Here’s what I’m rocking:
- Aegis
- App Lounge
- AntennaPod
- Bitwarden
- Dicio
- Doodle
- F-Droid
- FeedMe (Not FOSS. Open to suggestions)
- Firefox
- FNG
- InvizBox
- Jerboa
- Mastodon
- Music Player GO
- Obsidian
- OpenLauncher
- Organic Maps
- OsmAnd~
- Proton Cal/Drive/Mail/VPN
- RadioDroid
- RedReader
- Signal
- Silence
- 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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2FAS, Bitwarden, Firefox are my most used FOSS on Android for me.
I use a few apps from the SimpleMobileTools suite. They aren’t full FOSS, they have basic and pro versions where the basic version is GPL3 and the proprietary extended features cost a few bucks. The basic FOSS tools are still decent, if barebones.
The suite includes:
- a calculator
- a phone dialer
- a music player
- a calendar
- a photo gallery (with basic editor)
- an audio recorder
- a flashlight
- a clock
- an app launcher
- an SMS messenger
- a camera
- a keyboard
- a note taker
- a file manager
- a contact book
- a simple painting canvas
I use the gallery and file manager the most. Though admittedly I threw a couple bucks their way for the proprietary extensions. It’s not FOSS, but if it was going to be proprietary, I think it’s one of the fairest deals in software these days. Better than another bloody subscription model, or holding the ad-free experience hostage behind a paywall.
But they sell their app to ZippoApps which gonna add ads and tracker and You have to get subscribtion to remove ads. You can switch to Fossify fork of SimpleMobile tools.
That’s disappointing :/ do you have a source you could share?
Also, I’m confused about the versions available. From the comments here, there seems to be a free and paid version. But if I go to FDroid there’s obly the “pro version” there. That’s what I’ve been using and I see no ads. Where is the other one at?
If you install from F-Droid you are good to go it have pro features already but if you have play store then don’t update at all. And maybe source code of SMT app will be archived in future.
Thank you for letting me know about this.
No Problem
What’s FNG? Fluid navigation gestures? Is that FOSS? Can you share a link to the codebase? Can’t find it
It’s one of my favorites. It lets you set swipe zones that perform actions or open apps on the left roght and bottom edges. You can put up to 4 on each edge with long and short swipes doubling them, so you can have up to 24! It’s not maintained any more, but you can find a .apk and install it manually
My favourites so far.
- PlainApp
- Rethink
- Audile (Shazam FOSS)
- Notally
- OpenBoard (keyboard)
- Material Files
- QKSMS
- OsMand~
- Forecastie
- Obtainium
- Newpipe
- Cromite (Bromite fork)
- Monocles translator
Not open-source but the only gallery I found without trackers:
- Gallery made by Greensoft infotech
THANK YOU for antennapod!!! What an incredibly beautiful app, I’m so impressed!!
I was so excited when I discovered this app. To me it’s one of the most perfect apps. I wish I could use it on desktop.
I’m running openboard’s fork by helium! It supports glide typing, if you download a library! There are instructions in the app 🙂
I also recently found sayboard (available on fdroid), which has been working WAY better than I expected as a speech-to-text alternative 🙂
Newpipe, for watching youtube videos without ads or tracking
Openboard keyboard for the one feature I can never be without again: moving the cursor by swiping left or right on the spacebar, it’s a godsend for selecting stuff with my wide fingers
I’d recommend Mull instead of Firefox or Fennec (the deblobbed version) since it’s hardened.
It’s basically a Librewolff analogue for mobile
AuthenticatorPro instead of aegis
Only because it looks nice compared to aegis and the icons work (they didn’t work for me in aegis after many tries for some reason)
We have similar lists, so some considerations:
- Helium314 fork of OpenBoard for keyboard
- Simple Gallery for your gallery (just purchased but there is an emerging fork I’m blanking on the name of)
- Matrix with a Signal bridge so you can use tablets and other devices with Element, which has a wider range of devices
- NeoLauncher is like OL, but with more configuration
- Thunder for Lemmy. Great client, and only one with 2 column tablet support
- Simple Gallery for your gallery (just purchased but there is an emerging fork I’m blanking on the name of)
https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery
Simple Gallery was bought by ZipoApps and will be soon flooded with ads and tracking garbage, FossifyOrg forked the whole simple mobile tools suite, and will continue development independently of ZipoApps
Thank you, was losing my mind trying to remember the URL. Of course I now recall its in my history from when I edited my post of a hard fork as a backup.
Obtainium is great for updating apps hosted outside the playstore, big upside being you don’t need to bother with FDroid releases
what kind of apps cant be updated through playstore/fdroid?
what are the one you are using?
what kind of apps cant be updated through playstore/fdroid?
it’s not that they can’t be (maybe some apps I use can’t) but rather that I don’t like some things about F-Droid. One of the big things being unreliable app updates. They are often significantly outdated compared to GitHub releases.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#f-droid
“Due to their process of building apps, apps in the official F-Droid repository often fall behind on updates. F-Droid maintainers also reuse package IDs while signing apps with their own keys, which is not ideal as it gives the F-Droid team ultimate trust.”
FeedMe (Not FOSS. Open to suggestions)
The RSS or meal planning app? If it’s the former I like Feeder. You can probably export and import all your feeds.
I think some of my favorites are LibreTorrent, Session, and NewPipe.
I am a big fan of open source engine recreations, even if I don’t play them a ton, so DevilutionX and OpenMW are worth mentioning. I think Xash3D is also open source if you want to play Half Life on the go.
I think OpenRCT2 has an Android app but I haven’t bothered figuring out how to set it up yet.
I meant RSS. Thanks for asking. I’ll check Feeder out
For keyboard I’m currently using OpenBoard and ThumbKey, the latter obviously not for everyone.
Adding to your list:
- Droidify
- Trail Sense
- NewPipe
- Logseq
- Syncthing
- Coffee
- Element
- Cryptomator
- VLC
- Geometric Weather
- Termux
- Noteless
- StreetComplete
- Translate You
@themadcodger @wuphysics87
I would add Delta Chat to the list.you sir make sense…been scrolling through this post and see the most bizarre suggestions.
so, what apps do you add to Termux?
Not sure about the rest of those, but Obsidian isn’t OS either.
I didn’t realize that. Thanks!
Joplin works pretty well
I use Joplin but I don’t love it.
- Acode - code editor
- Auto-Auto-Rotate - remember rotation lock settings by app
- Auxio - there’s a million music players, this one scratches my itch just right
- Binary Eye - bar/QR scanner
- BreezyWeather - appears to have sources globally
- Collabora Office - view & edit libre/Microsoft office files
- Missed Notifications Reminder - I need a repeating audio notification so I don’t miss important work related messages
- MJpdf - pdf reader
- Mull - privacy enhanced Firefox
- RoMote - roku remote on your phone
- Skymap - what is that thing in the sky?
- Snapdrop - share with other devices via snapdrop.net (crashy) or pairdrop.net (better)
Breezy stopped development, Geometric Weather replaced/continued it.
Looks like Geometric Weather stopped development back in '22 and isn’t in the Play Store anymore.
I’m a sucker for a decent weather app.
Check out yr.no, it is made by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. I think it is pretty good internationally too
Good to know, thanks
I think they’re wrong. I use it through F-droid and still get updates. The most recent was within the past couple weeks.
