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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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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 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
[–] Hate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  • Simple Gallery for your gallery (just purchased but there is an emerging fork I'm blanking on the name of)

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery

Simple Gallery was bought by ZipoApps and will be soon flooded with ads and tracking garbage, FossifyOrg forked the whole simple mobile tools suite, and will continue development independently of ZipoApps

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[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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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[–] newproph@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months 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.

[–] dez@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

F-Droid, Voyager, Eternity, Libretube

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I am lazy, so let me just put the link to my non-root smartphone guide with a section for FOSS Android apps.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/101358

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here are some not mentioned in this thread yet.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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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[–] sibloure@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Nextcloud News I like for RSS since it fetches the full text article. Obtainium lkke others mentioned is a must have for me.

[–] 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Templa@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Obsidian isn't FOSS. I highly recommend Logseq but keep in mind they require CLA signing for contributions

[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Keyboard:

  • AnySoftKeyboard good all around keyboard, good language support, decent though messy customizability
  • Unexpected keyboard more specialized, provides easy access to app (printable) ASCII characters and some others, allrght customizability
  • 8Vim Cool factor, great customizability, decent language support but you need to learn it

Games:

  • Pirate Solitare nothing much but I've been playing it a lot lately
  • Simon Tathman's Puzzle Collection a cross platform puzzle collection, has a lot of different puzzles in a uniform style
  • Antimine minesweeper with nice ui

System:

  • RethinkDNS: DoH provider and firewall Easy to use, especially nice for those non FOSS apps you need to have to maintain a social life, not that powerful though
  • Obtainium: FOSS app downloader Downloads apps from releases or equivalent, therefore can have faster updates than fdroid, but no discovery, aside from search on some platforms
  • ffupdater: FOSS browser downloader Like obtainium, but for browsers (mostly) and has list of browsers
  • Droid-ify: fdroid client better ui than the default app, comes with a list of repos
  • Shizuku: ADB shell api not useful if you have root (see SUI, which is the root implementation for the same api, though shizuku will also work I think), but can give a bit more access if you don't supports wireless debugging on A12+
  • Neolauncher: launcher nice ui but nothing special
  • SD Maid SE: storage cleaner okish ui, doesn't stop me from having 302 (not including system) apps on my device. Yes I have a problem
  • Package manager: app manager Shizuku support, powerful, though limited if you don't have root
  • Inure: app manager [freemium (8$), but GPL licensed?] pretty must like Package manager but with amazing ui

Media:

  • LibreTube: Piped (youtube) client Nice ui, no ads, sponsor block support, kinda unstable
  • Innertube: YouTube music client doesn't use piped/invidious, no ads, nice ui
  • Tusky: mastodon client nice ui, quite stable, multiuser support
  • Jerboa: lemmy client ok ui, up to date with lemmy updates
  • Liftoff: lemmy client nicer ui then Jerboa but doesn't work since .15 (?) and had issues with rendering markdown properly
  • LibreTorrent bitTorrent client for downloading all those isos and public domain works, nice ui

Misc:

  • Mull: ff based browser not much to say, "security oriented and deblobbed", upstreams some features from Tor
  • Calculator++: A scientific calculator A lot of functionality while remaining easy to use
  • RPNcalc: A Reverse Polish Notation calculator best RPN calculator I've found on fdroid, less powerful than Calculator++, but RPN based calculators are more efficient^[citation needed]^
  • Simple Apps: suit of apps providing basic functionality great ui and customizability, I don't use simple keyboard, simple launcher/drawer however
  • OpenCamera: a camera app advanced features

Just the apps I thought of, as I, as mentioned in the SD Maid entry, have a lot of apps installed :P

[–] heyfrancis@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago
[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] catfooddispenser@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

megladon for mastodon

[–] enshu@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Organic Maps, Syncthing and Feeder.

[–] jabjoe 3 points 10 months 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.
[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] wason@lemmy.run 3 points 10 months 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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[–] Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 3 points 10 months ago

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

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