I’m curious to discover more stuff that exists in the App realm, there must be some small indie apps we don’t know about everywhere
I use YouCut to condense short porn vids into very short highlight loops
ShareWaste. You can sign up that you have a compost pile or chicken to feed, etc, and people with food scraps can find places to “donate” to! I have 3 or 4 regular contributers to my compost pile!
Grainstorm
It’s a ridiculously versatile granular sampler synthesizer. Obviously not for everyone, but it’s super fun to just make weird soundscapes with. Even with just your phone mic.
Lemmy Boost
Brain Waves for binaural beats
Unit converter on f-droid
Unified Remote. It’s a little janky, but it does you to turn your phone into a trackpad and/or keyboard for your phone. It works with swipe typing, and allows you to use keyboard shortcuts such as Alt+Tab or Win+Shift+Arrow.
Truly the best way I’ve found of using my PC from my couch.
Used for years, unfortunately it appears to be abandoned.
Yeah I wish they were still adding new features and stuff. But I haven’t found a better alternative yet, so I guess that’s what we have.
Try KDE Connect. It works over LAN, has KB+M input, media controls, file transfer, among many other things. It’s available for many platforms.
If you travel a lot, Toilet finder.
Edit: and not an app, but a website: Pairdrop - really useful for cross-platform file sharing, especially when you just need to email to colleagues something you snapped with your personal phone, but yoe have overly tight IT systems in place at work that stop you from connecting your personal phone to your email or OneDrive.
PianOli: A little toy piano for your kids to play without being able to swipe out and mess with your other apps.
Flashlight: Flashlight from the Simple suite, that allows you to pulse or strobe your phone’s torch. It can even pulse SOS messages.
Moonlight: Stream your entire desktop (e.g. gaming PC) to your phone using the sunshine (previously nvidia gamestream) protocol. Works fantastic.
Easily Converter Now. So darn handy.
I got a couple of apps I’d recommend in a heartbeat.
Spectdroid is a spectrogram app. Its unreasonable how often I’m using this app. I got some mild tinnitus that comes and goes and this app allows me to find out if I got some actual weird buzzing I’m the house or if it’s just in my head.
And LocalSend is an amazing app for sending files between various devices and OSes over a local network. I no longer need to set up file shares, plug in my phone to a computer, or use cloud storage just to transfer over some files.
LocalSend
I’ve been using TrebleShot for that for a years now, but maybe I’ll try LocalSend
LocalSend is amazing. So easy to use! Impressed that google haven’t been able to make a product as simple as localsend for Android.
Knowing Google, they will probably kill it after months of neglect.
I’m not sure what you mean; Google doesn’t have anything to do with LocalSend, do they?
Spectroid is great! I use it to tune my 3d printer.
Oh, that sounds cool! What is it you tune? I imagine some coil whine from heating elements maybe?
It’s for the belt tension actually! Like a guitar tuner. It’s just one tool in the process though as it is not just the frequency of the belts that matter. Instead the frequency/resonance helps get the belts into similar tension before doing more adjustment.
Trail Sense, it’s all the “survival” tools in one great package. Do I use it often? No. Does it feel like unwrapping my favourite toy every time I open it? Absolutely.
Walkscape. It’s like Pokémon go and runescape but without the emptional manipulation.
Or
Streetcomplete - gamify openstreetmap and help fill out the map.
I just got accepted into the beta for walkscapes. It’s such a relaxing game and using steps vs distance is super nice to have as a tracking system.
I’ve just finished making my Streetcomplete account! And I’ve got some work around me it’s gonna be fun
Not an app, a site:
Free Photoshop clone. For my needs, it’s over the top perfect.
It works really well and has been my go too for studies last year
Syncthing, its not a recent discovery.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/
(written by one of our own!)
