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Saturday APPreciation thread (Jul 1 2023) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by sure@lemmy.ml to c/android@lemmy.world

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Saw some users commenting that we should have these megathreads in here as well.

Recommend and/or request an android app in the comments!

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[-] matt@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Here's my personal list of recommended apps for a few things:

Aegis (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - 2FA FOSS app that's minimal and simple
Auxio (F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense music player for local files
ConnectBot (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - Simple SSH client
K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense e-mail client
NewPipe (F-Droid / GitHub) - YouTube client for privacy, has no ads, supports background playing, local subscription lists, and ability to download videos
Techmino (GitHub) - FOSS Tetris clone with no ads and multiple modes, definitely my favourite
Waistline (F-Droid / GitHub) - Calorie counter app that stores all data locally. Need to add products yourself but have full control.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird

Wait, what.

[-] engineer@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

K-9 has joined Thunderbird family. Development speed has increased and it will be officially renamed to Thunderbird Mobile soon.

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[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

Obtainium is one that I have been using for over a week now. It keeps all my FOSS apps up to date. I have 30 apps added now, and 80% of them are now updated directly from their github page!

[-] jcrabapple@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I would love to know what apps you have added to it!

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Heres the list

And I just added AntennaPod, Vinyl Music Player, Lawnchair, and Liftoff to the list as well!

[-] seang96@spgrn.com 3 points 1 year ago

Bitwardens auto sync uses push notifications through Google services, so I'd recommend play store for that one if you use multiple devices.

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't use bitwarden for much besides copying/pasting my passwords on my phone. I figure its better than memorizing a single password like I used to!

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[-] DigitalPortkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I use Obtanium to keep Liftoff and Thunder up to date, since the updates come faster than they do from the Play Store :) Very easy to set up...even if you originally installed from the Play Store, you can still use Obtanium to update going forward.

[-] retro@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

The easiest way is to look at your Installed apps through F-Droid as it will show both apps installed through F-Droid and apps from the Play Store that are available through F-Droid. You can copy-paste each source link into Obtainium.

[-] jcrabapple@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No I know, I was asking what apps they're updating through Obtanium.

[-] SoulSkill@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://wefwef.app/ advertised as mobile-first client for Lemmy

https://lemmy.world/post/367599

Things are moving fast. Let’s see how it turns out to be atleast until we get Apollo/Boost/Thunder etc with multi-platform feature parity.

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'd love for wefwef to have a Material Design theme automatically applied when using an Android phone, but other than that it's right now the perfect Lemmy app and it's extremely fast when you install it with Chrome!

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[-] curioushom@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.

[-] erre@feddit.win 3 points 1 year ago

Neat! Gonna have to give it a shot, looks polished.

[-] Keeslinp@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I quite like it, my only complaint is that the Android auto support is not great. It seems to lose track of what podcast I'm playing s lot of the time. The customization and queueing features are great though.

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[-] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I really like it, solid app.

[-] shoeshine71@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just downloaded it. I really like that it highlights and lets me skip the podcast using timestamp in the description!

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[-] Chilinutz@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Connect for Lemmy has a sync for reddit feel and is working quite well for me as I make the switch from reddit

[-] WiildFiire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same here, besides the pack of animations it's really getting me used to using Lemmy. Till sync for Lemmy comes out, that is. I can't wait

[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think I like connect the best so far but the logo for it changed today and the change is horrible lol I miss the goofy mascot lol. 1/10

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[-] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Seconding this, Connect for Lemmy also feels a lot like RIF.

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[-] TOUnail@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

With all the social media corps going full ham on advertising, I'm going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons. However, I'm at a crossroads since there are many variations ranging from the official Firefox app to Firefox Nightly and even Fennec or Fenix.

Any recommendations?

[-] skipperwannabe@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

If you are trying to switch from Chrome, then just use regular Firefox with the ublock extension (and maybe some of the other privacy extension officially supported). If you are a "power user" and want modify/access about:config and other settings then you need Firefox Nightly. The Fennec and Fenix (iirc) are just stripped down Firefox that either only have private mode or additional settings for privacy (that are already present in regular version, but way not be enabled by default). Hope that helps.

[-] matt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just get the regular Firefox with uBlock Origin if all you're concerned about are advertisements. The default settings out of the box are fine for most users.

Get the Mull browser if you're concerned about privacy as well, as this is a hardened Firefox similar to LibreWolf. Not sure if this is on the Play Store, but it's definitely on F-Droid.

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[-] seang96@spgrn.com 7 points 1 year ago

Does anyone have recommendations for an app that does heart/step/etc health tracking but is FOSS supporting WearOS watches.

[-] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I have no idea if it works but you could try your luck with Gadgetbridge

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[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I think Birday is a great app because it's so simple, just reads birthdays from your contacts and notifies you a preset time before.

[-] feecoomeeq@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Komoot - great bike route planner and gpx recorder.

Mapy.cz - great hiking navigation with trails colors/indications. Mosty Europe I guess.

Fdroid ->Catima - simple loyalty cards / barcodes instead of supermarket apps

Fdroid -> StreetComplete very easy contributing to osmMaps. You know your neighbourhood? Answer questions if that trafic lights have sound indication for blind people or about the type of surface that bike line has.

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[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Medito is a free meditation app that's developed and run by a dutch non-profit.

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[-] small44@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Musicolet is my favorite local music player because of the ability to switch between queues without losing the position of the last played track. I don't understand how not all music player have the same feature

[-] cousinofjah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Looking for a good Lemmy and/or KBin app.

[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I have been using / testing 6 of them Liftoff, Connect, Thunder, Jerboa, Wefwef, Summit. All have strong points... But with it's recent update I will give the edge to Liftoff. Accent theming added... And the Amoled (my favorite) theme is beautiful

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Liftoff seems to hit all the right buttons so far. Allows multiple instances/accounts, beautiful theming, animations, smooth performance.

That being said, Sync has its work cut out for it, but i have no doubt it's going to be amazing when ready

[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I was using Sync for Reddit exclusively and it was a kinda sad moment when I uninstalled it today... It's so great to see so much development and choice with lemmy apps tho, and a lot of collaboration

[-] CupDock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Keeping Sync on my phone so I can sell it in 10 years for $40k like phones with Flappy Bird

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I read your comment, jumped over to the play store and the dev already removed all Sync versions from the store.

Keep your copy safe and sound.

All other Reddit 3rd party client are still there.

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[-] daq2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm personally waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but in the meantime, Liftoff for Lemmy and Thunder have been pretty good for me

[-] Myriadblue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Connect is working really well for me, but I prefer jerboa. Unfortunately that isn't working right now with lemmy. World being on an older version. Once they go to 18.1, I should be able to use it again.

[-] palebluedot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Wefwef, truly amazing and polished experience!

[-] efitz11@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Connect, liftoff, thunder, jerboa are the best ones at the moment

[-] fr33man@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of options for Lemmy, but beware they still need to mature a bit. The two apps I keep using the most are Thunder and Connect for Lemmy. Lots of users swear by Liftoff but I find the aesthetics a bit lacking for me. There's also Lemming which is the most barebones but has a great UI for something that has only had a couple of alpha releases. Most if not all of these are available to download from Github.

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[-] antoniocappiello@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.

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[-] avail@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using Trunks as my go-to Mastodon client for a couple of weeks now and I'm really liking it.

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