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Fx file manager. if you do file management locally or want to access SMB share content , cloud, bluetooth etc, this app ia awesome.

Threema.

Neutron music player.

FairEmail.

Macrodroid. It is like Tasker, but with a much much better UI.

Symfonium is an awesome music player that's a one-time $5 purchase.

Great question, btw.

I love Simple Audiobook Player+. The UI is super minimal (and really maxes out the whole OLED black thing if you choose it) without compromising on features that are kind of essential for audiobooks (e.g. delayed pause/sleep timers, speed settings, volume boosting, an EQ). My favorite thing is the "undo seek" button. I'm an oaf who is constantly inputting accidental touches. When I was using Audible, I'd have to manually find where I was after accidentally hitting the next chapter button or moving the dot on the progress bar. SABP lets me just undo that shit.

It hasn't been updated in a while, but it doesn't need updating when it does its job so well. There are no ads, no marketing notifications, just books. It's like a program from coreutils in app form. It might be a bit ugly or outdated looking, but I'm about that.

MiXplorer: Tabbed file explorer with many features. You can get it for free from their website, but it's available paid on Google Play.

Symfonium: Music player compatible with many backends, such as local storage, WebDAV, Subsonic (which includes Ampache, Navidrome)

aCalendar+: Calendar app with many widgets. Best part is the persistent notification, which shows what's happening today, and will happen tomorrow.

Cryptomator: Cross-platform file encryption program, also open source.

Others have recommended other file explorers, but I use FX and rather like it.

If you're a fan of customization and getting your home screen just how you like it, KLWP and Nova Prime.

Nova Prime is a launcher with a bunch of customization options for how your app drawer works, how apps are laid out, how big they are, how folders look, etc. I use it for the fact that i can set folders to have the icon of the first app inside, and a gesture so that tapping them opens that app, while swiping up opens the folder.

KLWP is essentially Rainmeter for Android.

If your device has stylus support I recommend Artflow for drawing/image editing

just scrolling trough my phone, here's some I like

app opps - lets you change permissions for apps, handy if you want to have multiple things playing audio or use google photos without it scanning your phone.

calcu - it's a calculator!

simple draw - exactly what it says on the tin

es file explorer pro - versatile, but not bloated

moon+ reader pro - a handy reader for all sorts of docs, including search etc

polarr - a photo editing app with features not a lot of apps have. The devs are pushing some dumb filters tho

handy photo - same as polarr

mx player pro - got videos to play?

poweramp - a music player

poweramp equalizer - is what it says on the tin

sd maid pro - for clearing out old files and such

poweraudio plus - used to be the only app with a parametric equalizer. Now poweramp does too

ultrachron - just a nice timer/stopwatch

unified remote - a remote control app, be careful tho, I doubt this thing is secure

web video caster - also downloads videos from plenty of places

and a couple more apps, where the developer has decided to pull the lifetime license and move to a subscription, even after I had bought it

officesuite pro - it's handy, but f them

Game: crying suns It's a full ftl type game that's on steam as well. Big story. Took me a while to get through it

Minimalist phone Launcher that helps to use addictive apps less. And overall a boring home that demotivates you to use your phone.

CamScanner (intuitive and powerful scanner app that processes images exceptionally well and interfaces cleanly with all sorts of other apps) and Hiper Calc Pro (scientific calculator that shows you your input and looks like a classic calculator interface)

Tasker. Basically an interface for writing scripts for your phone. Even if you don't have a use case in the beginning you'll start finding things to do with it.

Balatro

Sleep as Android

It's just a really great alarm clock app, but with tons of other sleep tracking functionality. I've always had trouble sleeping through my alarms, but I never do with this.

I use Paprika 3 extensively.

I find recipes online, download them to the app stripped of all the online recipe bloat. It sorts all the information automatically, including notes and nutritional info. I can check off ingredients and highlight directions, edit tags, compile menus, add my own notes and write my own recipes, it automatically provides a grocery checklist, has a serving calculator to adjust amounts for whole recipes, built in timers, and that's just the basics off the top of my head.

It's free up to a certain amount of storage but I think all the features are available.

Torque and a $5 BT car computer dongle. It tells you everything about your car. You can see what warning lights mean and clear the codes.

Slice and Dice is a very entertaining one time buy game. No bullshit in game purchases, no ads, I think developed by a singular guy.

Fair Email. I grabbed it from F Droid and paid direct though.

Stardew Valley