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Your Favorite foss Apps! (lemmy.ml)
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List your most often used and favourite foss application on your Android phone.

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[–] ober@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to be a long list.

VLC, for playing videos and other media.

Auxio, for playing music and organizing playlists and such.

ConnectBot, for SSH.

Shizuku, for apps that support it.

RootlessJamesDSP, for audio stuff. Powered by Shizuku.

aShell, for stuff that requires root permission.

Aurora Store, for the few apps I need from the playstore.

KISS Launcher.

Droidify, for everything I need from F-Droid. Also powered by Shizuku.

Feeder, for RSS feeds.

FTPClient, for SFTP connections.

LibreTorrent, for torrenting and such.

Mull, for web browsing.

[–] LonelyNematocyst@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

VLC, for playing videos and other media.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this, but I use mpv for the same. It barely has an interface, but it's light and extremely configurable, and what I did was turn it into a picture-in-picture player (small, no border, etc, show subtitles if possible...). I use it to watch everything, including Youtube videos (it has builtin yt-dlp integration).

[–] sadpotato@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use Syncthing to sync my phones photo library with a Google Pixel running on my server rack. If you didn't know, the first model of Google Pixel still gets unlimited full quality photo uploads to Google Photos for free, so its a great way to keep those backed up, even if I don't particularly enjoy the company they're hosted on.

[–] WallaWallaWa@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Windows:

  • Bitwarden, password manager (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • Advanced Renamer, just what it says (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • FreeFileSync, terrific file sync app (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • VLC, media player
  • WizTree, folder comparison (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • Notepad ++, use it everyday (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • Everything, ditch Windows Search!
  • Plex, Emby, Jellyfin for media streaming (Jellyfin is FOSS, Plex can be free, Emby??? - have Plex and Emby Lifetime accounts)
  • caddy server, easy to set up and use

Android:

  • FairEmail - best email client around (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • nzb360 - monitor all your arr apps (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • Tautulli - Plex stats on steroids (Android, plus also on Windows)
  • Nova, great launcher (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • Standard Notes FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
  • Authy
  • Boost, soon to be gone thanks to reddit CEO
  • Sports Alert (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)

Probably missed some, but the above are essential to my everyday use.

[–] aaronbieber@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

For sync a la Dropbox, check out Syncthing! I run it in Windows, Linux, Mac, my Synology NAS, and Android. Works amazingly well.

[–] lysy@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago

OsmAnd for maps and navigation

[–] evmexa42@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are quite a few of them:

  • Organic Maps - maps and navigation based on openstreetmap
  • NekogramX - telegram client
  • Element - client for matrix
  • AntennaPod - for listening to podcasts
  • OpenTracks - tracker for my cycling workouts
  • AnySoftKeyboard - keyboard for android
  • Joplin - note taking app
  • F Droid - alternative to PlayMarket for FOSS applications
  • LibreTube - FOSS client for YouTube with built-in proxy
  • Fedilab - client for mastodon
  • StreetComplete, EveryDoor - to improve openstreetmap
  • Arna Translate - translator app based on the Lingva Translate API
  • Termux - terminal app
  • Spotube - client for Spotify without ads
  • ~~Infinity for Reddit (RIP) - client for reddit~~
[–] Cyan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I love AntennaPod, it's a real gem.

[–] TheWiz@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I've been loving LibreTube recently. It doesn't seem go get nearly as much love as other YouTube clients