Looks like others have already mentioned most of my favourites, but one I feel deserves special mention: Newpipe.
Haven’t used the main YouTube app or website in years!
- Termux is my lifeline to my main Emacs session. Besides ssh and small scripts I also run a couple of personalized services in it that I’ve written in Go.
- Antennapod listened to thousands of hours of podcasts in it
- Fedilab is my favorite mobile Mastodon client. I also use Jerboa for Lemmy but it’s not quite at the favorite app level yet
- KeyMapper is essential for me, especially when managing a physical keyboard
- NewPipe for youtube
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon roguelike dungeon crawler
- MuPDF sensible PDF viewer
Also, RIP RedReader I know it still works but I’ve moved on from reddit.
Have you tried liftof for Lemmy, I kind of like it a bit better than Jerboa, https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
Just did, thanks! Looks promising so far, didn’t realize it was so far along already.
It is written in flutter so it works everywhere, (but desktop looks kind of awkward)
Thanks for key mapper! That would be very handy for me.
Is FediLab worth the $2.7 ?
If you are in this post you should definitely know about F-Droid, and if you don’t… well, welcome to where open source apps are FOSSly distributed, and some paid apps on the Play Store like Fedilab and OsmAnd are completely free, both as beer and freedom.
Then, you can pay those 2.7$ directly to the developer (if you want) instead of giving part of it to Google.
I strongly recommend you install the Neo Store for a very modern frontend for F-Droid.
For extra coolness, activate the IzzyOnDroid repo on Neo Store for getting way more FOSS apps to download with quicker updates.
It’s open-source and it’s available at no cost on F-Droid. The Play store version is a way to support the developer.
BTW, I just noticed that Fedilab is apparently the #1 paid social app now, that’s pretty funny.
Like others have said, get it from F-droid for free, but yes, it is worth the cost imho.
- App Manager - An app manager with super powers! With this app I can keep track off my apps permissions, operations, launch activities, freeze or uninstall bloatware. Although, my main reason to use this is the built-in apk/apks installer that shows the components, trackers, and differences between versions when updating an app. It has even more features I can’t say. Truly amazing.
- Aves - Best gallery app on Android. I love the mosaic view!
- KDE Connect - Connect your Android with you PC. Can share files, sync clipboard, control media etc.
- RethinkDNS - Best DNS/Firewall app I’ve ever used. Doesn’t consume lot battery and it’s super configurable.
- URLCheck - I can’t live without it. With this app I can check, modify, unshorten and remove tracking elements from links, and even select the app you want to open that link with - Really nice when using work profile.
URLCheck is incredible.
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- Kiwi Browser (Chromium Browser with Extensions support)
- LocalSend (Open source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop)
- Neo Store (F-Droid client with Material You design)
- Password Store (Password and OTP Manager)
- Prognoza (Weather app)
- Proton Mail
- SD Maid SE (Storage cleaner)
- Seal (Video/Audio Downloader)
- ViMusic (YouTube Music Client)TIL about SD Maid SE. How does it compare with the original SD Maid (which looks like is still being updated)?
@[email protected] you could see the detail here.
That explains it. Thanks! Guess I’m uninstalling old SD Maid. :)
I wouldn’t watch YouTube if it wasn’t for Newpipe.
Newpipe with sponsor block.
LibreTube!
have you found a stable instance? Seems like all those I’ve tried are either throttled or periodically stop working for a few days
Try lemm.ee. REALLY fast and stable. Admin contributes to lemmy development so he knows what he is doing.
sorry, I meant piped instance (will still check out lemm.ee)
Experiencing similar problem, sometimes instances stop loading videos. Probably YouTube is blocking. Or maybe the servers are overloaded.
Many, but I would shout-out DAVx⁵ and Bitwarden.
- Password Store + OpenKeychain - Supports Yubikeys (NFC and USB) for both decrypt and ssh+git sync
- Syncthing
- Uploads my photos to where another script can publish them to my photo gallery
- Like Google Photos with “unlimited” storage and original quality
- Element - Self hosted Synapse with Googlechat bridge eliminated regular Google Chat for me
- Firefox
- KeePassXC - Yubikeys don’t work for my wife. We handle shared passwords with this + Syncthing.
- Aegis - 2FA with workable backup
I’m looking for:
- Launcher most comparable to Nova. Majority FOSS launchers seem to be text-based search things which is getting way too into the weeds for me.
- Mail app with good search. I don’t think this actually exists because IMAP sucks too much but lack of search will always make the transition from Gmail nearly impossible.
For a launcher, I’ve been using Neo Launcher (which is on IzzyOnDroid). It’s not as feature full as Nova but it’s pretty similar in spirit and style
Neo Launcher looks like exactly what I want! Thank you!
IzzyOnDroid
I had seen this referenced a few times in the past couple of weeks but finally got off my butt to check it out. I always install F-Droid but never bothered with extra repos. I guess I’ll need to add that to my setup playbook because I’m gonna need Neo on everything now :).
It’d be kind of nice if I could run Ansible on an Android device. Full root backups aren’t quite the same thing since I really want to apply the settings to multiple devices, not just splat a disk image on top of things.
I use fdroid app on my phone. Can you please explain what is izzyondroid?
Its an additional repository (source) for apps. You can add extra repositories in F-Droid settings.
…or rather than waiting for apps to become available on F-Droid, download from Github etc & use Obtainium to let you know when app updates become available
Thanks. Learnt something new today.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/JiN37bn0OE8
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I tried Neo Launcher a couple of rimes in the last week specifically for the Neo Feed add on (like Google feed but user defined RSS instead of Google). Neo Feed is excellent but unfortunately Neo Launcher doesn’t allow a scrolling dock, which ive used for years with Nova Launcher.
Anyone know of an open source launcher with an option to have a scrolling dock? Bonus points if its compatible with Neo Feed!
I’ve been using FairEmail (Android only) and everything just works, including search.
Regarding mail: Have a look at “not much”. It’s main selling point is a searchable inbox. Mutt is also popular, albeit somewhat archaic looking.
- Firefox
- KeePassDX (IMO, better than Bitwarden)
- Droidify (F-Droid client)
- mpv (Media player)
- NewPipe (YouTube client)
- Shelter (isolate/clone apps, create separate work profile)
- WiFiAnalyzer
KeePassDX
Woo for KeePassDX! Love it so much I donated.
Aves libre is the best Foss app I’ve used for managing a picture library.
learned about Organic Maps recently and its a really nice (albeit very simple, for now) open street maps client for GPS navigation. The interface is super nice
Material files is by far my favorite file browser app, I’ve been using it since before I paid much attention to foss vs proprietary
Droidify is my fav f-droid client
Droidify + Shizuku is great!
I don’t think I realized it has shizuku support, that’s pretty neat
The automatic updating is great for us rootless folks.
I’m rootless also, but haven’t played much with shizuku. I just went and enabled it, I’m curious to see the improvement next time I have lots of updates available!
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Obtainium is incredible!
Firefox, Termux, VLC, Jerboa, LiftOff, PPSSPP
Nothing to add in terms of lists because I’ve only just gotten into FOSS. I already use DuckDuckGo to block the insane amount of tracking on the Pixel7a I bought but still disturbed by all the forced google apps. So working my way through this list replacing what I can.
Thanks to all the people offering their suggestions and to OP for creating this convo! Freedom (from excessive tracking) is on the way.
- Libretube - alternative youtube app
- K-9 Mail - email client. simple but powerful
- Aurora Store - Alternative to google play store
- RCX - Rclone for android. Very useful. I cipher all my online storage with this app
- DAVX5 - app to sync contacts and calendar
Neo, Droidify, SchildiChat, Jerboa.
Nextcloud - easily access my self-hosted cloud storage from anywhere when needed. Firefox - browse the web, been a Firefox Stan for ages K-9 Mail - I love the flexibility offered by this mail app AntennaPod - it’s been the best podcast app that I’ve come across that’s also pretty configurable Jerboa - Lemmy :P
Are you me?
Also, have you hooked up Antennapod to Nextcloud via Gpoddersync? That’s been a godsend for me as I’ve been swapping phones a lot recently.
I tried setting it up awhile ago but gave up pretty quickly. I’ll have to give that another shot though
I think the key is making sure the NC add-on is right up to date. I had it fail on a new antennapod install until I updated the NC add-on.
Ayyy! Look at that! I got it to work this time :D thanks for the reminder to look at it again lol
Nice!
Any chance you also listen to them on PC? I’m looking to move away from Pocket Casts to Antennapod but haven’t looked into desktop players yet (web/win&lin)
KDE makes a podcast client called Kasts, and it syncs with gpoddersync on Nextcloud so you’re synced to Antennapod as well. It’s not a half bad interface.
Thanks for this. I’ve been using it for almost 2 weeks and aside from having to manually tell Lasts/AntennaPod to sync it’s been a seamless replacement for pocket casts. Well, once I figure out how to get the f-droid version of AntennaPod to play nice with Android auto (a problem I only came across yesterday)
That’s again for the recommendation.
Happy it helped.
