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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We have similar lists, so some considerations:

  • Helium314 fork of OpenBoard for keyboard
  • Simple Gallery for your gallery (just purchased but there is an emerging fork I'm blanking on the name of)
  • Matrix with a Signal bridge so you can use tablets and other devices with Element, which has a wider range of devices
  • NeoLauncher is like OL, but with more configuration
  • Thunder for Lemmy. Great client, and only one with 2 column tablet support
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly don't use that much foss on my Android phone, but DVD has to be my favourite. I like sharing memes as videos instead of links in chat apps and it lets me download videos from just about any app or site by just sharing the link to the DVD app. It uses yt-dl in the background, so any site supported by that should work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I also constantly use Bitwarden, Aegis and Home Assistant along with a couple less often used ones. Those three felt so obvious to me that I didn't feel like picking them as my favourite :)

[–] newproph 5 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of good recommendations here but I haven't seen anyone recommend Trail Sense yet. I use it to keep track of my steps without worrying about my levels of activity being monitored by anyone else. It also notifies me an hour before sunset since I actually go hiking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd recommend Mull instead of Firefox or Fennec (the deblobbed version) since it's hardened.

It's basically a Librewolf analogue for mobile

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

F-Droid, Voyager, Eternity, Libretube

[–] 1boiledpotato 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Material Files - the best files app I've ever used! Clean, material design and has everything I need. It can even run an FTP server

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used that but it started to feel bloated after a while.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

https://text.tchncs.de/czars-blogs/apps-i-use The blog itself is foss software writefreely

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My favourites so far.

  • PlainApp
  • Rethink
  • Audile (Shazam FOSS)
  • Notally
  • OpenBoard (keyboard)
  • Material Files
  • QKSMS
  • OsMand~
  • Forecastie
  • Obtainium
  • Newpipe
  • Cromite (Bromite fork)
  • Monocles translator

Not open-source but the only gallery I found without trackers:

  • Gallery made by Greensoft infotech
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously guys, no one saying Nextcloud?

  • The main app for photo backup.
  • Nextcloud Notes for well, notes you can also use from the desktop.
  • NC Passwords for well, passwords
  • Phonetrack to record your phone to Nextcloud Maps.
  • Deck for the Kanban.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched to Immich for photo backup/management. It's better by miles.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ente Auth is nice for OTPs, it looks nice and I like that it shows the next code in case it's about to switch.

Neo Store for browsing fdroid

Moshidon for Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

2FAS, Bitwarden, Firefox are my most used FOSS on Android for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Obtainium is pretty good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a few I enjoy using that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

  • Phonograph Plus: elegant music player using Material UI design
  • Etar +ICSΒ² : Etar is a nice-looking calendar app that uses Material UI design, and ICSΒ² enables me to sync the Holiday Calendars provided on Thunderbird.net.
  • Etar+ DAVxΒ² + NextCloud : enables syncing my local Etar calendar(s) with any NextCloud instance (using CalDAV). DAVxΒ² 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 (πŸ…’πŸ…˜πŸ…‘πŸ…’πŸ…›πŸ…”πŸ…’, 𝕺𝖑𝖉 π•°π–“π–Œπ–‘π–Žπ–˜π– 𝕭𝖔𝖑𝖉, οΌ₯ο½˜ο½”ο½’ο½ wide, etc.)
  • Simple Notes : minimalist "note to self" memos.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Organic Maps, Syncthing and Feeder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's FNG? Fluid navigation gestures? Is that FOSS? Can you share a link to the codebase? Can't find it

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are some not mentioned in this thread yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

OpenBoard + predictive text binary

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