About the app catalog

What this catalog is, where its information comes from, how apps are tested and what their statuses mean.

What this is

Breadstick runs Debian Linux on Android phones and tablets, with no root, and the apps in it come from Debian's own package archive. This catalog lists 1,812 of them from Debian 13 (trixie), the release every new Breadstick install runs: 1,580 packages in Debian 13's main archive for ARM64 that ship a desktop app, and 230 terminal and command line programs from the same archive, such as language runtimes, compilers, version control, servers and everyday tools, apart from the ones described under What is left out. It also lists Visual Studio Code and Google Chrome, which are not in Debian: see Third-party apps. It is here so you can see what is available, and what has been seen working, before you start.

Data as of October 5, 2026: Debian 13.7 (the Debian 13 archive of September 12, 2026) and Popularity Contest counts of October 5, 2026.

What the statuses mean

Tested: works in Breadstick
Someone ran the app in Breadstick on a real Android device and saw it work. The page shows the device, its Android version, the Debian release, the date and what was seen, newest first.
Tested: works, with limits
It runs, and the page has a note saying what does not work.
Not tested yet
The app is available for ARM64, in Debian 13 or from its maker, and nothing we know of stops it working in Breadstick, but nobody has checked it on a device for this catalog yet. That is not a promise that it works.

So far 13 apps are marked tested.

How testing works

An app is marked tested only when it has been run inside Breadstick on a real Android device and seen working. Each test records the device, the Android version, the Debian release, the date and what was seen, and the app's page shows all of it. Runs on a computer, in a container or in an automated check do not count, and neither does a test that was only planned.

Some pages, 48 so far, also carry a Breadstick note: a short fact about how that app behaves in Breadstick as released, such as something Breadstick does for it. A note is not a test.

Tried an app that is not marked, or found one that does not behave as its page says? Write to hello@breadstick.io with the app, your device and what you saw.

Desktop apps, terminal apps and command line programs

Desktop app
Opens a window of its own: beside your Android apps in Floating mode on Samsung DeX, or on the Linux desktop in Desktop mode.
Terminal
An interactive text program, such as nano or lazygit, that runs inside Breadstick's Terminal or in any terminal window on the Linux desktop.
Command line
A program you run by typing its command, such as git, node or rg, in the same places. Its page lists the commands its package provides.

Debian's app data describes desktop apps, but Debian keeps no such list of command line programs, so the terminal and command line programs here are picked by hand: the ones people look for, not the helpers other programs run. Terminal and developer tools lists them by what they are for. The pages of servers and databases also say what is different about running them here: there is no systemd, so nothing starts them for you, and Android does not give apps the network ports below 1024.

Popularity is counted within each kind, from Debian's Popularity Contest: a desktop app is ranked among the desktop apps, and a terminal program among the terminal and command line programs, because every Debian system has some of the latter whether anyone uses them or not.

Third-party apps

Visual Studio Code and Google Chrome are not in Debian. Breadstick's Recommended apps screen sets them up from their makers' own signed package repositories, and their pages show the version and sizes in each repository's index for ARM64, checked with the maker's own signing key. Their descriptions are Breadstick's own, not their makers', and their pages draw a plain tile rather than a logo: the names and logos are their makers' trademarks, and Breadstick is not affiliated with or endorsed by either maker.

What is left out

Apps that cannot work in Breadstick are left out: ones that need USB hardware, a VPN tunnel of their own, virtualization, kernel modules, raw disks, FUSE mounts, system services, raw network access or packet capture, the device's own CPU, load and network counters, System V shared memory, or a desktop session of their own. What Breadstick cannot do explains each of those limits. Also left out: apps Breadstick hides from its own menus, packages outside Debian's main archive (contrib and non-free), and apps Google Play does not allow an app to promote, such as YouTube downloaders and password crackers.

Names

An app is listed under the name people know it by, such as GIMP, with the name Debian lists it under shown below it when that is different. A terminal program's page also gives the other names people type for it, such as node for Node.js, and the search finds it by them. The address of its page is usually its Debian package name; a few use a shorter or better-known form, such as one without a version number. Once published, an address does not change.

Where the information comes from

Each app's page says where its name, summary, description and icon came from, and under which license.

Licenses

A project's own description is quoted from the AppStream metadata file it ships in its Debian package, and only when that file's metadata license allows reuse: CC0, FSFAP, MIT and other permissive licenses, the Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike licenses, or the GNU GPL and LGPL. The text is shown as published; only its markup is reduced to paragraphs and lists. Where the license asks for credit, the page names the creator and keeps the file's copyright notice.

When a project publishes no description of its own, or only under a license this catalog does not reuse, such as the GNU Free Documentation License alone, the page quotes Debian's description of the package instead, which carries that package's own license (see the copyright file linked from the package's page on packages.debian.org). When neither is usable, only the one-line summary is shown.

Names and summaries come from the same metadata, or from the package's desktop file. Keywords and menu categories come from Debian's AppStream data. Icons are the projects' own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache. A terminal or command line program has no AppStream data, so its page shows its Debian package name, Debian's description of the package and a plain tile. The pages of the third-party apps carry Breadstick's own text, never their makers', and no logo.

The licenses named on app pages:

These pages use the Inter typeface by The Inter Project Authors, served from this site under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Trademarks

Names and icons are trademarks of their respective owners. Breadstick is not affiliated with these projects.

Google Chrome and the Google Chrome logo are trademarks of Google LLC. Breadstick is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

Visual Studio Code and the Visual Studio Code logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Breadstick is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.