I use CalyxOS so completely degoogled because everything passes through microG. I have the following;
- Phone (CalyxOS)
- Quik (texting)
- Fennec (Firefox w security)
- Thunderbird
- Google Pixel Camera app, firewalled, and any services go through microG
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Vivaldi - FOSS Weather - FOSS FB Reader - not FOSS but soon to be replaced with Librera FD when I finish what I'm currently reading Clock - FOSS Camera - not FOSS
Signal ✅
Whatsapp (for those who don’t use signal i must contact) ❌
Firefox ✅ (Which essentially serves as a webapp for an institutional website i need to always visit)
Simplenote ✅
Fennec ✅ (Main browser)
- ✅ Molly-FOSS
- ✅ FairEmail
- ✅ Markor
- ✅ Brave
- ✅ Metro (music player)
- ✅ Molly, Signal fork: https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
- ✅ Feeder, RSS Reader: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
- ❌ Polar Flow (unfortunately Gadgetbridge doesn't support my device)
- ✅ Threema Libre, open source, free in context of FOSS, but paid: https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-android?tab=readme-ov-file
- ✅ Voyager, Lemmy client: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
- ✅ Oeffi, public transport: https://oeffi.schildbach.de/index.html
- ✅ FairEmail: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
- ✅ GOS camera: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
- ✅ StreetComplete, OSM surveyor app: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
- ✅ OSMAnd: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand
I thought this was an easy one, but turns out it is not.
open source, but not free
Free here means free-as-in-freedom. The free software definition and open source definition are almost identical, there are very few apps that are only one or the other.
Edited. Thx for pointing out.
I use Total Launcher, and don't have an "app dock".
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IronFox (web browser)
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Fossify Caller app
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QUIK (SMS)
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Molly (Signal)
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Libretube (YouTube)
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Thunder (Lemmy).
Oops, all FOSS! :)
The only proprietary apps that see regular use on my phone are my banking app and Spotify.
Why Molly? Doesn't being unofficial mean always being a step behind in security updates?
If I were having high-stakes conversations, I might agree, but any slight delays in updates is unlikely to affect me. I'm not a high-stakes target of any sort.
- Super Productivity
- SchildiChat Next
- Open Camera (installed due to this post! replacing the default samsung camera app)
- Fennec
- SimpleX
- Fossify Phone
Using KISS launcher as my home launcher in minimal mode.
App dock has:
- AOSP Android Dialer (I think), whatever grapheneOS ships
- Molly-FOSS (Signal app)
- Thunder for Lemmy
- IronFox hardened Firefox fork
- Logseq Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
- ❓Phone
- ❌Beeper (Messenger)
- ✔️ IronFox (Browser)
- ✔️Aves (Photos)
- ✔️OpenCamera
here are my 4 non-Foss apps, out of 27 total on dock (yes on the dock, using folders)
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🚫nordvpn
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🚫obsidian (sync disabled)
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🚫@voice aloud tts
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🚫MS Swiftkey settings (true privacy threat i know, but Asian lang. support is essential & it runs w/o internet perm., w/o play services, and kept in incognito.)
Well - Kind of.
- Snapchat (not FOSS at all afaik)
- Aliucord (Modded client for Discord, at least partially open source)
- Summit (FOSS)
- Signal (FOSS, I think)
Molly-FOSS is the fully FOSS, hardened fork of Signal that is available on Fdroid via their repo.
Here's a feature comparison on their github between Signal, Molly, and Molly-FOSS. Basically, the stock signal app relies on some google services, Molly-FOSS does not.
Didn't know Summit had gone FOSS! Thanks mate! 💙
- ❌ Phone - com.samsung.android.dialer
- ❌ Messages - com.google.android.apps.messaging (Samsung)
- ❌ Chrome - com.android.chrome
- ❌ Camera - com.sec.android.app.camera (Samsung)
The thing is, I keep them there as a "last resort", not as main use.
I don't have an app dock, so... zero for both?
Well i do have one, i just like to have it empty
We are not the same
@drew_belloc @noodlejetski I don't have a dock either. I do have a favourites row though, and currently these are the pinned apps (arranged in no particular order):
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Chats (#Chatty) by Purism & GNOME - supports #SMS, #Matrix, #XMPP
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Contacts by GNOME
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GNOME Settings
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#Phosh Mobile Settings
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Tweaks by #postmarketOS
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#Tuba (client for #Mastodon / #Fediverse)
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#DeltaChat ( #openstandards-based, #securityaudited, fast #e2ee chats over bloody #email!)
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Files / #Nautilus by GNOME
All #FreeSoftware /Libre, #OpenSource #FOSS / #FLOSS : )
Note: The home screen and the app drawer / search / overview is all one and the same.
#FreedomTech #LibreTech #Librem5 #LibertyPhone #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #LinuxPhones #gnuLinux #softwarefreedom #BreakTheDuopoly
Cool, i think i just got used to scroll for my apps, i normally know where they are so is a seamless experiance for me, but i like options like those, i just don't put anything on my dock because i like to have a clean home screen, both on my phone and on my desktop
- Firefox ✅
- SMS app from Simple Mobile Apps ✅
- WhatsApp ❌
- stock video recording camera shortcut that came with my phone ❌
- OpenCamera ✅
3/5 and as I was writing this I found out I might be able to get rid of the video recording shortcut because apparently a software update exposed the full video resolution to OpenCamera… although I still have to test that.
I don't have a fixed bottom row.
I've got maximum two pages. Folder Cover mode is much more efficient. (I hope for an immersive (full screen) mode some day)
90% foss of all apps.
What's not foss? banking, gov broadcasters, arte, ard, zdf, german train app, magic earth, ebay, dict.cc, car sharing,
I think they should make ard, zdf and arte open source!
Yes! It's bonkers that they did not yet do it
I also think that they should work with the same backend and similar frontend. But they rather pay 5 people do to the same job
dict.cc is really great! And at least the German<>English dictionary used is FOSS: https://dict.zero-g.net/
Nice, I didn't know that. Unfortunately, I have to use deepl/linguee in "a lot" of cases
Yep, all except for two: Crumpet and our Bank app. We can be pretty sure of this as we run CalyxOS and we have too many apps to list otherwise as everything on our 'dock' is in folders.
Well as I don't have a dock in Niagara Pro I just go on with the apps I pinned:
Telephone, standard dailer from android : ✔️
WhatsApp, eeeeh: ❌ ❌ ❌
Discord: ❌
Firefox: ✔️
Proton Mail: well not FOSS (at least the paid tiers) but OSS
Proton Calendar: same thing
Jerboa: ✔️
Tusky: ✔️
Grayjay: I guess yeah to both (with license) ✔️
M.A.L.P: check and check ✔️
- Phone app, which is com.Android.dialer that seems kind of (F)OSS at least(?)
- Contacts app, same as phone app: com.android.contacts
- Telegram client Forkgram which is partly OSS but contains unfree stuff upstream + relies completely on non-free service (telegram server +client)
- Email: K9/thunderbird android full FOSS
- Browser: Iceraven which is a fork of Firefox Android. It comes with the MPL (Mozilla public license) but I think it also contains non-free binaries or assets, so mostly FOSS I would say?
@LeFrog @lemmydividebyzero
Please, could you tell me how you made these hyperlinks, so they have the text appearing instead of the link, like how do in Markdown link ❓️
The syntax is this: [some text](https://my-cool-url.com/nice) which is then rendered like this: some text
The complete "markdown source code" of my comment is this:
>Click to open<
- Phone app, which is [com.Android.dialer](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Dialer/) that seems kind of (F)OSS at least(?)
- Contacts app, same as phone app: [com.android.contacts](
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Contacts)
- Telegram client [Forkgram](https://github.com/forkgram/TelegramAndroid) which is partly OSS but contains unfree stuff upstream + relies completely on non-free service (telegram server +client)
- Email: [K9/thunderbird android](https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android) full FOSS
- Browser: [Iceraven](https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser) which is a fork of Firefox Android. It comes with the MPL (Mozilla public license) but I think it also contains non-free binaries or assets, so mostly FOSS I would say?
@LeFrog @lemmydividebyzero
⚠️You put the same link, Forkgram's, for K9/thunderbird android and Iceraven.
Thx for the hint, is fixed now
@LeFrog
Err…
The K9/thunderbird android still has the same link.
This may be due to slow federation of edits. You are using a Mastodon account, right? The federation maybe needs some additional time then
Default telephone, messages, settings, mixplorer, firefox
Phone (proprietary); Beeper (partial-FOSS); DuckDuckGo (FOSS?); Mlem (FOSS)
I put all my apps on my home screen and I keep all non-FOSS apps in a single folder as a reminder to find replacements. The vast majority of my apps are FOSS at this point.
Phone, messengers/SMS, settings, browsers, and photo/video tools, in that order. Probably mostly because that's the default location and where I'm used to them being.
@lemmydividebyzero
They are Fossify Phone, Fossify Voice Recorder, Fossify Camera, Fossify File Manager and Settings. So, 80% FOSS!