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What Are Your Favorite FOSS Android Apps? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

FluffyChat
Seeker
Pano Scrobbler
Mull
Orbot
FairEmail
Librera
Kanji Dojo
KeePass2Android
PipePipe
LibreTube
Aegis
OpenLauncher
Translate You
DITMM?
Wormhole William
Breezy Weather
Retro Music
OsmAnd
monerujo
NeoStore
Prepaid Balance
QKSMS, though it's pretty low maintenance
EasyNoise
Simple Gallery
SCEE, which is way more fun that any proprietary AR spyware IMO!

[–] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

No love for librera yet. That scroll mode for PDFs saves my life for technical documentation.

[–] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 points 10 months ago

Have redreader integrate with lemmy yet?

[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Stomata@buddyverse.one 1 points 2 weeks ago

Tey heliboard. I known you posted a long time ago

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thunder: Lemmy App
Scrambled Exif: Removes metadata when sharing images
Feeder: Rss Reader
KISS Launcher: Home Launcher
NewPipe: PeerTube and YouTube app.
Omni Notes: Notetaking
StreetComplete: Easy, fun, and addicting way to make OpenStreetMap updates on the go
OsmAnd~: Maps and navigation. Works phenomenally when in the backcountry and uses cell towers to locate you when gps alone can't.
Tower Collector: Contribute BTS towers for the above.
VLC: Video player
WiFi Analyzer: Useful for improving and setting up WiFi networks.
UntrackMe: Transforms links into their OSS alternatives.

[–] halm@leminal.space 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'd suggest Feeder for RSS. I haven't found a perfect feed reader, but Feeder is at least no-nonsense.

My MVP FLOSS apps are

Kiss launcher
K-9 (email)
Fennec (slight improvement over Firefox)
VLC (media player)
Antennapod (podcasts)
Voice (audio books)
Newpipe (YouTube without the Google snooping)
Markor (notes)
Authenticator (two factor authentication)
DAVx5 (calendar and contacts sync)
- ICSx5 (adds ICS events to calendar)
Syncthing (serverless file sync)
Tusky (Mastodon)

All of those are from F-droid; I'm slowly moving to Obtainium from Aurora store to keep a couple of non-FLOSS apps updated.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should try Mull and Fedilab

[–] halm@leminal.space 1 points 10 months ago

I did 🙂 I'm good with my choices.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

is there a foss alternative to niagara launcher?

[–] tungah@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I switched from Niagara to KISS launcher and I'm really happy with it. Much better, IMO.

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I use olauncher which looks pretty similar, no icons tho

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[–] shalva97@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis

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