An ethical app store. For old phones.

The anti-bloatware mission

Most apps the next billion can install are hostile by design — they spy, they nag, they bloat, and they assume a phone you can't afford. We hold a higher bar.

• Old-phone-first. Built for a five-year-old handset and an ancient OS version. We build slow, on purpose, so nobody is left behind by a spec sheet.
• Native only — always. Real native tooling for each platform. Never Flutter, never React Native. Native is doctrine, not preference: it's what runs lean and lasts on weak hardware.
• Ethics-gated. Every app is reviewed by a human against a hard ethics bar before it's listed. No surveillance ads, no data harvest, no dark patterns.
• A free library for the people. Great apps and ideas that aren't monetised join the free CongoSky app library — useful tools, kept free, kept clean.

Two ways in

Whether you've built something or just dreamed it up, there's a door for you. Every submission is read by a human.

• Submit an app you've built It's reviewed against the ethics bar below. Meet the lines, and we list it — native, old-phone-ready, honest.
• Submit an idea Don't have it built? Pitch the idea. If it's great and you're not looking to monetise it, it can join the free CongoSky app library — built by us, kept free for everyone.

The ethics bar — the hard lines

Every app in the store clears all of these. No exceptions, no "premium" carve-outs.

• No surveillance ads. No ad networks that track, profile, or follow the user around the internet.
• No data harvest. Collect only what the app truly needs to work — and say so plainly.
• No dark patterns. No trick taps, no fake urgency, no buried unsubscribe, no manipulating the vulnerable.
• Works on old phones. Runs on ancient OS versions and weak hardware. Frugal with data, memory, and battery.
• Native. Built with real native tooling for its platform. Never a cross-platform wrapper.
• Accessible. Usable with a screen reader, real contrast, big-enough text — built for the grandmother, in her own language where it can be.
• Honest. Does what it says, charges what it says, and never exploits a child, a granny, the poor, the migrant, or the disabled.

Never sell user data. Never take surveillance-advertising money. Never ship a battery-draining background spy. Never betray Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.

Submit to the store

The store is in design — the intake desk isn't wired to the platform yet, but we read every submission by hand. Fill this in and it'll open your mail app addressed to us; once the platform is live, the same form will submit straight through.

The intake desk is open. Tell us what you've built — or what you've dreamed up — and a human will read it.