For me it's ViMusic. I was stuck with a shitty Spotify subscription that I couldn't afford until I found Vi. It has pretty much all the bands I like and it passed my moms rigerous examination (she listens to all of of really obscure stuff) so when her Amazon subscription ran out, I got her to start using that instead. Suck it jezzy b!
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Firefox
Nextcloud
Home Assistant
Bitwarden
Tusky
Jellyfin
Pihole
Jerboa
As well as several others that I can't think of at the moment.
Some more I did not see others mention. For Linux:
- Geany
- Python
- Meld
- Nextcloud
- Reminna and TightVNC
- Thunderbird
- Zim
For Android:
- Just Weather
- Joplin
- OpenSync
- Tasks
- OSMAnd
- Nextcloud
- SMSBackp
- Connect Bot
I also recommend the site: https://alternativeto.net/ . You can just search and it will tell you the most used FOSS apps in any category you want.
Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one using geany. Nice to see it mentioned.
Assuming I'm using Android:
- Mull or Fennec
- SkyTube
- Tusky
- Jerboa
- UntrackMe
- Orbot
- SicMu Player (or any good music player app)
KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that's usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask "can you call my phone I lost it :c"
Linux, Qtile, Firefox, Bitwarden, neovim, espanso, and others. So many great tools for those willing and able to do a little digging.
Firefox and VSCodium
Jerboa might be added to the list soon.
Joplin, Aegis, Bitwarden
- KDE Connect
- LibreTorrent for Android
- Droid-ify for F-Droid
- Orbot for Android (I use it mainly for running the snowflake proxy)
- Firefox
- Signal
- FFUpdater
- Red Moon
Komga- manga reader
Osmand - I use this along Google maps, but it's nice to have entire regions downloaded and it shows more information than Google maps, specifically for back country stuff where you need to see every type of trail
Home Assistant
Wireguard - I love that the protocol is lightweight and secure, makes it really easy to access my home network without needing to expose self hosted stuff to the internet
Bitwarden - self hosted with vaultwarden/SQLite, changed my life and it's really easy to share logins with my partner
Immich - self hosted, the first real replacement for Google photos I've found. It has autobackup and it's really easy to share albums.
Kiss Launcher - I like how simple it is. My home screen ends up disorganized anyway so it's honestly just faster to have a recents list and a quick search feature.
Neovim and Guake or Yauake for terminal emulation are both necessary for me.
I really hope the Infinity dev starts working on a Lemmy/kbin app.
I dont think they will, but they did say lemmys api is similar enough that it wouldnt be complicated to fork infinity to work with lemmy if anyone else wants to do it so it may well come about. I think im happy enough with jerboa for now
Firefox and Helix
Firefox
libre office
obs studio (free, not 100% sure if os)
The O in OBS stands for open :)
The humble grep.
The list is too long. If I'm forced to choose 5, I guess they'll be,
- Linux
- Syncthing
- Firefox
- Neovim
- PhotoPrism
- Quillpad (offline notes)
- MuPDF mini (Great simple PDF reader)
- Unit Converter Ultimate (lots of various conversions)
- Retro Music (fdroid repo for pro version, best music player hands down)
- OSMAnd (Great for fancy mapping features)
- Mull (hardened Firefox with the quickest updates of all Firefox based browsers)
- AntennaPod (best podcast app)
- Obtanium (install apps easily from sources such as Github)
- Droid-ify (better fdroid)