Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-14
AlpenSync: Contacts Without Google
An open-source Proton Contacts sync app for GrapheneOS and other de-Googled Android phones.
Why it surfacedAlpenSync pushes and pulls contacts through Android’s native Contacts provider, so the stock dialer and messaging apps can use them without Google Play Services. It is unusually candid about the trade-off: the app has no telemetry, but relies on Proton’s undocumented API and may break without notice.
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The Largest Cat Has No Number
August 14’s newborn domains include an unnumbered giant among thirteen catalogued glossy cats, a shareable Visual Snow Syndrome simulator, two independent Colombian relief directories, and a snail farm with races, courtship, and its own Gazette.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-14 Domain Arrivals issue.