I wouldn't watch YouTube if it wasn't for Newpipe.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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TIL about SD Maid SE. How does it compare with the original SD Maid (which looks like is still being updated)?
@d3Xt3r@lemmy.world you could see the detail here.
That explains it. Thanks! Guess I'm uninstalling old SD Maid. :)
Many, but I would shout-out DAVxβ΅ and Bitwarden.
Looks like others have already mentioned most of my favourites, but one I feel deserves special mention: Newpipe.
Haven't used the main YouTube app or website in years!
- Termux is my lifeline to my main Emacs session. Besides ssh and small scripts I also run a couple of personalized services in it that I've written in Go.
- Antennapod listened to thousands of hours of podcasts in it
- Fedilab is my favorite mobile Mastodon client. I also use Jerboa for Lemmy but it's not quite at the favorite app level yet
- KeyMapper is essential for me, especially when managing a physical keyboard
- NewPipe for youtube
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon roguelike dungeon crawler
- MuPDF sensible PDF viewer
Also, RIP RedReader I know it still works but I've moved on from reddit.
Have you tried liftof for Lemmy, I kind of like it a bit better than Jerboa, https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
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- App Manager - An app manager with super powers! With this app I can keep track off my apps permissions, operations, launch activities, freeze or uninstall bloatware. Although, my main reason to use this is the built-in apk/apks installer that shows the components, trackers, and differences between versions when updating an app. It has even more features I can't say. Truly amazing.
- Aves - Best gallery app on Android. I love the mosaic view!
- KDE Connect - Connect your Android with you PC. Can share files, sync clipboard, control media etc.
- RethinkDNS - Best DNS/Firewall app I've ever used. Doesn't consume lot battery and it's super configurable.
- URLCheck - I can't live without it. With this app I can check, modify, unshorten and remove tracking elements from links, and even select the app you want to open that link with - Really nice when using work profile.
- Firefox
- KeePassDX (IMO, better than Bitwarden)
- Droidify (F-Droid client)
- mpv (Media player)
- NewPipe (YouTube client)
- Shelter (isolate/clone apps, create separate work profile)
- WiFiAnalyzer
KeePassDX
Woo for KeePassDX! Love it so much I donated.
Aves libre is the best Foss app I've used for managing a picture library.
learned about Organic Maps recently and its a really nice (albeit very simple, for now) open street maps client for GPS navigation. The interface is super nice
Material files is by far my favorite file browser app, I've been using it since before I paid much attention to foss vs proprietary
Droidify is my fav f-droid client
Droidify + Shizuku is great!
I don't think I realized it has shizuku support, that's pretty neat
The automatic updating is great for us rootless folks.
I'm rootless also, but haven't played much with shizuku. I just went and enabled it, I'm curious to see the improvement next time I have lots of updates available!
Notepad++, GIMP, Proton, Openshot
How dare you mistake this thread for a desktop one?
Nice apps though.
Oops. I guess I should have been more lucid.
Oh man! I moved to the mac world, and even though is nice, I miss notepad++ sooo much!
Firefox, Termux, VLC, Jerboa, LiftOff, PPSSPP
- Password Store + OpenKeychain - Supports Yubikeys (NFC and USB) for both decrypt and ssh+git sync
- Syncthing
- Uploads my photos to where another script can publish them to my photo gallery
- Like Google Photos with "unlimited" storage and original quality
- Element - Self hosted Synapse with Googlechat bridge eliminated regular Google Chat for me
- Firefox
- KeePassXC - Yubikeys don't work for my wife. We handle shared passwords with this + Syncthing.
- Aegis - 2FA with workable backup
I'm looking for:
- Launcher most comparable to Nova. Majority FOSS launchers seem to be text-based search things which is getting way too into the weeds for me.
- Mail app with good search. I don't think this actually exists because IMAP sucks too much but lack of search will always make the transition from Gmail nearly impossible.
For a launcher, I've been using Neo Launcher (which is on IzzyOnDroid). It's not as feature full as Nova but it's pretty similar in spirit and style
Neo Launcher looks like exactly what I want! Thank you!
IzzyOnDroid
I had seen this referenced a few times in the past couple of weeks but finally got off my butt to check it out. I always install F-Droid but never bothered with extra repos. I guess I'll need to add that to my setup playbook because I'm gonna need Neo on everything now :).
It'd be kind of nice if I could run Ansible on an Android device. Full root backups aren't quite the same thing since I really want to apply the settings to multiple devices, not just splat a disk image on top of things.
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Neostore(fdroid), k9 mail, newpipe, firefox, amaze
- Libretube - alternative youtube app
- K-9 Mail - email client. simple but powerful
- Aurora Store - Alternative to google play store
- RCX - Rclone for android. Very useful. I cipher all my online storage with this app
- DAVX5 - app to sync contacts and calendar
Neo, Droidify, SchildiChat, Jerboa.
Nothing to add in terms of lists because I've only just gotten into FOSS. I already use DuckDuckGo to block the insane amount of tracking on the Pixel7a I bought but still disturbed by all the forced google apps. So working my way through this list replacing what I can.
Thanks to all the people offering their suggestions and to OP for creating this convo! Freedom (from excessive tracking) is on the way.
Nextcloud - easily access my self-hosted cloud storage from anywhere when needed. Firefox - browse the web, been a Firefox Stan for ages K-9 Mail - I love the flexibility offered by this mail app AntennaPod - it's been the best podcast app that I've come across that's also pretty configurable Jerboa - Lemmy :P
Are you me?
Also, have you hooked up Antennapod to Nextcloud via Gpoddersync? That's been a godsend for me as I've been swapping phones a lot recently.
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Thanks for this great discussion question! I'd just flag that we'd generally ask that submitters also include some information of their own to to jumpstart the conversations. So I'd also ask you, what are your favourite FOSS apps and why? Feel free to edit your post and include in the description!
Bitwarden Proton mail
- Joplin - multiplatform notes
- Feeder - RSS feed reader
- Aves Libre - image gallery
- OctoDroid - GitHub manager/viewer
- MediLog - health metrics tracker
Fdroid, neostore, freetube+newpipe, jerboah, osm fennec, netguard, orbot and nextcloud are the first that come to mind
- fennec (browser)
- forkgram (telegram fork)
- quillpad (note app)
- simple keyboard
- Aegis (2fa)
- Vlc
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