Neutrality
No platform, no kingmakers. Every entry mapped on the same terms, independent of who ships it.
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Málaga · Independent · Since 2002
ATLAS COSMO · v0.5 · 2026
Navigate the
software universe.
Atlas Cosmo is a higher-level layer that organizes, connects, and brings trust to every piece of software worth knowing — a map you can navigate.
Built on Uptodown’s twenty-plus years of cataloging the open web — and the team, technology, and know-how built along the way.
§01 · The problem
Software is abundant.
Software is abundant.
Understanding it is not.
Millions of artifacts cross every platform, language, and runtime. There is no shared map — every store, registry, and silo holds its own private slice of what software is, where it came from, and whether it can be trusted.
Discovery has stopped being the hard problem. The hard questions now are what does this do, can it be trusted, and how is it obtained, installed, and run — and the answers are buried, fragmented, or missing entirely.
For two decades, “what is this software” was a question humans asked. From 2026 on, agents and automation systems ask it too — and the answers can’t be scraped from pages built for human eyes. That’s the moment Atlas Cosmo is built for.
- Volume
- Tens of millions of artifacts across every platform, language, and runtime.
- Fragmentation
- Stores, registries, and silos that don’t speak to each other.
- Opacity
- Provenance, behavior, and trust are buried — or missing entirely.
§02 · The atlas
A reading of the software universe.
Four layers, one atlas. A way to navigate software — not just list it. Charted by what it does, whether it can be trusted, how it runs, and how to reach it.
Atlas Cosmo
Four layers · one map
FIG. §02 · ATLAS COSMOGRAPHICA
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Capability
What software does.
- functions
- categories
- dependencies
- canonical identity
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Trust
Whether it can be trusted.
- provenance
- signatures & lineage
- security signals
- continuity
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Execution
How it’s obtained and run.
- delivery channels
- install paths
- update & rollback
- compatibility
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Access
One map, every surface.
- humans
- systems
- agents
- APIs
§03 · Heritage
Not starting
Not starting
from zero.
Two decades of indexing, curating, and shipping software under the Uptodown name — at global scale, under real operational load. Active since 2002.
Atlas Cosmo is its strategic expression: the same data, the same editorial discipline, lifted into a layer that other systems can read — and navigate.
- 20+ years
- indexing and cataloging software since 2002.
- millions of artifacts
- apps, builds, and versions already mapped.
- global reach
- one of the most-visited app sources on the open web.
- proven at scale
- infrastructure tested by hundreds of millions of downloads.
The work is already there. Atlas Cosmo is its public form.
§04 · Principles
The commitments
The commitments
we keep.
A neutral cartography only works if it stays that way.
Trust
Provenance, signatures, and human signal — verifiable, never implied. Reasoning behind every claim, made available.
Accessibility
Legible to people, machines, and the agents in between — across regions, platforms, and use cases.
Intelligence
Not a list of files. An atlas you can navigate — structure that other systems can read, reason over, and act on.
§05 · For
For those building
For those building
what comes next.
The map is open to anyone who needs ground truth about software.
Builders
Engineers and platforms wiring software into new products — with one canonical map underneath instead of a dozen fragmented sources.
Agents
Autonomous systems that need verifiable answers, not scraped guesses. Software intelligence as a first-class input to reasoning.
Enterprises
Teams that require provenance, compliance, and continuity across operating systems, clouds, and vendors — with a map they can actually audit.
Sovereigns
Governments and institutions mapping their own software territory: auditable, deployable intelligence for regulated environments and national programs.
§06 · Products
One map.
One map.
Multiple instruments.
Different ways to read the same software universe. From consumer storefronts under the Uptodown family to standalone brands and developer surfaces — every instrument charted on the same map.
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Live Since 2002 Uptodown Global App Web Store
The flagship consumer storefront on the open web. Hundreds of millions of people use it to find software — on every major platform, in every region of the world. The first instrument pointed at the Atlas Cosmo map.
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Beta access 2026 → Native Uptodown Stores GUI
Native desktop and mobile clients for Mac, Windows, and Android — the same catalog, with first-class install, update, and rollback flows on every platform.
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Beta access 2026 → Uptodown CLI
Console-grade access to the catalog. Search, install, update, and audit software directly from the terminal — for power users, scripts, and pipelines.
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In development 2026 → Android App Store
A standalone Android storefront, distinct from the Uptodown brand. Native client, native distribution — calibrated for an Android-first audience.
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In development 2026 → The Open App Store
A storefront dedicated to open-source software — surfacing, supporting, and giving visibility to the projects building software in the open.
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In development 2026 → KIDs App Store
A curated, safety-first storefront for younger audiences — every app screened for content, privacy, and age-appropriate behavior.
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In development 2026 → Regional App Stores
Region-first stores for Korea, Japan, and the United States — outside the Uptodown brand, each calibrated to local discovery, payment, and editorial.
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In development 2026 → Video Games App Store
An iOS storefront for video games, with companion video and forum surfaces. Discovery, watch, and discussion — gathered around the games themselves.
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In development 2026 → Atlas Cosmo Signals
The programmatic interface to the map — for builders, platforms, and agents. APIs, webhooks, and machine-readable answers, designed to be reasoned over, not scraped.
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On the horizon In design Atlas Cosmo Sovereign
A private instance of the map, for nations and institutions that need their own software territory — auditable, deployable, and governed locally.
One map. Many instruments. Each surface aimed at a different reader.
§07 · Direction
In motion,
In motion,
progressively.
Atlas Cosmo is being charted in the open, one layer at a time. Some surfaces will emerge quietly, some as public releases — each shaped by real operational use, not announcement cycles.
This page exists so the direction is legible — to collaborators, to future partners, and to the people who will help shape the map.