Game · Adventure & point-and-click

INSTEAD

INSTEAD is an interactive fiction, available on Android.

Completely free
Android
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by F-Droid
License: MIT — Open source (permissive)confirmed by F-Droid
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by F-Droid
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by F-Droid
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: No
Platforms: AndroidEstablished by Android: F-Droid
Distribution: Available on F-Droid
Publisher: Boris Timofeev
Latest version: 0.10 (1 October 2026)
Latest activity: 1 October 2026
Source code: github.com/btimofeev/instead-launcher-android

At a glance

All of INSTEAD is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No advertising
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) — 6 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
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