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What is your favourite/ most used FOSS android apps? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some of mine are grayjay, kotatsu, expenses, voyager, feeder, mull and syncthing

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

to name a few I like:

Read You, brilliant RSS reader. Now syncs with Freshrss. Inspired by Reeder on iOS
Voice, audiobook player. I use it in fact to listen to audio from youtube videos (downloaded with Newpipe). For audiobooks (and podcasts) I use
Audiobookshelf (needs server)
FUTO keyboard with decent on device voice recognition! (exists as a standalone)
8Vim, weird keyboard I really like
Fairemail has been my trusty email client for years. Don't be spooked by its many options, once accounts configured the UI doesnt show unecessary stuff IMO. Some unique and useful features.
But if you want something simpler there's K9, now Thunderbird. Although I still experience the issue with emails not arriving on time with this newer version
KeepassDX, great password manager, good UI, keeps improving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

FUTO Keyboard isn't open source.

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

You may distribute the software or any part of its source code only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

isn't that open source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not. Noncommercial limitatation makes it also not open source.

I also think they don't allow forking.

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

not libre?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Thunderbird, Firefox, Element, Home Assistant, DAVx5, AntennaPod, Immich, NewPipe, Task.org, SyncThing, Tusky.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Seal: Allows me to download YouTube videos, Instagram reels, etc. It's a simple and pretty front end for yt-dlp.
Fossify Calendar: Finally kicked Google Calendar to the curb. No fuss calendar app.
AVNC: Allows me to remotely control my laptop from my phone. Requires installation of VNC software on the laptop (I'm using TightVNC).
Binary Eye: Barcode/QR code scanner with history.
Loop Habit Tracker: Helps me keep track of habits – eg. going to the gym X times a week.
Island: Allows me to create a clone of app. Useful for apps that don't support multi-accounts.
Simple Time Tracker: I use it to keep track of how long I spend playing a game, since I like documenting the info for HowLongToBeat.com

Other than these, K9 Mail and NewPipe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

HeliBoard
Ntfy
DavX5
K9-Mail
Aves Libre
Immich
Organic Maps
Transportr
Bitwarden
Jtx-Board
Paperless-App
Element-X
Molly
Findroid
Finamp
RiMusic
Arcticons Material You
Eternity
Bura / Clima
MoeMemos
Omni
LinkDroid

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

FUTO Keyboard

Thunder

Weather Master

Fennec

Thunderbird Android

Bitwarden

Material Files

Droid-ify

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Mull, syncthing, k9, aegis, binaryeye, RoMote, Breezy Weather, newpipe, auto-auto-rotate, rethink, radiodroid, linksheet, missed notification reminder.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Librera
Obtainium
AI Wallpaper Changer
Aegis
Mihon/Tachiyomi/whatever-the-current-fork-is
Termux

All of the above managed through Obtainium, directly from the source.

Bitwarden (Google Play link)
Eternity for Lemmy (Google Play link)
HordeNG (taken down from Google play, but if was basically just a wrapper for a web app which you can install easily from the browser anyway - https://horde-ng.org)
Baby Journal (also a web app wrapper, available as a web app at https://baby-journal.app)
probably others from Google Play I don't use that often and don't remember whether they are open source or not

Three of those are made by me, but I also use them often (that's why I created them in the first place).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Vanilla Music – the music player I use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Kvaesitso and Heliboard are my most used, since its just the homescreen and keyboard lol. For favorite I'd probably say Pipepipe, been watching a lot of YouTube and I'm sick of ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I was struggling to remember which I used, and then I remembered that Firefox (or Fennec, to be precise) is open source.

Also, Jerboa. Hi.

HeliBoard is also pretty good. As is Tusky.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Freebloks and Unciv for when I'm bored

TrackerControl for keeping my phone mostly ad and tracker free

Auxio for music, but I'm considering an alternative, I can't make it ignore certain folders so a lot of received Whatsapp audio shows up on the playlist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It sucks that Syncthing is discontinuing its android app

It would be up near the top of my list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Damn i didnt know that, its mostly where i use it too :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

WHAT ??!!

How will I sync my password amnager database from now ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's syncthing-fork that I hope will continue to be maintained (especially as they committed a guide on how to switch from the official app 2hrs ago). I've used it already before the depreciation of the official app and it's working reliably.

It looks like Play Store releases are planned to be stopped, so it's probably best to install it either directly from the GitHub releases (for this, Obtanium is also a great tool for finding and updating apps from lotta sources), or with F-Droid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You (and especially the devs of syncthing-fork) are a life saver !

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

Termux + syncthing cli + tasker

But this is not a solution for those that you do family tech support for.

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

Thank you ! What is tasker ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Run tasks on a schedule

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ty !

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Newpipe
Newpipe
Newpipe
Mull

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Grayjay ane newpipe are my go to for youtube. Im starting to prefer grayjay due to the automatic backup and being able to watch twitch, kick, odysee, YouTube and more in one app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Most used: k9 mail, Firefox, Voyager. Favorite: termux is awesome but I don't use it much.

Added: Trail Sense is another great app that I don't use all that much at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Great apps, i also use all of these.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Catima: stores barcodes of membership cards, etc.
Aegis: two factor auth app with backup options
LocalSend: open source cross platform airdrop clone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

koreader, tracker control

Also, they're new but opentimelimit and unlockmaster for productivity

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

Mull, 1List, Notally, and Cheogram are pretty heavily used.

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

Some great apps on here, iv noted a lot of them down to try out

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

Olauncher

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

Never heard of this, ill check it out.

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

Eternity, Material Files, Nextcloud, Termux and idk if it counts, but Expo Go, it's amazing for development.