested that this was an issue with your app. > > This is the message I get when I try to install Brave on Obtainium. > > It says ( Unexpected Error ) Range Error ( start ) invalid value: Not in inclusive range 0.1:-1 > > This was the feedback I received from Graphene OS: Looks like a configuration error in Obtanium? Its trying to access index -1 in a range of 0.1. I'd look for a channel for Obtanium to get support and/or manually review the Brave entry configuration > > > > Can you please review this report and see if your app can be fixed to install Brave. Thanks --- ## Post 6 by @moonwriting — 2025-07-01T14:31:39Z > [@KevPham](#): > > As a sidenote, do most folks here use Sandboxed Google Play or Obtainium to install Brave Browser on GOS? I used to get it with Obtainium but I had regular issues with updates that would just fail. It seemed that if I closed my phone while the update was happening, the update would always fail. So, I have been using Sandboxed Google Play instead with no issues. With this change, I will probably test this out. --- ## Post 7 by @micdan — 2025-07-01T14:50:39Z Hahaha no way! I didn’t knew you could download it through Obtainium too lol, but having Brave now in F-Droid is a very big W mostly because Aurora is very buggy --- ## Post 8 by @baby_bat — 2025-07-01T21:00:26Z I tried obtainium using both the github repo and their website, but both ways took lots of manual configuring for the filters and it would bug out a ton, so I just resorted to using sandboxed google play instead. I don’t use any of Brave’s addons like wallet, rewards, the vpn, or leo fwiw, although leo’s ai responses in the search results are far and away the most accurate and precise of any ai summaries i’ve encountered so far, aside fron gemma3. --- ## Post 9 by @FlipSid — 2025-07-01T21:17:57Z Regular Sandboxed Google Play for me --- ## Post 10 by @Zenaida.macroura — 2025-07-01T21:30:15Z In the Obtainium app’s “Add App” page, they have a link to crowd sourced app configurations that include Brave. I added Brave using that and haven’t needed to do any further configuration. The website’s link is: [https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev](https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev) --- ## Post 11 by @anon32558482 — 2025-07-01T23:45:03Z Obtainium for me. I’m seeing lots of people here either didn’t know about installing Brave via Obtainium or it was buggy. I did the following: Add app. I used this url [GitHub - brave/brave-browser: Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser) Toggle on “Verify the ‘latest’ tag” --- ## Post 12 by @micdan — 2025-07-02T13:07:51Z > [@Zenaida.macroura](#): > > The website’s link is: [https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev](https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev) Not the _best_ option to download apps btw. Those configs are crowdsourced, so there could be a chance of getting a fake download link when downloading apps like this. Always verify the download link! --- ## Post 13 by @iluvprivacy — 2025-07-03T01:56:18Z Wow, this is awesome. I’m thinking of uninstalling Brave and reinstalling the version from F-Droid if it doesn’t have those features embedded in the build. Would PG recommend we do that? --- ## Post 14 by @Roast — 2025-07-03T16:04:53Z Obtanium, but it was quite a b#@!h to install. I came across this though, and the problem was fixed. > **[Complex Obtainium Apps](https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/)** > > Crowdsourced "Hard to Add" App Configurations for Obtainium. --- ## Post 15 by @Vico — 2025-07-03T19:11:03Z I use Obtainium to install Brave and the Beta version of it. --- ## Post 16 by @Vico — 2025-07-03T19:11:46Z Wish i found this when i started to add apps to Obtainium, too useful.