Personally paid for Niagara launcher as I find that to be the far superior launcher to any other I’ve tried. My second one is Symfonium, the most feature rich and well developed audio player.
What are yours?
RealCalc
It’s a really nice calculator.
Unified remote. WiFi or Bluetooth control over any win/Linux/Mac machine with many remotes and incredible functionality.
Tasker. Pretty much programming your Android to automate things. Such a powerful app.
Paprika app. Helps us meal plan and be prepared for the week. Cloud sync with my spouse, shared grocery list, calendar, pantry tracking, recipe scaling, and many more features. The best feature however, is that the screen does not go off while you are cooking.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hindsightlabs.paprika.android.v3
What a great suggestion! Very nice 👌
Smart Audio Book Player. I listen to a lot of audio books and this one was more than worth the €2.39 I paid. So many features I love it.
What are these “paid” android apps you speak of?
What do you mean?
Just being silly. I don’t think I have any apps I’ve paid for.
Used to be the case for me too. But recently discovered that paid apps generally is much better polished, feature rich and ad+tracking free. That at least for me makes it more interesting paying for apps.
FX as an explorer replacement when Xiaomi put pubs in theirs.
You have a free version too, I don’t even use the “pro” stuff just wanted to contribute.
An oldie but a goodie.
Niagara launcher
The Royal Spanish Academy’s dictionary, most likely. While I can easily have conversations in Spanish, the similarities with my mother language every once in a while make me get words confused, specially in conjugation (why does B and V need to sound so similar…). I’ve had it for a while, and although it was a bit pricey, it has saved me quite a few times from awkward mix ups. Also bonus points for working completely offline (looking at you, Yomiwa dictionary…), and having no problems being sideloaded into vanilla Android systems.
NZB360 for managing my *arr services for downloading movies and TV shows
Slay the Spire
Also Balatro
Not today, Satan.
I’ve been playing it and it’s definitely fun but it’s not as sticky as StS imo. There’s too much randomness and not enough control. At least compared to sts
Don’t tell me this! I have it on my steam deck and it is addictive enough. I had no idea it was available on android. I am going to try and pretend I didn’t read this.
I’ve put 400 hours in on phone alone from public transit commutes.
It’s coming for you… I’ve already bought it and played it all the way through on pc, switch, and android
That game is tons of fun, but I suck at it.
Heads up: Nova launcher got sold out to a shady company - Branch Analytics.
Thanks for the warning, I didn’t know about that. That’s disappointing news.
Are there any good free software alternatives?
And laid off all but one person. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/nova-launcher-savior-of-cruft-filled-android-phones-is-on-life-support/
ISS detector pro
Stardew Valley.
The only other app I have paid for that wasn’t a game is “iVCam” so I can use my phone’s camera as a webcam that isn’t limited to some stupidly small resolution or have a watermark, can do more than 30fps, and also works as a source in OBS. I mostly use it for full body tracking in VR with the April tag system. But I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite.
Android has webcam support in USB mode and has for like 3 versions now, though?
When it asks you what you want your device to do when plugged into a PC you get options like "file transfer (ftp)”, webcam should be on the bottom
Works flawlessly for me in both Linux and Windows for OBS
To be fair, I bought the app years ago when that wasn’t a thing. But I also don’t see webcam as an available option when plugging it into my PC. I have a carrier branded Pixel 8 rn, so it might not have everything a regular stock android would. :/
I can actually just use some FOSS thing I found on GitHub to basically remote access my phone now via ADB, which is also handy in VR as I can use a VR version of it without taking off the headset.