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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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What are your favorite FOSS app finds of this year?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Organic maps

Also it looks like the foss AOSP SDK was readded into sid. (It was removed from bookworm since it has no maintainers) https://packages.debian.org/sid/android-sdk-platform-23

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not switching to Thunderbird I'm sticking with K-9

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm in the same boat. It is completely fine since the apps only have cosmetic differences.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago
[–] CaJoasca_Baloon@lemm.ee 6 points 17 hours ago

StreetComplete and Eternity (for Lemmy)

Both great apps I cherish and use.

Quillnote

I literally rely on this for every note / writing books I do

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

Power Ampache 2 + Ampache/Nextcloud. It's a client for the Ampacheb music server, looks gorgeous, works great and has excellent support.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago
  • StreetComplete: Help complete the OpenStreetMap database by answering simple questions wherever you go
  • HeliBoard: Keyboard add with multilanguage support and user-use learning-prediction
  • RustDesk: RemoteDesk app for PC/Android
[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fossify apps (like finding new friends that look and feel exactly like your old friends 🤷

  • FairEmail
  • NetGuard

mull 😢

  • antennaPod
  • newpipe

localSend (we're not brand or os loyal. This helped us a lot with our machine salad

  • AnySoftKeyboard
  • lawnchair
[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • Drinkable
  • Grayjay
  • Thunderbird
  • Voyager for Lemmy
  • Podcini.R
  • Emotic
  • LinkDroid
[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Can you explain? It's part of the FUTO project and has it's source available here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

And has releases available to F-Droid through the FUTO repo.

I see the license heavily restricts commercial endeavors with the code, but otherwise seems quite permissive?

[–] 73kk13@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obtainium

IMO the best way to keep one's apps up to date.

[–] minyaen@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely. I end up using it in conjunction with gplay and fdroid to see which ones are updated sooner. Very useful.

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] minyaen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Most of the time it's gplay, if the app is on it... Probably because the developer gets the most traffic through there. Sometimes its days to weeks earlier if its on gplay. Others, github/fdroid is a toss up. Pretty similar

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even though the android version of it has been discontinued, Syncthing remains my top FOSS app. Not sure how it will behave in the future but v1.28.1 works well for now.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Was easy to switch from syncthing to the fork too importing the configuration from syncthing into it.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Pipepipe has been my go to YouTube app. I like it has sponsor block, and that I can also log into a Gmail account with it that it uses only for age restricted videos so I don't need the YouTube app.

[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I can't totally remember when I found these, but they're relatively fresh on my phone. Couldn't live without them now.

[–] FuCensorship@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

How does Audile perform for you?

I tried it out once and it wasn't as reliable as Shazam at identifying the correct song so I just uninstalled it.

[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

I've never used Shazam but did use the music recognition app on pixels when I was the stock ROM. Audile seems that it gets about 80% of what the Google app would get. I'd imagine that would change depending on the kind of music you're often trying to identify though, Audile is probably working with a smaller database of some genres.

[–] Baaahb@feddit.nl 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Do you normally expect that free as in beer apps are going to be accurate to the degree that a data harvester with years of experience and funding?

[–] FuCensorship@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I don't disagree with you but sometimes they are, different use scenarios but these are quite impressive:

KeePassDX
AdAway
KDE Connect
Image Toolbox
Fossify Gallery
Calculator You: Math & Units

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Fossify gallery, FreeOTP, Markor text editor, and maybe Jami if I can get it to work on other phones. FreeOTP might have been late 2023 when I got my current phone, but close enough. I'm not sure whether I used Termux before that, on my old phone. Oh yes, Flash Alert, I'm surprised if that isn't standard in Android. It flashes the camera led when the phone rings. That makes it much easier to find the phone if you're not sure where it is, and it is face down. It would be great if it also flashed the screen.