AntennaPod is The best podcast app I’ve come across
Delta chat is chat over email infrastructure
Linklater is a client for my selfhosted linkding bookmark app
Tusky is my mastodon app of choice
Unciv is Civ5 scaled down to pixel graphics
Termux is my terminal emulator for android
Weechat-android I use for chatting on IRC
Kahon I use for reading manga and comics
But my instinct is to first check on fdroid before I look for something on Google play
Bump for AntennaPod. Ditched Spotify for good last year and this has been a great replacement. I used to use PocketCasts back on the day, but that app switched to a subscription model and now my one time premium purchase means nothing. AntennaPod is better anyway!
I switched from Breezy to Overmorrow. Check it out :)
Sadly it doesn’t seem to have a feature I need, which is gadgetbridge data sharing, so I can get the weather in my wearable. Breezy has it.
I can’t find it on f-droid.
Whoops! You have to add the “izzyondroid” repo.
Vector pinball, lol
It’s great for killing 10 minutes at a time
Thx, great recommondation!
I also enjoy the Fruity Game
Forkyz (Crossword puzzles)
Insular (aka Island) for using the work profile without a corporate log in.
K-9 Email
A Thunderbird forkPicked up by Mozilla to become the new ThunderbirdOpen Camera A camera app with some missing features from the built-in camera app.
K9 is not a Thunderbird fork, it was created as it’s own thing. Recently it’s been picked up by Mozilla to become Thunderbird for android with the original creator still on board.
Oh I misunderstood then! I thought I read somewhere that it was a fork.
Not in any particular order.
- OpenFoodFacts
- OpenPetFoodFacts
- Newpipe
- Vespucci
- StreetComplete
- Every Door
- Organic Maps
- Unciv
- PySolFC
- Simple Text Editor
- Cuppa
- Fossify Clock
- Emotic
- Joplin
- SolXpect
- Obtanium
Although I use Obtanium when possible, but all are available in F-droid.
wX for weather.
Does it depend on a non-free service?
Isn’t it just NOAA?
I don’t know. FDroid said it promoted or entirely relied on a paid service. That’s why I asked.
Yeah I think they’re counting NOAA as non-free since you couldn’t run their servers yourself. Which like, NOAA is doing the data collection and analysis themselves. I’m not sure that’s a fair classification. Maybe I’m missing something
I believe so.
DNS66, it blocks ads on a dns level so I never see them on my phone
- AntennaPod: Podcast app
- CoMaps: OpenStreetMap client
- StreetComplete: Fun and easy way to contribute to OpenStreetMap
- Immich: Google Photos replacement
- Infomaniak Mail: Mail client for Infomaniak
- Jellyfin: Official Jellyfin client
- Kvaesitso: Android launcher
- MuPDFmini: Pdf viewer
- ntfy: Self-hosted notification service
- Paperless Mobile: Paperless client
- whoBIRD: Recognise birds by their sounds
GPSLogger, the GOAT.
Not only recording GPX daily and uploading them to the cloud for me to record walks, rides and all movements, but also sending location data to a selfhosted Traccar server. Disappeared off Google Play due to problems keeping it listed there, but still available on Fdroid.
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articons, amazing. An icon pack that is simple and suports almost every app you likely have installed.
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aves libre. Probably the best photo gallery for android.
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breezy weather. My main weather app, beutiful ui.
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chrono, nice clock app that beats the default provided by oneui.
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evmap, if you have an ev.
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find my device (fmd) currently what I can see as the only available option for finding my phone with foss software.
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Goodtime, pomodoro timer i use.
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jerboa, I think you know.
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local send, foss airdrop
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Port Authority, it’s not been updated in ages but still works and is super useful for checking open ports on your network.
i use librera for reading!
A bunch of games but also
- Leon - URL cleaner
- Acode - code/text editor
- syncthing - file sync
- automation - simple task automator
- redmoon - darkens and tints screen in runup to bedtime
Which games do you play? I’ve been out of mobile gaming for a while
From Fdroid?
- IED
- Simon Tatham’s puzzles
- Luanti
- Endless Sky
- Gurgle
- Gridle
- unciv
- Mindustry
- Tessel
I also have Mitch for itch.io games and Lemuroid for emulating older systems. There are a lot of fun things to emulate.
+1 for Luanti and Simon Tatham’s Puzzles.
I used to use Lemuroid too, but now prefer RetroArch. Both use the same libretro “cores” (plugins/emulators/programs). RA has many more features, but is mainly gamepad oriented (though its default UI is quite usable via touchscreen). Lemuroid has less features but it’s easy to setup.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is also quite nice if you like roguelikes.
Vector Pinball is also cool.
OpenTracks, Etar (calendar app), Tuner, Audile (like Shazam), QuickWeather, PySolFC (zillion solitaire variations), URL Radio, KDE Connect, IronFox, SunTimes, Moon Phase
Image Toolbox
Antenna Pod
Catima
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