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What is your favourite #fdroid app? Would be interested if I can discover a few new cool apps, I missed until now. Thank you already for sharing! [@fdroid](https (mastodon.social)
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What is your favourite #fdroid app? Would be interested if I can discover a few new cool apps, I missed until now. Thank you already for sharing! @fdroid

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[–] cryptgoat@digitalcourage.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@kirschner #AntennaPod for Podcasts, #Fedilab for Mastodon and Fediverse, #Transistor for my daily #Dlf radio needs, #Aegis for #2FA, the recent version of #AnkiDroid for learning via flash cards, #SimpleGalleryPro for media management. #Auxio as a simple yet nice looking audio player. #OrganicMaps as an simple alternative to the mighty #OsmAnd. #NewPipe for my video streaming needs (even though #LibreTube is a very fine alternative when it exclusively comes to #YouTube), #Quillpad for taking notes, #KeePassDX as password manager. #DAVx5 to get stuff synchronized, #FairEmail as email client. #Feeder for my RSS feed needs. And finally the still new #FDroidBasic client allowing automatic updates of installed apps.

Recently tried out #SimpleX messenger and like it quite a bit so far. @fdroid

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@cryptgoat
Thank you for the great list. Did not yet try out Aegis and Auxio. And one question in case you use it: Is the #nextcloud sync for quillpad working reliable?
@fdroid

[–] cryptgoat@digitalcourage.social 1 points 1 year ago

@kirschner @fdroid Sorry for getting back to you so late, haven't been trying the Nextcloud-Sync yet but will do.

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[–] hexaquo@mas.to 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner
@fdroid

Not an everyday favorite but a potential life-saver: EtchDroid for creating bootable Linux USB drives. Allowed me to fix a laptop which wasn't booting in the middle of a holiday.

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@hexaquo @fdroid Thank you. That might indeed save me some time in future.

[–] gippy@mastodon.uno 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@kirschner
My Expenses, NewPipe, Open Note Scanner, Catima, ConnectBot, Earmouse, FairEmail, KeePassDX, SicMu Player, Street Complete, Termux, VLC, Wikipedia and those are just my favourites
@fdroid

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@gippy
Thanks. Did not know about Open Note Scannwr, for what are you using it?
@fdroid

[–] gippy@mastodon.uno 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@kirschner
To use the smartphone's camera as a scanner, with the convenience of having pictures converted into 1bit depth (B/W with no grey scale), lightening them a lot.
@fdroid

[–] toketin@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ciao Gabriele! Thank you for this suggestion, the only problem is that this app, I've seen, that has no longer been updated. Does it still work fine?

[–] gippy@mastodon.uno 1 points 1 year ago

@toketin
Yes, I still use it ;)

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@gippy @fdroid Thanks for clarifying.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

Ever hear of KiwiX? You can use it to browse Wikipedia articles without data. It also works with some other sites as well

[–] notsoloud@expressional.social 3 points 1 year ago

@kirschner
For offline non-tracking maps:
@organicmaps or #osmand

@fdroid

[–] tejass@fosstodon.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner
#fedilab #MullBrowser #newpipe
@fdroid

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@tejass
Thank you. For Mull, what is the advantage over the normal #tor browser?
@fdroid

[–] tejass@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner
Tor browser, due to heavy traffic, sometimes becomes slow & due to security reasons could not load the websites. Mull able to load such websites quickly.
@fdroid

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@tejass
Thanks for clarifying.
@fdroid

[–] Jailbrick3d@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obtainium. For all those cool apps you find on GitHub, GitLab, FDroid, Izzy, APKPure, and more. In some cases you can add your own links and it'll try to scrape them for APKs for app updates

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[–] moe@misskey.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner@mastodon.social @fdroid@lemmy.ml Not just one app but the group of apps from simple mobile tools. No unnecessary permissions, easy to use, good functionality and a clean uniform UI make them really usable.
https://www.simplemobiletools.com/

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@moe @fdroid Thanks. Beside that I love orange :)

[–] fexplorer@procial.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

@kirschner@mastodon.social @fdroid@lemmy.ml
#StreetComplete

[–] moe@misskey.de 2 points 1 year ago

@kirschner@mastodon.social @fdroid@lemmy.ml Not just one app but the group of apps from simple mobile tools. No unnecessary permissions, easy to use, good functionality and a clean uniform UI makes then really usable.
https://www.simplemobiletools.com/

[–] salman@mstdn.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner @fdroid

My favorite:
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NewPipe
https://newpipe.net

All Pro versions of Simple Mobile Tools are also available free of charge on FDroid.

https://www.simplemobiletools.com/

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@salman
Thank you. I love the feature list as well!!
@fdroid

[–] rvansleen@mastodon.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner @fdroid Unciv. There are other apps of course, but that one is my most favorite.

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@rvansleen
Have not seen that before. Looks nice (also interesting to read the FAQs there)!
@fdroid

[–] A10@kerala.party 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Kdeconnect, infinityforlemmy.nightly

dnsfilter.android

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[–] islamicaudiobooks@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner @fdroid
- Amethyst, a client for the free/open #Nostr protocol
- @delta, a chat app using #email with support for #Autocrypt standard
- @AntennaPod podcast player
- Voice, for playing #DRM-free audiobooks
- KreptEY, keyboard for #e2ee communication using any messenger
- Rethink: DNS + Firewall
- Fast Shopping, old but beautiful gold.

[–] brokenix@emacs.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@islamicaudiobooks @kirschner @fdroid @delta @AntennaPod naive question, what's krept-ey?

[–] islamicaudiobooks@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@brokenix @kirschner @fdroid @delta @AntennaPod A keyboard app that encrypts messages which you can then send with any app.
https://github.com/amnesica/KryptEY

[–] brokenix@emacs.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@islamicaudiobooks @kirschner @fdroid @delta @AntennaPod vi music , rethink is amazing. Kryptey is cool too , except that idk how to disable vibration for tapping ut. Thats a drain , is there a clear reason to why is this tricky? Ir i should just recheck settings?

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@brokenix @islamicaudiobooks @fdroid @delta @AntennaPod Thanks. Did not know (or forgot) about rethink.

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[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@islamicaudiobooks @brokenix @fdroid @delta @AntennaPod Thanks for pointing out KryptEY

[–] brokenix@emacs.ch 1 points 1 year ago

@kirschner @islamicaudiobooks @fdroid @delta @AntennaPod yes except that I ve no contact , who want to do an encrypted chat with me outside #signal
This could be on my for not using it in a way, which is convenient for others.
It has happened , when I encrypted my twitter DM , emails with #gpg , without fully understanding gpg and I had to step back from that. #keyoxide has brought some hope , but I am yet to get there, where I can use it efficiently even for work

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Subway Tooter for Mastodon!

[–] erd@chaos.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kirschner @fdroid

Conversations (xmpp client)

[–] kirschner@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@erd @fdroid Classic, big thanks to @daniel for his great work on #conversations 👏

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Newpipe, Libretube, Vimusic, dankchat, smart autoclicker, diskusage, notification dictionary, pixeldroid, superimage, tachiyomi, twire.

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