Terms of Service

By using APKBrowse — browsing it, downloading through it, or submitting to it — you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the service. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have the authority to bind it.

These terms work alongside our Content policy and DMCA process, both of which form part of this agreement. Where they conflict, the more specific document governs.

APKBrowse is a registry: it records what a piece of Android software is, who signed it, and where an authorised copy can be obtained. For most listings we point at an official store. For some we hold a publisher-supplied binary and serve it ourselves. For others we link to an authorised third-party host.

We are not the developer of any app listed here, we do not endorse them, and we are not a party to your relationship with a publisher. Their app is governed by their licence and their privacy policy, not ours. We are also not an alternative app store: there is no purchase, no entitlement, and no automatic updating. Installing an APK is an act you perform on your own device, at your own initiative.

You agree not to:

• Submit pirated, cracked, modified, malicious, or unauthorised packages, or anything else the Content policy prohibits.
• Misrepresent who you are, who published an app, or what an app does.
• Scrape, mirror, or bulk-download the catalogue in a way that degrades the service for others, or circumvent our rate limits.
• Probe, interfere with, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service or the accounts of others.
• Use the reporting or takedown processes for a purpose other than the one they exist for.
• Redistribute a file obtained here in a way the publisher's licence does not permit. Our listing a file does not grant you rights over it.

You need an account to submit apps or file reports. Keep your credentials to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under your account, including submissions made by anyone you have given access to. Tell us promptly if you believe it has been compromised.

Accounts carry roles — user, publisher, moderator, administrator — and each grants only what its function requires. Do not attempt to act outside your role or to use another account's privileges.

If you submit a build, you represent and warrant that:

• You own the rights to the software, or its licence permits you to distribute it, and you can evidence this if asked.
• The binary is the publisher's own build, unmodified. If you altered it in any way, you must say so — and it will be refused.
• The metadata you supply matches the manifest, and your source attribution is truthful and specific.
• The app does not contain malware, hidden functionality, or undisclosed data collection.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, index, hash, analyse, and distribute the build you submit, and to display its metadata and screenshots, for as long as it is listed. You may withdraw a listing at any time; that withdrawal is forward-looking, and does not oblige us to erase audit records of what was listed and when.

We compute the file's SHA-256 and its signing-certificate fingerprint ourselves, publish both, and check the certificate against every prior version of that package. A build whose certificate has changed will not be published without an explicit, logged confirmation that you rotated your key. Plan updates accordingly, and tell us in advance if a rotation is coming.

We may reject any submission, delist any app, and suspend any account, at our discretion, with or without prior notice — including where we merely suspect a breach. We will normally tell you why, and you can appeal once through the process in the Content policy.

We are not obliged to list anything. We are not obliged to keep anything listed. Where we have to choose between leaving a doubtful app available and taking it down while we look into it, we will take it down.

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.

Be clear about what our verification does and does not mean. A published hash proves that a file's bytes match the ones we hold. A verified signature proves that a build was signed by the same certificate as the previous version of that package. Neither proves that an app is safe, lawful in your jurisdiction, functional, or free of defects. We do not audit source code and we do not guarantee that any listing is malware-free.

Sideloading bypasses protections that an official store provides. You accept that risk, and installation remains your responsibility. Where an official store link exists, we recommend you use it — we list it first for that reason. Please read our safety guidance before installing anything by hand.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, APKBrowse is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, nor for loss of data, profits, revenue, or goodwill, arising out of your use of the service or of any app you obtain through it — including damage to a device, compromise of an account, or the conduct of any publisher or third-party host.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from material you submit or from your breach of these terms.

You may stop using the service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access for breach of these terms, for repeat infringement, or where we are required to. Termination does not affect anything that has already happened: audit records of moderation decisions are retained, and the sections on disclaimers, liability, and indemnity survive.

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page always reflects the current version. Where a change materially reduces your rights or adds obligations, we will give reasonable notice before it takes effect — normally thirty days — and continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms. If you do not, stop using the service.