The app store with nothing to hide.

Orion installs apps straight from their developers' public releases on GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg. The catalog is open JSON, the code is GPL-3.0, and there's no account, no Orion server and no tracker in between.

APK, 8.8 MB Android 7.0+ Free and open source

Latest release 1.5.0 · The Monolith Update
GitHub stars
3,561
Orion-Store repository
APK downloads across 26 releases
1.26M
GitHub Releases
Apps in the public catalog
1,100+
Orion-Data, apps.json
Trackers, ads or accounts
0
Audit the code

Figures as of Oct 6, 2026.

Engineered by subtraction.

Most app stores are a stack of servers you're asked to trust. Orion took the stack out and kept only what you can read.

  1. Database

    Ghost Branch Protocol. State lives in a self-cleaning git branch that works as a key-value store.

  2. API servers

    The menu, not the chef. Catalog headers are pre-computed static JSON, so the app reads files instead of calling an API and stays clear of rate limits.

  3. Backend logic

    Issues as a queue. Leaderboard scores and reviews travel through GitHub Issues, where anyone can see them.

  4. Trackers

    Nothing to report. No analytics and no telemetry. Threat scanning runs on your phone.

Read the architecture notes

Three shapes, one chain of custody.

The logo is Orion's Belt. Each star is a layer you can check for yourself.

Catalog

Every app is a few lines of public JSON.

The catalog lives in the Orion-Data repository. Anyone can read it, diff it or open a pull request against it.

// Orion-Data / apps.json
{
  "id": "youtube-revanced",
  "name": "YouTube Morphe",
  "packageName": "app.morphe.android.youtube",
  "category": "Media",
  "platform": "Android",
  "gitlabRepo": "communitybuilds/Community-builds",
  "releaseKeyword": "youtube-universal"
}

Source

Downloads come from where the developer publishes.

Orion resolves each build from its own release page, matched by the release keyword in its catalog entry. The app shows you which repository a download came from.

  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Codeberg

Device

Your phone has the last word.

The APK installs through Android's own package installer, or silently through Shizuku if you turn it on. Sentinel can scan it on the device first.

  1. Downloadfrom the release page
  2. Sentinellocal signature scan
  3. InstallAndroid installer or Shizuku

Inside the app.

Straight captures from Orion on a phone.

Screen coming soon
Orion's Discover screen: search, a featured app card and pending updates
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One catalog for phone, PC and TV.

More than a thousand apps, filterable by platform and category, with pending updates and favourites a tap away. Every listing points back to the repository it came from.

888 Android194 PC21 TV

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An app page for Bunny Media Editor with a View on GitLab button
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It knows where every build lives.

Release intelligence parses GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg, reads the public JSON and picks the asset that fits your device's architecture. The source button on every page goes to the real repository.

Multi-source parsingArchitecture detectionMirrors

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YouTube Morphe app page showing installed version 20.44.38 and an Open button
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Updates without the guesswork.

Orion checks the versions you have installed against upstream releases and queues what's newer. Downloads wait in the queue, ready to install when you are.

Installed version checksDownload queueReady to install

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Sentinel reporting System Protected, with Rapid Scan, Deep Scan and Network Sentry
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Security checks that run on your phone.

Sentinel scans installed apps and downloaded APKs against threat signatures stored on the device, in shards. Rapid scan for apps, deep scan for storage, and an audit of network connections.

792,309 signaturesRapid and deep scanNetwork Sentry

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Settings: identity and backup, network and updates, Orion Xtra with Shizuku, storage janitor, download queue, visuals
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Power tools, for people who want them.

Extract any installed APK, inspect packages, manage system apps, clear storage junk, and install silently through Shizuku. Developer mode opens up diagnostics and raw metadata.

APK extractionPackage detectiveShizuku

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The Hall of Fame leaderboard with contributors ranked by XP
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Ask for an app. Earn your place.

Request new apps and updates for Android, PC and TV from inside the store. Each update request earns XP, and the Hall of Fame ranks the people who keep the catalog growing.

App requests+50 XP per update requestGlobal leaderboard

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Personalisation settings with custom fonts and theme options
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Make it yours.

Version 1.5 brings a Material You 3 refresh, Android 13 themed icons, a resizable navigation dock and your own fonts. Drop in a .ttf, .otf or .woff2 file and the whole store uses it.

Custom fontsThemed iconDock size

Watch it work.

A walkthrough of the app, from the catalog to an installed app.

Play the walkthrough
The player loads from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode, only after you press play.

video: the YouTube link on the play button · poster: that video's YouTube thumbnail

Some releases are in the sky.

Twenty-six releases since November 2025. Six of them took their names from Orion itself. Pick a star.

Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka ζ ε δ Orionis

1.2.2 Orion's Belt Update

71,024 downloads

Release notes

Questions people actually ask.

Answers from the developer, as they appear in the app.

Is Orion Store safe?

Orion Store is completely open source. The code is public on GitHub for anyone to audit: no hidden trackers, no data mining, just a clean gateway to apps.

Are the apps on Orion safe?

Apps are reviewed and modded by the developer using the tools on their official repositories, to make sure they're safe, functional and privacy-respecting before they land in the store.

Are the Morphe builds safe?

They're built by GitHub Actions, not patched by hand. The pipeline runs the Morphe patches against APKs from APKMirror, Uptodown and APKPure every day at 06:00 UTC, and all of it is public in Morphe-AutoBuilds.

The installation failed.

“App not installed” or “package conflicts” almost always means a signature mismatch. You can't install a modded app over the Play Store version or over a different mod. Uninstall the existing app first, then install the one from Orion.

A download isn't working.

Open the app's detail page and tap the Report icon in the top-right corner. It pre-fills an email so the link gets fixed quickly. You can also open an issue.

Will there be more apps?

As long as there are open-source or useful tools that deserve a spotlight, the library keeps growing. You can request one from inside the app and earn XP for it.

Which Android versions are supported?

Android 7.0 (API 24) and newer. Orion targets Android 15 (API 35), and the store also lists PC and TV apps.

Is there a hidden easter egg?

Where the Architect stares, the secret sleeps.
Count the legs of a spider. Count the vertices of a cube.
Strike the Visage that many times.
The Golden Truth awaits those who know the rules… and so do I.

RookieZ's GitHub avatar
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Sarthak Sinha

Known as RookieZ. @RookieEnough on GitHub.

“Building the open web, one commit at a time. No ads, no tracking, just code.”

Orion's app, catalog, build pipeline and docs are designed and maintained by RookieZ, in public, since the first release in November 2025.

GitHub followers
1,401
Stars across public repos
6,273
Public repositories
7

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Orion has no ads and no paid tier. If it has earned a place on your phone, this is how it stays that way.

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