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  • Aegis
  • App Lounge
  • AntennaPod
  • Bitwarden
  • Dicio
  • Doodle
  • F-Droid
  • FeedMe (Not FOSS. Open to suggestions)
  • Firefox
  • FNG
  • InvizBox
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  • 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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[โ€“] thurstylark@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[โ€“] newproph@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years 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.

[โ€“] Templa@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

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

F-Droid, Voyager, Eternity, Libretube

[โ€“] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[โ€“] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years 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

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

[โ€“] heyfrancis@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here are some not mentioned in this thread yet.

[โ€“] sibloure@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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OpenBoard + predictive text binary

[โ€“] Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 3 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] enshu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Organic Maps, Syncthing and Feeder.

megladon for mastodon

[โ€“] wason@lemmy.run 3 points 2 years 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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[โ€“] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Obtainium is pretty good

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