What is F-Droid and can it replace the Google Play Store?

F-Droid is an alternative Android app store dealing in free, open-source apps. So can you use it to replace the Google Play Store?

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F droid is an app to download or update free or open source software. If you like FOSS, you'd search it before you search the app store.

For some people, yes it can fully replace the app store. For most people, it will replace the app store on some, or maybe even most apps, but there will probably be some proprietary software you need at some point which fdroid won't have.
- Good answer but OP isn't asking a question. The article title is a question, they just shared it.
- Imagine a world without
  
  Google Apps (cough location and license check services)
  
  Microsoft Office
  
  WhatsApp
  
  Instagram
  
  all the apps your non-IT friends are using daily
  
  Then you can get rid of Google on your phone.
  
  I run a degoogled custom rom and I can still use those apps (except for Google apps maybe but that would defeat the whole point anyway)
  
  Location has a number of alternatives at least. Not sure what you mean by license check services, I'm guessing that's a country specific thing.
I prefer Droidify
- That's still F-Droid, just a different client
  
  With automatic update/installation via Shizuku and no root required though!
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