Once you have your list, check out fdroidcl so you can get it all installed from your laptop via adb
If you like NewPipe but want your videos to skip the annoying bits, there’s a fork called Tubular that incorporates SponsorBlock.
There’s also “Newpipe X Sponsorblock” (iirc that’s the name) on IzzyOnDroid’s repo that incorporates it as well.
Never heard of tubular, do they make any other changes or is it just the SB integration?
Same program, the developer changed the name. 😊
Oh cool, TIL thanks!
Pocket Broomball is a really fun offline game.
Drip - Keeping track of menstrual cycles (If you have it lol) Tempo - Music client for navidrome Clima - Weather app Telegram FOSS - Alternative to the proprietary client Aegis Authenticator - 2FA app
My wife uses Flow or something to that effect. Should I advise her to change ? do the mainstream apps have privacy issues that Drip doesn’t ?
A lot of the mainstream apps definitely have privacy issues. They often sell data about their users menstrual cycles which can theoretically be bought by anti-abortion activists/authorities on the free market to track whether someone might be pregnant.
Aegis Authenticator, AntennaPod, Aurora Store, Auxio, Bitwarden, Exodus, Forecastie, Fossify Contacts, Fossify Phone, Fossify File Manager, Fossify Gallery or Immich if self hosting pictures, Gmaps WV, Hypatria, Jellyfin client if self hosting media, Kvaesitso, Libre Camera, LocalSend, Mull, New Pipe, OpenBoard, OpenCalc, OsmAnd~, Pedometer, QKSMS, RHVoice, RustDesk, Send Reduced, Simply Translate Mobile, Tailscale, TrackerControl, VLC, WifiAnalyzer.
kmail/thunderbird too
Ente Photos - Google Photos replacement with encryption and privacy
Ente Auth - Good multiplatform authenticator.
^^ These are paid for service (you get both with same sub), but extremely good.AntennaPod - Podcatcher
K-9 emailUrl check is pretty good
Ooh, good one! I’ll try to stick to the very basics that I’ve installed, different strokes for different use cases and all.
- MicroG — a non-Google framework to circumvent annoying GSF dependencies.
- DAVx5 — will sync calendars and contacts from your own cal/cardDAV instance.
- ICSx5 — helps add external ICS calendars into your calendar.
- Syncthing — keeps documents, pictures, etc synced between devices.
- KISS launcher — search based launcher. No bloat, no muss, no fuss. Everything else seems to try too hard after KISS.
- Fossify apps. There’s a whole suite but I only use
- Fossify calendar,
- Fossify contacts,
- Fossify SMS messenger.
- Fennec — a Firefox that passes F-droid privacy muster.
- K-9 mail — um, is this top grade email app named after the robot dog in Doctor Who? Affirmative.
- Open camera — so much better than a basic Android camera app.
- Authenticator Pro — 2-factor authetication (dunno why it’s called “Pro”, it’s not like there’s a paid tier)
- Obtainium — another app manager, for the fringe cases where an app isn’t on F-droid but you trust its source enough to download it from there.
Fennec -> Mull
Nice list. Note MicroG doesn’t appear in F-Droid’s default repository. It probably cannot be installed as a regular app, or requires adding a different repository.
Oh, good catch! They have their own repository that can easily be added to the F-droid app. I think repos deserve special mention, editing my op.
RE: Open Camera
Not seeing an option to remap the photos button (bottom right) from opening Google Photos
That would be in your phone main settings I guess, and specific to your device? In no Android stock or custom ROM I’ve used have I seen a “photos button (bottom right)”.
To be clear, here’s a screenshot. I’m on a Pixel 5 running Android 11. I checked the default apps page in settings but there’s not an option for photos unfortunately.
If you uninstall (or disable) Google Photos, that button should ask what app you want to open.
DivestOS Personally I use Mulch (chromium fork) and Google maps webview wrapper
Hmmm, so DivestOS supports bootloader relocking, huh? I’ll have to give that a look.
https://divestos.org/pages/devices check support for your device
organic maps
This is a great list!
Conversations
Librera Reader
- Aegis for MFA
- Aurora Store for Playstore apps
- Breezy Weather
- Fossify apps for basics
- KeePassDX for pwd mgmt
- LibreCamera
- (Oeffi for public transport)
- OSMAnd~ for navigation
- QickDic(tionary)
- Molly (fork of Signal messenger) or Threema
- Tracker Control
LibreCamera->OpenCamera TrackerControl-> RethinkDNS
From official F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid repos (except for Molly):
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Aegis Secure + encrypted 2FA
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Calculator++ Powerful scientific calculator
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Clipious or FreeTube Android Clipious: Privacy focused invidious client that syncs with your account and lets you pick backup instances in case yours goes down FreeTube: Ad-blocking cross-platform privacy-focused YouTube client that imo looks better than NewPipe + Clipious
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FluffyChat (if you use Matrix) Secure, private (although not as good as Signal), client for Matrix (the messaging service) that imo looks better than Element and lets you seperate rooms + DMs, which some clients don’t let you do iirc as well as a couple other features like pinned messages and video calls.
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HeliBoard Best open source keyboard I’ve used so far
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KeePassDX KeePass compatible password manager
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Moshidon and/or Mastify Mastodon clients. Mastify looks really good but is till in Alpha releases so is missing quite a bit of features. Moshidon is extremely feature rich.
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Molly Security-focused fork of Signal
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Podverse My personal favourite podcast app, run by 1 person afaik with a lot of free features, or a very cheap paid plan that is basically just a donation because it only adds like 2 features that I can remember. Has a very generous trial too and the dev has said if you can’t afford it they’re willing to adjust pricing for you.
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QUIK SMS Best actively maintained, open source SMS client.
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Twine Beautiful cross-platform RSS feed app.
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