Libby, freaking love audiobooks.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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Easily the most used app on my phone
Same. And Manga too!
70 audiobooks, Manga volumes, and more already this year—All free through my library, and all so much easier to find, categorize, tag, and use than something like Audible.
Every book marketplace I’ve used is focused on selling you what they want to sell you, not what you want to get. Libby just lets me keep track of books on my own terms in my own way. It’s a better experience and through my library. It’s great.
I self-host my own instace, save articles I want to read from my laptop, and then they sync with the app on my phone. I read them offline when I have some time to kill
That looks exactly like something I’ve been looking for. I’m going to spin up an instance tonight and take it for a test drive. Thanks!
You're welcome!
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Xmanager, newpipe, Firefox with ublock origin and dark reader extensions.
TickTick would be hard to replace. Ive yet to find another cross-platform reminders app that's so good
Most of my other fav apps (Voyager for Lemmy, Bitwarden, NextCloud, NeoStore) could be replaced if I needed pretty easily (altho itd be a downgrade)
I didn’t read close enough and thought you said TikTok. I thought to myself, “TikTok has reminders?!?”
May I recommend Tasks? Not only is it open source and doesn't collect nearly as much information as TickTick apparently does (according to Play Market), but it's packed full of features, and also interfaces with a bunch of other apps, like Google Calendar and Google Drive for backups.
Edit: it also is still maintained and updated regularly
I will check it out but, unless I'm just missing it, it doesn't seem to have an iOS/iPad app. That unfortunately might be enough to be a dealbreaker
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A few I haven't seen mentioned:
- Moon+ Reader - My favorite ebook reader of all time.
- Tea Time - Simple timer widgets
- Simple Time Tracker - Track what you do
- NES.emu, Snes9x EX+, M64+ FZ - Emulators
- Thunder - Lemmy
- Root Explorer - file explorer
- Lichess - Chess, free of ads, no fees. Almost entirely FOSS.
Also +1 to the usual favorites: Firefox, Termux, Nova, etc.
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Sync for Lemmy, Voyager and Summit, if I need to narrow it down to three Lemmy clients.
Google Photos with Pixelifly 🏴☠️
Telegram to discuss about custom ROMs and talk with my gf.
Spark Mail because I love Inbox Zero, also has some nice team features.
Spotify for music, ViMusic as a close second.
Google Chrome (looking to replace it with Ice Raven, Firefox when it gets full extension support).
Feedly and Feeder, the one to discover and manager plus multi platform, the second because I think it is a superior RSS app, used along with Discovery Killer to replace cringe Google Discover.
Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) for password management.
Showly synced with Trak.tv to manage my TV shows/Anime and Movies.
Todoist (looking to replace it with Tasks.org, but I really need this to be multiplatform, just as with Feedly), also testing with Ruppu for simpler stuff.
Droidify to handle all these awesome Open Source mess ;)
Smart Dock
Classic PowerMenu
Ice Box and App Manager/SD Maid
Franco Kernel Manager and Magisk.
Runners up:
Download Progress ++ and Media Bar
I think this would be the summarized list.
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Alarmed (iOS only, unfortunately). It allows you to set nagging reminders with notifications and has great features for snoozing a reminder or setting up routine reminders.
It’s great for ADHD. I basically use it for my schedule I’ll have it remind me the morning of something (or the day before depending on the event), when the reminder comes up, I’ll snooze it to to just before I have to leave.
I had been using apples “reminders”, which just seem to disappear into the ether if you happen to miss the notification.
Google Calendar - I live my life by this calendar. If it's not on the calendar, I'm not doing it
Audible - Audiobooks by Amazon (I know they suck, but it's a really decent service)
Tachiyomi - Manga and Comics manager and reader
Libby - Books and Audiobooks for free from your local library
Youtube - I use this way too much. I learn everything from here
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Syncthing
Joplin - general note taking and to do lists
Feeder - my favorite RSS app. I also use it to save my YouTube subscriptions
Sync For Lemmy - The best Lemmy app out there rn IMO
NewPipe - YouTube app with built in ad blocking, background play, download function etc no login required.
Proton Mail - Emails
Proton Calendar - Calendar
Proton Drive - Cloud Storage
Proton VPN - VPN
AntennaPod - Podcast app
Spotify - Music
VLC - playing local video/ audio files
Firefox - Web Browser
Waze - Navigation
Signal - Messaging
Jellyfin - Accessing my movies and TV shows
Tailscale - What I use to access my Jellyfin when I'm away from home.
CamScanner - Very handy for scanning/ digitizing physical documents.
Speedtest from Ookla - I use it a lot to check my internet connection
Shazam - Music detection
PhotoScan - one of the only Google apps I use, let's you easily scan/ digitize old photographs
Bitwarden - Password Manager
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Nextcloud (connected to self hosted instance), Obsidian (combo with FileSync app for free syncing to my other devices), Wifiman by Ubiquiti
Jalapeño Poppers Wings Clams half shell Drunken clams Calamari Potato skins
Translation for the non-yanks: Americans call starters "appetisers" and then shorten it to "apps"
Plexamp and NewPipe for sure. Especially now that Plexamp doesn't require a Plex Pass.
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So many:
afwall+
joplin
proton vpn
protonmail
davx5
tasks.org
nova launcher
simple gallery
simple dialer
simple contacts
simple calendar
nextcloud
mega.nz
dropbox
aniyomi
buzzkill
voyager
infinity for reddit revanced
fdroid
mixplorer
xmanager
youtube revanced
the score
foss telegram
bitwarden
adaway
kde connect
tailscale
remote desktop client
nzb360
instander
ibraodcast
bubble upnp
nextcloud
localsend
syncthing
native alpha+
Librera FD
Feeder
Magic Earth
obtanium
seal
termux
unchained
premiumized
shelter
youcut or capcut
picsay pro
idm+
xbrowser sync
fennec
ocr
neo backup
magisk
imgur viewer
gptAssist
freebiealerts
aftership
de-bloater
fairemail
hypatia
That's cool, but can you maybe provide a one-sentence summary of what each does for you?
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"FitNotes" the workout app, because i've been using it for 7(?) years now to track my workout progress over the years and love the data/analytics. pretty user friendly, not super powerful, but great for tracking exercises.
and since google no longer supports music player apps outside of youtube, i guess Spotify, cuz that's the only way to listen to music nowadays. shout out to a friend who added me to his premium years ago
- Syncthing
- Nextcloud
- Jitsi Meet
- FreeTube
For my GTD routine
- Reminders
- Notes
For my feeds
- Reeder
- WefWef (can’t find an as good native app for the moment)
For my diary
- DayOne
For photo editing and graphics
- Photos
- Preview
- Affinity Designer
For my work
- Safari (I just love WebKit’s developer tools)
- WebStorm
- XCode
- Calendar
For music practice (hobby)
- GarageBand
- Stave’n’Tabs
For 3D printing modeling (hobby)
- Shapr3D with an edu account from a friend
I tried tons of third party apps (Omnifocus, Ulysses, Agenda, Things, Fantastical, Pro Tools…) but always end up using Apple’s stock apps because I love simplicity and I discovered that with my overthinking bad habit, having a good but simple/limited app is more efficient than an overkilled one.
WefWef as in the Lemmy client? It's been renamed to Voyager, and I believe there's an iOS app too. I'm using it on Android now, and it's great 👍
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- Syncthing
- AntennaPod
- NewPipe
- Army Knife
- Sync for Lemmy
- Telegram
- Tusky
On my android phone: keepassDX - password manager w/ autofill Aegis - 2 factor authenticator Joplin - markdown journal
Great thread btw!
SearXNG.
It's a metasearch engine (aggregates results from several engines and feeds then back to me). It also filters out sites I don't want, and redirects Reddit to the old interface.
Librera Reader Bromite/Cromite adaway
Sweepy and goblin tools for iOS.
Weawow - the greatest weather app ever created. No ads 4.9 review in the Play Store, highly recommend it.
Termux
Tasker
Homeassistant
ChatGPT
Files by Google - actually it is pretty good and allows you to transfer files peer to peer with other devices
Anytype - Notion alternative
DuckDuckGo - for app tracking and blocking of tracking requests
Wireguard
ZeroTier One
ReadEra
TradingView
JustETF
Infinity for Lemmy
The rest were already mentioned here
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LibreWolf
Terminal
VLC Media Player
Visual Studio Code
Qt Creator
gcc
Home Assistant
OpenWRT
OpenVPN
Steam
Bottles (manage Wine installations/run Windows software)
Squeekboard/phosh (Linux phone UI/onscreen keyboard)
Hacker's Keyboard (Android onscreen keyboard)
OpenRGB
- Iceraven
- Newpipe
- Foxy Droid
- Bitwarden
- Termux
- RVNC
- Showly
- Librera
- Simple File Manager
- Simple Gallery
- Syncthing
- Newpipe
- Mull
- Signal
- OpenCamera
And Librewolf on the Desktop
- Markor - amazing android text editor.
- Symfonium - music player that I can use with my selfhosted navidrome.
- Vivino - wine rating app.
- Deedum - gemini browser.
- Fluffychat - matrix chat app.
steam, moonlight, newpipe/freetube, mullvad (vpn and browser), bitwarden, signal
- Sleep as Android
- QP-Gallery - QuickPic, modded to be good again
- Tachiyomi - Manga and Comics manager and reader
- Audiobookshelf - Self hosted podcasts and audiobook player with progress sync
- FolderSync - Just filesyncing, since the nextcloud app sucks at it
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