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submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by 0dxJayB@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I've been building OctoLab, an unofficial GitLab client for Android. It works with gitlab.com and self-hosted GitLab (CE/EE), started as a GitLab-focused fork of OctoDroid, and is Apache 2.0 licensed.

What it does:

  • Issues and merge requests: browse, create, edit, comment, review diffs, subscribe/unsubscribe
  • To-dos | Participating: your to-dos plus new comments on issues and MRs you take part in, with notifications and counts per account
  • Your activity as a timeline, grouped by project
  • Projects: files, README, branches, tags, commits, releases, code search; images, videos and files open in the app
  • Bookmarks for projects, groups, issues, MRs, commits and snippets
  • Sign in with gitlab.com in your browser (OAuth), or with a token on any GitLab instance
  • Epics (Premium/Ultimate): a group's epics with their child items, comments and reactions
  • Role-aware: shows what your GitLab role allows; what it doesn't is hidden or explained
  • Multi-account (self-hosted and gitlab.com side by side), dark and light theme

No tracking, no analytics, no proprietary services.

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.secninjaz.octolab/

GitHub (releases, Obtainium): https://github.com/secninjaz/OctoLab

Feedback and bug reports welcome.

Edit: How it's built: development happens on our own GitLab instance in small commits; each release is squash-merged into one commit on GitHub, so issue numbers in commit messages and changelogs refer to that internal tracker. Development is AI-assisted, as disclosed in the README; I review and test every change on my own devices before release, and the full changelog is in each GitHub release.

~~Development is AI-assisted (disclosed in the README); every change is reviewed and tested by a human.~~

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[-] MisterFred@reddthat.com 1 points 11 hours ago

Can you cross-host (not crosspost) it on Gitlab? It only makes sense for a Gitlab client to be on Gitlab

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago

I had thought about that initially, but chose github thinking that gitlab repos don't get as much attention(in terms of contributions and popularity) compared to github for some reason. I might be wrong but that's what I thought looking at other unrelated awesome apps hosted on gitlab.

this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2026
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