CLUSTER ANDROID-DESKTOP-DEVICES · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-11-01
Alternative mobile OS installers
These desktop applications help users install alternative operating systems or manage app installation on mobile devices, ranging from drag-and-drop APK installers to guided flashes of Ubuntu Touch. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only one entry exists before the index start and the rest are undated or from coverage after that. On traction, winstall leads with 1 star, while wsa-autoinstall and OpenAndroidInstaller each have 0.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 2 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01winstall1★16 days—hobbyDesktop installer that recognizes connected Android devices, checks APK compatibility, installs apps by drag-and-drop, and manages installed applications.
- 02wsa-autoinstall0★1 mo—hobbyInstaller tool that automates downloading and setting up Windows Subsystem for Android with one click, including developer mode and root.
- 03OpenAndroidInstaller0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop app that guides users through installing alternative Android operating systems on supported smartphones.
- 04UBports Installer0★unknownliveopen sourceCross-platform installer application that flashes Ubuntu Touch onto supported mobile devices by guiding users through on-screen setup steps.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.