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Ankidroid— Create, share, borrow and study with flash cards
Firefox— Web browser
Rethink Firewall— Best firewall for android
Infinity— Gonna miss this one (Reddit client)
Libretube— Modern Youtube client using Piped
Obtainium—Keeps track of all my foss apps from their git repositories + them
Gnu IMP— Desktop photo editor
Aurora Store— Download apps from the play store
Thanks for recommending Libretube. I just switched to GrapheneOS and was looking for a FOSS revanced replacement without the need for Play Services or MicroG. Libretube is absolutely perfect.
cant choose one because i enjoy using a lot of them:
F-Droid for FOSS apps
Aurora for Google Playstore apps
OSMAnd for navigation
Oeffi for public transport
many Simple Mobile Tools apps
K-9 Mail
Tor browser
Shelter for isolating apps
Tusky for Mastodon
Jerboa for Lemmy
Nunti for RSS feeds
Molly for Signal
Telegram FOSS
Aegis for 2FA
QickDic (dictionary)
TinyWeather
Threema Libre (not free)
For the map I prefer Organic Maps, it has a cleaner UI
Emacs, that's all I need!
Bitwarden
I've seen Bitwarden show up in this thread a few times. I've been a longtime user of KeePassX. Is there any particular reason I should consider switching?
What made me choose bitwarden is the emergency access feature.
It allows to designate someone as an emergency contact. This person can request access to your vault and if you don't deny the request then they will have access after x days.
This way, if something happens to me then someone in my close family can still access my account.
I got the case recently with my brother in law who got into an accident and thanks God his laptop was not locked so my sister could access his accounts.
Because if not it can be a nightmare ! Having to deal with all the utilities company, harassing you because you did not pay the bill that arrived on a locked email account, then not being able to pay the bill anyways because you have to connect on they website ... on top of getting your husband and the father of your child in the hospital in a coma.
LineageOS: my Android ROM of choice
LineageOS for MicroG: the ROM on my second phone where I quarantine my use of apps that refuse to work without Google services (mostly stuff I need for business travel e.g. Amtrak, Google Maps)
Aurora Store: allows installation of most Play Store apps without login. I mainly use this on the MicroG phone, but it's also needed to get the ProtonMail and ProtonCalendar apps (only ProtonVPN is on F-Droid)
TrackerControl: allows fine tuned domain blocking on a per-app basis. Often allows you to block just ads and trackers but still be able to use an app or at least many of its features.
Arcticons: monochrome line art icons (because I hate fun and want my GUIs to look like a terminal)
AsteroidOS Sync: WearOS replacement. AsteroidOS still has a long way to go, but I doubt WearOS would play nicely with LineageOS and I don't want all the tracking anyway.
Bubble: bubble level by woheller69 (a true F-Droid GOAT)
FlorisBoard: afaik, only FOSS gesture typing Android keyboard (besides AnySoft, which doesn't seem to work consistently)
GMaps WV: fairly locked-down web viewer for Google Maps (sadly OSM just doesn't have a usably complete business directory where I live)
Lawnchair: launcher with all the features I want except being up to date on F-Droid
Librera: the PDF reader on F-Droid that I hate the least. (Anyone got any better recommendations?)
NewPipe: ad-free Youtube player with locally stored subscriptions and playlists. An IzzyOnDroid fork with SponsorBlock is also available.
QKSMS: my SMS app of choice
Signal: because I can't convince my friends to switch to Briar
SpoTube: pirate ad-free Spotify that works by looking up tracks on Youtube. Is therefore limited by what's available on YT and sometimes plays wrong tracks, but you can't beat the price :] Even interfaces with a Spotify account to play and edit playlists.
Standard Notes: E2E encrypted cloud-synced notes. Also accessible by web browser, which has saved my ass a few times while phoneless
Weather: by BeoCode on F-Droid
VLC: everyone's favorite traffic cone boi
Thank you for adding descriptions. Just lists of random projects are a lot to go through.
Firefox.
Also:
Thunderbird Gimp Audacious
Blender and Firefox for me have always been the apps that have their shit together the most. Both I perceive as insanely complicated pieces of software with a lot of features that work really well and compete with for profit corporations with way more resources.
I’m really impressed with how far Blender has come. Some seriously good stuff. Doesn’t feel like it has stagnated at all, good UI changes, cool new tools… I’m not a big user of it lately, but it’s cool to see how much progress it has made over the years.
The list is too long. If I'm forced to choose 5, I guess they'll be,
emacs
YyyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuuP.
The humble grep.
Firefox, LibreTube, Kaiteki
These two are now the first apps I install on any new device:
Basically, my approach is to (mostly) prioritize text over icons, and reduce the colors I need to process.
Other apps:
Brave has always felt sketchy to me with all the built-in crypto junk.
Yeah that stuff is a bit obnoxious, but once you get browsing it doesn't come up, at least for me. Well worth it for no YouTube ads and making tracking more difficult.
Blender
Godot
Gimp
Probably the nicest Foss stack for game development.
Antenna-pod if you like podcasts is fantastic relative to google podcasts (but maybe that's a low bar)
FairEmail is a great email client. Also everytime I reinstall my phone, I get the SimpleMobileTools line of apps, their apps like gallery or calendar are nice-looking and useful.
Seconding Fairemail! It's great, though it was a bit challenging for me to set up as a newb to foss apps. I also use signal, bitwarden, aegis, and newpipe a lot.
Inkscape for me :)
I'll be in Germany next month, so I'll have to try out Transportr
Transportr is not covering all cities in Germany, while DB does. So do have both :)
KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that's usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask "can you call my phone I lost it :c"
Linux, Qtile, Firefox, Bitwarden, neovim, espanso, and others. So many great tools for those willing and able to do a little digging.
OpenVPN. I can self-host a lot of different things for my own personal internet/cloud thingy - Bitwarden, Pi-Hole, etc; but to actually use it when I'm not home? I either pay for a VPS or I just have a VPN back to my home network. So much becomes possible with that; like I have the contents of my entire NAS at my fingertips even if I'm not home; I can render projects on a VM at home and manage it from my phone, etc.
OpenVPN is, without a doubt, the most important part of my infrastructure.
My top Must have FOSS app:
Other indispensable FOSS apps:
Syncthing is the one, I could probably replace any one but this one.
I'm beginning to migrate from Windows to Linux, here are some foss apps I use:
Edit, you said "must have" oops, but still like to share this anyways :))
VSCode is not fully FOSS, you should consider using VSCodium instead, which is a fork with removed proprietaty blobs.