Since simple mobile tools will soon become a spyware and I use 3 of their apps regularly, yesterday I installed F-Droid after reading many Lemmy recommendations.
Wow, I’m pleasantly surprised.
A new app I’ve tested is Spotube (Spotify open source alternative; edit: apparently it uses Spotify metadata but it streams from YouTube. My bad.).
Any other underrated app y’all recommend?
A new app I’ve tested is Spotube (Spotify open source alternative).
This is super misleading. Spotube isn’t a Spotify alternative, it uses Spotify metadata and streams the audio from youtube.
Some of them are not underrated, but I’d just share my favorites…
- AntennaPod for podcasts.
- Aurora Store if you need some Google apps to be updated.
- Binary Eye is a nice and slim qr code scanner and generator.
- CriticalMaps is a good tool if you’re into critical mass events.
- GadgetBridge can be a companion app for your smartwatch (if you have the right one).
- GPS logger just logs your position in an interval you can set. I use it to track my movement in 30min bits.
- GymRoutines is a privacy friendly gym exercise app with a database of your progress.
- K9 mail (soon to be rebranded as Thunderbird mobile) is a powerful mail app.
- KeePassDX is an android password manager compatible with keepass files.
- LibreTorrent is a nice way to torrent your favorite linux distros while on the go.
- Location Map Viewer I use with the gpx files I get from GPS logger to visualize my movements.
- mpv just plays a lot of media without being a bloated thing like vlc. I use mpv for videos, vlc for music.
- NewPipeSponsorblock is available in a custom repo only.
- Ning is a nice way to get an overview over a local network.
- OpenTracks can be used in combination with GadgetBridge to record your sports with gps.
- OSMand gives you a frontend for using openstreetmap with offline maps, navigation and more.
- PDF Doc Scan is my way to digitalize important letters as a pdf on the go.
- StreetComplete is a gamificated way to fill in missing things in openstreetmap. it’s fun.
- Syncthing-Fork (important to use the fork) is a file sync tool I use to backup a lot of my phones folders to a pc.
- Tusky is my favorite way to browse mastodon.
- VLC is a powerful media player (I then use only to shuffle through my mp3s).
This is such a great list, saving and installing a few!
Adding on (and likely seconding a few):
- 2048: game
- Aegis: for 2Fa stuff
- AntennaPod: second this one
- AnkiDroid: Flashcards, the Anki project is huge and extends way past android. Worth exploring if you want/need to memorize things
- Droid-ify: Fdroid client I use, but I keep the main app installed too
- Eat Poop You Cat: game to be played in a group
- Feeder: for RSS
- FFShare: for compressing photos/videos before sharing
- FlorisBoard: The keybaord I liked, although I don’t use it full time
- GPTAssist: Frontend for chatGPT
- Material Files: File manager
- Native Alpha: Have websites run like apps, while isolating each site
- OpenFoodFacts: A bit buggy, but it’s similar to OSM but for food
- RetroStack: Another game
- SDMaid SE: Same dev from the popular playstore one, is rebuilding a better one from scratch, AND it’s now FOSS
- SkyMap:
- Survival manual
- Termux
- Translate You
- UntrackMe: To redirect Tiktok/Twitter/Pinterest/etc. links to the frontends
- URLCheck: Highly recommend getting this one to clean trackers from links
- Unitto: Calculator of choice. I explored a bunch before settling on this one
For OSM specifically, I second the ones mentioned. Here are some other OSM related things: https://lemmy.ca/post/6586265