Here's what I'm rocking:
- Aegis
- App Lounge
- AntennaPod
- Bitwarden
- Dicio
- Doodle
- F-Droid
- FeedMe (Not FOSS. Open to suggestions)
- Firefox
- FNG
- InvizBox
- Jerboa
- Mastodon
- Music Player GO
- Obsidian
- OpenLauncher
- Organic Maps
- OsmAnd~
- Proton Cal/Drive/Mail/VPN
- RadioDroid
- RedReader
- Signal
- Silence
- Simple Keyboard
- Tasks (Not the built in. I love this one)
- Unit Converter Ultimate
- Wikipedia
This is just about everything I have on my phone. I'm on a FairPhone 4 running /e/OS. What's your load out like?
I'm looking for a new keyboard. Glad for suggestions :D
I use KDE Connect as a media remote and to transfer files between my phone and computers. It has quite a few other functions, like remote mouse control, sms, seems to share clipboards as well.
https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
What isn't working? It's a little different than the phone app, but it works for me.
All of these list are great as we discover new apps each time.
But, I would suggest to write what is the app about.
That's a good point. Originally, I wanted to get a list without writing too much. I'm going to update my phone with some of the suggestions. I'll update my list with additional explanations.
Obtainium is great for updating apps hosted outside the playstore, big upside being you don't need to bother with FDroid releases
what kind of apps cant be updated through playstore/fdroid?
what are the one you are using?
what kind of apps cant be updated through playstore/fdroid?
it's not that they can't be (maybe some apps I use can't) but rather that I don't like some things about F-Droid. One of the big things being unreliable app updates. They are often significantly outdated compared to GitHub releases.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#f-droid
"Due to their process of building apps, apps in the official F-Droid repository often fall behind on updates. F-Droid maintainers also reuse package IDs while signing apps with their own keys, which is not ideal as it gives the F-Droid team ultimate trust."
What do people prefer to use for apps that can't be updated through Obtanium?
FOSS app which I use -
- Jerboa: Lemmy Client
- Megalodon: Mastodon Client
- RiMusic: YT Music Client
- Drodify: Material You F-Droid Alternative
- Libretube: YouTube Client
- FluffyChat: Matrix Client
- Monocles Chat: XMPP Client
- KISS Launcher: Fast and Clean App Launcher
- Cherrygram: Telegram Client
- Revolution IRC: IRC Client
- SD Maid SE: System Storage and app cache cleaner.
- SuperFreeze: Help in Force Stoping the app
- Next Player: Material You Video Player
- Diohub: Github Client
- Gitnex: Codeberg(ForjeGo/Gitea) Client
- Native Alpha: Webapp Manager - Help in creatimg Webapp
- APK Kit: APK Exporter + Give detail of Everyapp
- Material Files: File Manager
- Kiwi Browser: A better Chromium browser which Chrome Extension and Inspect Element Features AKA Dev Tools.
- Fossify Gallery: Gallery App
- Atomic: A Periodic Table App
- OpenCalc: Material You Calculator
- Proton Mail: proton.me only support its own client :(
- Psiphon: Open Source VPN(Only Client)
- Arcticons: A Line Icon Pack
- MJ PDF: A PDF viewer.
- Simple Keyboard: Best Minimal Keyboard.
- Mauth: A 2FA app
- DNS quick Tile: Add a system DNS quick to turn on or off from notification bar.
- also de-googled my device
Closed Source app which I use :( -
1.Modded
- Whatsapp Beta Mod - Privacy Features (Use because of School)
- MyInsta: Modded Instagram (Use because of friends)
- Duolingo: Removed Ads and Tracker(Use because that Green Owl have My family)
- Mimo: A code learning app - Removed Tracker and Ads (Use for fun)
- Non-Modded
- Mobilisim: Where I got my All Mods
- ApkTool M: Android Apk Editor (Installed it when I really need it like changing package name of an app or removing a alarming permission from an app) - Give me suggestion for this app if you know
Suggestion For OP
OP You should use Florisboard beta it's good and also Obsidian is not open source.
sorry, dumb question. how reliable is this? And, with this wapp modded installed, have any risk from wapp to ban me? And its possible turn on double check blue mark?
I don't know how safe is this I really don't care about ban. If they ban me then I have a excuse to not use whatsapp. You can turn on double check blue mark in Privacy Setting by Clicking on 3 dots.
Great list! One suggestion: Try Helium's OpenBoard fork for keyboard. It has tons of features like full Material You theming, glide typing, multilingual language support as well as autocorrect and suggestion support. I've been waiting for autocorrect to be added in FlorisBoard for more than an year now.
Great lists so far. I'll add one that I picked up from a previous thread:
URLCheck
URLCheck acts as an amazingly customizable and powerful intermediary when opening url links, allowing, among other things: to remove trackers, affiliate links, unnecessary elements, check Hosts, facilitating link holding and sharing, protecting against certain phishing techniques and many more...
- Moshidon: letting me communicate with people on Mastodon
- QKSMS: text message (SMS) app
- KISS Launcher: a very neat launcher that took a while before I could love it as I do now
- FairEmail: an email client with tons of options
- Mull: a fork of Firefox
- Privacy Browser: a browser based on WebView
- Simple Calendar Pro: for managing my self-hosted CalDAV (waiting for Fossify's version)
- Fossify Gallery: managing my images and videos
- AntennaPod: listening to podcasts
- Bitwarden: managing my self-hosted vaultwarden
- Download Navi: download files instead of using the browser
- Foxy Droid: making browsing apps on mainly F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid like old-school Google Play Store
- Loop Habits: logging my habits
- Hypatia: protecting my smartphone from malware using ClamAV
- Lemuroid: able to play my childhood favourite games wherever I am
- Miniflutt: read RSS posts through my self-hosted Miniflux server
- Mullvad VPN: protecting my identity wherever I am
- OpenTracks: track my movements
- Seal: download videos from mainly YouTube, but also converting YouTube videos to MP3 files (perfect for downloading music mixes for my bicycle trips)
- Syncthing: syncing important files to and from my desktop
- Voyager: browsing Lemmy
- URL Radio: listening to manually added radio stations
- Tasks: reminding me to do stuff
- Unexpected Keyboard: by far the best keyboard with really good shortcuts
- Planisphere: exploring the sky and letting me plan my astro photography
- LibreTube: exploring YouTube through Piped API
- Simple Voice Recorder: letting me record stuff when I don't have my audio recorder with me (waiting for Fossify's version)
Thanks for your links !
Have you tried Obtainium ? This could replace foxy-droid which seems dead with no updates since 2020!
You're welcome :)
Yes, I have. I really liked it, but I didnt like that GitHub blocked me every now and then. I don't have any account there due to privacy reasons.
I somewhat don't mind outdated apps. It depends on what app it is. I wouldn't use Bitwarden if they stop develop their app, as of 1 example.
Obsidian is Open Source? I switched to Logseq because it wasnt open source. A friend wasnt even allowed to install it on his Work PC becauze Obsidian wants 50€ per Year when not used at home privately.
A developer wanted to earn money for software used commercially? Oh, the humanity!
Plenty of FOSS projects have commercial licenses. Pfsense, MongoDB, TrueNAS, Elastic, Portainer, Proxmox, Docker...
If you use Organic Maps you may be interested in https://streetcomplete.app to help fill out the map
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Chip Defense. A little FOSS tower defense game.
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KDE Connect. Tool to transfer files to another device, or vice versa.
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Trail Sense. Nice lightweight app that does a variety of things, but I mostly use it for white noise.
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Organic Maps. I try to use it instead of Google Maps whenever possible.
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FitoTrack. Amazing app to keep logs of your workouts, or motorcycling trips as I use it. Shows you where you went, how fast you want, and how many calories burned where applicable.
Edit: Tried to count down from 5 to 1 as this is my top 5 apps from F-droid, but the auto bullet thing is counting up instead
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Newpipe, for watching youtube videos without ads or tracking
Openboard keyboard for the one feature I can never be without again: moving the cursor by swiping left or right on the spacebar, it's a godsend for selecting stuff with my wide fingers
Catima - for saving arbitrary barcodes and stuff that are hard to integrate into other wallets. I keep my local library card in there, and it works wonderfully
Nonocross - fun little game that has zero frills and distractions. Also very responsive on their github to suggestions and improvements
Termux - when I need to get into things from afar, this is how I do it
Box, Box! - Formula 1 news, schedules, standings, etc
Coffee - Sometimes I want to keep the display awake, so this comes in handy
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection includes a game very similar to nonocross, as well as about 40 other puzzle games you might also like.
Nonocross
I like this one, but it's honestly difficult to play on a phone, for anything but small and easy grids. I had to start using a stylus to be able to hit the right cells with reasonable accuracy, and even then it's a bit tough. And you lose context when trying to zoom. Maybe better on tablets....
I use a few apps from the SimpleMobileTools suite. They aren't full FOSS, they have basic and pro versions where the basic version is GPL3 and the proprietary extended features cost a few bucks. The basic FOSS tools are still decent, if barebones.
The suite includes:
- a calculator
- a phone dialer
- a music player
- a calendar
- a photo gallery (with basic editor)
- an audio recorder
- a flashlight
- a clock
- an app launcher
- an SMS messenger
- a camera
- a keyboard
- a note taker
- a file manager
- a contact book
- a simple painting canvas
I use the gallery and file manager the most. Though admittedly I threw a couple bucks their way for the proprietary extensions. It's not FOSS, but if it was going to be proprietary, I think it's one of the fairest deals in software these days. Better than another bloody subscription model, or holding the ad-free experience hostage behind a paywall.
But they sell their app to ZippoApps which gonna add ads and tracker and You have to get subscribtion to remove ads. You can switch to Fossify fork of SimpleMobile tools.
Here's a few I enjoy using that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
- Phonograph Plus: elegant music player using Material UI design
- Etar +ICS² : Etar is a nice-looking calendar app that uses Material UI design, and ICS² enables me to sync the Holiday Calendars provided on Thunderbird.net.
- Etar+ DAVx² + NextCloud : enables syncing my local Etar calendar(s) with any NextCloud instance (using CalDAV). DAVx² also allows for syncing my Android contacts to NextCloud (using CardDAV)
- AnySoft Keyboard: extremely customizable, varied keyboard layouts, for those who want all punctuation marks and quote signs built-in.
- Irregular Expressions: alternative keyboard for goofing around with unicode textstyles (🅒🅘🅡🅒🅛🅔🅢, 𝕺𝖑𝖉 𝕰𝖓𝖌𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝕭𝖔𝖑𝖉, Ｅｘｔｒａ ｗｉｄｅ, etc.)
- Simple Notes : minimalist "note to self" memos.
https://text.tchncs.de/czars-blogs/apps-i-use The blog itself is foss software writefreely
