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What Are Your Favorite FOSS Android Apps? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sag@lemy.lol 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for letting me know about this.

[–] sag@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

No Problem

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] sag@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

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.