Neostore is also a good alternative to the normal f-droid client

You might want to consider your next phone to be a pixel+grapheneOS.

I just run lineage os

Geometric Weather has a more active fork called Breezy Weather.
Quillnote has a more active fork called Quillpad

Most of the apps of tibor kaputa. I really like the simple gallery. The simple dialer and simple contacts are also really good. Just clean default apps that do what they should.(adfree)

Endless Sky and Mindustry are some good, fun, deep games.

NewPipe lets you listen to youtube videos without the screen on (and also download them or just the audio).

Probably the main thing I use

redreader, newpipe, session messenger(needs repo thing from website), aurora store, simple gallery pro

Installing through F-Droid is way easier tho and the IzzyOnDroid repo actually uses the binaries from the developer

I prefer F-droid as it adds a layer of checks to hopefully keep the devs from doing something malious

You can use neostore or droid-ify for material fdroid

I have a lot of complaints about this too, but namely lack of seamless updates is baffling to me.

Luckily I found Droid-ify and solves both those problems. Also has the common repos frequently added, like IzzyOnDroid, easily pre-available to enabled in the settings.

This definitely replaced the archaeic fdroid client for me, they desperately need an overhaul as it's a terrible first impression.

Here's mine:

• AnkiDroid - mobile version of popular desktop flashcards software Anki
• Bitwarden (don't remember if this needed a repo) - favourite password manager
• Catima - holds loyalty cards
• Fennec F-Droid - Build of Firefox without ads and that supports more extensions
• DiskUsage - see what's taking up your disk
• GadgetBridge - FOSS app for smart watches, Mi bands etc.
• Lawnchair - Home screen replacement that's visually identical to the default one but allows me to double tap to lock
• Material Files - file manager
• Loop - Habit tracker
• p!n - Pin reminders to notifications
• muPDF Reader - fast PDF reader that doesn't crap out when I zoom in and out unlike Google Drive
• Simple Gallery - lightweight gallery app
• NextCloud and NextCloud Notes - Access NextCloud
• Scrambled EXIF - Share pictures without giving away EXIF data
• Tusky - nice Mastodon client
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon - a game way too addictive to be safe to install
• NewPipe - FOSS frontend with AdBlock and downloader for YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp and others
• Librera - read EPUBs
• Lemoroid - Nice libretro client to play video games
• Infinity - Reddit client that still works. I believe they did something hacky with the API key to get around the block.
• Migraine Log - Nice app for migraine sufferers to log their attacks
• Scarlet - Beautiful notes app

Not really.

Fdroid is a secure repositorie and the applications are reviewed before being made available for end users.

The repository is also highly focused on privacy and security and will warn if applications have security flaws or depend on non free services.

As an example, I use NewPipe instead of the standard YT app and it has a warning it depends on non-free services.

One other example I can give is Librera. It's a very feature rich ebook/pdf/etc reader. At some point, a security flaw was discovered and the app was instantly flagged has having such problems and users were advised to not install it.

The benefit of open source apps is anyone can view the code to see if there is malware or other installed.

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I actually would go for the main repo as all the software in the main repo is reviewed by the main Dev team