List your most often used and favourite foss application on your Android phone.
KeepassDX, newpipe, tusky, open board, Firefox, infinity(not for long sadly), jerboa, jellyfin, si gnal, f-droid, exodus, binary eye. All that on my phone. My computer runs fedora and I’m not changing anytime soon.
edit : forgot KDE connect on the phone as well.
- Aegis Authenticator (2FA)
- AntennaPod (podcasts)
- F-Droid (app store)
- FitoTrack (fitness)
- Forecastie (weather)
- Fritter (for twitter, no login or posting)
- Jerboa (lemmy)
- KeePassDX (password manager)
- Linphone (for my voip numbers)
- Loyalty Card Keychain (scan my reward cards into one place)
- Material Files (file/network browser)
- NewPipe (ad-free youtube)
- OsmAnd~ (GPS/maps/directions)
- ProtonVPN
- Syncthing (syncs phone folders with desktop folders, i use for keepass and photos)
On Windows:
- Bitwarden, password manager (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- Advanced Renamer, just what it says (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- FreeFileSync, terrific file sync app (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- VLC, media player
- WizTree, folder comparison (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- Notepad ++, use it everyday (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- Everything, ditch Windows Search!
- Plex, Emby, Jellyfin for media streaming (Jellyfin is FOSS, Plex can be free, Emby??? - have Plex and Emby Lifetime accounts)
- caddy server, easy to set up and use
Android:
- FairEmail - best email client around (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- nzb360 - monitor all your arr apps (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- Tautulli - Plex stats on steroids (Android, plus also on Windows)
- Nova, great launcher (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- Standard Notes FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
- Authy
- Boost, soon to be gone thanks to reddit CEO
- Sports Alert (FOSS, but paid account or contribution(s) made - support development!)
Probably missed some, but the above are essential to my everyday use.
For sync a la Dropbox, check out Syncthing! I run it in Windows, Linux, Mac, my Synology NAS, and Android. Works amazingly well.
Sounds good, I’ll check it out - thanks!
Almost everything what I use is already listed here (Termux, NewPipe, Joplin, etc), so, here’s a few small apps that no one has mentioned yet:
ViMusic - a tiny accountless app to stream music from YouTube music.
HTTP Shortcuts - an app that allows you to create home screen shortcuts that execute arbitrary http requests, it supports JavaScript, so, you can write even something pretty complicated.
ViMusic’s design looks so cool and creative from the screenshots! I will have to give it a try.
I’ll second HTTP Shortcuts. Excellent (and Open Source) app.
I’ll second ViMusic
Little File Explorer - It just works.
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This got to be the lightest Android application I ever install. 40Kib… Unbelievable number in the realm of bloated mobile apps.
The one I am using and not already mentioned :
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qBitController to remote manage qBittorrent
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Transistor a very basic app to listen to radio over internet. Previously I was using RadioDroid which is more advanced but for what I do a simple app is largely enough and better
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Right now, Infinity for Reddit, but with the Reddit API debacle, I guess it’s either Jerboa for Lemmy or Firefox Focus.
Favorite would probably be either Material Files file explorer or K9 or Proton Mail for email.
There are quite a few of them:
- Organic Maps - maps and navigation based on openstreetmap
- NekogramX - telegram client
- Element - client for matrix
- AntennaPod - for listening to podcasts
- OpenTracks - tracker for my cycling workouts
- AnySoftKeyboard - keyboard for android
- Joplin - note taking app
- F Droid - alternative to PlayMarket for FOSS applications
- LibreTube - FOSS client for YouTube with built-in proxy
- Fedilab - client for mastodon
- StreetComplete, EveryDoor - to improve openstreetmap
- Arna Translate - translator app based on the Lingva Translate API
- Termux - terminal app
- Spotube - client for Spotify without ads
Infinity for Reddit (RIP) - client for reddit
Spotube is awesome, thanks!
I love AntennaPod, it’s a real gem.
- Privacy Browser
- Megalodon
- FairEmail
- Etar with DAVx5 and ICSx5
- Markor
- Total Commander
Honestly, too many to choose from. My phone is 99% FOSS right down to the icons.
I was very surprised when I came upon this comment. My first thought was when did I write this
What hardware is your phone?
So, I cannot (read: not allowed to) say exactly what I am using (it is a prototype Android device) but it isn’t rooted at all. So, maybe it is 70% FOSS. I used ADB to remove and disable everything Google I could (I left keyboard, dialer, contacts, webview) and everything I use comes from F-Droid.
AdAway for Android via fDroid
Material Files
Seeker - Music Downloader
CaPod - Airpod Status Notification
Otraku - Anilist client
Personal DNS Filter - adblock
Unchained - Real Debrid client
Acode - Text Editor
Jerboa is pretty cool too
Analyser and display of phone storage space. Extremely useful for me as I tend to take a lot of stuff with me everywhere.
Many of my favourite apps are already listed here, so I won’t repeat them
My most useful is probably ntfy & my matrix client, Element. I self-host ntfy & a matrix dendrite server with some bridges. I am able to receive notifications from all of my chats without Google services installed, as well as notifications from Tusky thanks to Element and Tusky’s support for UnifiedPush.
Firefox - browser Signal - messaging app
