the version on the download page and on GitHub are the same. We have put the deprecation notice because the app is not featuring on Google Play anymore because it have to be migrated to a new Android API level, which is a lot of changes, we are currently not able to make.
In my experience, it is not just labeled “deprecated”. It is indeed incompatible with up-to-date desktop versions, for example, it cannot find the files with the same custom tag