GCompris

GCompris describes itself as “a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.” It is part of the KDE community, licensed under the AGPLv3, and the 26.0 release notes count 197 activities.

What children can do in it

The project groups the activities like this:

• computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, touchscreen
• reading: letters, words, reading practice, typing text
• arithmetic: numbers, operations, table memory, enumeration, double entry table
• science: the canal lock, the water cycle, renewable energy
• geography: countries, regions, culture
• games: chess, memory, align 4, hangman, tic-tac-toe
• other: colors, shapes, Braille, learn to tell time

Each activity is marked with stars. The manual explains: “1, 2 or 3 yellow stars — for 2 to 6 years old” and “1, 2 or 3 red stars — greater than 6 years old.” By default every level is shown; a parent can narrow the range with the difficulty filter in the settings.

Language and voices

Version 26.2 is fully translated into 27 languages, Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese among them, and partly into many more. Spoken instructions and words come in separate voice packs; KDE’s download server has packs for about fifty languages, including Brazilian Portuguese. They are downloaded only when you agree, either on first start or later from the settings (see the questions below).

For parents: what it collects and what goes online

• The project’s privacy policy for the mobile app says it “does not request and does not record any user provided information” and “does not collect information automatically.” There are no ads and no in-app purchases, and our scan of the file found no trackers.
• Apart from the local-network teacher feature below, the only network code in the app is the optional asset download from cdn.kde.org. In the code, automatic downloads are off by default on mobile devices.
• GCompris also listens on the local network (UDP port 65524) for a teacher’s GCompris-teachers server, which schools can use to manage classes. It only reacts to a server whose ID matches the one set in GCompris, and then asks before connecting. That is presumably why the app requests Wi-Fi multicast access.
• GCompris starts in full screen, and on phones and tablets it asks for confirmation before quitting, which helps against little fingers closing it by accident.

About this file

• This is F-Droid’s build of version 26.2, released by the project on 23 September 2026, compiled from source and signed with F-Droid’s key. We compared it with the project’s own 26.2 APK for the same processor: both contain the same 202 activity data files. The project’s APK additionally bundles FFmpeg libraries for audio and video, which is why it is larger.
• The project also publishes its own APKs on download.kde.org, signed with a certificate in the name of Bruno Coudoin, GCompris, and the Google Play version uses the same package name. Our file is signed differently from the project’s APK, and both use the same version number, so one can’t replace the other without uninstalling first. Whether the Play version shares the project’s key we haven’t checked.
• This copy is the 64-bit ARM build; F-Droid publishes a separate 32-bit one. It needs Android 9.0 or later.
• The 79.9 MB file declares 7 permissions: internet and network state for the asset downloads, Wi-Fi state and multicast for the teacher connection, storage, and keeping the device awake.
• Everything in the app is freely licensed; the FAQ says “All the content and dependencies are under licenses compatible with the AGPLv3 license.” The screenshots are the project’s own.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017).

Versions currently kept in the F-Droid repository. We host and check only the newest one.