StashPay for Android is now in Beta

First of all thank you for all the support and feedback during the StashPay Beta for iOS on TestFlight. Today I’m exited to release StashPay for Android as an APK directly via the web.

Why release the Android App as an APK?

After watching other wallets get pulled from the Google Play Store, relying solely on Google turned into a real risk to consider in the product’s threat model. Do I really want to risk not being able to release security updates to users if a Google employee randomly decides to pull StashPay from Google Play?

And more importantly, how did we even get here? Why do I need to ask some faceless corporation permission to release an app to my users? As an indie hacker I’m not building for scale. I want to create a high quality relationship with my customers. No data hungry corporations in between. So I’ve decided to release an APK directly via the open web.

While I also plan to release StashPay on Google Play, the APK will always remain an option to download directly from the web.

Beta Warning

As with the iOS TestFlight please be careful to only use StashPay for Android with funds you are willing to lose while the app is still in Beta.

How to Download the Android App

Option 1 (easiest): via the StashPay website

The easiest way to install StashPay is to download the APK here: https://stashpay.me

Option 2 (recommended): via Obtainium

Follow the instructions here to get app updates via Obtainium: https://github.com/onionmill/stashpay-bin

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